<html><head></head><body>By CGN STAFFThis week we continue our mini-series featuring a small selection of art works priced below $1,000. Galleries are still open by appointment for visits and pick-ups. If you make a purchase online check to see about shipping times and dates.&nbsp;Remember, when you purchase a work of art, you are supporting artists and the galleries that represent them!&nbsp;If you're really stuck for ideas, give the gift of CGN in 2021! <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/print-subscriptions">Subscriptions are $20/year</a> for three issues, including our hot-off-the-press CGN Arts Guide for 2021. We are shipping copies as we get subscriptions in, but please be aware that we are hearing that the USPS is running behind right now.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2019/12/art-picks-works-under-5-000">• Read Part I here</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2020/12/art-picks-works-under-1-000-part-ii">• Read Part II here</a>&nbsp;Some art buying tips to keep in mind:• There are many factors that go into pricing art, such as the medium (photography and prints vs paintings), the quantity available (in an edition of 25 or a unique work) as well as the reputation of and career stage of the artist (a young, emerging artist vs a contemporary master)• Not all prices are marked when you visit a gallery exhibition or art fair. But that does not mean that you cannot ask for a price, and maybe even discuss a (be reasonable!) discount.&nbsp;• Payment plans are often available. Ask before you buy what the options are.• Explore on your own, and don't hesitate to contact a gallery or artist to get a conversation started.• Use CGN as your guide to learn when shows are happening where and then get out there and look for yourself!&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418835/hioqavsa4vu7xvuduhqs.jpg"></figure><a href="https://shop.chicagotruborn.com/collections/all/products/yellow-fever">Chicago Truborn (WEST TOWN)</a>By revise (won Kim), 24" x 36", Aerosol and acrylic on canvas&nbsp;$650.00&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418836/gdus7hp5yca9aagt2x6u.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.galleryvictor.com/shop-the-studio/felipe-alfaro-painting-3">Gallery Victor Armendariz (RIVER NORTH)</a>Felipe Alfaro, The Gift #14, mixed media, 10" H x 8" W$550.00&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418837/hwszxsfksnxlfwyhsbsl.png"></figure><a href="https://womanmade.org/artwork/jenny-halpern-2/">Woman Made Gallery (PILSEN)</a>Jenny Halpern, Watering a Love Bite, acrylic, resin, 15" H x 12" W$300&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418838/ko1ryy7qamsoakl5ferj.jpg"></figure><a href="https://hi-buddy.org/collections/all/products/brush-whisperer-prairie-plants-a-set-of-6-cards">Buddy (S. MICHIGAN AVE)</a>Set of six blank greeting cards with envelopes featuring original watercolor paintings by award-winning botanical artist, Heeyoung Kim.$20.00&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Art Picks: Works Under $1,000 – Part III

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418835/pw7tdstzhlt3wumhbahe.jpg"><figcaption>Artist Rashid Johnson, a frequent donor to museum fundraisers, at his Brooklyn studio on June 18, 2019. (Photo by Chris Sorensen for The Washington Post via Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>Struggling Museums Are Increasingly Relying on the Generosity of Artists to Convince Private Donors to Bail Them OutAs donors take their foot off the gas of arts giving, artists have been called in to reenergize them. It's a lot of pressure.By Naomi Rea, artnet news<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artist-museum-philanthropy-1930766">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418836/bky1btbnqujrhfp4ntv0.jpg"><figcaption>Courtesy Jason Seiler, via time.com</figcaption></figure>The Story Behind TIME's 2020 Person of the Year CoversTo illustrate the broad range of people featured on the 2020 Person of the Year covers, we commissioned artists and photographers with a variety of backgrounds and styles—from digital art to oil painting; portraitists to a high school freshman.The image of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris as the 2020 Person of the Year was painted by Chicago-based artist Jason Seiler.By D.W. Pine, Time Magazine<a href="https://time.com/5919500/person-of-the-year-2020-behind-covers/">Read More</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image image-style-side"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418837/xrsfl3qqaic0vrdzcebx.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Revealed: the secrets behind Antonia, Modigliani’s ‘most complex work’Researchers at C2RMF give an exclusive preview of their forensic study of all the artist's works in French museum collections.Vincent Noce, The Art Newspaper<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/modigliani-portrait-conservation-discoveries">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418838/jtuv56hnuvy6jesvnwf1.jpg"></figure>The Top 15 Most Expensive Artworks Sold at Auction in&nbsp;2020This year was a turbulent one, and auction houses were not exempt from facing the changes wrought by it. Because of the pandemic, Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips swiftly adapted their marquee evening auctions for a new era, ushering in live-streamed hybrid mega-sales that saw a host of masterpiece-level works reach staggering prices.By Angelica Villa, ARTnews<a href="https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/most-expensive-works-sold-at-auction-1234579250/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418839/duwbuagkrdtmnl2hfdwk.png"><figcaption>Clockwise from center: Sue Coe, via SaveArtSpace and Art at a Time Like This; Carlos Vilas Delgado/EPA, via Shutterstock; The Estate of Noah Davis; Charlie Rubin for The New York Times; The Estate of Philip Guston and Hauser &amp; Wirth</figcaption></figure>The Most Important Moments in Art in 2020This was a year of protests and pivots. Monuments fell, museums looked inward. On the bright side, galleries persisted despite the pandemic’s grip and curators rolled out magisterial retrospectives.By Holland Cotter, Roberta Smith and Jason Farago, The New York Times<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/arts/important-art-moments-2020.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: December 15, 2020

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418835/bfle4dcjxqq4vdxuocch.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/small-works-members-show">Small Works Members’ Show</a>Begins December 10Woman Made Gallery – PilsenA treasure trove for collectors, art lovers and gift givers, the exhibition includes painting, mixed media, fiber, collage, printmaking, sculpture, ceramic, photography and jewelry. Works have a size limitation of 16 inches and prices range from $50 to $300.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418836/mbdlfdz6mwmni4vnb2b5.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/phyllis-bramson-virus-lockdown-drawings">Phyllis Bramson: Virus Lockdown Drawings</a>Opening December 11, 4-7pmZolla/Lieberman –River NorthBramson says, "The Virus Lockdown Drawings were done away from my studio and in my house. &nbsp;I set up a small studio which took over our family room making it a big mess. I worked on these drawings from March 29th until June 13th. Collaging images from ads and articles from ARTFORUM (that I had never opened) was a jumping off point for these drawings. Using a portfolio of 16 x 13 inch drawing paper, there was a lot of collaging, gluing, use of watercolor, chalk, spray paint, and pencil."&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418837/regyasz7cpeouvg6gojs.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/objects-and-environs">OBJECTS and Environs</a>Begins December 11Oliva Gallery – Wicker ParkAn exhibition featuring work by artists Curtis Bozif and Louise Pappageorge.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418838/o4l8ev9kujb5msz5r7qo.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/who-s-afraid-of-red-2e9bff10-a345-48e6-b509-fe35a4165a3e">Who’s Afraid of Red?</a>Begins December 11Gallery Studio Oh! – RavenswoodAnnual Holiday Group Exhibition focusing on the theme of the color red. Each artist explores their own interpretation of the color resulting in a diverse selection of mediums including painting, sculpture, textile/fiber art, printmaking, and more!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418840/btvw1hbrfwd0i3tmdbtw.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/carolina-caycedo-from-the-bottom-of-the-river">Carolina Caycedo: From the Bottom of the River</a>Begins December 12MCA – N. Michigan AveInformed by Indigenous philosophies, Caycedo’s work challenges us to understand nature not as a resource to be exploited, but as a living and spiritual entity that unites people beyond borders.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Starting December 10 - 12

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418835/dlibiizrd5w4p86s44zz.jpg"><figcaption>In a 2010 photo, painting conservator Elizabeth Wigfield and frame conservator Kirk Vuillemot carry Claude Monet's "Apple.. (Charles Osgood / Chicago Tribune)</figcaption></figure>Union League Club votes to sell its prized Monet painting to cover pandemic lossesThe story of Claude Monet’s “Apple Trees in Blossom” and Chicago is long, significant and now — with the Union League Club’s decision to sell its most valuable artwork to cover pandemic-year losses — potentially dire.The painting is currently hanging in the Art Institute’s expansive “Monet in Chicago” exhibition, on loan as a focal point of the show, the first work by the noted French impressionist to be purchased by a Chicago institution.By Steve Johnson, The Chicago Tribune<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-union-league-club-monet-painting-20201204-huubxty4znekbmazxf3se6k45i-story.html?fbclid=IwAR3QvXfJEqB5eY2dqXdKf62nJ64Te6vLzTXEy957cjxV6rjwFgjmxVhhaBg">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418836/lelmcvvbxcuhx4btosit.jpg"><figcaption>Chicago’s cultural historian Tim Samuelson retired this week Sun-Times Media file photo</figcaption></figure>Tim Samuelson, the city’s first and only cultural historian, retiresSamuelson, 69, worked for the city since 2002. Lois Weisberg, the former commissioner of cultural affairs, got him to leave the Chicago History Museum with the promise that he would be allowed to do “whatever you do” as the city’s cultural historian.For almost two decades, Samuelson did exactly that, assisting fellow historians, reporters, businesses, architects and foreign delegations as a combination spokesman, consultant, historian and storyteller.By Bob Chiarito, Chicago Sun Times<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/12/1/21860298/tim-samuelson-city-chicago-first-only-cultural-historian-retires?fbclid=IwAR3hBRJ1o3OtsSOj7vMRWfANyTAa69Zl83MbOfWAiRtloGLRCmHAdIbxb88">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418837/zibrcghxo7rnjjb4zusp.jpg"><figcaption>Collins Avenue in Miami. And there's no one there. Photo by Nate Freeman.</figcaption></figure>Here’s What It’s Like on the Ground in Miami Beach, Where Zombie Art Basel Is Happening, Sort OfThe fairs were cancelled, penthouses languished, and parties got called off. That's when things got interesting.By Nate Freeman, Artnet News<a href="https://news.artnet.com/market/art-basel-miami-beach-2020-2-1928814">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418838/yourfe93tlyzi4hkvbvp.jpg"><figcaption>The Utah monolith before it was dismantled. UTAH DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY / AP</figcaption></figure>How the Monoliths Became an Instagram&nbsp;TrapIt’s rare that an anonymous work of art makes international headlines, especially given the political and pandemic news cycles of the past year. But 2020’s final surprise might be a nearly 10-foot-tall stainless-steel pillar in the Utah desert. The monolith, as it is now referred to (it already has a lengthy Wikipedia entry), was installed by an unknown party some time between July and October 2016, according to satellite imagery, in a red sandstone slot canyon in Lockhart Basin, a site that had been part of public lands until the Trump administration removed it. It was discovered on November 18 of this year, when state biologists spotted it during a helicopter trip to survey bighorn sheep. The piece was carefully planned, with a hole drilled into the rock.By Kyle Chayka, Art News<a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/utah-monolith-meme-instagram-trap-art-1234578053/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: December 7, 2020

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418829/xal1zdaigzeuwnuvmoz1.jpg"><figcaption>“Top Heavy,” 2020, detail, by Theaster Gates. One of his “tar paintings,” it incorporates industrial oil-based enamel, rubber torch down, bitumen, wood, and copper.Credit...Theaster Gates and Gagosian; Jacob Hand</figcaption></figure>Theaster Gates Turns the Stain of the Past Into ArtTheaster Gates, a social practice installation artist based in Chicago, is turning the history of Black labor in America on its head. Born in 1973 to a father who was a roofer, Mr. Gates embraced, too, a life of working with his hands. After graduating from Iowa State University with a degree in urban planning and ceramics, he proceeded to Japan to study pottery. In “Black Vessel,” his first New York solo show at Gagosian on West 24th Street, he succeeds in celebrating the rugged, hard work of artisans today.By Yinka Elujoba, The New York Times<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/arts/design/theaster-gates-gagosian-review.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418830/tfb2tv9zshox86dujk22.jpg"></figure>Architecture Prof Offers A New Vision For Vacant Land On Chicago’s South And West SidesImagine if we envisioned thousands of parcels of vacant land on Chicago’s South and West Sides as one large space — as large as the city’s downtown. And imagine if we used that space collectively … for things that benefit entire communities instead of individual property owners.That’s exactly how David Brown, a professor at University of Illinois at Chicago’s School of Architecture, views the city’s vast inventory of vacant land. He is also artistic director of the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial.By Natalie Moore, WBEZ Radio<a href="https://www.wbez.org/stories/architecture-prof-offers-a-new-vision-for-vacant-land-on-chicagos-south-and-west-sides/90f54945-eaaa-4304-b4f1-33754a7305e1">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418831/rg7ob5xvwoxpae7lsjy3.jpg"><figcaption>Easy Otabor. COURTESY ANTHONY GALLERY, CHICAGO.</figcaption></figure>Chicago Gallerist and Tastemaker Easy Otabor Is Changing the Rules of the Art&nbsp;WorldWhen Easy Otabor was growing up in Chicago, he didn’t know what to make of an art world that can be forbidding even to those who know its entryways. But he soon found his way in as a gallerist and tastemaker through fashion, music, and other cultural portals now playing an increasingly important role in changing the rules.By Andy Battaglia, ARTnews<a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/easy-otabor-shaping-art-2021-1234577352/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418832/qzrqha2qpx6hnjt2uv1d.jpg"><figcaption>Tubs, mural in Pilsen, of Chicago’s flag. Provided</figcaption></figure>Chicago artist Tubs honors pandemic victims in Day of the Dead mural on Near West SideHis mother taught him calligraphy. That helped lead him to his own style of painting words — first in graffiti and now in murals.By Sun-Times staff, Chicago Sun Times<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/murals-mosaics/2020/11/25/21575850/chicago-murals-tubs-calligraphy-covid-coronavirus-pandemic">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: December 1, 2020

<html><head></head><body>By CGN Staff,There are any number of art gifts you may give at any given time of the year, but this season, the pressure is on a little more than usual and you may need to spread your budget around to several recipients on your list. To give you a few hints in the right direction, we have rounded up a few of our favorite local art gift sources for you - there are some affordable works of art as well as items that are not actually works of art but are art-themed.&nbsp;We will be continuing our gift round-ups in the coming days, but for now, this round up gives you the gift of arty things.&nbsp;If you want to buy art for someone this season, we are ALL FOR IT. &nbsp;Art makes the best gift! Please browse CGN's in-depth, helpful art listings for more than 100 area galleries, artist studios, museums and art centers. They all have websites. They're all small businesses. Many are offering free shipping! Click away from home and shop art right now...Don't forget that today, December 1 is Giving Tuesday, which is when many worthy area nonprofits invite you to consider sharing your financial generosity with them in a year of major need. Shop and donate today! &nbsp;Happy shopping!&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418829/b3kusrmnxxvpuuusljqf.jpg"></figure><a href="https://marwen.org/shop">Marwen</a>In 1987, Steven Berkowitz had a dream to educate and inspire Chicago’s young people from under-resourced communities and schools through free visual arts programs. Marwen provides free visual arts, college and career programming for Chicago’s young people from under-resourced communities and schools in middle through high school.&nbsp;You can buy holiday cards by young artists online now. All card designs were created by a young Chicago artist&nbsp;who was commissioned as part of Marwen's Design to Print Program, sponsored by Helen and Sam Zell. Card sales directly support Marwen's no-cost programming for Chicago youth.<a href="https://marwenarts.wixsite.com/blog/post/25-years-of-spreading-holiday-joy">HEAR THE STORY OF 2020 ARTISTS</a>, who completed their designs during the pandemic, and watch their reactions as they see their cards for the first time!&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418830/frnuk7e0khdgoxce8fd4.jpg"></figure><a href="https://hi-buddy.org">Buddy</a>Buddy is a shop, a hub for making connections between friends we have and those we have yet to meet. We are committed to giving artists and small manufacturers in Chicago a place to showcase and sell their goods and artworks to a vast audience of Chicagoans and visitors at the Chicago Cultural Center. This collaboration between Public Media Institute and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) furthers both institutions’ goals of providing visibility and opportunities to artists across the Chicagoland area.Street artists get ready: SmellyChalk is made and distributed by Zag Products LLC, a small family business located in Chicago, Illinois. Ten vibrant colors that each have a different fun scent. We hope you and your sidewalk artists enjoy using it as much as we enjoy making it!You can shop more local goods, publications, music and art in person through December 20 at 3219 S. Morgan&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418831/dlws3vstcnpluu73wc1f.png"></figure><a href="https://mannekenpress.com">Manneken Press</a>Manneken Press&nbsp;publishes and exhibits original, limited edition and unique prints, portfolios, artist’s books and drawings by significant contemporary artists. The press was founded in 2000 and is owned and operated by Jonathan Higgins and Sarah Smelser. Invited artists come to our studio in Bloomington, Illinois to create original works of art in intaglio, relief, lithography and monotype. The prints are made by the artists&nbsp;working in close&nbsp;collaboration with master printer Jonathan Higgins, and are hand-printed on our Takach etching press. We are committed to traditional, time tested techniques and use only the finest papers and inks to produce our prints.&nbsp; Manneken Press has exhibited these works at fine art fairs in <a href="https://mannekenpress.com/manneken-press-returns-to-expo-chicago-2019/">Chicago</a>, <a href="https://mannekenpress.com/manneken-press-at-the-cleveland-fine-print-fair/">Cleveland</a>, Miami, Boston, Baltimore, Houston and <a href="http://eabfair.org/exhibitor/manneken-press/">New York City</a>, and in many galleries and museums.Pictured above: Rhea Edge is a Bloomington, IL based artist who often uses images of birds in her paintings and prints. Edge is Associate Professor of Art at Eureka College, Eureka, Illinois, and President of the John Wesley Powell Chapter of the National Audubon Society.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418832/hkef7ruq0n2ebxwgzkuv.jpg"></figure><a href="https://shop.mocp.org">Museum of Contemporary Photography</a>Collect the work of renowned local, national and international artists through the Museum’s <a href="https://shop.mocp.org">Fine Print Program</a> along with some illuminating Publications, that document the work of exhibiting artists and advance a critical dialogue on art and culture.Shown here: a print by Lucas Foglia. Foglia’s project Human Nature (2006-17) reflects the artist’s interest in the impact of humans on the natural world and the ways we have altered the seemingly unalterable. This print is for sale for $400 and helps benefit MoCP.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418833/mnfwe5fmqpqad1cxof0d.jpg"></figure><a href="https://eam-shop.myshopify.com/collections/online-shop">Elmhurst Art Museum</a>The EAM store offers a lot of art and architecture themed gifts to support the museum and local artists. You can buy a set of mini yard signs, a You Are Beautiful necklace, or Frank Lloyd Wright pencils or a wood puzzle.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418834/zluprr9a1d0x1jtx1eba.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/holiday-show-of-fine-crafts-9e9e668e-bad2-459e-87ce-3ef41c0bf5f7">Vale Craft Gallery</a>The gallery's annual holiday show is a great chance to find unique and affordable art for the season. They're also offering free shipping.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418834/gpogezfb8zlve7dyljlr.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/moving-sale">The Golden Triangle</a>The Golden Triangle is moving after decades in its space on Clark St. They're having a HUGE sale with phased discounts to clear out the old and make room for their move...&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Local Art For Your Shopping This Holiday Season

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418829/ifsjhxkz3rt3kiqu8zwm.jpg"><figcaption>Austin painter Antonia Ruppert. Loren Marie/Provided Photo</figcaption></figure>Four picked as Artists in Residence for Chicago’s INVEST South/West initiativeFour Chicago creatives have been chosen to put together public art projects and ideas for future cultural programs in their neighborhoods as part of the city’s INVEST South/West initiative.By Evan F. Moore, Chicago Sun Times<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/11/5/21551550/lightfoot-dcase-dpd-artists-residence-program-invest-englewood-austin-hotchkiss-chicago-art">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418830/ldar6g1wljvvsq9f4jyl.jpg"><figcaption>Dawoud Bey,&nbsp;A Woman Waiting in the Doorway, 1976, from the series ‘Harlem, USA’, 1975–79, gelatin silver print, 28 × 36 cm</figcaption></figure>Dawoud Bey on His Powerful Photographs of Black American LifeAs an exhibition of his work heads to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the photographer speaks to poet Simone White about the changing landscape of Harlem and US institutions<a href="https://www.frieze.com/article/dawoud-bey-his-powerful-photographs-black-american-life">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418831/fod6jdqjlwqkjtr8fdyw.jpg"><figcaption>Kwon Yongju, Waterfall, 2020, on Yeongdo Island, near Busan port.© BUSAN BIENNALE 2020</figcaption></figure>How Do You Stage a Biennial Now? Jacob Fabricius’s Portrait of&nbsp;BusanEven in the best of times, organizing an international biennial—wrangling dozens of far-flung artists and hundreds of works, all while keeping to a budget—is not an easy business. Organizing an international biennial amid a once-in-a-century global health crisis is another matter entirely.By Andrew Russeth, Artnews<a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/busan-biennale-jacob-fabricius-interview-1234576369/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: November 24, 2020

<html><head></head><body>With the recent return to Phase 3 throughout the City of Chicago and around Illinois, area museums, and some galleries, are sharing their latest at-home art viewing offerings with the public. The offerings on view now are less of the scramble-to-get-online versions from the spring, and they provide you with a true art education as well as escape during this time.&nbsp;Enjoy the art online and stay safe.&nbsp;– GV&nbsp;Smart Museum of Art<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418829/mwcmlbwioimaxp4ql0ny.jpg"></figure>The Smart Museum of Art is temporarily closed to visitors but encourages you to engage with their continuing series of online programs, <a href="https://uchicago.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aba2086a45b4ee8391b89447b&amp;id=9358673f7c&amp;e=a6ad3ea4a5">virtual experiences</a>, and at-home art activities. Please check the museum's website or social media channels for the latest updates, and take care...In the newly digitized <a href="https://uchicago.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aba2086a45b4ee8391b89447b&amp;id=69fb0ca7e0&amp;e=a6ad3ea4a5">Take Care interpretation packet (PDF)</a>, co-curators Jennifer Carty and Berit Ness introduce artworks in the exhibition that speak to sustenance, from expansive feasts to radical invitations.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418830/fgzfzvo8o4exkjr9fchk.jpg"></figure>Chicago Printmakers CollaborativeNow through Feb 6, 2021 CPC's popular <a href="https://chicagoprintmakers.com/print-making-gallery-chicago/">annual print show</a> is online and in person (by appt.)This year's show is a bit different, but the pandemic has forced CPC to be extra creative and they're passing along their improved shopping experience to all of you! The show opened 3 weeks early this year for those of you who want to either <a href="https://chicagoprintmakers.com/appointments/">MAKE AN APPOINTMENT</a> to visit the show or <a href="https://chicago-printmakers-collaborative.myshopify.com/?key=d3ab18ae7b98c1d06cedcd04dadb8582e51347a336bb2135b3c2ceb60d3cb373">SHOP ONLINE</a> with a brand new Shopify print-buying experience. You'll also find more artwork by each artist, plus these amazing and fun new features like printmaking care packages.&nbsp;For only $75, a recipient of your choice will receive all of the following. All care packages ship free. Take care of your loved ones this holiday season with an assortment of printed goodies!&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418831/v1x1dxptz2hwy93gaelv.png"></figure>Museum of Contemporary PhotographyMoCP invites you to access their digital offerings, including&nbsp;<a href="https://mocp.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e4250b7536dc23e9352b28ee&amp;id=6daacf82df&amp;e=d76e1da35ahttps://www.mocp.org/exhibitions/2020/7/what-does-democracy-look-like.php">this video</a>&nbsp;featuring the seven curators introducing their sections of the exhibition&nbsp;What Does Democracy Look Like?&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418832/ppnjk39kco6vywl7ezbv.png"><figcaption>The Nov 9 RNDD Panel</figcaption></figure>Intersect/RNDD/CGN Zoom PanelDid you miss Design Day at Intersect Chicago on November 9? CGN Publisher Ginny Van Alyea led a Zoom panel with area interior designers about buying art in challenging times. <a href="https://www.sofaexpo.com/daily-programming/2020/9/14/design-monday-november-9">Check it out here</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418833/ydhwfi9ki4qp8nzfjm5s.jpg"><figcaption>Left: Jaume Plensa, Nocturne; Right: Jim Dine in his studio</figcaption></figure>Gray Gallery Artist Videos and OVRsGray Gallery offers its current exhibition, <a href="https://www.richardgraygallery.com/viewing-rooms/jaume-plensa4#tab-2:thumbnails">Jaume Plensa: Nocturne</a> in its online viewing room, as well as by private appointment. The solo exhibition of new sculpture by Plensa debuts nine of the artist’s latest works in stone, glass, steel, and bronze,&nbsp;Nocturne&nbsp;explores the artist’s range and mastery of sculptural portraiture.&nbsp;Also on Gray's website is a series of<a href="https://www.richardgraygallery.com/video"> artist videos</a>, including interviews this year with gallery artists McArthur Binion and Jim Dine. In&nbsp;Nocturne, a word evocative of the night, Plensa navigates the symbolic dichotomy between lightness and darkness.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418834/xreinb57cusqmqj99gc8.png"><figcaption>Fermilab in Batavia, IL. Easier to travel to than ever these days.</figcaption></figure>Fermilab Online LecturesOn December 8, 7:30 p.m. Fermilab, the gallery of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, offers a virtual gallery talk:Neutrino Music: A Composer’s Journey with Guest Composer David Ibbett Ph.D.David Ibbett has been composing and performing works remotely to celebrate the ongoing research of Fermilab. Together with Bonnie Fleming of MicroBooNE, the composer will discuss his inspirations and techniques for translating neutrino science into sound through a variety of sonification methods. The evening will culminate with the world premiere of the latest installment of&nbsp;Neutrino Music&nbsp;from soprano soloist Beth Sterling, together with a selection of pieces from&nbsp;Octave of Light: their debut album of exoplanet music released this November.FREE. <a href="https://events.fnal.gov/art-gallery/">Register to attend.&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

A Digital Art Viewing Wrap-Up for Phase 3

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418829/uhn0s3n8k7bpgrp8dsih.jpg"></figure>Ruth Kohler helped build an international reputation for a Sheboygan art museum. She has died at the age of 79.Ruth DeYoung Kohler II, who helped&nbsp;a medium-sized Wisconsin city become known throughout the world for its folk art museum, has died at the age of 79. Kohler, who died Saturday at her Kohler home, served as director of Sheboygan's&nbsp;John Michael Kohler Arts Center, named for her grandfather, from 1972 to 2016.During that time, she guided the center "to an international reputation for expertise in the work of folk, self-taught and vernacular artists," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel art critic Mary Louise Schumacher wrote in 2016.By Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2020/11/15/longtime-sheboygan-art-museum-director-ruth-kohler-dies-79/6305370002/?for-guid=2e3457d5-4103-4eb9-a808-63b8257b9861&amp;utm_source=jsonline-Daily%20Briefing&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=daily_briefing&amp;utm_term=list_article_thumb">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418830/tfber38f9vqt6kf9q9x3.png"></figure>Popular ‘Immersive Van Gogh’ exhibit coming to Chicago brings visitors inside iconic painter’s worksA larger-than-life art exhibit which allows visitors to immerse themselves in the works of Vincent Van Gogh is coming to Chicago.Rather than just putting paintings on display, the interactive “Immersive Van Gogh” brings people inside 40 of the artist’s best-known pieces by covering the walls, floors and ceiling in a moving kaleidoscope of color and brush strokes.“It’s really where filmmaking, art, music and experimentation all come together,” Co-Producer Corey Ross said. “The biggest reaction everyone has is, ‘Wow, I’ve never seen anything like that and I’m so happy that I had the chance.'”By Erin Ivory, WGN9 Chicago<a href="https://wgntv.com/news/features/popular-immersive-van-gogh-exhibit-coming-to-chicago-brings-visitors-inside-iconic-painters-works/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418831/cpfljuby4jxlxnlafso1.png"><figcaption>A digital art projection of "The Nutcracker" is cast on the south facade of the Merchandise Mart in downtown Chicago on Nov. 12, 2020. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune)</figcaption></figure>Joffrey Ballet’s 'Nutcracker’ is part of an Art on theMart video projection — and draws a COVID-weary crowd looking for a holiday showThe Loop’s historic theaters are closed. The Christkindlmarket is to be depressingly virtual, being as you can’t eat wienerschnitzel through a computer. And if the great retail emporia in downtown Chicago manage to survive both this marauding virus and latent orders to hunker down and stay at home, we’ll all be calling that a Christmas miracle.So what you gonna do for a downtown outing with the family this year? You know, some non-Hallmark seasonal cheer that doesn’t require anybody to mute and, more importantly, that reminds us of the central role cities have played in the holiday season since R.H. Macy put Santa and his reindeer in his windows.By Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/chris-jones/ct-ent-joffrey-ballet-review-1114-20201113-4ycuadirszhmzh66v6k3ayzrle-story.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418832/jewarfdmudostvtptq9d.jpg"><figcaption>The abstract painter Caroline Kent at her studio on Chicago’s West Side. She calls herself “a Midwesterner through and through.”Credit...Samantha. Cabrera Friend</figcaption></figure>An Artist Who Paints in Cryptic Pastel SymbolsEven as a child, Caroline Kent was immersed in the language of abstraction. The Chicago-based artist — whose large-scale black canvases evoke cosmic unknowns — grew up alongside her identical twin sister, Christine Leventhal, with whom she shared special methods of communication. Their conversations can still be so elliptical and condensed that they perplex others.By Jenn Pelly, The New York Times<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/t-magazine/caroline-kent.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: November 17, 2020

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418829/cpevh7a5pb06tcgney3g.jpg"><figcaption>Jeffrey Gibson working in the studio. Photo courtesy of the artist.</figcaption></figure>Here Are the 28 MacArthur ‘Genius’ Artists Participating in a Citywide Show in Chicago Celebrating the Grant’s 40th AnniversaryTwenty-eight artists who have&nbsp;MacArthur “Genius” grants will come together for a single exhibition, spread across nearly 20 venues in Chicago.Opening in summer 2021, “Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40” will include grantees such as Nicole Eisenman, LaToya Ruby Frazier, David Hammons, and Kerry James Marshall.By Brian Boucher, Artnet News<a href="https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/macarthur-geniuses-smart-museum-1922079">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418830/hywrj5094zygwiplrbnf.png"><figcaption>Portrait of Simone Leigh in her studio, 2020. © Simone Leigh. Photo by Shaniqwa Jarvis. Courtesy of the artist and Hauser &amp; Wirth.</figcaption></figure>The Market for Simone Leigh’s Powerful Sculptures Is Poised to Keep RisingSimone Leigh has earned a reputation as one of the most respected and celebrated living artists, with her characteristically powerful and refined sculptures increasingly becoming must-haves for many top-tier collectors and major museums. Her career achievements over the past several years have proven that her ingenious artistic practice, and her accelerating market, show no signs of slowing.By Daria Harper, Artsy Editorial&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-market-simone-leighs-powerful-sculptures-poised-rising">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418831/r1m4dqmbrurwanxty84l.jpg"><figcaption>Saint Peter's Square.AARON M. SPRECHER VIA AP</figcaption></figure>Fearing Threats, Vatican Library Works with Cyber Security Firm to Fight Off&nbsp;HackersThe Vatican Apostolic Library, which houses the world’s oldest copy of the Bible and artworks by Michelangelo, among other objects and works by Virgil, Sandro Botticelli, and more historical luminaries, is amping up its cyber security as threats from hackers continue apace. According to a report by the Guardian, the library is working with the cyber security firm Darktrace to protect its ongoing, comprehensive digitization project from hackers.By Claire Selvin, Artnews<a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/vatican-apostolic-library-collection-digitization-cyber-attacks-1234576070/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: November 10, 2020

<html><head></head><body>By GINNY VAN ALYEA&nbsp;This coming weekend a signifiant number of new exhibitions will be opening around the city. Many galleries are opening major shows that will be their final exhibitions of the year.&nbsp;Friday and Saturday evenings also coincide with the virtual opening of <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/intersect-chicago-virtual-fair-formerly-sofa">Intersect Chicago</a> (formerly SOFA) which is taking place online instead of on Navy Pier, Nov 6–12, with a virtual preview party on Thursday, November 5.&nbsp;Our overview of highlights from this coming weekend is below. There are honestly are too many to include here, so we stopped at 10 – something we haven't had to do in a long time (like the old days!) &nbsp;Our full calendar may be <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?filter=openings">viewed&nbsp;here</a>.&nbsp;After a long week/election season/year, open your eyes and your mind to some new art, and go out and support these creatives who have been hard at work behind the scenes to bring you art that is enlightening as well as beautiful.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418820/tznddoq5vi4ffdbq4zrr.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/amanda-williams-what-black-is-this-you-say">Amanda Williams: What black is this you say?</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/amanda-williams-what-black-is-this-you-say">Rhona Hoffman Gallery</a>Nov 6–Dec 19In What black is this you say?,&nbsp;over 40 new watercolor, oil and mixed media paintings interrogate the complexities, variations and degrees of difference in black as color and identity. What black is this you say? is a multi-platform color project conceived June 2, 2020, otherwise known as Blackout Tuesday. Williams posted a different “black” to her personal Instagram each day, using the ubiquity of the platform to imagine black as nuanced and highly variable, and reject black as monolithic.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418821/j7bcorbwcfysxxxnfnk4.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/royal-spector-kajahl">Royal Specter: Kajahl</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/royal-spector-kajahl">Monique Meloche</a>Nov 7–Dec 19Kajahl's oil paintings merge icons from parallel histories along with his own constructed mythology prodding the viewer to re-examine mainstream historical paradigms. Re-appropriating African garments, ancient Roman military attire, and science fiction iconography, Kajahl references traditional Western portraiture, contemporary technology, and questions both the legitimacy of past records and the direction of future cultures.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418822/aqsa7smxg5dlkypqwfut.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/janice-biala-intimacy-exile-works-from-the-estate">Biala: Intimacy &amp; Exile Paintings 1952–1962</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/janice-biala-intimacy-exile-works-from-the-estate">McCormick Gallery</a>Nov 7–Jan 9An important figure of historic scale, the painter known simply as Biala had a career that stretched over eight decades and was heralded from Paris to New York. On view are paintings defined by a decade where the artist expanded upon her established style inspired by School of Paris painters like Bonnard, Matisse and Braque, and broadened by the community of loft-living artists in downtown New York that included Willem de Kooning. Critic Michael Brenson aptly described her as “a blend of intimacy and exile.” &nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418823/ve4vx4pj8d1z1bughith.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-long-dream">The Long Dream</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-long-dream">Museum of Contemporary Art</a>Nov 7–Jan 17This&nbsp;November, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents The Long Dream, a major exhibition inspired by the current moment that gives shape to issues heightened by the pandemic and social unrest. The exhibition features&nbsp;over 70&nbsp;Chicago artists collaboratively selected by the museum’s diverse team of curators and programmers with different backgrounds and specialties, ranging from the visual arts to performance and public practice.&nbsp;Named after a novel by renowned author Richard Wright,&nbsp;The Long Dream&nbsp;is part&nbsp;reflection on the state of the world after the arrival of COVID-19, and part celebration of Chicago artists and creatives. Blending work by emerging voices with established artists in Chicago,&nbsp;The Long Dream presents many never-before-seen works, along with&nbsp;labels written in collaboration with youth groups and civic practitioners, honoring a multiplicity of perspectives from the community. The final section of&nbsp;The Long Dream&nbsp;is a live arts event that takes place online on the exhibition’s closing weekend.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418824/bh8puach28dafcgmkmwh.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-imaginative-world-of-heorhii-narbut-and-the-making-of-a-brand-virtual">The Imaginative World of Heorhii Narbut and The Making of A Brand</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-imaginative-world-of-heorhii-narbut-and-the-making-of-a-brand-virtual">Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA)</a>Nov 7–Dec 15In addition to the work of Narbut, known for designing key elements of Ukraine’s national identity (including currency and postage stamps), the exhibit will feature works by Narbut’s followers from the 1920s and 1930s, Ukrainian artists Oleh Tistol, Mykola Matsenko and other contemporary voices. The virtual exhibition is free and open to the public. For more information visit <a href="http://uima-chicago.org/">uima-chicago.org</a>. This exhibition is made possible by a grant from the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418824/cmjzx4ececwqx918gip7.gif"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/bea-nettles-harvest-of-memory">Bea Nettles: Harvest of Memory</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/bea-nettles-harvest-of-memory">Krannert Art Museum</a>Nov 5–Mar 6Long before such words were an active part of the contemporary art lexicon, Bea Nettles was a multi-media artist who pushed the boundaries of what was considered photography. Using alternative photographic processes like liquid light, cyanotype, Kwik Print, dye transfer as well as traditional “women’s” mediums like sewing and crocheting, Nettles integrated these into her layered and textured works, which included self-portraiture, investigations of her body and its relationship to nature and the landscape; the experience of mothering and loss and aging.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418825/uqave5hhfg9mqmziivt8.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/place-in-the-sun">Place in the Sun</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/place-in-the-sun">Catherine Edelman Gallery</a>Nov 6–Dec 31There will be an opening reception on Friday, November 6, from 12:00 – 7:00 p.m.Since the inception of the camera, photographers have been drawn to the majestic landscapes throughout the Southwest, attempting to capture the land’s unimaginable splendor. scott b. davis (b. 1971, Silver Spring, MD) is one of these artists drawn to such settings, bearing witness to nature’s beauty and its nuances. His ongoing search for remote places is what sets his work apart.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418826/lqwcz8flv4jgloihtm8f.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/erin-washington">Erin Washington: Bodies feel dangerous right now</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/erin-washington">Western Exhibitions</a>Nov 6–Dec 19Using fugitive and symbolic materials like ashes, blackberries, bones, chalk, moss, and space blankets, Erin Washington sources imagery from the Sciences, Mythology, and Art History that represents ruptures and failures in the search for meaning and truth. Colors fade or pigments are burned: the objects emulate the cycles they describe. Washington’s actions and products are in a state of flux, highlighting the disharmony between meaning, beauty, and a fundamentally messy universe.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418827/nmy1ql4uvplycv0lta10.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/anders-gjennestad-solo-exhibition">Anders Gjennestad: Allies</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/anders-gjennestad-solo-exhibition">Vertical Gallery</a>Nov 7–18“Allies” assembles 16 new pieces and a full edition of 16 smaller paintings spotlighting Gjennestad’s signature hand-cut, multi-layered stencils, leveraging elevated angles and dramatic, elongated shadows to create stunningly photorealistic, intricately detailed images that evoke&nbsp;an alternate universe where gravity has ceased to exist and time is frozen — a fleeting glimpse into a realm of other possibilities (or, if you prefer, the possibilities of the other, whether metaphysical or supernatural).&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418828/kntrvf2t5kskc72bcc4e.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/background-noise-with-birds-and-beasts">Background Noise with Birds and Beasts</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/background-noise-with-birds-and-beasts">Hofheimer Gallery</a>Nov 7–Dec 19Background Noise with Birds and Beasts features original artwork by Teresa James and Eleanor Spiess-Ferris.Teresa James has long explored spiritual and religious themes. In her art, she lifts the veil that obscures our double existence in the temporal and metaphysical worlds. Everyday people and animals are revealed as agents in the eternal battle of good and evil, their heroic spirits armored or winged. These are portraits of faith.Eleanor Spiess-Ferris is an American symbolist painter cited as a significant surrealist, narrative figurative and feminist artist. Her numerous visual works display powerful influences of the Spanish and Native American cultures of Northern New Mexico, where she grew up.&nbsp;She populates her visual landscapes with human forms – often women paired with birds, plants, and natural phenomena.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Preview of Exhibitions Opening First Week of November 

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418266/c72ii1yvvhqtnajfcjhd.jpg"><figcaption>Bonnie Lautenberg's Lady Liberty: A Beacon of Hope and Freedom, 2020 Archival pigment print, edition of 250 is for sale for $250, of which $100 will be donated to: &nbsp;Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation, &nbsp;Feeding America, or the charity of your choice. Email <a href="mailto:jeanalbanogallery@gmail.com">jeanalbanogallery@gmail.com </a>or call 312-440-0770.</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;&nbsp;By CGN Staff&nbsp;There's an election happening Tuesday. Did you know? Even if you've already voted, Tuesday promises to be a highly charged day. One way to gain some alternative insights, while you avoid doom scrolling, is to turn to art and the messages from creatives.&nbsp;Many area galleries and arts organizations planned exhibitions focused on voting and democracy well in advance of this week, but due to the nature of 2020, they're each viewable from home or as you drive-by. Check out a few timely and thought provoking highlights below.&nbsp;Stay safe, and don't forget to vote! – GV&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418267/vakbwvkksonzyd3wh7vh.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/what-does-democracy-look-like">What Does Democracy Look Like?</a>Leading up to the 2020 presidential election, the  MoCP  has invited seven faculty members from various departments at Columbia College Chicago to mine the  MoCP’s  permanent collection of nearly 16,000 objects. Each curator&nbsp;has&nbsp;interpreted&nbsp;the museum’s collection to consider what democracy means to them, and how photographic images record and shape our understanding of current and historical events.&nbsp;Thru Dec 23 at Museum of Contemporary Photography&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418268/p5h48y0kmbboa41z9yzn.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/artists-for-social-justice">Artists for Social Justice</a>In response to the current political crises in America, a cadre of diverse and talented artists launched a year-long cross-country show into the heartland of America, united by the belief that art is and should be a catalyst for change.&nbsp;Waylaid by the pandemic, the exhibit has launched virtually with planned exhibits in 2021Thru Nov 21 at ARC Gallery&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418269/o9ygfcgbcmdfequ63xrz.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/if-we-do-not-now-dare-everything">Anthem</a>On view in the gallery’s storefront windows along Milwaukee Ave. the exhibition is presented in partnership with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and will examine voting rights in the United States of America through the works of contemporary artists Bethany Collins, Jaclyn Conley, Eve L. Ewing, Mike Gibisser, Naima Green, Ellen Rothenberg and Sanaz Sohrabi.Planned to coincide with the 2020 election cycle and the November presidential election, Anthem aims to look past partisan divisiveness and focus on the issue of voting as a fundamental right.Thru Dec. 19 at Weinberg/Newton&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418269/ljfj1joloj6d4a2ega0v.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/where-s-the-revolution">Where's the Revolution</a>Where’s the Revolution, is an exhibition featuring political art commentaries curated by Marci Rubin. The role of a political artist is to express different points of view regarding global politics and social justice standards. Throughout history, artists’ works have documented and reflected the signs of the times. Examples of original political artworks in the exhibition include: commentaries on the political global climate in our past, present or future; peaceful protest banners &amp; demonstration art; portraits of activists &amp; key figures involved in government &amp; social change; propaganda &amp; satire cartoons; dedications &amp; depictions of social movements.&nbsp;Thru Nov 6 at Bridgeport Art Center&nbsp;</body></html>

Art + Politics: Local Exhibitions For Our Time

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418162/poqbfaryywn81fjrb4ij.jpg"><figcaption>Zack Wirsum, Up All Night, These Days, Orange is the Only Sunshine We See, 2019.&nbsp;<a href="http://jeanalbanogallery.com"> Jean Albano Gallery.</a></figcaption></figure>&nbsp;By GINNY VAN ALYEAHalloween this year is a different bag of tricks than usual, but whether you're home bound or getting festive from a distance, this weekend still offers some spooky art and ghoulish inspiration. With a full moon on Halloween on Saturday and Day of the Dead and All Saints Day on Sunday, the spirits are out!&nbsp;If you're looking for Instagramable costume ideas, check out our <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2019/10/boo-have-an-artful-halloween">summary from 2019</a> (remember three versions of Bob Ross?) Below is our wrap up of festive exhibitions and art events taking place around Chicago this holiday!&nbsp;Trick or treat!&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418163/nqevczy1oumszh2dvwvl.jpg"></figure>Halloween History and Socially Distanced Trick or TreatingThe Driehaus Museum has written about the history of Halloween on its blog. It's a good refresher about the pagan and Celtic origins of the holiday before it became about candy and suggestive costumes. Although people around the world view Halloween as a thoroughly American holiday, it has a far more complicated story than that. In fact, Halloween is a mash-up of ancient Celtic paganism, early Roman Catholicism, nineteenth-century American immigration, modern suburbanism and commercialism, and much, much more.It all started about two thousand years ago, when the ancient Celts made sacrifices around sacred bonfires in celebration of the harvest’s end. Think of this as the moment the earth makes its transition from abundant autumnal life to silent wintry death, and—perhaps—a moment when the boundaries between the worlds of the living and dead are blurred. <a href="http://driehausmuseum.org/blog/view/halloween-from-ancient-britain-to-gilded-age-america">Read more here.</a>If you plan on trick-or-treating in the neighborhood, the Driehaus Museum will be giving away candy on Halloween from 3 - 7 p.m. No tickets required.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418164/rqmtlwgilhgxjd5ogmu6.jpg"><figcaption>Courtney Timmermans, Skulls, 2013, air rifle BBs, cast resin, mixed media, 6 x 6 x 8 in. each&nbsp;</figcaption></figure><a href="http://jeanalbanogallery.com">Jean Albano Gallery</a>The gallery seems to have an abundance of art that suits this weekend's holiday, or they just have a creative eye for spooky association. They recently shared several works available at their River North gallery that are especially suitable this time of year, from Karl Wirsum and his son Zack Wirsum to Bonnie Lautenberg, Courtney Timmermans and Lee Grantham.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418164/divuerkpnsnmc1bchw3h.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/dia-de-los-muertos">Dragonfly Gallery</a>Over the course of two days the gallery will celebrate life and death by showing love and respect for those who have died. Through art inspired Dia de los Muertos, ofrendas (altars),&nbsp; arts and crafts, we remember our loved one and celebrate life.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418165/k6txbuzagaqqxsdhxkfj.jpg"></figure><a href="https://theartcenterhp.org/exhibitionsh">The Art Center Highland Park</a>Plans for Dia de los Muertos are taking place in the suburbs as well. The exhibition, on view through November 14, includes prints from two portfolios published by Arceo Press: “Posada, 100 Year Legacy” and “Dia de Los Muertos, Common Ground.”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418166/jwamind8grl8cm41lcrf.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/center-sunday">Hyde Park Art Center Virtual Sunday</a>HPAC's latest Center Sunday, an all-ages program filled with art-making activities, workshops, and artist talks, held on the first Sunday of each month, will feature three, hour-long segments led by artists Delilah D. Salgado, Lillianna Chavarria, Kristin Cass and Cindy Lys. The event is free and open to the public virtually via Zoom. This Sunday at 1pm, join Hyde Park Art Center Resident Artist Delilah D. Salgado of Mujeres Mutantes and guest artist and activist Lillianna Chavarria to create a Dia De Los Muertos/Day of the Dead ofrenda (Spanish for ‘offering,’ a home altar or ritual display honoring an individual who has died) “Dedicated to Chicago” that will be showcased during this Zoom session. They will discuss Dia de Los Muertos and the meaning behind their altar currently on display at the Center’s current Artists Run Chicago 2.0 exhibition, and demonstrate how to create tissue paper cempasuchil (Mexican marigold flowers, referred to as the “flower of the dead” in Mexican culture and said to guide the spirits back to the altars of family members).&nbsp;“We honor our ancestors and tell the stories of those who came before us and those who we have been fortunate enough to know,” said Salgado.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Halloween + Day of the Dead Highlights in the Galleries

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418006/wwnyrw5alg8easgovsmv.jpg"></figure>Chicago students help Jenny Holzer get out the voteYoung citizens, many of them voting in their first presidential election, provide phrases to be shown on LED billboard trucks across the cityBy Ruth Lopez, The Art Newspaper<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/chicago-students-help-jenny-holzer-get-out-the-vote">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418007/owjjxgfebwztnispegy3.png"></figure>Curator's Perspective: Chicago... And Other Such Stories&nbsp;On October 5, the curatorial team of the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial, Yesomi Umolu, Sepake Angiama, and Paulo Tavares, joined us for a discussion on the exhibition. They presented on their curatorial approach based on a reading of the city and its built environment that drew from a history of colonial expansion, extraction economies, migration, and ecological concerns.Via Independent Curators International<a href="https://curatorsintl.org/media-room/chicagoand-other-such-stories">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418008/yzp70b4rqmpirswss7iv.jpg"></figure>COVID-19 Looms Over Day Of The Dead Exhibit At Chicago’s National Museum of Mexican ArtMore than a million people have died during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Chicago artists are honoring the local, U.S. and worldwide victims in this year’s Day of the Dead exhibit at the National Museum of Mexican Art in the Pilsen neighborhood.It’s the 34th year of the exhibit, and it’s different this time due to COVID-19. The museum is closed to the public, but it’s offering <a href="https://nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org/exhibits/s%C3%B3lo-un-poco-aqu%C3%AD-day-dead">an online tour</a> of works that include traditional Mexican altar centerpieces from the permanent collection, as well as contemporary prints, paintings and sculptures from Latinx, Chicago-based artists.By Minju Park, WBEZ Radio<a href="https://www.wbez.org/stories/covid-19-looms-over-day-of-the-dead-exhibit-at-chicagos-national-museum-of-mexican-art/a71c0993-6126-4ef3-a5a2-60a7efabf8cf">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418008/xhkrxgomv8u5o8dvmck4.jpg"></figure>Impersonal Intimacy: The Art Institute of Chicago’s COVID-19 EvolutionThe Art Institute of Chicago, commonly lauded as downtown Chicago’s — and the <a href="https://time.com/3393565/best-museums-trip-advisor/">world’s</a> — best museum, faced the same challenge as all of its counterparts following the pandemic: how to best maintain intimate access to artistic masterworks in a cold, pixelated cyberspace. In response, they demonstrated a singular capacity to capitalize on a bad situation.By Isabella B. Cho, The Harvard Crimson<a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/10/25/nice-job-art-institute-of-chicago/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: October 27, 2020

<html><head></head><body>By GINNY VAN ALYEA&nbsp;It's snowing outside. While there may be some festive walks in the snow in your future, you're more likely to be spending time indoors for the time being. We have learned of some new art that offers a reason to visit with a friend outdoors. So go ahead and plan a walk to see two new art installations on view in River North and in Edgewater. Some art is up temporarily while other projects will stay up long term.&nbsp;&nbsp;River North/Gold Coast<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418327/jl2ex1ew3mj1olc25yje.png"><figcaption>Artists from Arts of Life at work</figcaption></figure>In River North the group behind the <a href="Livethebushtemple.com">Bush Temple from FLATS</a> has recently installed colorful commissioned works from 23 artists from Arts of Life and Johalla Projects in the street-facing windows of the building. These artworks were created over the course of three months in Arts of Life's studios. Art of Life, which is marking 20 years as the first program in Chicago to provide meaningful vocational opportunities in the arts for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Their studio serves as an alternative day program and creative epicenter.&nbsp;The Bush Temple is located on the border of River North and The Gold Coast. Comprised of two residences, a historic French Chateauesque building on Chicago Avenue and a newly constructed 15-story tower on Clark Street. The Bush Temple pulls its name from the original building’s history as the headquarters of the Bush &amp; Gerts Piano Company, of which there is a restored piano on display in the communal lobby.&nbsp;Johalla Projects, which has produced a large variety of exhibitions over the last decade including large-scale art installations and staged murals, partnered with Arts of Life on this project. <a href="Livethebushtemple.com">The Bush Temple</a> is located at 810 N Clark (108 W Chicago Ave.)&nbsp; &nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418328/afcpuhmu4dbsbwbceitb.png"></figure>&nbsp;<figure class="image image-style-side"><img src="https://www.edgewater.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/diamond-scaled.jpg" alt="" srcset="https://www.edgewater.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/diamond-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://www.edgewater.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/diamond-300x300.jpg 300w, https://www.edgewater.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/diamond-381x381.jpg 381w, https://www.edgewater.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/diamond-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.edgewater.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/diamond-768x768.jpg 768w, https://www.edgewater.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/diamond-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://www.edgewater.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/diamond-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://www.edgewater.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/diamond-146x146.jpg 146w, https://www.edgewater.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/diamond-50x50.jpg 50w, https://www.edgewater.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/diamond-600x600.jpg 600w, https://www.edgewater.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/diamond-375x375.jpg 375w, https://www.edgewater.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/diamond-380x380.jpg 380w" sizes="100vw" width="200"></figure>&nbsp;EdgewaterOn the north side, the Edgewater Chamber of Commerce (ECC) presents <a href="https://urbanartrestart.org/edgewater-artwalk/">Reflections: An Edgewater Art Experience</a> through October 31. The experience is comprised of a series of outdoor art installations with more than 20 works that can be seen on Broadway, Bryn Mawr, Clark, Granville and Thorndale. A detailed map for self-guided tours is available <a href="https://urbanartrestart.org/edgewater-artwalk/artwork/">HERE</a>. QR codes can be found near each art installation, which when scanned, will link viewers to information about the art, artists, and participating locations. There are no admission fees to Reflections, but online <a href="https://urbanartrestart.org/edgewater-artwalk/donate/">donation options are available</a>.Reflections features local street artists, professional muralists, mosaic world masters, fine artists and others displayed on storefronts, theatres, businesses and walls throughout Edgewater. To create this immersive Edgewater art experience, ECC has partnered with existing art initiatives supported by the Lytle House, Urban Art Restart, Paint the City, the Chicago Mosaic School, and the 48th Ward.“Without the ability to produce events for the neighborhood as in past years, we wanted to create a program that brought people outdoors to explore Edgewater in a new way,” says Christina Pfitzinger, Executive Director of the Edgewater Chamber of Commerce. “The power of art is that it brings together the unique voices of the community as evident in these pieces which range from solemn to celebratory. We hope that participants will discover places they may have overlooked and take a moment to reflect.”This program highlights small businesses, theatres, available properties and the Edgewater neighborhood at a time when travel around the city is limited. Reflections allows residents the opportunity to explore the art already present in the neighborhood, seek out new places and spaces, and connect to communities as reflected through art.To learn more about the mix of temporary and permanent exhibitions on view in Edgewater, <a href="https://www.edgewater.org/programs/public-art/">click here.</a>&nbsp;</body></html>

Looking for A Distanced Way to See New Art? Two Public Installations Unveiled

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418128/xpaglpmrctcjyuh10dgc.png"><figcaption>Simone Leigh poses for a photo at Stratton Sculpture Studios in Philadelphia. (Shaniqwa Jarvis/AP)</figcaption></figure>Chicago sculptor Simone Leigh to become first Black woman to represent U.S. at Venice BiennaleLeigh, who was born in 1967 and raised in the South Shore neighborhood and now lives and works in New York City, has been on a steep and, to her, surprising career ascent in recent years.By Steve Johnson, Chicago Tribune<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-artist-simone-leigh-first-black-woman-us-pavilion-venice-1017-20201016-hdxggkimb5bznlppanfqabd6zm-story.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418128/j0demxu1ai2pyz2kswwg.jpg"><figcaption>Elaine Frei, Luft Balloons Photo credit WBBM Newsradio/Lisa Fielding</figcaption></figure>Made in Chicago: Luft Balloons is 'bursting' with success after pandemic pivotIn a space that once was Gamekeepers on the corner of Lincoln and Armitage in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood, Elaine Frei and her team inflate thousands of balloons a day.By Lisa Fielding, WBBM News Radio<a href="https://www.radio.com/wbbm780/news/local/made-in-chicago-luft-balloons">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418129/dvaqo46jmt06pufkcrbn.jpg"><figcaption>The University of Michigan Museum of Art has set up socially distanced study pods in its atrium so that students starved of campus space for study and reflection can book slotsUniversity of Michigan Museum of Art</figcaption></figure>Plans ‘in the trash can’: remote learning forces US college museums to get creativeClosures, postponements and sharp reductions in programming prompt soul-searching—and innovation—among institutionsBy Tess Thackara, The Art Newspaper<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/plans-in-the-trash-can-remote-learning-forces-us-college-museums-to-get-creative">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418130/m2zpjyyp0qi6px1ipcj6.png"><figcaption>(Credit: Wikimedia Commons)</figcaption></figure>Velázquez’s Las Meninas: A detail that decodes a masterpieceA small clay pot in Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas could hold the key to unlocking the mysterious 17th-Century painting, argues Kelly Grovier.By Kelly Grovier, BBC<a href="https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20201015-velzquezs-las-meninas-a-detail-that-decodes-a-masterpiece?ocid=fbcul&amp;fbclid=IwAR1gG4R-drcb8dCWyIlxF8YAOs0i7ecshsyzBOEBqrxRXnLv9oFCTD-MiYQ">Read More</a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: October 20, 2020

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417804/wutif3hg7xryf1ynjqwh.jpg"><figcaption>Artist Kathryn Andrews created an installation for DePaul Art Museum's front windows that features the names of each woman who has run for president in the U.S. (Image courtesy of Kathryn Andrews)</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;Via PRIn a new site-specific billboard exhibition at DePaul Art Museum viewable from the Chicago Transit Authority’s Fullerton ‘L’ platform, Chicago-based artist Ayanah Moor asks audiences to question our personal and national progress, intentions and methods of change surrounding issues of equity and inclusion. “Ayanah Moor’s text-based works are incredibly powerful,” said Laura-Caroline de Lara, interim director of DePaul Art Museum and the exhibition’s curator. “Moor’s site-specific designs for the museum and their placement on our building set in a university campus are a pertinent and crucial reminder that we as a city and as a university community have much work to do around these issues.” The artist’s text-based paintings started years before the current moment of protest poster aesthetics and neighborhood storefronts announcing their alliances with Black, brown and LGBTQ+ groups through window displays, said de Lara. For her DePaul Art Museum exhibition, Moor challenges audiences to ask whether their personal alliances are swift and superficial, or deeply rooted and ready for hard-fought change. Four separate billboards combine to make up Moor’s exhibition called “for you,” with each text-based piece displaying a reconfiguration of the same phrase “This blackness is just for you,” asking audiences to consider how the meaning of the phrase changes as each word and its emphasis are rearranged. "In my artwork, text-as-image can affirm, complicate or challenge the viewer’s thinking, and I’m most drawn to messages that allow the viewer to participate in making meaning," says Moor. Her hope is that audiences rethink and unlearn their relationships to the issues of race, politics and progress through the act of wordplay and the power of individual words in her artwork. She invites audiences to read the work through their personal histories, perspectives and observations and to question their own, as well as the artist’s, motives and relationships to the concept of Blackness, race and color theory in social and art historical contexts. Moor asks, what is in a name, a label or a color; how does the power of words change with our inflection of tone as we perform and pronounce them; and how can changing one word or the order of one segment of a phrase completely reimagine its meaning. An investigation into her own experiences in academia — specifically in relationship to diversity initiatives in university settings — Moor’s work wrestles with the problematics for people of color in accepting invitations to participate in environments and systems not historically built for or in consideration of them. She engages with how these settings and their intentions can both help and harm communities of color. At DePaul Art Museum, Moor’s text-based works are positioned in a transitional location: both physically on and off a university campus, at and outside of a museum, and for audiences literally in-between places on the ‘L’ platform. Posing her tongue-in-cheek phrases in this specific locale, the artist asks audiences to consider what the process of change really looks like within their institutional systems and how their physical and historical environments influence their reading, understanding and engagement with certain visual cues. “Certainly, the artist’s pieces are timely, given our current sociopolitical situations, but the subject matter is by no means new. As a museum, our aim is to raise timeless questions for our community and ourselves, in hopes of provoking possible answers, solutions and change,” said de Lara. Moor lives and works in Chicago, and has participated in numerous exhibitions around the world, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago; The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh; ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives — University of Southern California Libraries in Los Angeles; Proyecto ‘ace in Buenos Aires; Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, Michigan; daadgalerie in Berlin; and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. Her work is featured in “Incite: Journal of Experimental Media, Sports Issue (2017),” by Astria Suparak and Brett Kashmere; “Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness (2011),” by Nicole Fleetwood; and “What is Contemporary Art? (2009),” by Terry E. Smith. The site-specific installation is currently on view and runs through Dec. 28. Each billboard is also available for viewing online at <a href="http://click.agilitypr.delivery/ls/click?upn=kFq5WWTv6oFPyAebJ6MeCHFxf4LWHZ5BfvuViCnNVAVC8Hljcuz0WEHz9CuSxpDvpS73_kzh8i-2FfcPbPOdagm1-2Fy35neaDCMaEDxPM2uDKMUT7fadXn671nj0gMT9joLABE9-2BUCIcq2VdaGUH2qVTmiEl0hYDf0zRV6p1bGAtpBom7VQQMxa25Fn8ZbNelZuFkUJ-2FLpfgpZbkiXRQj3p080k-2Bn4kTwWOESsdd44J1j2jHpQGHVj76jFujF1zPn-2BwbJGzRgvEApGL8O8kymV-2BbLXt8M8pHhOrtNzfKnhoo8ZeTHxCAFzLALefXyJ09H6dFKo3maG0JItvV-2BLoTncaVtzdrP4FL4PQ9-2B2t3kgam13tk9aa1qiEe42G9w0yK2fyHAOaQk4AGDBsTDTxE5P02Ea1J1FsldU3p01ZhlqcdbZ4ZBYwfZCi75SK6oZUcRdgr0ahZZGmPiUO2WTKeq7pw7NqJJJXlZDSyyzsX6893AWT0iDc-3D">http://bit.ly/for-you-dpam</a>. “For you” is one of two outdoor installations viewable at DePaul Art Museum through the end of the calendar year. The museum’s front windows located on Fullerton Avenue are dedicated to Kathryn Andrews’ work about women presidential candidates and features the names of 87 women who have run for the highest office in the United States. More information about that window exhibition is available at <a href="http://click.agilitypr.delivery/ls/click?upn=cbeV7bg5cx-2FTl8GgbPQ5UGUXQwk7-2Fge6KPXvZgJSVDtdKomuY0JT8OACr6tgVjVQSlhm_kzh8i-2FfcPbPOdagm1-2Fy35neaDCMaEDxPM2uDKMUT7fadXn671nj0gMT9joLABE9-2BUCIcq2VdaGUH2qVTmiEl0hYDf0zRV6p1bGAtpBom7VQQMxa25Fn8ZbNelZuFkUJ-2FLpfgpZbkiXRQj3p080k-2Bn4kTwWOESsdd44J1j2jHpQGHVj76jFujF1zPn-2BwbJGzRgvEApGL8O8kymV-2BbLXt8M8pHhOrtNzfKnhoo8ZeTHxBMUDCBMEhzwethXI9T3Y2bTxuFtNEqK2FTE049-2F7SZjJ-2FNupNhGhIiNch4xRG29DAeb93BBQURZ-2Fg0doFjb-2Fb4Jq9Zw76sTz5oeyhGxamBtOtVSgsCnQ-2FtupQ-2F-2F-2BXGrHtUn2-2FwiUi6VAopDuFuCTJJdcOKi4ESa-2FO5pOPZGR6YjvdGusjKfsABS5O5fbVs8as-3D">http://depaulne.ws/andrewsDPAM</a>. Additional information about DePaul Art Museum is at <a href="http://click.agilitypr.delivery/ls/click?upn=JemNj6O7WSGcldRf4SftNMroRbEv4MvH8G-2FwkbgjSa5-2BV28O4c-2FAtMP3jXlnZWAP_-hk_kzh8i-2FfcPbPOdagm1-2Fy35neaDCMaEDxPM2uDKMUT7fadXn671nj0gMT9joLABE9-2BUCIcq2VdaGUH2qVTmiEl0hYDf0zRV6p1bGAtpBom7VQQMxa25Fn8ZbNelZuFkUJ-2FLpfgpZbkiXRQj3p080k-2Bn4kTwWOESsdd44J1j2jHpQGHVj76jFujF1zPn-2BwbJGzRgvEApGL8O8kymV-2BbLXt8M8pHhOrtNzfKnhoo8ZeTHxBJ69lRlikZHSnNlMMmtP6LWqKx27G30StLB5c7WR9oI8SJJczd7FO3LM4ZAzOEgfKYTh8ztUsu8goJsx10rCIKXHNGBmaexqbTT0-2FlOjLw-2F6CqJFjILJqCwMHmrjQnqsrhIc1jBuOR1ol5ldLzt9wx9ZRcFIoyNshZfbddWzMrAr0snaImrI03-2F05GsO-2FC32A-3D">http://artmuseum.depaul.edu</a> or by calling 773-325-7506.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Chicago-based artist Ayanah Moor’s work on display at DePaul Art Museum

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417770/o6ylxt9s5w9eizyeer79.jpg"><figcaption>National Museum of Mexican Art in Pilsen.Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;National Museum of Mexican Art receives $3.5 million grantThe National Museum of Mexican Art on Monday announced a $3.5 million, four-year unrestricted grant from the Ford Foundation.The grant is among 20 awarded across the country and the only one awarded in Illinois. The grants support Black, Latinx, Asian and Indigenous arts organizations as part of the America’s Cultural Treasures initiative.By Miriam Di Nunzio, Chicago Sun Times<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment-and-culture/2020/10/12/21513778/national-museum-of-mexican-art-ford-foundation-grant">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417771/vur6a7j7dtjtyqa3zypg.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;Chicago’s Driehaus Museum enlivens its historic mansion with contemporary artFrom now through January 17, 2021, Chicagoans and Gilded Age aficionados can explore the newest exhibition at the Richard H. Driehaus Museum, which sits new, site-specific work amid the 1883 mansion’s ostentatious wallpapering and intricate furniture.By Jonathan Hilburg, The Architect's Newspaper<a href="https://www.archpaper.com/2020/10/chicago-driehaus-museum-enlivens-a-historic-mansion-with-contemporary-art/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417772/wfuwoskh4mmhn4zkinwg.jpg"><figcaption>From left: “There Exists a Glorious World. Its Name? The Land of Sustainable Burdens,” “Thank You My Love, I Would Never Have Discovered It Without You” and “Mosaicked Utterance,” by Jadé Fadojutimi at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery in London.Credit...Mark Blower</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;At a Reduced Frieze Week, a Focus on Black ArtThis year’s edition was less extensive because of the pandemic, but many shows reflected a new focal point in the art world.By Scott Reyburn, The New York Times<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/arts/design/frieze-week-london.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: October 13, 2020

<html><head></head><body>By CGN Staff,&nbsp;Fall is moving along quickly, and though much of our current climate is unfamiliar, we welcome the arrival of new shows, the second such round already since the season began in early September.&nbsp;This week a handful of new shows are opening (some with formal receptions or extended hours, as well as some without or with advance appointments requested, so please double check), offering a range of exhibitions in spaces around the city and beyond (the drive to Rockford is worth is this time of year especially)&nbsp;Enjoy these upcoming shows, and keep an eye on our <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?filter=upcoming">calendar</a> for more exhibitions, as well as the re-imagined <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2020/8/chicago-architecture-center-announces-the-new-open-house-chicago-for-october-2020">Open House Chicago</a>, launching throughout the month of October. –GV&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417723/qecin3l0g98amorcdyqq.png"></figure>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/tarrah-krajnak-el-jardin-de-senderos-que-se-bifurcan">Tarrah Krajnak: El Jardín de Senderos Que Se Bifurcan</a>Begins October 9Filter Photo – West TownFilter Photo is pleased to present&nbsp;El Jardín de Senderos Que Se Bifurcan, an exhibition by Tarrah Krajnak.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417723/ri4lcwgvjhnr5mdx5fws.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/2020-rockford-midwestern-biennial">2020 Rockford Midwestern Biennial</a>Begins October 9Rockford Art MuseumJuried by Jim Dempsey of Corbett vs. Dempsey Gallery, Chicago, the 2020 Rockford Midwestern is the 76th presentation of the museum's survey exhibition of new work by contemporary artists from across the Midwest.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417725/iyssvobdtdbd8xhqu8u4.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/deformer">Déformer</a>Opening Reception: Friday, October 9, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmOliva Gallery – Logan SquareThis is a group exhibition of artists who are constantly taking liberties with form through a variety of styles and mediums. These artists all share a similar fascination with mutating line and color, emphasizing mood and the geometrically absurd over naturalistic representations of hyperrealism.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417725/xnyevn4nmtwiucox3mlu.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/what-are-you-voting-for-a-virtual-exhibition">What Are You Voting For? | A Virtual Exhibition</a>October 9Woman Made GalleryA virtual exhibition with works by 37 artists from across the U.S. who are sharing their voices and visions in response to the November 2020 elections.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417726/khmqpyopclkinistjevk.png"></figure>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jesse-howard-solo-exhibition">Jesse Howard: Solo Exhibition</a>Opening: Saturday, October 10, 12 – 3&nbsp;pmSouth Side Community Art CenterHoward’s socially concerned work is informed by his own lived experiences growing up on Chicago’s west side and the collective societal challenges faced by Black Americans today.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417727/rxudxanwlqlyitnnuk8j.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/whitney-bedford-nevertheless">Whitney Bedford: Nevertheless</a>Begins October 10Carrie Secrist Gallery – West LoopNevertheless…, an exhibition of new drawings by gallery artist Whitney Bedford.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417728/ys24vgyqu0spaxvomukp.png"></figure>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/andy-warhol-ten-portraits-of-jews-of-the-20th-century">Andy Warhol: Ten Portraits of Jews of the 20th Century</a>Begins October 12Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning &amp; Leadership – South Michigan AvenueIn 1980, Andy Warhol memorialized luminaries of modern Jewish culture: Sarah Bernhardt, Louis Brandeis, Martin Buber, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, George Gershwin, Franz Kafka, the Marx Brothers, Golda Meir, and Gertrude Stein. Warhol depicted these thinkers, politicians, performers, and writers in his signature pop-art fashion, splashed with color and shapes, blurring of boundaries between art and commerce.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Starting October 9-12

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418803/p9lr7jp8fewwijcxhcu8.jpg"><figcaption>Geoff Bevington is painting a mural on the wall of Olive 'n Vinnie's in Glen Ellyn. The mural honors Mexican icon Frida Kahlo in anticipation of a major exhibition of her paintings coming to the College of DuPage. Joe Lewnard | Staff Photographer</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;Mural marks Glen Ellyn as the host of coming Frida Kahlo exhibitGeoff Bevington doesn't mind the interruptions. He's painted about 150 murals, but this one is special. It's his most personal. So when Metra commuters, Prairie Path users and students try to pull him aside from his unfolding work in downtown Glen Ellyn, Bevington is happy to talk about his inspiration and technique.By Katlyn Smith, Daily Herald<a href="https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200929/mural-marks-glen-ellyn-as-the-host-of-coming-frida-kahlo-exhibit">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418804/qu1kosrpta8dqn0xyq5z.png"><figcaption>Dancers Daniel "Bravemonk" Haywood and Kelsa "K-Soul" Robinson perform Sept. 22, 2020, at the Dorchester Art + Housing Collaborative. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;Equitable real estate development on Chicago’s South Side is possible. Artist Theaster Gates has shown the way.It’s no secret that some of Chicago’s 77 neighborhoods have suffered from a certain level of financial disinvestment, often systemic and spread out over decades.But one Chicagoan’s efforts to inject new enthusiasm and a sense of community, anchored by artistic and cultural endeavors, are attracting global attention — and similar efforts might be the key to stimulating more equitable real estate development on Chicago’s South Side, a new report suggests.By Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/real-estate/ct-re-theaster-gates-creative-placemaking-uli-tt-0928-20200929-i7dn7qljmbduthqtxnrvtgi5jq-story.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418804/dmnhaou2sjgxx2b5zzsc.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;After Raising $20 Million, Artist Relief Fund Extended to End of 2020The Artist Relief fund announced today that it will continue to distribute unrestricted $5,000 grants to US artists in straitened financial situations through the end of 2020. The fund, which has raised $20 million since its inception in April, will accept applications through December 10, three months past its initial expected September deadline; it will also continue fundraising efforts during this time.Via Artforum<a href="https://www.artforum.com/news/artist-relief-fund-extended-to-end-of-2020-83977">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418805/iiavwcxxrqvohbnukono.jpg"><figcaption>Artemisia Gentileschi's Self Portrait as a Lute Player (around 1615-18) © Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;National Gallery hopes Artemisia exhibition will inspire public to 'get through the Covid crisis'Postponed by the pandemic, the show will reveal Baroque artist's recently discovered intimate letters and "unflinching" paintings.By Joanna Moorhead, The Art Newspaper<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/national-gallery-hopes-artemisia-exhibition-will-inspire-public-to-get-through-the-covid-crisis">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: September 29, 2020

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418803/aoz0pkghhk53lcsy3fy5.jpg"><figcaption>Bonnie Lautenberg,&nbsp;Lady Liberty: A Beacon of Hope and Freedom, 2020, Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print, 26 x 26 in. Jean Albano Gallery.</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;By GINNY VAN ALYEAEXPO Weekend is here. It's officially called EXHIBITION Weekend in 2020, and it's not taking place at Navy Pier with 40,000 fair visitors, but coordinated in-person and virtual programming and openings in area galleries is taking place in the coming days, along with special events and a curatorial forum, in the spirit of any other EXPO CHICAGO weekend.&nbsp;Early this summer <a href="https://www.expochicago.com">EXPO CHICAGO</a>, which typically dominates the region's cultural calendar each September and heralds the start of a major fall art season, made the decision to move to spring 2021 due to the global pandemic. The fair's first predominantly virtual initiative is not actually focused on the fair itself and its exhibitors, but in community galleries and arts groups in an effort to tangibly support that local community this season while also engaging with collectors, curators and artists around the world.“Given EXPO CHICAGO’s commitment to our community, there was no hesitation to make our first predominantly virtual initiative in support of Chicago—celebrating the breadth and scope of the city’s vibrant creative community while providing an access point for international audiences to connect with local artists, gallerists, and collectors. With support from Presenting Sponsor Northern Trust and others, we are proud to partner with Hook on the development of the online viewing room that will enable EXPO CHICAGO to continue to present the highest quality platform for contemporary art and culture,” said Tony Karman, President | Director of EXPO CHICAGO.Taking place during the days the fair was to happen on Navy Pier (September 25–27, 2020) EXHIBITION Weekend underscores EXPO's commitment to local galleries, artists, and institutions, showcasing Chicago-based exhibitions, curatorial projects, and artist programs through a series of virtual programs including studio visits, exhibition and gallery tours, and discussions accessible globally, as well as a custom online viewing and sales platform developed by Hook, an online venue for seasoned art collectors and leading galleries.&nbsp;“At a time when we are all craving more activity and interaction with one another, we are happy to be able to partner with EXPO CHICAGO to provide a way for people to experience EXHIBITION Weekend remotely,” said Hook Founder Jake Nyquist. “Hook will approximate the experience of an in-person art fair, allowing visitors to navigate the fair at their own pace and in whatever direction they choose.”The link to the fair will <a href="https://hookart.com/exhibition-weekend">go live</a> at 10 AM Friday, September 25&nbsp;Special Events&nbsp;<figure class="image image-style-side"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418804/ucj3rqhcvqx7isrma6hy.jpg"><figcaption>Facility, Nick Cave and Bob Faust. 2019 Limited-Edition Print. Limited Edition of 200. 9 color lithograph. 30 in x 21 in, 76.2 x 53.3 cm. Signed by the artist.</figcaption></figure>Launching EXHIBITION Weekend on Thursday, September 24, EXPO CHICAGO will present a conversation with artists Nick Cave and Bob Faust, Quintin Williams of Heartland Alliance for Human Needs &amp; Human Rights, and Gabrielle Lyon of Illinois Humanities. With an introduction by philanthropist Agnes Gund, Founder of Art for Justice, this conversation will explore the concepts addressed in the limited-edition print designed by Nick Cave and Bob Faust, a Facility Art/Work collaboration printed by Landfall Press, in celebration of the 2019 edition of the exposition. The limited-edition print can be purchased at <a href="http://www.expochicago.com/">www.expochicago.com</a>, a custom viewing room in the EXHIBITION Weekend (September 25–27) platform, and via the Artsy MarketplaceEXPO is also known for its robust VIP programming each fall, offering exclusive access to spaces and events traditionally held in person. This fall the program, still available by invitation only, has been adapted to go online and include a range of programming, from highly-sought after collector home tours (one this fall features the home of Chicago collectors Jack and Sandy Guthman) to VIP Art Advisor-led tours of EXHIBITION Weekend. Area curators will also lead tours of exhibitions by Chicago’s foremost institutions, including a behind-the-scenes conversation with Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Manilow Senior Curator,&nbsp;Naomi Beckwith, on the exhibition Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, co-curated with the Nigerian-born British fashion designer.&nbsp;&nbsp;Participating galleries in EXHIBITION Weekend include:&nbsp;Aaron Galleries, <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/jean-albano-gallery">Jean Albano Gallery</a>, Aspect/Ratio, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Stephen Daiter Gallery, Devening Projects, <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/document">DOCUMENT</a>, <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/catherine-edelman-gallery">Catherine Edelman Gallery</a>, <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/richard-gray-gallery-gray-warehouse">GRAY</a>, <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/kavi-gupta">Kavi Gupta</a>, <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/carl-hammer-gallery">Carl Hammer Gallery</a>, <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/rhona-hoffman-gallery--2">Rhona Hoffman Gallery</a>, <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/mariane-ibrahim-gallery">Mariane Ibrahim</a>, <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/alan-koppel-gallery">Alan Koppel Gallery</a>,&nbsp; M.Leblanc, <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/mccormick-gallery">McCormick Gallery</a>, MICKEY, <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/monique-meloche-gallery">Monique Meloche Gallery</a>, <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/richard-norton-gallery">Richard Norton Gallery</a>, PATRON, Jason Pickleman, ANDREW RAFACZ, David Salkin Creative, Ken Saunders Gallery, <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/carrie-secrist-gallery">Carrie Secrist Gallery</a>, <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/volume-gallery">Volume Gallery</a>, <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/western-exhibitions">Western Exhibitions</a>, and <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/zolla-lieberman-gallery">Zolla/Lieberman Gallery</a>, among others. Participating alternative and project spaces include Arts of Life, Chicago Manual Style, The Franklin, <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/goldfinch">Goldfinch</a>, Julius Caesar, RUSCHMAN, and <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/weinberg-newton-gallery">Weinberg/Newton Gallery</a>, among others.&nbsp;Local Participation and Opportunities for Engagement&nbsp;<figure class="image image-style-side"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418804/pbu47jhh8sfxelb3etct.jpg"><figcaption>What is Home? Keliy Anderson-Staley, Omar Imam, Rubén Martín de Lucas</figcaption></figure>Many area galleries are participating and have arranged special programming to coincide with their ongoing fall exhibitions. A few highlights are listed below, and the <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?filter=upcoming">CGN calendar</a> features more programming from area spaces this weekend.Catherine Edelman Gallery will be presenting the works of Keliy Anderson-Staley,&nbsp;Rubén Martín de Lucas,&nbsp;Liat Elbling, Michael Koerner, Robert &amp; Shana ParkeHarrison, Francesco Pergolesi, and Gregory Scott in their online Viewing Room, and ﻿CEG will host a Zoom conversation with artists three artists featured in their ongoing exhibition What is Home?, on Friday, September 25 at 12pm. RSVP for the Zoom <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001tokNHpcU5CBaeuLREvduwn5sjNK7c1ZLh_IBxBCPJj0zOWCRAnliTNjap6Re86YU4c1I-bP9xAGqtwQhcfBTCju0BEbKzgdbG17c1JXDtrtoKyTwOx8sOFqTYieseZD-lZetf7SFFI4LdypWkMjCI2teQZ04yLkHjQK7qW-NLLUIdIWUunz516vgurbOCMTfjmDwHQPkNkH1F-t-IaVWucv1-2cSL0rRZUreo6gLNNkjyneUY6q4C24zVQUFuzxpTu7z082qyWU=&amp;c=F3nj-swJ4bFWNf8e8dCU_ykA-qVjsy3kLbO5gr_7dHUpGLpSZh8IDA==&amp;ch=NQuwa6GZBklbE3KM53-pu_MtcIq-gXXGS-hPZDY1rf67G5rCNk3QyA==">here</a>.&nbsp;Corbett vs Dempsey's presentation is focused on three artists: David Hartt, Margot Bergman, and Omar Velázquez. Hartt's The Histories (Old Black Joe) is on view by appointment at the gallery. They are also featuring two paintings by Bergman, and two new paintings by Velázquez, who will have a solo exhibition of new work at the MCA Chicago opening in late December.&nbsp; &nbsp;Monique Meloche is featuring Candida Alvarez, David Antonio Cruz, Brendan Fernandes, Kajahl, Ebony G. Patterson, Cheryl Pope, Jake Troyli, and Nate Young. Young is also part of an exhibition also opening this weekend at the Driehaus Museum, <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2020/9/a-tale-of-today-connecting-past-present">A Tale of Today – Connecting Past &amp; Present</a>Jean Albano Gallery is featuring work by <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/jean-albano-gallery">gallery artists</a>, including Bonnie Lautenberg, Margaret Wharton, Zack Wirsum, Donna Rosenthal and others.Volume Gallery presents new works by <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/tanya-aguiniga-and-ross-hansen-for-exhibition-weekend">Tanya Aguiñiga and Ross Hansen</a>.Western Exhibitions presents <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jessica-labatte-almanac-for-shade-gardeners-virtual">Jessica Labatte: Almanac for Shade Gardeners</a>. Also, as a companion to the EXHIBITION Weekend presentation, the gallery is offering an online exclusive "<a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0010fR0rE6EULAGpYyE9OoGgwKx7trWU_NAQBGQSfmDwkZibSsanUbESfpfoMVAw0989ValCapj8np2i3xlw2GsTob8kwyPCZoQipWpNBlmcdaQsfnmfaJyCj2PYdEpnLI1Nrvlkg-sQBk17wfvScj1ZIiO0Kwt6Zom6q_4R91iPDLBq3i8xOjbGgrbsMrmYuOh&amp;c=N453vkvZt4GUUUCbWQsPl6A4lZLniwG9AOJN8L5gFv62gpRQUuRBRA==&amp;ch=X4gplHStHv4V3osDChasByRSGVVgnbvw57slJrZiFJ2JkuhiQDqrvw==">In Depth with...</a>" page online, alongside thoughts by the artist, essays by Elizabeth Chodos and Jeff M. Ward, a playlist from Eric May, a video interview from Silver Eye and more.Chicago audiences will have select opportunities to view exhibitions in-person (by appointment) aligning with EXHIBITION Weekend. Safety precautions will include limited capacities, social distancing, mask requirements, and non-invasive temperature checks.&nbsp;Many of the weekend's in-person exhibition highlights are detailed online. For a full list of additional EXHIBITION Weekend programming and events including dates, times and locations, visit <a href="http://www.expochicago.com/">www.expochicago.com</a>.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418805/qihndnver8nay2habvjk.png"><figcaption>A room at the newly re-opened 21c Museum Hotel on Ontario Street</figcaption></figure>Make a Weekend of ItDowntown Chicago has been much less crowded for awhile now, but in this delightful early fall weather, it's still a great time to have a mini break or "staycation" in the city, where you are close to this weekend's events and participating galleries. As a supplement to EXHIBITION Weekend, EXPO CHICAGO is working with<a href="https://www.expochicago.com/visit/travel-hotels/partner-hotels"> official partner hotels</a> The Peninsula Chicago and 21c Museum Hotel to offer 2-night stays for patrons wishing to visit Chicago during EXHIBITION Weekend. A tailored itinerary of select experiences, gallery exhibitions, and museum openings will be provided.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

EXHIBITION Weekend Brings Art Fair Weekend to Local Galleries

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418803/aft5phq8737s3h1dvflv.png"></figure>&nbsp;Chicago’s architectural biennial keeps the city at the forefront of design. But will it be held in 2021?Will there be a Chicago Architecture Biennial next year at this time? Even if you’ve never attended the biennial, which bills itself as North America’s largest survey of contemporary architecture, you have a stake in the answer.By showcasing rising stars in Chicago’s architecture firmament and introducing Chicagoans to global design talents like Mexican architect Tatiana.By Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/blair-kamin/ct-biz-chicago-architecture-biennial-kamin-20200916-ixdxw3ahfrbnjesda5e3sk67pq-story.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418804/vqy5bzifb0y6fvlvfjps.png"></figure>&nbsp;Chicago Mexican art museum takes annual Day of the Dead exhibit onlineVirtual exhibit honors Latinx who died from COVID-19. The National Museum of Mexican Art has hosted a Day of the Dead exhibition for more than 30 years, and this year is no different. The exhibit has simply moved online.By ABC 7 Chicago Digital Team<a href="https://abc7chicago.com/community-events/chicago-mexican-art-museum-takes-day-of-the-dead-exhibit-online/6464936/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418804/phuyztafvu7zgmouia6c.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;Editors’ Picks: 16 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From a Virtual EXPO Chicago to a Live Performance at the MetPlus, fall gallery shows you can see in person.Via Artnet News<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/editors-picks-september-21-2020-1908172">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418805/ocpqta6wueqxt4flasbm.png"></figure>&nbsp;Chicago Architect Uses City as Backdrop for Virtual Drawing ClassAs he was taking videos while kayaking along the Chicago River, <a href="https://www.bermanarchitecture.com/">Chicago architect Joel Berman</a> got the idea to teach virtual drawing classes with the city’s architecture as the focal point.“The subject has to be compelling and interesting or it’s not worth drawing,” Berman said. “Somebody has to be excited about what it is they’re creating.”Angel Idowu, wttw<a href="https://news.wttw.com/2020/09/21/chicago-architect-uses-city-backdrop-virtual-drawing-class">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: September 22, 2020

<html><head></head><body>By CGN StaffLast weekend marked the official, and this year unconventional, start to the fall arts season, when many of the area's galleries opened new exhibitions and held socially-distanced public receptions around the city. This week, more new exhibitions are beginning. We are highlighting several for you here, though at this time these spaces are not hosting opening receptions.&nbsp;Thank you for using CGN as a guide to art throughout the area. Please remember that we are adding new shows and events to our calendar daily and we have resumed our weekly highlights of area events. Note each space's public hours carefully and keep an eye on CGN's <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?district=&amp;filter=upcoming">calendar of events</a>, since events are subject to change. You can read past show <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/previews">previews here</a>.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418797/rwfilndhukx5y0haax5o.png"></figure>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/leasho-johnson-only-when-it-s-dark-enough-can-you-see-the-stars">Leasho Johnson: Only when it's dark enough can you see the stars</a>Begins September 19FLXST Contemporary – Near South Side&nbsp;Working in a multiplicity of mediums, Leasho immortalizes the dynamic energy of the Dancehall and engages with black stereotypes and spectrums as expressed in Jamaican/Caribbean cultural practice. His characters often merged specific materials with new narratives around gender and identity whilst utilizing both traditional and contemporary approaches around ancestral and personal stories. His interest sometimes comes from reinterpreting/interrupting the historical imagery of the British Empire with contemporary realities. His work centers the contestations and tensions in western culture around sexuality and seeks to explore contemporary meanings in context to historical truths.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418798/qn48kce6pepyrsyzg666.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/unexpected-lisa-goesling-deanna-krueger">Unexpected: Lisa goesling &amp; Deanna Krueger</a>Begins September 16Fermilab Art Gallery – Batavia, ILSpontaneous creations lead to unexpected results. While Lisa Goesling and Deanna Krueger use different materials, they both approach their art with a sense of wonder. What evolves is an energy that is not only seen but also felt.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418799/bzcdfw9olqpgewzolyeg.jpg"><figcaption>Out and Further Out&nbsp;(2018), among other works, in Hunt’s studio. Courtesy of the Joyner/Giuffrida Collection</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/richard-hunt-scholar-s-rock-or-stone-of-hope-or-love-of-bronze">Richard Hunt: Scholar’s Rock or Stone of Hope or Love of Bronze</a>Begins September 17Art Institute of Chicago – LoopThis exhibition draws its title, Scholar’s Rock or Stone of Hope or Love of Bronze, from a monumental bronze sculpture that exemplifies Hunt’s recent practice. Over the last six years, he has engaged in a durational approach of continually adding, removing, and reshaping the work, investigating the meaning of bronze both in relation to its mythological and material attributes, as well as its inherent transformative possibilities.&nbsp;This massive bronze is complemented by two other large-scale stainless steel sculptures, as well as a selection of smaller-scaled bronzes, all of which were completed in the last 20 years. Together, they represent the range of the artist’s engagement with metal, spatial occupation, and the notion of the base, as well as the ways in which objects are in dialogue with bodies and the built environment. In the installation on the museum’s Bluhm Family Terrace, the scale of the sculptures coalesces with the&nbsp;Chicago skyline.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418799/wudfdtnu50fhjfn7jijm.jpg"><figcaption>Claudia Wieser,&nbsp;Untitled, 2017, Acrylic, ink, and gold leaf on wood, three works.&nbsp;Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen. © Claudia Wieser. Photo credit: Object Studies.</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/claudia-wieser-generations">Claudia Wieser: Generations</a>Begins September 19Smart Museum of Art – Hyde ParkGenerations is a seven-year survey of the distinctive, multi-faceted practice of Berlin-based artist Claudia Wieser. Drawing upon the history of art, design and architecture—from the democratic stage of ancient Roman forums to the esoteric principles of Bauhaus craftsmanship—Wieser’s practice carefully stitches together a constellation of elements. Influenced by the modernism of Hilma af Klint, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, who embraced spirituality as part of their aesthetic processes, Wieser broadens their ideals, using spatial installations to consider the coexistence of abstraction and physiological experience.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

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<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418803/vosk8rhh52xt8lnvwq8y.jpg"><figcaption>Claude Monet. Apple Trees, Vétheuil, 1878. Private collection. Photo by Jamie Stukenberg, Professional Graphics Inc.</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;Monet Makes Impressions at Art Institute and Garfield Park ConservatoryChicago is home to more Claude Monet paintings than any city other than Paris. That’s because the works of the famous French impressionist made a strong impression on local collectors beginning in the 1880s.&nbsp;Paintings from the Art Institute collection and from private collections have come together in a show called “Monet and Chicago.”&nbsp;By Marc Vitali, wttw<a href="https://news.wttw.com/2020/09/09/monet-makes-impressions-art-institute-and-garfield-park-conservatory">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418804/ojzwt1waj2hkeaew1v2x.png"><figcaption>Artist and mental health advocate Brandon Breaux joins forces with MCA Chicago for an exclusive collaboration which explores the ideals of creating space for one another by encouraging more communication and advocacy, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune)</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;A conversation with Brandon Breaux about his MCA collection that looks at access, safe space, and representationChatham resident Brandon Breaux is known for his artistry, as evidenced in his artwork for Chance the Rapper. Now, Breaux’s artistic skills can be seen at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (MCA) store — collections that touch on themes like accessibility, safe spaces and representation.By Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-brandon-breaux-mca-equity-exhibit-0911-20200914-fiawskkkifc7daufjl7pyja2gu-story.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418805/mqzqostd3mpeel5yemyu.jpg"><figcaption>Jeremey Bolen’s “Albedo” pays tribute to the 41 unclaimed bodies of the more than 700 people who died during the 1995 heatwave in Chicago. The sculptural memorial serves as a reminder of the dangers of global warming. K’Von Jackson</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;Chicago artists, scientists join forces to craft conversation on climate changeSeven artists and seven scientists walk into the Indiana Dunes National Park. But it is not a punchline; it is the basis of a new gallery at Columbia that visualizes the impacts of the climate crisis on Chicago.“Third Coast Disrupted: Artists + Scientists on Climate” opened Sept. 8 and runs through Oct. 30 at Columbia’s Glass Curtain Gallery, 1104 S. Wabash Ave. The gallery features new work from seven local artists in a variety of mediums.By Alexandra Yetter, The Colombia Chronicle&nbsp;<a href="https://columbiachronicle.com/chicago-artists-scientists-join-forces-to-craft-conversation-on-climate-change">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418805/yyc23bnw2cfabupqrnet.jpg"><figcaption>Photo: Hildegard Burri-Bayer</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;Is the Nebra Sky Disc a millennium younger than we thought?The Nebra Sky Disc, the world’s oldest known depiction of the cosmos, might not be as old as previously thought. The disc was discovered during an illegal excavation in 1999 and is regarded as one of Germany’s most significant archaeological finds. The looters said that they had unearthed the disc at a hill fort called the Mittelberg, near Nebra in Germany, along with various other artefacts, including swords, axes and bracelets. Experts dated these objects to around 1600BC— in the Early Bronze Age— and assigned the disc the same date because it was found alongside them.By Garry Shaw, The Art Newspaper<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/is-the-nebra-sky-disc-a-millennium-younger-than-we-thought">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418806/p9dmzkbalil5jtyjycpz.jpg"><figcaption>The Vindolanda excavation site in Northern England. Courtesy of the Vindolanda Trust.</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;A Volunteer Archaeologist Just Discovered the Oldest Example of Religious Graffiti Ever Found in BritainResearchers in northern England have uncovered the shards of a 1,400-year-old chalice etched with angels, crosses, and other symbols of Christian iconography, making it the oldest example of religious graffiti found in the country, they say.By Taylor Dafoe, artnet news<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ancient-graffiti-1908400">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

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