<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418907/tkxrbdug3y0ytisctscr.jpg"><figcaption>David Schalliol, "Stateway Gardens (Chicago, Illinois, USA)," 2007. Photo: David Schalliol From the 2021 individual grant to David Schalliol for "Social Landscapes"</figcaption></figure><a href="http://grahamfoundation.org">Graham Foundation Announces 71 New Grants to Individuals for Architecture Projects</a>The Graham Foundation announced the award of 71 new grants to individuals worldwide that support projects on architecture. Grantee projects represent diverse lines of inquiry engaging original ideas that advance our understanding of the designed environment. Selected from nearly 700 proposals, the funded projects include research, exhibitions, publications, films, digital initiatives, and other inventive formats that promote rigorous scholarship, stimulate experimentation, and foster critical discourse in architecture.“This year, as the pandemic forced communities, cities, and countries to close down, the inequities of design and the built environment only intensified,” said Graham Foundation director Sarah Herda. “Through this dynamic grantee cohort, the Graham continues its 65-year commitment to supporting individuals to realize ideas that have the power to change the field of architecture.”&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418907/ocatsuelwmf9o5tym9gu.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.filterphoto.org">Filter Festival to Take Place In-Person and Online September</a>Filter Photo announced the line-up of portfolio reviewers and workshops for the 2021 Filter Photo Festival!The 13th Annual Filter Photo Festival will take place September 22nd - 26th and will be a mix of in-person and online programming, with the majority of in-person programming happening at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/21cChicago/?__cft__[0]=AZVGIoVs4fdYlAo19zjpY2eSDDP5IJIcRlTevIYB9hDtZM0XY735NYn99wRQ4K4A2ZDMDYs9H0ZHjyjUlD3sXaKGCpdBcS2LOcdPFVDoDMLeR83-aiC0SreJdPqoNPeoTqKmC83ZhhM1hKl3bvrm5FibuVU2BwEjvNiB5coCzGGntBVz_3UgwbRlv_mMiTBaNlg&amp;__tn__=kK-R">21c Museum Hotel Chicago</a>.Registration for the general public begins on June 14th. Filter Photo Members can access early registration on June 7th, as well as many other benefits.&nbsp;<a href="https://dailynorthwestern.com/2021/05/25/lateststories/evanston-made-to-showcase-local-artists-in-annual-art-exhibit/?fbclid=IwAR1Lq1VZf-kkNwOhvFlOXANfqWuNgJC4NVygxiSqMR-Vw6yrldtTiF7SoOw">Evanston Made to showcase local artists in annual art exhibit</a>Evanston Made’s Annual Members Group Show is returning in-person this year, featuring over 175 contemporary art pieces, according to the organization’s website.The in-person exhibit will take place from May 28 to June 30 at the Evanston Art Center. Visitors must wear masks, take their temperature and social distance throughout the exhibit, according to the Evanston Made website.Via The Daily Northwestern&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Art World Recap: May 27

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418222/m4jeqexesurqpnuscd07.jpg"></figure><a href="https://p2a.co/nYTksd6?utm_source=CNL+Art+Consulting&amp;utm_campaign=020ec952ec-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_03_01_05_43_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_99ec04cd2a-020ec952ec-107428223">A Plea for Illinois's Creative Future Fund: Now is the time for $500M for Arts &amp; Culture</a>COVID has devastated our state’s creative sector, yet the arts remain an economic engine to power a resilient Illinois recovery. Our state must invest in arts and culture in order to come back stronger.Through the Illinois Creative Future Fund campaign, we are advocating for Illinois to invest $500 million from federal American Rescue Plan assistance over the next four years in the relief, recovery, and resilience of Illinois’ creative sector, prioritizing BIPOC, rural, and other communities disproportionately impacted by COVID.&nbsp;Read more and contact your representative <a href="https://p2a.co/nYTksd6?utm_source=CNL+Art+Consulting&amp;utm_campaign=020ec952ec-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_03_01_05_43_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_99ec04cd2a-020ec952ec-107428223">here</a> by FRIDAY May 28&nbsp;<a href="https://rejournals.com/pullman-leaders-announce-completion-and-grand-opening-of-new-artspace-lofts/">Pullman leaders, developers announce completion and grand opening of Artspace Lofts</a>On Thursday, May 20, elected officials, local business and nonprofit leaders and Pullman-area community members convened to mark the official grand opening of the Pullman Artspace Lofts development at S. Langley Aveune and E. 112th Street. After nearly a decade of planning and construction, the development is notable for being the first multifamily development in Pullman in 60 years, stakeholders said.Via RE Journals&nbsp;<a href="https://lincolnparkconservancy.org/caldwell-a-brief-history/">Alfred Caldwell: A Brief History – The Man Who Designed Lincoln Park's Lily Pool</a>On May 26th of this year, Alfred Caldwell would have been 118 years old. In honor of his birthday and the 20th anniversary year of the Conservancy and Park District’s Lily Pool restoration, we’re highlighting some of the interesting stories about the man who designed the Lily Pool.Caldwell had a long and varied career primarily focused on landscape architecture, but which also included stints as a city planner, civil engineer, professor, and author.Caldwell’s love of nature was influenced by his experience with his Lakeview High School biology teacher, naturalist Dr. Hermann Silas Pepoon. He then worked under renowned landscape artchitect Jens Jensen, whose style had a lifelong impact on Caldwell’s designs. From Pepoon he learned the value and history of native plants. From Jensen, he learned the properties of Prairie Style landscaping, including playing with areas of light and shade, visual interest through the season, and emphasizing plants that attracted birds. Caldwell was also inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright, whose influence can clearly be seen in the design of the Pavilions by the shore of the Lily Pool.Via Lincoln Park Conservancy&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 5/26

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417745/kv0ytzafq8uhowbxu5xa.jpg"><figcaption>1st Place winning project&nbsp;The Floating Village&nbsp;by ACE Chicago Team 5&nbsp;</figcaption></figure><a href="https://chicagoarchitecturebiennial.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=51d9a79e08fd7f7dbb49c27a6&amp;id=35b5c485c1&amp;e=3dc58ca038">Chicago Architecture Biennial Announces Spring 2021 Student Ideas Competition Winners</a>&nbsp;Over 170 7th-12th grade students, representing 46 schools and 35 zip codes across the Chicagoland area, participated in this year’s competition. Since 2015, CAB student competitions have encouraged middle and high school students to explore how design can play a role in creating shared spaces and improving communities. The Spring 2021 prompt—inspired by The Available City led by Artistic Director David Brown—asked young people: How can existing urban spaces be reimagined to better reflect the needs and interests of local residents?The winning projects were selected by a panel of distinguished jurors and present innovative ideas that creatively respond to local contexts: 1st Place: The Floating Village by ACE Chicago Team 5. A homeless shelter that addresses basic, psychological, and self-fulfillment needs. 2nd Place: Perspective Tower by Owen Somers. An elevated public space that helps residents visualize change in their communities. 3rd Place: Grocery Garden - A Bodega for North Lawndale by Rosina Iniguez, Ian Hudson, and Jason Hart A grocery store and garden that provides healthy food and adds beauty to the neighborhood.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417745/b4p5flfr3wg3llrs4wtv.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.architecture.org">The Chicago Architecture Center Reopens its 10,000 SF Gallery Space And Kicks Off For Summer</a>With the Memorial Day Weekend summer kick-off just days away, the Chicago Architecture Center (CAC) has re-opened with all-new and updated exhibits in its 10,000 square feet of galleries, full of scale models of new building designs from Chicago and around the world. The Chicago Gallery, home to the Chicago City Model Experience, is completely overhauled and all-new exhibits on Current Chicago Projects, Chicago Chicago’s neighborhoods and the new home design exhibit, Housing for a Changing Nation.“All CAC exhibits have been updated with new scale models of exciting architectural designs and we’ve created an all-new exhibit on cutting-edge, affordable, flexible home designs,” said Lynn Osmond, President and CEO of the CAC. “The new exhibit in the Chicago Gallery, Housing for a Changing Nation, highlights innovative architects who are creating homes for a diverse range of needs from live/work spaces to multigenerational families to cohousing.”&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417746/wvk6xsm8ssim2zifxw9t.jpg"><figcaption>James Mesple</figcaption></figure><a href="https://greektownchicago.org/">Hello Helios: The warming suns of Chicago’s Greektown opens June 5 along Halsted Street</a><a href="https://greektownchicago.org/">Greektown Chicago</a> presents its new outdoor art exhibit Hello Helios: The warming suns of Chicago’s Greektown, with 24 vibrant three-dimensional artworks lining Halsted Street from Monroe to Van Buren Streets, opening on Saturday, June 5, 2021 and running through spring 2022.Painted by a diverse group of Chicago artists and named for Helios, the god of the sun in Greek mythology, the 24 sun sculpture editions celebrate the sun and light up the start of summer in Chicago. Many works in the exhibit draw inspiration from related mythologies, including those in the Greek, Aztec, Yoruba, Japanese and Native American cultures.&nbsp;“Greece is a land of sun and water, with an average of 250 sunny days per year, and we are bringing some of that Mediterranean sunshine to Chicago,” says Greektown Arts Chair and SSA Commissioner Eve Moran. “After a difficult pandemic year that many of us spent primarily indoors, this exhibit encourages everyone to come out and enjoy the outdoor art in Greektown, grab an alfresco dinner or drinks on a patio in our neighborhood, and be newly energized. Here comes the sun!”&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417747/cqc1xy9gb7vvycrdwit7.jpg"></figure><a href="https://onetwopru.com/gallery-guichard-exhibition/">Sterling Bay Partners With Gallery Guichard To Showcase Art Of The African Diaspora At One Two Pru</a>Sterling Bay, A Chicago real estate investment and development firm, announced that it is hosting a new art installation at the East Loop office complex, One Two Pru, in partnership with Bronzeville's Gallery Guichard. The installation, entitled <a href="http://email.prnewswire.com/ls/click?upn=OXp-2BEvHp8OzhyU1j9bSWuwMvMWelqIco5RbfBrouY-2BSGnW6MYUer-2Ba3gifAFbAzO-2BhrDE2HOAt9ttfjHnfTwQ3528Kru6M-2FvG0P0PK-2Fh6Q1A5d2wlfjlwxwgGW-2FuRewITS6ybcdv-2F0wvkqcyQpeFn-2BK8sPdhtGj8BqffF9toTypUeF9unFM6X-2B57rTqE4QH3Jwnk_BYLPtpUivDHORxxkVXshLCRT3wjV7CgXbLJWP9J5MP9LJ6jv7-2Bb0c97UF1yE1Xeip-2Bke9JLNrM9Cc0K-2F03pmtC4CAVvGA7MMDMsZZk8Fb6oFBrXTTKwHMuD-2BPkMLv34nVHbPsYnbhLWw10GO15QiffbQPulUrgYJELivigTQvrGsGZupOXF2vmE0AST4-2BlXHdpEw47BZqxQNzfy9mGjpDnbP7nAoZQ-2BQA22x1RVH7c6udPeztUsKVVQyyDo5Ktys2a1jP9GN-2BdicwWbadOBTGYiLJl1jXaLCbcI5x2HVMuihRqGRgP8wkcDSP09bFizouIU4mmwaGJdCuNoSq-2BYo6m7L6lC7pOSiqfpcwlEUXTmnOQHzov7oQGu6P9Lv861V">African Diaspora: Chicago</a>, showcases multicultural artists specializing in African Diaspora, or communities and cultures descended from native Africans, and debuts to the public in the lobby of One Two Pru on Friday, May 28, bringing the space to life as Chicagoans begin their return to the office."We are excited to partner with Gallery Guichard and to transform One Two Pru's lobby into an engaging cultural experience for tenants and visitors as we all begin to emerge from the pandemic," said Andy Gloor, CEO of Sterling Bay. "Sterling Bay is a proud supporter of the arts and incorporates works from local and global artists in a creative and meaningful manner across our commercial spaces. Through our collaboration with Gallery Guichard, we are hoping to expand representation and exposure for Black artists and celebrate the diverse, dynamic cultures that define our city."&nbsp;</body></html>

CGN Art World Recap: May 25

<html><head></head><body><a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/chris-jones/ct-ent-wrightwood-gallery-greek-art-tsarouchis-20210520-vje3rkffj5hlzexmkj4kzug6bm-story.html">At Wrightwood 659 in Lincoln Park, a fascinating study of Greek identity and naked men</a>Ever heard of the artist Yannis Tsarouchis? If the answer is yes, it’s a pretty good bet you have some connection to Greece. His work is well known there. But beyond? Crickets chirp at his name. Especially now.But a remarkably comprehensive new exhibition in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood, the first major U.S. retrospective of Tsarouchis’ work, makes the case that this artist was anything but parochial. Bluntly put, this is an experience brimming with arrestingly erotic images of beautiful, naked men, carefully observed in all the erotic complexity of that statement, and mostly bathed in the singular light of the lands that surround the Mediterranean Sea.Via Chicago Tribune&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417873/g2vkexloorsfgnghwnca.jpg"><figcaption>Production still from the Art21 "Extended Play" film, "Theaster Gates: Collecting." © Art21, Inc. 2017. &nbsp;</figcaption></figure><a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/theaster-gates-will-design-2022-serpentine-pavilion-first-non-architect-solely-receive-prestigious-commission-1970600?utm_content=from_&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=US%204:30%20p.m.%20newsletter%20for%205/20/21&amp;utm_term=US%20Daily%20Newsletter%20%5BAFTERNOON%5D">Artist Theaster Gates Will Design the 2022 Serpentine Pavilion, Becoming the First Non-Architect Solely Awarded the Commission</a>Chicago artist Theaster Gates has been tapped to design the 2022 Serpentine Pavilion, making him the first non-architect solely commissioned for the prestigious project.&nbsp;A spokesperson for Serpentine Gallery confirmed Gate’s commission for the pavilion, which was first reported by<a href="https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/us-urban-planner-turned-artist-lined-up-for-2022-serpentine-pavilion">The Architect’s Journal,</a>&nbsp;but said it was “too early” to discuss the artist’s plans.Gates’s commission will mark the 21st iteration of the pavilion, which has been awarded&nbsp;annually to an international—often up-and-coming—architect or firm since 2000. (The 2020 commission was delayed to this year due to the pandemic.) Those chosen are tasked with designing a temporary structure near Serpentine’s two galleries in London’s Kensington Gardens.Via Artnet&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/a-year-after-george-floyd-s-death-art-memorials-are-at-a-crossroads?utm_source=The+Art+Newspaper+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=956eb0b672-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_05_20_02_12&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c459f924d0-956eb0b672-61117077">A year after George Floyd’s death, art memorials are at a crossroads</a>When George Floyd was killed one year ago, protests against police violence erupted on the streets, first in Minneapolis, and soon across the country. Murals <a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/gallery/art-for-a-good-cause-portraits-of-george-floyd-raise-funds-for-his-family-and-activist-groups">dedicated to Floyd</a> and other Black lives lost also started to appear on the streets, a spontaneous creative act to memorise victims, call for justice and celebrate the power of community. Today, <a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/in-minneapolis-plywood-boards-become-protest-art-worth-preserving">efforts to preserve</a>and document these urgent outpourings of street art are growing, including a crowdsourced online database run by the University of St Thomas in Saint Paul.The university’s <a href="https://georgefloydstreetart.omeka.net/">George Floyd and Anti-Racist Street Art</a> open access database now includes more than 2,000 images and descriptions of works, submitted by users from around the world.Via The Art Newspaper&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/frank-lloyd-wright-house-glenview-be-auctioned">Frank Lloyd Wright house in Glenview to be auctioned</a>A Glenview house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright is going up for auction.&nbsp;The house, secluded on a wooded lane called Portage Run, <a href="https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/secluded-house-frank-lloyd-wright-sale">came on the market in September,</a> priced at a little under $1.7 million. Built in 1950, the house is being sold by Brian Busche, whose now-deceased parents bought it from the first owners 56 years ago.&nbsp;Via Crain's&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 5/21

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417676/viuo9hlcukvlb17jp8ap.png"><figcaption>Chicago artist Nick Cave. A retrospective exhibition "Forothermore" is coming to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in 2022. (James Prinz / provided by MCA)</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-nick-cave-retrospective-mca-chicago-20210518-tnxxhgtyuffmdkp7eiiayayeuu-story.html?fbclid=IwAR1sK0Qln60ZfWkFzTX_u-YqJcWV_kUHlMqOogwYhBAIgztHzSUmbZSa2-4">Big Nick Cave retrospective, a first for the Chicago artist, announced for MCA next year</a>To be fair to the Chicago art world, Nick Cave has never been the easiest artist to contain within a single show. He’s not quite fashion, or dance, or sculpture. He’s not quite an installation artist, though his work includes all of these mediums and more. His Old Irving Park studio is not really even a studio but a kind of next-generation Warhol-ish Factory. He’s never fit that idea of the artist toiling away inside a warehouse space. In fact, though he’s been a staple of contemporary art collections for decades, his last major solo show in Chicago was about 15 years ago, for the Chicago Cultural Center.Via Chicago Tribune&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/love-monet-as-much-as-the-yankees-this-cap-is-for-you-11620827279?mod=searchresults_pos16&amp;page=3">Why Limited-Edition Art Merch for Monet and Van Gogh Keeps Selling Out</a>Worshippers of Vincent Van Gogh can feast their eyes on the painter’s 1889 masterpiece, “The Starry Night,” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, but they’ll have no luck trying to nab a hat memorializing the painting in MoMA’s gift shop. For that, they might want to journey some 50-plus blocks south to Tribeca gallery Broadway.Via the Wall Street Journal&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/05/ememem-street-mosaics/">Ceramic Mosaics Mend Cracked Sidewalks, Potholes, and Buildings in Vibrant Interventions by Ememem</a>Throughout his home city of Lyon, <a href="https://www.ememem-flacking.net/">Ememem</a> is known as “the pavement surgeon.” The artist repairs gouged sidewalks and splintered facades with colorful mosaics that he describes as “a poem that everybody can read.” Intricate geometric motifs laid with pristine tiles hug the cracks and create “a memory notebook of the city. It reveals what happened, the life in these public places,” he tells Colossal. “Here cobblestones have been picked up and thrown. There a truck from the vegetable market tore off a piece of asphalt…”Ememem’s first mosaic dates back 10 years when he found himself in a damaged alley in Lyon. At that time, he already was working in ceramic and translated that practice to revitalizing the outdoor area. Since 2016, he’s been consistently filling potholes and other divots throughout France.Via Colossal&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 5/18

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418901/vj87qbviqhxqjaead753.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/wangari-mathenge-the-expats-studies-impression-on-paper">Wangari Mathenge | The Expats Studies: Impression on Paper</a>Opening: Friday, May 21, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmMay 21 – July 25Epiphany Center for the Arts&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418901/aknwq1eq8q5gszj8pzuc.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/9th-annual-art-competition">9th Annual Art Competition</a>Opening: Friday, May 21, 7 – 10&nbsp;pmMay 21 – July 2Bridgeport Art Center&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418902/vfnasbtkubdviv1nelgy.gif"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/dennis-lee-mitchell-recorded-traces">Dennis Lee Mitchell: Recorded Traces</a>Opening: Friday, May 21, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmMay 21 – July 17Zolla / Lieberman Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418903/lmqjyymmtozx8bvsklbt.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/josh-garber-amorous-terrain">Josh Garber: Amorous Terrain</a>Opening: Friday, May 21, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmMay 21 – July 17Zolla / Lieberman Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418904/sdj5b9zi9y13nih3816x.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/nature-nurture-nature-deana-bada-maloney-jill-sutton-donets-v-s">Nature Nurture Nature: Deana Bada Maloney, Jill Sutton, Donets V.S.</a>Opening: Saturday, May 22, 1 – 4&nbsp;pmMay 22 – June 18Gallery Studio Oh!&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418905/mx6knvloqahy8wdw54ac.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/toward-common-cause-ab4c11d6-2286-4a00-b5e6-4c23dfe2548a">Toward Common Cause</a>May 21 – September 25Smart Museum of Art&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418905/rkakmasslesbpyk49nzk.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/mary-sibande-unhand-me-demon">Mary Sibande, Unhand Me Demon!</a>May 22 – July 31Kavi Gupta Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start May 21 - 22 

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417623/xhzsnoykulx0gkc6r3qf.jpg"></figure><a href="https://hebrubrantleyxmcastore.org/a/pre-launch">The MCA Has an Exclusive Collection Drop from Hebru Brantley</a>Check out the dedicated site for Hebru Brantley × MCA Store and mark your calendars for May 27, when the MCA will open their digital store featuring products designed by Chicago artist Hebru Brantley.<a href="https://mcachicago.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c24ba7c5a91cefd699dc985e1&amp;id=b45269295f&amp;e=95b957c616">Shop</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-saic-cancel-culture-class-20210505-p5cttxjf4vcsbgla3stp5zkoxy-story.html">Love the art, hate the artist? How a popular Chicago college class is reexamining Kanye West, Michael Jackson, Picasso and others in the era of cancel culture</a>Eileen Favorite has heard the word “problematic” more than any person should have to hear any word repeated, again and again. She has heard it applied to the obvious and to the unexpected. She has heard people say “problematic” so often that when she says it herself, the word doesn’t come as casually as it does for her students. It’s become an event. It bold-faces. It goes ALL CAPS. Sometimes it sounds like a chuckle. Sometimes like a death sentence. Sometimes it has an eye-roll attached. Sometimes an indictment.The point being, when Eileen Favorite discusses the life and work of problematic artists with her students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, one size refuses to fit all.Via Chicago Tribune&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/creative-time-project-rashid-johnson-will-give-local-artists-literal-stage-reemerge-1967832">Rashid Johnson Will Give Artists a Literal Stage to Reemerge From the Pandemic as Part of a New Project With Creative Time</a>One year ago, Rashid Johnson was holed up in a makeshift workspace in the basement of his Long Island home, churning out a series of apocalyptic oil stick drawings the color of a fire alarm. They belonged to his ongoing “Anxious Men” project,&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/how-artists-are-addressing-pandemic-1842672">the artist told Artnet News at the time</a>. He&nbsp;sounded&nbsp;anxious—as we all did then, a month deep into the pandemic, uncertainty still the dominant mood.Now, as we prepare to return to a semblance of normalcy, Johnson has once again turned to that same anxious red color—but this time, he’s doing so to a more optimistic end.Via Artnet&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/multimedia/shattering-the-glass-ceiling-mariane-ibrahim-1967027">Shattering the Glass Ceiling: Art Dealer Mariane Ibrahim on the Power of the Right Relationships</a>In the final installment of Artnet's mini-series Shattering the Glass Ceiling, Artnet News’s art and design editor Noor Brara spoke with pioneering gallerist Mariane Ibrahim, founder of her eponymous gallery. Ibrahim opened her first outpost in Seattle, later launching another outpost in Chicago’s West Town neighborhood.&nbsp;Now, as the last year’s turbulence begins to level off, Ibrahim is taking another giant leap—this time, overseas—to open a location in Paris.Via Artnet&nbsp;</body></html>

CGN Art World Recap: 5/12

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418894/mouumso74b34bfbedlff.jpg"><figcaption>Architect Helmut Jahn, seen here in 2011, in his office in the Jewelers Building. (Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune 2011)&nbsp;</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-helmut-jahn-architect-dead-20210509-gijjprpk6jd4baxm4roohm2z3a-story.html">Helmut Jahn, Chicago’s ‘star-chitect’ to the world, was the visionary behind United’s O’Hare terminal and Thompson Center</a>Before the architect Helmut Jahn designed United Airlines Terminal 1 at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport in the late 1980s, travelers coming or going from one of the world’s greatest architectural cities made a quotidian trudge through a boring portal. Jahn replaced that grim trajectory with a sensually thrilling explosion of light, sound and excitement, designing a rhapsodic experience that emulated the great railroad hubs that once defined Chicago. He put the romance back in travel, even for the humblest traveler, signaled Chicago’s cultural centrality toward of the dawn of the 21st century and created a much-copied model for new airports all over the world.Jahn, who was 81 and died Saturday from injuries suffered in a <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-helmut-jahnfamed-architect-dies-20210509-t4co2a6zd5fxzfiyon2hvcud24-story.html">cycling accident</a> outside west suburban St. Charles, would become its preeminent designer of high-profile public spaces and a full-throttle Chicago celebrity replete with the Porsche Carreras, big yachts, bespoke tailoring and all the other accessories of youthful 20th century fame.Via Chicago Tribune&nbsp;<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/5/8/22425352/karl-wirsum-obituary-artist-hairy-who-lori-gunn-art-institute-chicago-teacher">Karl Wirsum, visionary, ‘utterly original’ artist, dies at 81</a>Karl Wirsum first began drawing when he was 5 and stuck for weeks in a hospital room, recovering from a fractured skull.And he never stopped — not even after he’d had several strokes and could barely move his hand.“Even if it was just wiggly marks and circles and little angles on paper,” said his wife of 53 years, Lorri Gunn Wirsum. “He did it every day. He looked out our back window at an apple tree, and all through the winter with the tree skeletal, he just would draw the branches – his version of it.”Via Chicago Sun Times&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artforum.com/news/turner-prize-2021-shortlists-five-artist-collectives-85705">Turner Prize 2021 Shortlists Five Artist Collectives</a>For the first time since the award’s inception in 1984, the organizers of the Turner Prize have announced that the five finalists under consideration are all artist collectives, with no individual artist being nominated. The prize, considered one of the world’s most prestigious, is named for nineteenth-century painter British J. M. W. Turner and awarded annually to a UK visual artist. This year’s prize has been eagerly anticipated, as last year’s was canceled owing to the Covid-19 pandemic.Via Artforum&nbsp;<a href="https://rejournals.com/developer-thinks-outside-of-the-box-for-tricky-fulton-market-site-over-expressway/">Developer thinks outside the box for potential museum site on Fulton Market</a>Developer R2 Companies is marketing an opportunity to build a structure on a site that runs over the Kennedy Expressway near Fulton Market. Conceptual renderings in a marketing brochure depict a glass box surrounded by landscaped outdoor space at 708 W. Wayman Street.Currently, the site, which was one piece of a larger Fulton Market portfolio that R2 Companies purchased a few years ago, is being used as a parking lot. Because it’s a challenging and unique site, Zach Cupkovic of R2 Cos says that it’s an opportunity to think outside the box. He suggests that it could be a great fit for retail or maybe even a museum.Via RE Journals&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 5/10

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418894/ghpdf0ipryjdifonjwkz.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/yannis-tsarouchis-dancing-in-real-life">Yannis Tsarouchis: Dancing in Real Life</a>May 7 – Jul 31Wrightwood 659Wrightwood 659 hosts the&nbsp;first U.S. exhibition devoted to&nbsp;the work of Yannis&nbsp;Tsarouchis&nbsp;(1910–1989), widely regarded as one of the greatest Greek painters of the 20th century. On view May 7–July 31, 2021, the exhibition will feature some 200 works, including paintings and works on paper from public and private collections in Greece and internationally. Together, these span the entire arc of the artist’s career, showing how he absorbed and transformed influences including Ancient Greek and Early Christian art; Byzantine mosaics, frescoes, and icon painting; Greek vernacular traditions: costume, ornament and shadow theater Karaghiozis; and also the new languages of modern art: Fauvism, Cubism, and Surrealism.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418895/myp3opobkxz0dbpfd141.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/juan-arango-palacios-payasadas">Juan Arango Palacios: Payasadas</a>Opening: Friday, May 7, 2021 6 – 9&nbsp;pmEpiphany Center for the ArtsJuan Arango Palacios presents a new series of large-scale textile drawings that address the artist’s relationship to the Catholic church. These works critique religious archetypes and offer a personification of a queer narrative, exploring themes of fantasy, vulnerability, and performativity.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418895/jrn75jxzkpbjbxgu8ssq.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/ephemera-the-power-of-impermanence">Ephemera: The Power of Impermanence</a>May 7 – Jun 12 • Artist Reception: May 21, 5:30 (TBD: Zoom or Outdoor Weather Permitting)The Art Center Highland ParkThe Art Center Highland Park (TAC) is looking forward to bringing the community together for an ‘alive and well’ art experience. For the last year, they have been extending work outwards into the community, from virtual exhibits to art in their city-wide storefront windows. Now, TACHP invites artists to fill the center's walls (and floors) with the many ephemeral art processes that span the range of impermanence.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418896/zu43zfd2dutcvzzayrmg.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/rebecca-gray-smith-alphabet-numbers-the-pandemic-prints">Rebecca Gray Smith | Alphabet &amp; Numbers: The Pandemic Prints</a>May 8 – Jun 18. Opening Reception: Saturday May 8, 2-5 pm | RSVP requiredBert Green Fine ArtRebecca Gray Smith explores the presence of death in all human endeavors, using traditional signifiers of mortality such as the skeleton as a primary actor and subject. Each letter or number plate corresponds to a specific fatal activity or malady, highlighting the act of existence as a high risk activity fraught with peril. The artist examines how the Medusa of Death stalks us all, in all walks of life, while at the same time looking at the capriciousness inherent in the present: the absurdities, cruelties, and horrors of modern existence. The history of printmaking is elemental in the helix of human civilization, a taproot reaching back to the prehistoric dawn of mankind.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418897/pxcfvqzlksqm7gz5hq9n.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/opening-reception-for-kurt-kramer">Kurt Kramer</a>Thru May 30. Opening: Saturday, May 8, 2021 5 – 7&nbsp;pmPerspective Group + Photography Gallery, Ltd.While somewhat house-bound and experimenting this past summer, Kurt Kramer decided to print a few photographs on watercolor paper. He loved the retro look and decided to use it as the basis for this collection titled "Retrographs." For this exhibition, Kramer has drawn from images he has made over the past 22 years. He attributes his search for an old-fashioned sensibility partly to Perspective Gallery member Suzanne Metzel’s December 2019 exhibit of photogravure images.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418898/l3nqsd4jetoi80prwhdm.jpg"><figcaption>RIVA LEHRER</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/dis">DIS-</a>May 8 – Jun 26 • Opening: Saturday, May 8, 2021 12 – 5&nbsp;pmChicago Printmakers CollaborativeAn exhibition featuring artists who self identify as having a disability.&nbsp;Curated by Matt BodettArtists: Bri Beck, Justin Cooper, Timotheus “TJ” Gordon Jr., Riva Lehrer, Katie O’Neil, Reveca Torres, and Sandie Yi&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start May 7-8

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418887/chqveuqdovzqvnct8qt8.jpg"></figure><a href="https://nublockmuseum.blog/2021/04/23/outdoor-exhibition-behold-be-held-celebrates-the-power-of-community-and-connection/?mc_cid=a66c729a40&amp;mc_eid=64540e863b">Block Museum of Art Opens Outdoor Exhibition</a>In Fall 2020, as the Block Museum of Art's galleries remained closed to visitors due to the pandemic, staff opted to think imaginatively about engaging visitors through the permanent collection. While the past year has altered so much in our lives, it has also highlighted how art remains a vital window into our feelings and experiences. Behold, Be Held uses the facades of The Block, the neighboring Ethel M. Barber Theater, and the building of their community partner Youth &amp; Opportunity United (Y.O.U.) as an outdoor gallery. Reproductions of artworks from the Block Museum collection invite visitors to reflect on how art holds us through moments of crisis. These works capture gestures that we may have taken for granted prior to the pandemic, but we have missed dearly. The selection of works was guided by themes of self-care, self-authorship, and community. It also explores how subtle moments with others prepare and carry us on our journeys. On view through August 22, 2022&nbsp;<a href="https://exhibitcolumbus.org/?mc_cid=a27b4b186c&amp;mc_eid=f1e3638334">Exhibit Columbus to Highlight Indiana Town's Unique Place in the Architecture World</a>August 21 the third <a href="https://landmarkcolumbus.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=df84ab7cdcbf760c8a4c43ae9&amp;id=5703a474d6&amp;e=f1e3638334">Exhibit Columbus </a>exhibition will open, featuring 13 outdoor, site-responsive installations by a diversity of architects, artists, and designers, publicly displayed photography, and a fresh graphic identity and wayfinding system. The installations celebrate the relationships between the built environment and the people and other species that inhabit it, in dialogue with iconic buildings, streetscapes, and landscapes around Columbus, Indiana. The theme of this third Exhibit Columbus is <a href="https://landmarkcolumbus.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=df84ab7cdcbf760c8a4c43ae9&amp;id=ae3aa01153&amp;e=f1e3638334">New Middles: From Main Street to Megalopolis, What Is the Future of the Middle City?</a> Curated by Iker Gil and Mimi Zeiger, New Middles explores the future of the center of the United States.&nbsp;<a href="https://one.bidpal.net/cpslives/welcome">CPS Lives Hosting First Online Fundraiser and Art Auction</a>CPS Lives' first online fundraiser is May 5. They will be auctioning off some amazing items each day and will close it out with a&nbsp;Zoom panel discussion on May 12th at 6PM.&nbsp;New items are added daily and there is also a raffle. <a href="https://one.bidpal.net/cpslives/welcome">Preview artist works online</a> and stay tuned for more updates.&nbsp;CPS Lives is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization that pairs Chicago artists, designers, thinkers and makers with a Chicago Public School during the academic year to collaborate on a project, sharing the unique and individual story of each Chicago Public School. &nbsp;Each story will be celebrated and exhibited throughout the city in local Chicago Public Library branches and other exhibition spaces, as well as existing on the CPS Lives social media and website as an accessible digital archive of public school history for students, families, community members, educators, administrators, policymakers &amp; the general public.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

CGN Art World Recap: 5/3

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418887/ay3b0wdah4hal35zhpjy.webp"><figcaption>“Kerry and Cheryl I,” 1993. In these larger format Polaroid works in the early ’90s, Bey photographed friends and members of his artistic community, including Kerry James Marshall and Cheryl Lynn Bruce.Credit...Dawoud Bey/Rennie Collection Via NYT</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/arts/design/dawoud-bey-whitney-museum-review.html?referringSource=articleShare">A Photographer Looks Deep Into America’s Past</a>Before he became a photographer, Dawoud Bey trained as a jazz percussionist, looking to John Coltrane as a role model for melding craft with a commitment to social justice. As a teenager in the 1960s, Bey was finely attuned to the social and political upheavals of the civil rights movement, staging sit-ins and demonstrations with his high school classmates and joining the Black Panther Party, whose newspaper he sold on the weekends. By 1968, the struggle for racial equality was converging with demonstrations against the war in Vietnam and the early stages of women’s liberation, forming a pattern of transformation and upheaval that culminated with the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.Via NY Times&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/eli-broad-obituary-1963834?utm_content=from_&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=US%2010%20a.m.%20newsletter%20for%205%2F3%2F21&amp;utm_term=US%20Daily%20Newsletter%20%5BMORNING%5D">Eli Broad, the Proudly ‘Unreasonable’ Art Collector Who Changed the Cultural Landscape of Los Angeles, Dies at 87</a>Billionaire art collector, philanthropist, and entrepreneur Eli Broad—a towering figure in the cultural scene of the United States, and most of all, in his adopted hometown of Los Angeles—has died at 87. His reign culminated with the founding of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thebroad.org/">Broad</a>, a contemporary art museum showcasing the collection he and his wife, Edythe Broad, built together, which opened in 2015.Via Artnet&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/ryan-ori/ct-biz-randolph-street-market-second-lost-summer-chicago-ryan-ori-20210430-xvsk4adt2zakjpip2ftanas4qi-story.html">Randolph Street Market is back — but this summer, it’s not on Randolph Street. It’s not even in Chicago.</a>After losing last summer to a pandemic, anyone itching to browse the wares offered by vendors at Chicago’s longstanding Randolph Street Market will have to make a road trip.The reason why boils down to one word synonymous with the Fulton Market district these days: construction.The 18-year-old market is moving to Three Oaks, Michigan, for the next few months while its Chicago home, the Plumbers Hall at 1341 W. Randolph St., becomes a construction zone.Via Chicago Tribune&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/black-creativity-museum-of-science-and-industry/Content?oid=88316675">Black creatives never stopped creating</a>&nbsp;At this year's "Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition," [at the <a href="https://www.msichicago.org/explore/whats-here/exhibits/black-creativity-juried-art-exhibition/">Museum of Science and Industry</a>] two works by artist Lexus Giles—titled She's Healed and She is Me—invite visitors into the gallery that houses much of the exhibition's sculptures."I'm a storyteller," Giles says. "Those busts came from a poem [I wrote] called 'Tribulations of a Black Woman,' and there are actually three other pieces along with it that kind of broke down that poem."Via Chicago Reader&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: May 3

<html><head></head><body>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418887/o6fhj4djxr8d1ub2os2h.jpg"></figure><a href="LoopChicago.com/SundaysOnState">Sundays On State This Summer&nbsp;</a>Chicago Loop Alliance is launching an ambitious open streets project called Sundays on State that would see parts of State Street in the Loop closed to vehicle traffic for up to 12 Sundays this summer. The organization is inviting members of the community to get involved and share their ideas.In an effort to bring people safely back to the Loop, Chicago Loop Alliance will transform State Street from Madison to Lake into an open street on Sundays beginning July 11. For up to 12 Sundays, Chicago Loop Alliance will close this portion of the street to vehicle traffic to give pedestrians a chance to experience arts and culture, active recreation, retail, restaurants and bars against the backdrop of State Street’s iconic architecture. The closures will last from 7 a.m.-11 p.m., and the event itself will take place from 11 a.m.-8 p.m.&nbsp;<a href="https://chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org/current_edition/contributors?mc_cid=9a1836633f&amp;mc_eid=a673b99cd7">The Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB)&nbsp; announced the initial list of contributors</a>The CAB announced the initial list of 29 contributors bring global design perspectives from cities around the world such as Cape Town, Caracas, Chicago, Copenhagen, Dublin, Paris, Basel, Tokyo, and more.&nbsp; For the 2021 edition, Brown has paired teams of&nbsp;global designers and Chicago community groups&nbsp;together to explore imaginative uses of vacant spaces in the city. Each pairing will respond to critical issues such as health, sustainability, equity, and racial justice.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.spudnikpress.org/event/the-hashbrown-re-hash-virtual-event-cookbook-launch/">Spudnik Press Cooperative is &nbsp;hosting The Hashbrown Rehash: Virtual Event and Cookbook Launch May 7</a>For the first time in “Hashbrown history,” Spudnik Press is moving their popular party into home kitchens with an exciting virtual event and a commemorative cookbook!Please join Spudnik as they continue to celebrate our tradition of enjoying food while raising funds for arts education and accessible printmaking.&nbsp;<a href="https://dnyuz.com/2021/04/29/new-david-hockney-billboards-to-brighten-4-cities-in-may/">New David Hockney Billboards to Brighten 4 Cities in May</a>Two suns will appear in four cities during the month of May — the real sun in the sky, of course, but also the chrysanthemum-like depiction of it in a video by the British artist <a href="https://www.hockney.com/home">David Hockney</a>. The 2½-minute animation will be broadcast on digital billboards in Times Square in New York and prominent locations in London, Tokyo and Seoul.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 4/29

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418887/o0flruxy8rsfzse3vemm.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/just-above-my-wall-to-the-right">Just Above My Wall, (To The Right)</a>Opening: Saturday, May 1, noon – 3&nbsp;pmSouth Side Community Art CenterDuring a time when Black artists and their work is in high demand, McKissick chose to highlight Black collectors who are invested in the preservation of Black art, much like the South Side Community Art Center’s mission and legacy. Collector, Tracie Hall, describes her collection as “living with the ancestors.”&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418888/gzybvq9p312e7sbobhpw.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/flower-power">Flower Power</a>Opening: Saturday, May 1, 2 – 4&nbsp;pmVale Craft GalleryVale Craft Gallery welcomes spring with a group exhibition of artwork with the theme of flowers by Chicago area artists.&nbsp; Discover colorful paintings, sculptures, and functional ceramics to lift your mood and brighten your home decor.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418889/qgwn5euwxe53tebjbmvt.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/color-splurge">Color Splurge</a>Opening: Saturday, May 1, 1 – 4&nbsp;pmHofheimer GalleryMauricio Ramirez's&nbsp;artwork is a contribution to the community; frequently a cultural icon that transcends rich intersecting historical and popular culture references that speak to the complex diaspora of the United States. The visibility of culture can lead to not only the growth of confidence, but also care within our communities.Sheri Rush's work responds to the global pandemic by exploring the relationship of personal history, landscape, the digital image and recollection.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418889/o4st4awl5wq9hdslvrnc.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/shan-wallace-erin-mitchell-duo-show-won-t-you-celebrate-with-me">Shan Wallace &amp; Erin Mitchell Duo Show: won’t you celebrate with me</a>May 1 – June 27FLXST ContemporaryIn this duo exhibition of two emerging contemporary Black women artists, there is a generative connection to Marx's "poetry about the future" to renowned Black poet Lucille Clifton's poem "wont you celebrate with me” that speaks to a racial and gendered self and the shaping of lives to these experiences.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418890/fzdpyjvsqurabzawlv4n.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/louis-masai-meat-my-friends">Louis Masai: MEAT my Friends</a>Opening: Saturday, May 1, 11&nbsp;am – 6&nbsp;pmVertical GalleryThis one-of-a-kind exhibit also features a custom-built chicken-coop installation titled ‘What came first?’ complete with webcam-enabled, remote-control chickens — developed by Louis in collaboration with artist and creative engineer RoboJ — letting viewers experience the show and explore the gallery setting in real time from the comforts of home.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418891/gdxsfjr0crzuxsh9qgmx.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jeanette-may-s-tech-vanitas">Jeanette May’s: Tech Vanitas</a>Opening: Saturday, May 1, 4 – 5&nbsp;pmARC GalleryJeanette May’s “Tech Vanitas” photographs embrace anxiety over new technology and love for beautifully designed, obsolete machines. Her still lifes suggest 17th Century Dutch vanitas paintings with their air of craft guilds, international trade, and personal wealth. Her carefully disheveled arrangements of familiar devices also allude to product photography and advertising. “Tech Vanitas” examines the present and the past of technology with a sense of wonder and trepidation.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418892/haxcixmhgsiwnv4sygig.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/cat-crotchet-tethered">Cat Crotchet: Tethered</a>Opening: Saturday, May 1, 2 – 6&nbsp;pmAddington GalleryCat Crotchet is an innovative practitioner of pattern-based abstract painting. Using the medium of wax and pigment (encaustic painting), Cat's visual vocabulary includes stenciled shapes, layered patterns, and burned-in texture accomplished using heated metal much like a branding iron. Cat uses a bold but sophisticated color sense to engage the eye, and creates a sense of complexity through built up textures and layering.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418893/kduxwsidwssx395m35zi.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/before-during-after-new-works-by-janis-pozzi-johnson">BEFORE DURING AFTER –&nbsp;New works by Janis Pozzi-Johnson</a>Opening: Saturday, May 1, 1 – 4&nbsp;pmMcCormick Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start May 1st

<html><head></head><body><a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/armory-show-2021-exhibitor-list-1234590820/?fbclid=IwAR3ld2RAZkC4oEVhl3XQuks0Q58uX-FmU_CrhYixtnTxBIl3A_BsVRYU-vs">With Numbers on Par with 2020 Edition, Armory Show Names Galleries for In-Person 2021&nbsp;Fair</a>As large-scale, in-person events begin to resume in the United States, the Armory Show in New York, one of the country’s biggest art fairs, said it plans to gather together 195 exhibitors at its new home, the Javits Center. The fair is due to take place from September 9–12, 2021.Participants from Chicago include: Kavi Gupta, Rhona Hoffman, Mariane Ibrahim, Monique Meloche, Carrie Secrist, DOCUMENT and PATRONVia Artnews&nbsp;<a href="https://rivernorthdesigndistrict.com/designers/">The River North Design District Gallery Walk is Planned for September 2021</a>The River North Design District (RNDD) is proud to announce the 6th Annual River North Design District Fall Gallery Walk on Friday, September 10th, 2021. This year showrooms will feature a variety of fine artists and designer vignettes along with special events throughout River North.Each participating showroom and art gallery will be exhibiting artwork created by artists working today. This year Chicago’s top designers will be selecting their favorite art and creating inspirational vignettes in each of the participating showrooms.The 2021 lineup begins with a VIP kickoff party at Calia Stone Boutique at 5:30pm featuring design vignette and work curated by Yamini Designs and Interiors by Francesca. Headline artist is Linc Thelen also featuring art from philanthropic partner Aspire Art360. The walk concludes with an after party hosted by 210 Design House and PROjECT. interiors with artist Pat Sansone and philanthropic partner Digs with Dignity from 8-10pm. Participating showrooms include TOTO, 210 Design House, ARMAZEM.design, Artists Frame Service, Bulthaup, Daltile, Kohler Signature Store, Studio 41, eggersmann, Orizzonti, Ligne Roset, Oscar Isberian, Calia Stone Boutique, Roca and Chicago Luxury Beds. Information on special events in showrooms to follow.&nbsp;<a href="https://chicagoartistscoalition.org/resources/cac-grants/coney-family-fund?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Chicago%20Artists%20Coalition%20Announces%20Additional%20CONEY%20Grant%20for%202021&amp;utm_content=Chicago%20Artists%20Coalition%20Announces%20Additional%20CONEY%20Grant%20for%202021+CID_3be9e3e1243c7869a48d83f0e539fd87&amp;utm_source=campaign%20monitor&amp;utm_term=here">Chicago Artists Coalition Announces Another Coney Family Fund Award</a>Since 2017, CAC and the Coney Family have&nbsp;annually awarded one unrestricted grant of $5,000 to an outstanding visual artist&nbsp;in the city of Chicago who identifies as Black or African-American. Now in its fifth year, the prestigious and highly competitive Coney Family Fund will award two unrestricted grant of $5,000 each providing more direct support to Chicago artists.CAC will celebrate the two awardees for the Coney Family Fund during CAC's virtual benefit, WORK IN PROGRESS on Wednesday, June 9, 2021.&nbsp;&nbsp;Application&nbsp;for the Coney Family Fund Award program&nbsp;opens on&nbsp;April&nbsp;26, 2021&nbsp;and more information about the program can be found <a href="https://news.chicagoartistscoalition.org/t/i-l-mkyyda-dlvzir-r/">here</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artprize.org/for-artists/details#artists-artist-registration">ArtPrize Registation Open</a><a href="https://artprize.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=568226b22d477264c2318619f&amp;id=681db95e4e&amp;e=4296d6b5b0">Artist registration</a> opened on Monday, April 19, 2021 for the eleventh iteration of ArtPrize, to take place in Grand Rapids, Michigan from September 16-October 3, 2021. Anyone over 18, working in any medium, from any place on earth is invited to enter their artwork into one of the world’s largest art competitions and to seek cash prizes totaling $250,000.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418887/rl1dyuwhpi2pvyxehjm7.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/237-E-Delaware-Pl-60611/unit-6B/home/174332419">237 E DELAWARE Pl Unit 6B - Art Filled for Sale @ $835K</a>Warning - this price is probably too good to be true in the era of bidding wars, but check out the interior photos to see works spotted by Dzine, as well as many objects that look like they may have come from SOFAVia Redfin/Sotheby's RE&nbsp;</body></html>

CGN Art World Recap: 4/27/21

<a href="https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/924184?fbclid=IwAR1H0LyxlrWhk4f-IfhyBfQtUITZmJpBjlCL0Pw0lGN9QUeLyrz01KS-74w">Illinois sculpture park in the running to be named No. 1 in the country</a>One of the nation's foremost collections of outdoor art is just 30 miles south of Chicago on the campus of Governors State University, and it's now in the running to be named the top sculptural park in the country.Via FOX 32&nbsp;<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment-and-culture/2021/4/20/22393862/chicago-arts-77-artists-grants-recovery-reopening-program?fbclid=IwAR0IEd7wbdEvjA8D93tOnN3HfW7GodHWfUyjZoZ7agUeX8CkXinwbYa2VI4">Chicago to spend $60 million to boost arts, artists</a>Chicago plans to spend at least $60 million to boost the arts and local artists citywide.The Arts 77 recovery and reopening program will focus on employing creative workers through city services and programs; increase public sector investments in the arts through financing and cultural policy; and expand involvement in the creative and cultural sector across the city’s 77 community areas.Via Chicago Sun Times&nbsp;<a href="https://rejournals.com/urban-infill-means-more-than-e-commerce-and-sometimes-public-art/">There’s more to urban infill than e-commerce—sometimes there’s public art</a>When Amazon announced plans to acquire a 70-acre site on Chicago’s Southwest Side for a future warehouse and distribution facility, the news underscored growing urban infill industrial demand. Creative developers and investors are navigating the complexity to bring urban infill projects to fruition for a diverse range of users. &nbsp;Via RE Journals&nbsp;<a href="https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/2126-N-Lincoln-Park-W-60614/home/12698037?utm_source=myredfin&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=recommendations_update&amp;riftinfo=ZXY9ZW1haWwmbD00NTg1OTA2MiZwPWxpc3RpbmdfdXBkYXRlc19yZWNvbW1lbmRhdGlvbnMmYT1jbGljayZzPXJlY29tbWVuZGF0aW9ucyZ0PWltYWdlJmVtYWlsX2lkPTQ1ODU5MDYyXzE2MTkwMTc0MzJfNiZ1cGRhdGVfdHlwZT05JmxpbHJfc2NvcmU9MC40NDk1Jmxpc3RpbmdfaWQ9MTMxMDg3MTM5JnByb3BlcnR5X2lkPTEyNjk4MDM3JnBvc2l0aW9uX251bWJlcj01">Design-Y Penthouse For Sale at 2126 N Lincoln Park West for $4 mil.</a>Check out the view, and the kitchen...Via @properties&nbsp;

What We're Reading: 4/22

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418887/dlamf5zahyyqhzauwmg7.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/open-studio-night-2b74cf4b-0712-44b8-a8e5-c92cddacb22c">Open Studio Night</a>Opening: Friday, April 23, 6 – 10&nbsp;pmDragonfly GalleryThis Open Studio Night at Dragonfly Gallery will take place during the 1st Annual Exhibition: Photographic Processes &amp; More. Masks are required and social distancing will be practiced.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418888/inz2quq3xw9j0tvxvar7.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/ebony-g-patterson">Ebony G. Patterson, Brittney Leeanne Williams, Layo Bright</a>Opening: Saturday, April 24, 11&nbsp;am – 6&nbsp;pmMonique Meloche Gallerymoniquemeloche is pleased to present&nbsp;an exhibition of new large-scale tapestries and hand-cut paper works by&nbsp;Ebony&nbsp;G. Patterson. This is her fifth solo show with the gallery. Emerging from the framework of her immersive post-colonial garden-like installations, Patterson’s recent practice further considers the rich, expansive possibilities&nbsp;of the garden – a space for life and death, a complex entanglement of race, gender, class, and violence.The gallery is excited to introduce&nbsp;Layo&nbsp;Bright&nbsp;(b. 1991, Lagos, Nigeria) who will present a series of new ceramic and pottery plaster sculptures in the gallery’s viewing room.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418889/q4lpp8xkcfta5pwt1eh9.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/water-the-plants">Water The Plants!</a>Exhibition Begins April 24Vertical GalleryThis special exhibition includes collaborative paintings between: Joseph Renda Jr. and: Collin Van Der Sluijs, Sergio Farfan, Steve Seeley, Jason Brammer, Karl Jahnke, Kate Lewis, Kayla Mahaffey, Wingchow, and Grant William Thye.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418890/vj9yzqyfzlcwqi7tepwv.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/manuel-mathieu-negroland-a-landscape-of-desires">Manuel Mathieu Negroland: A Landscape of Desires</a>Exhibition Begins April 24Kavi Gupta GalleryKavi Gupta presents Negroland: A Landscape of Desires, a solo exhibition of new paintings and ceramics by Haitian-born, Montreal-based artist Manuel Mathieu.Mathieu’s practice is guided by intuition and the unknown as much as by intellect and memory. He sees the artist’s studio as crucible—a container in which forces and pressures are exerted to transform materials and ideas. The work is not the end of the process; rather, it creates the circumstances for connections, perspectives, and relationships to come into being.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418891/vsc2wt0ru5loikuoj5bv.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-metamorphosis-of-gabriel-villa-d4c185cc-b899-4aad-bb74-098cdd03394d">The Metamorphosis of Gabriel Villa</a>Exhibition Begins April 26Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC)The Metamorphosis of Gabriel Villa introduces Villa’s new direction from painting into installation and clay sculpture created during his Jackman Goldwasser Residency at Hyde Park Art Center, along with previous paintings. Through an extensive studio and public art practice, Villa seeks to seamlessly translate the language of Mexican traditions and the personal, urban American experience into charged intimate narratives. Villa’s subjects are ever evolving but always concentrate on psychological and social inequity in the multifaceted contemporary world.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start April 23 - 26

<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-architecture-biennale-uic-chicago-20210419-qtwnyix4dfd6dprdumrexq6qou-story.html">UIC architecture team is creating U.S. entry to Venice Biennale, and it’s all about how Chicago invented the way Americans build houses</a>The wooden framing for houses would seem like an unlikely thing to elevate into art. It’s utilitarian and basic, the common sight of American suburbia — pine, lumber, another house going up for another family. Maybe a little hopeful if seen in that light, but otherwise about as exciting as your local Home Depot.Wood framing will be the subject of this year’s American entry into the prestigious Venice Architecture Biennale, the global showcase for architectural thought held every other year in Italy — this summer’s a year delayed by the pandemic. The title of the U.S. Pavilion will be “American Framing,” created and curated by architects and educators Paul Andersen and Paul Preissner as part of a project now being assembled with the help of students at the University of Illinois at Chicago.Via Chicago Tribune&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/how-a-rock-wall-and-pool-of-water-have-thrown-a-wrench-into-the-redesign-of-hirshhorn-sculpture-garden/2021/04/16/010babfa-9ec6-11eb-b7a8-014b14aeb9e4_story.html?fbclid=IwAR3cCkyw98OaTabg_F4lb65L4gp98dLfUFqtdON9X0rCwaZSVQC3PIzLaLE">How a rock wall and pool of water have thrown a wrench into the redesign of Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden</a>The rhetoric around the Smithsonian’s renovation of the Hirshhorn Museum’s sculpture garden is officially heated.There were reports last month, amplified by a group opposed to key elements of the project, that artist and designer Hiroshi Sugimoto had threatened to quit. Sugimoto had told the Art Newspaper that he would resign if the museum did not accept a “key part of the redesign.” But that was in the context of an article in which he stressed his collaborative role with his predecessors on a garden that has evolved over the years.Via Washington Post&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/the-art-angle/art-angle-podcast-dawoud-bey-1959107">The Art Angle Podcast: How Photographer Dawoud Bey Makes Black America Visible</a>This month, the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd has brought the racial justice protests of the last summer viscerally back into the public consciousness, reigniting conversations in the news and in households everywhere about the reality of the Black experience in America.This weekend, those same conversations will also have a powerful new point of focus at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where a retrospective of the photographer Dawoud Bey presents his magisterial exploration of the subject, in the form of his penetrating portraits of Black lives from all points on the national compass. Ranging in registers from jubilation to agony, to ingenious self-invention, to blissed-out hope, the show is curated by Elizabeth Sherman and SFMoMA curator Corey Keller.Via Artnet Art AngleKey photo: Dawoud Bey, portrait by: Whitten Sabatini. Courtesy of the artist.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/sothebys-monet-water-lilies-painting-may-2021-1234590123/">Sotheby’s to Sell $40 M. Monet Water Lilies Painting in&nbsp;May</a>In a dramatic close to Sotheby’s modern art evening sale in Hong Kong on Sunday, vice chairman Brooke Lampley unveiled a large-scale <a href="https://www.artnews.com/t/claude-monet/">Claude Monet</a> water lilies painting to the live-streamed auction’s audience. That work, titled Le Bassin aux Nymphéas, is itself now going to be sold by the house. It will hit the block at Sotheby’s New York Impressionist and modern art evening sale on May 12, where it is expected to fetch $40 million.via Artnews&nbsp;

What We're Reading: 4/19

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418881/hwjol4xx6daoituro29x.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/christy-matson-12-recent-works">Christy Matson: 12 Recent Works</a>Exhibition Begins April 16&nbsp;Volume GalleryIn this new body of work, Matson paints the threads of both warp and weft, building layers of color that intersect in the weaving, interrupted by bubbles of painted paper yarn that burst up from its surface. Her artworks are washed in color where dye permeates fiber, bleeding from thread to thread to blur the grid on which they are organized, with subtle gradations flushing into sudden shades. Matson’s freedom with color highlights her interest in both constraint and precision.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418882/wmn4ilzpximswr0omcpi.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/michelle-bolinger">Michelle Bolinger</a>Exhibition Begins April 16&nbsp;Paris London Hong KongChicago-based painter Michelle Bolinger creates abstract paintings that investigate modes of seeing and oscillate between the surface and three-dimensionality. Layering and then taking away many thin layers of paint, Bollinger builds a multi-layered surface that is then interrupted with flat areas of color or defined geometric forms to create an optical surface tension.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418883/lhis1lg5js5jcm7isusu.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/boundaries">Boundaries</a>Exhibition Begins April 16&nbsp;Woman Made GalleryBoundaries&nbsp;explores modern digital and physical boundary setting as we emerge from global pandemic conditions.&nbsp;While many new physical boundaries have been defined for us, other boundaries were left to be defined. &nbsp;This exhibition considers the magnitude of this particular moment, as well as conceptual dimensions and negotiations of boundaries broadly, and as particularly experienced by womxn and non-binary individuals.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418883/yo0yvmpoimhhvej8tyrv.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/paul-mpagi-sepuya-bd907de6-3c97-490d-96a2-ac3ebc64e7b4">Paul Mpagi Sepuya</a>Exhibition Begins April 16&nbsp;DOCUMENT&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418884/kbuyhg1wvssen0ir97vm.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/ryan-travis-christian">Ryan Travis Christian</a>Exhibition Begins April 16&nbsp;Western ExhibitionsRyan Travis Christian’s 1990s suburban Chicago upbringing offered up absurd experiences, which he uses as fuel for the surreal personal narratives in his pop-culture-influenced graphite drawings. Impacted by Chicago-style figuration, Christian focuses on the paradoxical relationship between childish cartoons and ominous messages, musing on the technological and material obsolescence of his inspiration. Vintage political cartoons and hand-drawn animation influence Christian’s detailed vignettes—namely from Ub Iwerks, George Condo, and the Hairy Who—Christian comes to terms with his sources’ sordid pasts while embracing their richness and flavor.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418884/f36q0sfxglje9k6q6zze.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/milwaukee-s-spring-gallery-night-and-day">Milwaukee's Spring Gallery Night and Day</a>Exhibition Begins April 16 – 17Lily Pad | West&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418885/wujjzu62wavjfdawhlv5.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/american-roulette">American Roulette</a>&nbsp;Opening: Friday, April 16, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmEpiphany Center for the Arts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418886/me5uc5aiosn2fk4xkpdp.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/damon-locks-then-x-enters">Damon Locks: Then X Enters</a>Opening: Saturday, April 17, noon – 4&nbsp;pmGoldfinch&nbsp;At the onset of the pandemic, away from his studio and most of his materials during lockdown, Damon Locks found himself needing to make work in ways that were outside his normal path. As an electronic sound-maker, one of the most important tools in Locks’s toolbox is his sampler, which is used to create sound pieces out of collected parts. This echoes how he builds visual images. Digital and screen printing are well-trodden parts of his artistic practice, and Locks regularly uses his computer to compile, construct, and reconstruct images, tweaking them until ready for display. But now, struck with the desire to create and without access to the computer as conveyance, he began to rely on the tools at hand. Ink, brush, bamboo pen, paint, scissors, glue, drawing and tracing paper stepped in where digital design programs once stood.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start April 16 – 17

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417789/qrjqhz8b6vbijhh5hevo.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/ct-sta-artist-david-csicsko-st-0413-20210412-ijhgkg3wifchpfpkkkiakcwkx4-story.html?fbclid=IwAR33zuIDmHCs_ts035BSDjmIZ-f48Z_zF0L0KeQ_HqT-uZw7xLdcfZQ2ZQg">David Lee Csicsko spent part of pandemic creating free coloring sheets to do while sheltering at home</a>The artwork of David Lee Csicsko brings smiles to people’s faces. His bold, bright creations add cheerfulness to every subject he interprets, no matter how somber the topic.Take the lives of saints. Most people grew up with holy cards and statues that depict saints in their martyrdom and perfect holiness, as exceptional people to revere in a detached, superhuman way.Csicsko takes a different approach. Enthralled with the saints since he was a child, his playful images make them human and approachable, inviting viewers to learn more about them and to embrace their messages.Via Chicago Tribune(Read CGN's 2020 interview with Csicsko <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2020/7/artist-david-lee-csicsko-lends-graphic-talents-to-benefit-healthcare-heroes">here</a>)&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-nft-artist-chicago-20210322-6w2cp5skjrg27ig4vstqfhnb54-story.html?utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=VAP&amp;fbclid=IwAR2mus2FHNRWFehlWLN-9xBez4RF7ebwQMXvtB_AF3t73jtozG41xemmEzw">What is NFT art? Chicago artists explain the goldrush, as one collection by Beeple brings in $69 million</a>Sara Ludy could buy her own island.Maybe. Possibly. Assuming everything goes the way it has lately for digital artists selling their work right now in the form of non-fungible tokens, or NFTs. Maybe then. <a href="https://www.saraludy.com/">Ludy has spent</a> a couple of decades creating digital art and virtual-reality pieces and teaching the brave new world of new media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; last spring, after years in the city, she left Chicago for her dream state, New Mexico. She’s a significant figure in digital art. She’s not wading into NFTs to get rich quick. And frankly who knows if she even wants an island?Via Chicago Tribune&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/collectors-eye-they-built-a-world-class-collection-of-black-artists-work-who-are-they-acquiring-now-11594828483?mod=hp_featst_pos4">From July 2020: Collector’s Eye: They Built a World-Class Collection of Black Artists’ Work. Who Are They Acquiring Now?</a>With the <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2021/4/cgn-art-world-recap-april-6">news today</a> that the Art Institute of Chicago has a new chair of the Board of Trustees, Denise Gardner, we pulled up this article we were reading last summer.Ms. Gardner, the vice-chairman of the board at the Art Institute of Chicago, said she recently walked into the room at home where she has long displayed the masters of the collection—and realized every artist was a Black man. She had bought a couple of major works by Black women lately, so she resolved to add these artists to the main room, thereby allowing Black women to share the spotlight.Via WSJ&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/gardner-heist-netflix-documentary-1957735?utm_content=from_&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=US%20News%20Morning%204/13/21&amp;utm_term=US%20Daily%20Newsletter%20%5BMORNING%5D">An Explosive Netflix Documentary About the $500 Million Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist Names the Gangsters Who May Have Done It</a>“This was a solvable crime,” Colin Barnicle, director of the <a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/gardner-heist-docuseries-netflix-1951491">new Netflix documentary series</a> <a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/81032570">This Is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist</a>, told Artnet News.But more than three decades after the most expensive art theft in U.S. history, Boston’s <a href="https://www.gardnermuseum.org/">Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum</a>’s stolen paintings are still missing, with their empty frames hanging on the walls of the Venetian-style palazzo.Via Artnet&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 4/13

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418881/ollhcab8aoubpgrb91wc.jpg"></figure>Gallery Chat: SaraNoa MarkFriday, April 9, 12 – 4&nbsp;pmGoldfinchSaraNoa Mark on-site gallery chat on Friday, April 9th, 12-4pm. Book your appointment now to visit the exhibition; the artist is available to answer questions and&nbsp;give casual walk-throughs.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418882/wlqkagqzavk6tlhtfyvo.jpg"></figure>USUAL OBJECTS Panel DiscussionFriday, April 9, 5 – 6&nbsp;pmCarrie Secrist GalleryIn addition to our virtual booth for EXPO CHGO, the gallery will be hosting a special panel discussion featuring the participating artists in our current exhibition USUAL OBJECTS. The panel discussion will further examine contemporary still life in the current context of the coronavirus pandemic against the&nbsp;historic backdrop of the still life genre.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418883/vd3otgltzi77wya8yonh.png"></figure>Seeing Double: Mughal Reflections in South Asian ArtSaturday, April 10, 9 – 11&nbsp;amSouth Asia InstituteThis class will provide both historical and current perspectives on South Asia’s imperial past. ‘Reflecting’ on the Mughals is pivotal to the way India and Pakistan envision their nations – and grapple with their (post)colonial history.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418884/mndbdeonlwk7eq4iquyn.jpg"></figure>In Conversation with the ArtistsSaturday, April 10, 3 – 4&nbsp;pmEat Paint StudioPlease join me for our second conversation with Claire Elliott, Vanessa Shinmoto, and Alexandra Stevenson this Saturday, April 10, from 3-4PM CST. We'll talk more about color, process, and maybe dive into philosophical meanderings about the value of art. The virtual talk will take place via Zoom.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418885/wuxmwd4thbkpra9ppdim.png"></figure>Artist Talk: Jill MagidSaturday, April 10, 6 – 7&nbsp;pmThe Renaissance SocietyFeaturing the premiere of a new film and other new works, Jill Magid’s Tender: Balance at the Renaissance Society thinks about the circulation of pennies, against the backdrop of the pandemic, and measures of absence and loss. With dimensions that both intimate and observant of larger systems around us, this exhibition both parallels and builds on a monumental but nearly invisible public artwork that Magid began in New York in fall 2020.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418886/al6reetakjfrp4bn6wki.png"></figure>Music for Self-care and HealingSunday, April 11, 2 – 3&nbsp;pmNorthern Illinois University (NIU) Art MuseumJen Conley, board certified music therapist and licensed professional counselor, will provide an overview of music therapy, share remarkable stories from her practice and provide suggestions on applying the healing powers of music in your own life.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Talks This Weekend: April 9 - 11

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417762/gtpz1ygptpytrxgaykmt.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/ellen-lanyon-a-bit-of-magic">Ellen Lanyon: A Bit of Magic</a>Exhibition begins April 8Gray&nbsp;Often discussed in relation to Surrealism and Magic Realism, Chicago painter and printmaker Ellen Lanyon (1926 - 2013) is celebrated for her fantastical and meticulously crafted still-life compositions. A reflection of her own private mythology, Lanyon's juxtapositions of exotic specimens from the natural world with everyday household objects subvert ideas of domesticity and offer mysterious new narratives both playful and sinister.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417763/adwb3dzjpc7pubgzosg4.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/lust-love-and-loss-in-renaissance-europe">Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe</a>Exhibition begins April 8Smart Museum of Art&nbsp;The objects on view—created for private homes and personal consumption—offer glimpses into the lives of artists and their audiences. Painters, printmakers, and craftsmen, inspired by popular literary sources including Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Boccaccio’s Decameron, and the Bible, interpreted their stories for everyday settings.&nbsp;Taken together, the works of art on display illuminate the many ways that objects lay at the heart of cultural rituals and consuming desires through which relationships were formed, celebrated, and extinguished.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417764/navd17gcuv0fn4ap0cnq.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/momentum-moving-joyfully-forward">Momentum: Moving joyfully forward</a>Exhibition begins April 9Springboard Arts&nbsp;The emergence from a turbulent season can be a time of positive change, fueling momentum to keep moving forward. In our new exhibit, “Momentum,” the idea of moving forward with strength and purpose is depicted in the vibrant work of our artists and in the subject matter they address.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417765/mevirnifvv7rq9lr8eno.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/space-chapter-one">Space: Chapter One</a>Exhibition begins April 9Oliva Gallery&nbsp;Organized by the Chicago-based Didaar Art Collective, this group show exhibits a selection of juried drawings and printmakings on the perception of space or the ideas(s) of alternative spaces by Iranian visual artists who live in Iran and beyond.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417766/rdohx8leokz3ck5iputq.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/hurvin-anderson-anywhere-but-nowhere">Hurvin Anderson: Anywhere but Nowhere</a>Exhibition begins April 10Arts Club of Chicago&nbsp;In this new series of paintings, Anderson trains his eye on a section of wall from a seemingly insignificant building that is being overtaken by foliage. Working and reworking the composition in multiple sketches, transparencies and paintings, he invites introspection, as well as recognition of the destructive factors at work in such marked locations in the natural environment.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417767/bhicnmphhtergi8rb94m.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jill-magid-tender-balance">Jill Magid | Tender: Balance</a>Exhibition begins April 10The Renaissance Society&nbsp;As the pandemic began last year, the complex relationships between individuals, groups of people, institutions, and deeply-rooted systems quickly came into stark relief. Magid was especially struck by the way public figures weighed the loss of human lives against the supposed costs for the economy. Against this backdrop, she began developing a project that would take multiple forms over time, while centering on the circulation of pennies, as they’re exchanged by hand and within the economy at large.&nbsp; &nbsp; Featuring the premiere of a new film and other new works, Jill Magid's Tender: Balance at the Renaissance Society follows the movement of pennies and some of their afterlives, while thinking about absence, loss, and traces left behind. Reflecting her unique approach as an artist, the exhibition has aspects that are intimate and poetic while also observing broader systems around us—in this case the intertwining of the economy and the lives of individual people.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417767/mfg9efglkl7piwm8luvd.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/figures-faces">Figures / Faces&nbsp;</a>Exhibition begins April 10Evanston Art Center&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417768/miensfzwformle2b3myv.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/2021-mfa-candidates-thesis-exhibition">2021 MFA Candidates Thesis Exhibition</a>Exhibition begins April 10Snite Museum of Art&nbsp;This annual exhibition is comprised of the culminating thesis projects created by the students graduating from the three-year masters in fine arts degree program of the University of Notre Dame Department of Art, Art History &amp; Design.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417769/eonha6uoifnibxwosdlg.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/is-this-real">Is This Real?</a>Exhibition begins April 10Gallery Studio Oh!&nbsp;A two-person exhibition featuring landscape and figurative paintings and drawings by Ellen Holtzblatt and imaginative, surreal gouache paintings and sculptures by Kathy Weaver. Through her paintings and drawings, Ellen Holtzblatt explores the profound connections between the physical and spiritual world. Kathy Weaveruses her imagination fired by buried memories and a love of technology to comment on the status quo. Both artists are on a journey to find meaningful coincidence that lead to a deeper connection with the universe.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start April 8 – 10

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418876/rchl9kccndskl4drwaza.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/diane-arbus-a-secret-about-a-secret">Diane Arbus: A Secret about a Secret</a>Exhibition begins April 1Alan Koppel Gallery – NorthSeven iconic artworks by one of America's preeminent photographers, along with works by contemporary artists influenced by Arbus.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418876/dlcxcubs9vmpieechwfi.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/joerg-metzner-missing-the-tree-at-greenwood-beach">Joerg Metzner | Missing: The Tree at Greenwood Beach</a>Exhibition begins April 2Perspective Group + Photography Gallery, Ltd.Metzner’s photography is narrative by nature, encompasses environmental portraits, landscape, documentary, editorial and fine art photography. Point him in any direction for a travel assignment and he will happily hit the road.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418877/fzyg8s10cdppkjswor1f.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/in-from-the-cold">In From The Cold</a>Exhibition begins April 2Carl Hammer GalleryIn From The Cold is a celebration of the self-taught brilliance of “outsider” art and artists, a recognition which the world art establishment was reluctant to make many years ago.&nbsp; Today, the modern art world as a whole recognizes, with high esteem, the achievements of the outsider artist.&nbsp; Their works have become iconic byproducts of and leave significant legacies to the American art experience itself.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418878/ukprijiepngz3jjbxwzp.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/paula-blackwell-out-of-the-blue">Paula Blackwell: Out of the Blue</a>Opening: Saturday, Apr 3, 2021 2 – 6&nbsp;pmAddington GalleryPaula Blackwell is a leading artistic voice in the Pacific Northwest. Her emotionally charged, moody landscapes point as much towards our inner life as they do reference the natural world. Process leads the charge in her work as she manipulates layers of wax and pigment, exploiting the translucency of the materials to create a palpable sense of atmosphere, never becoming a slave to detail and illustration.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418879/z92ptb67rg2bkys4ywr1.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/now-and-then-paintings-by-joanna-pinsky">Now and Then: Paintings by Joanna Pinsky</a>Exhibition begins April 3&nbsp;Evanston Art CenterPinsky creates installations of the shaped paintings, hanging them so they seem to interact with each other. &nbsp;Nothing is hung parallel or perpendicular to the floor giving the appearance that the objects seem to be floating in space like memories when you fall asleep at night, collapsing time and place into unexpected relationships.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418879/si0c2abp5qy1d8vrqrel.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/kour-pour-familiar-spirits">Kour Pour: Familiar Spirits</a>Exhibition begins April 3&nbsp;Kavi Gupta GalleryPour’s debut at the gallery will present a group of paintings he created around the motif of the tiger. As with past bodies of work, such as his acclaimed carpet paintings, this series contains elements that reference both global art history and various interconnected cultural iconographies. Pour uses the word foster to describe his process of activating such visual associations, suggesting that he is nurturing something temporarily in his care.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418880/oct8e17fasvfnjxb1nzx.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/boom-bloom-featuring-nikki-renee-anderson-renee-robbins-artlab-mike-slaski">Boom Bloom: Featuring Nikki Renee Anderson &amp; Renee Robbins | artlab: Mike Slaski</a>Exhibition begins April 3&nbsp;Krasl Art CenterBoom Bloom features sculptures by Nikki Renee Anderson and paintings by Renee Robbins that explode, reconfigure, and blossom. Biomorphic compositions multiply, shift, and drip inside a candy-colored otherworld. Themes of growth connect the works in rhythmic blooms at either the beginning or the end of natural cycles. While drawing from the familiar, invention and a whimsical sense of play characterize the work.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start April 1 – 3

<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/richard-driehaus-stock-market-daredevil-preserved-traditional-architecture-11616673753?mod=searchresults_pos1&amp;page=1">Richard Driehaus, Stock-Market Daredevil, Preserved Traditional Architecture</a>The Wall Street Journal featured an obituary of Chicago's famed philanthropist this past weekend.&nbsp;Via WSJ&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/louvre-collection-online-artists-guaranteed-income-san-francisco-morning-links-1234588045/">Louvre Puts Entire Collection Online</a>The&nbsp;Louvre&nbsp;has just&nbsp;put its entire collection—all 482,000 pieces—online. “Today, the Louvre is dusting off its treasures, even the least-known,” its president,&nbsp;Jean-Luc Martinez, said&nbsp;<a href="https://click.email.artnews.com/?qs=d88ecd0b3929ee266aa65d62df5db4251ed5f9a7b674aa0109cde586329f2dde70f43764c676d7243f2cc5a850225d46f472b3a5b3b2acb4">in a statement</a>. Only about 30,000 entries were previously accessible to the public.Via Artnews&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/two-non-profit-organisations-team-up-to-offer-usd100-000-grants-to-artists-in-the-san-francisco-bay-area">Two non-profits team up to offer $100,000 grants to artists in the San Francisco Bay Area</a>The Oakland, California-based Kenneth Rainin Foundation has partnered with United States Artists to launch the Rainin Fellowship, which will annually award grants of $100,000 each to four artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. Each artist will be selected on the basis of making an impact on the community.Via the Art Newspaper&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mcachicagostore.org/all-products/browse/keyword/new-era">MCA Marks Opening Day of Baseball with Limited-edition Chicago team caps</a> Go all nine innings and celebrate Opening Day with $9 off the Joshua Vides × MCA White Sox or Cubs hat. These numbered, embroidered, and paint–splattered fitted caps are available exclusively at the MCA Store. The Store is open Tuesdays 10 am–9 pm and Wednesday to Sunday 10 am–6 pm. <a href="https://mcachicago.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c24ba7c5a91cefd699dc985e1&amp;id=1409aff7d4&amp;e=95b957c616">Shop</a>&nbsp;

What We're Reading: 3/29

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418876/mwxcfoli8rkbf6ux3caa.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/victoria-adams-distancing-imagination-and-the-faraway">Victoria Adams –&nbsp;Distancing: Imagination and the Faraway</a>Opening: Friday, March 26, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmZolla / Lieberman Gallery&nbsp;VICTORIA ADAMS:&nbsp;Distancing&nbsp;features wide-open panoramic spaces and horizons with clear views of turbulent skies. Adams' interests include the universal human need to speculate on what lies behind a horizon—to be in one place and project the imagination into another, as yet unattainable, state of being that is beyond the horizon and into the “distance." Horizons and Distance are gateways to the “faraway”, both spatial and temporal, and they are a constant feature of western romantic landscape art.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418876/xclu3qgpma50rfbjxy35.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/richard-lee">Richard Yu-Tang Lee: I Come In Peace</a>Opening: Friday, March 26, 7 – 10&nbsp;pmFirecat Projects&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418877/f3j6x0zdnn6he00oyjea.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jeane-cohen-in-the-walls-of-my-house-there-were-spirits">Jeane Cohen: In the Walls of My House There Were Spirits</a>Opening: Friday, March 26, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmZolla / Lieberman Gallery&nbsp;In this body of work, Cohen is wringing pathos into the paintings by drawing on experiences of disintegration, fear, a collapsed boundary between interior self and outer world, and feelings of futility. Addressing what can be framed as a personal or cultural threat of spiritual collapse, the paintings’ untethered fields imprint the churning, melting, bending, dislodging, and charred sensations of continuously renegotiating reality.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418878/cmooiemzynqtkuycxvla.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/very-well-thank-you-the-arts-as-a-means-to-well-being">“Very Well, Thank You”: The Arts as a Means to Well-being</a>March 26 – May 15Northern Illinois University (NIU) Art Museum&nbsp;The exhibition investigates the unique role and way the visual and performing arts assist in maintaining social, psychological and physical health and happiness.Artists were selected from a national call for entry and invited to participate because of their interest in presenting work that attempts to examine how the arts contribute to well-being through visual harmony, balance, color, humor, being in the moment and process.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

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