<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418069/uzdftmot034b6wj6k7me.png"></figure><h2>In Chicago, Science and Industry Also Means Art and Creativity</h2>The Juried Art Exhibition has become the centerpiece of <a href="https://www.msichicago.org/blackcreativity">Black Creativity</a>, launched during the 1980s to accompany the Exhibition. A festival of sorts, Black Creativity has evolved into an annual umbrella of events centered on African American creativity, ingenuity and innovation hosted by the Museum of Science and Industry.By Audrey F. Henderson, New City<a href="https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/in-chicago-science-and-industry-also-means-art-and-creativity">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418071/slok8cwn3rqob5vqmfmd.jpg"></figure><h2>The Whitney Biennial: 75 Artists Are In, and One Dissenter Steps Out</h2>The biennial, no stranger to controversy, is an indicator of currents in the field as well as a career booster for the artists included. Past editions have sparked debates over identity and representation, but this year, before the list of participants was even released, a Chicago-based artist, <a href="http://www.michaelrakowitz.com/">Michael Rakowitz</a>, pulled out of the exhibition in a protest against a museum vice chairman, Warren Kanders. Mr. Kanders is the chief executive of a company that manufactures equipment, including body armor and tear gas, for law enforcement agencies and militaries. The New York Times received a copy of Mr. Rakowitz’s letter to the curators, dated Dec. 18, withdrawing from the show.By Jillian Steinhauer, The New York Times<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/arts/design/2019-whitney-biennial.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418072/zasa82fvsajaehvfzmj0.jpg"></figure><h2>Art on theMART Announces Program Aligning with City of Chicago's Year of Chicago Theatre</h2>theMART, with the City of Chicago, today announced the program alignment of Art on theMART, the largest permanent digital art projection in the world, with the 2019 Year of Chicago Theatre, a city-wide celebration of Chicago's theater community spearheaded by the City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) and the League of Chicago Theatres.Via Broadway World<a href="https://www.broadwayworld.com/chicago/article/Art-on-theMART-Announces-Program-Aligning-with-City-of-Chicagos-Year-of-Chicago-Theatre-20190221">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418073/lywwl2sgx62mz3huxfww.jpg"></figure><h2>‘Intimate Sense of Community’: New Forum Aims to Decentralize Art-Book Publishing</h2>Artist Publisher, a new online forum launched by the Chicago-based printing collective Temporary Services, aims to encourage online discussion of art books and to democratize knowledge of a precarious industry. In different threads, users can chat about such insider subjects as storage and what kinds of printers to use, as well as post book reviews and titles for trade. An in-progress list also attempts to track and chronologically organize every art book fair and zine fest—with more than 40 logged for 2019 so far.By Claire Voon, ARTnews<a href="http://www.artnews.com/2019/02/13/artist-publisher-temporary-services-book-forum/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: February 26, 2019

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418083/mtss8li1vofrgwlpx6yf.gif"></figure><h2>If the Art Institute of Chicago is too much, head to this beautiful, less-trafficked gem</h2>If you have less time to spare but still want to immerse yourself in a local cultural experience, head just a few blocks north to the Chicago Cultural Center, located in the same Millennium Park campus as the Art Institute but often overlooked by visitors. The opulent 1897 building, designed by the same firm as the Art Institute, is known as “The People’s Palace.”By Jay Gentile, The Washington Post<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/if-the-art-institute-of-chicago-is-too-much-head-to-this-beautiful-less-trafficked-gem/2019/02/14/6c95db34-2b14-11e9-984d-9b8fba003e81_story.html?utm_term=.0f3b9bd8bde9">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418088/eb0u6zmhnccsynrjscop.jpg"></figure><h2>Mariane Ibrahim, Ascendant Dealer of African Art, Moves Gallery to Chicago</h2>After seven years in Seattle and a growing reputation garnered at art fairs around the globe, Mariane Ibrahim is closing her namesake gallery in the Pacific Northwest and planning a move to Chicago, where she hopes to be in operation by the end of 2019.By Andy Battaglia, ARTnews&nbsp;<a href="http://www.artnews.com/2019/02/15/mariane-ibrahim-gallery-moving-chicago/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418089/ljs1bp0ulvmiqnh3qfzq.png"></figure><h2>‘Bauhaus’ centennial exhibit shines art movement’s light on world,&nbsp;Chicago</h2>No institution had more impact on the development of 20th century art, design and architecture than the Bauhaus, a German art school with such famous teachers as Anni Albers, Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius and Wassily Kandinsky.This year marks the 100th anniversary of its establishment, a milestone that has sparked at least 600 exhibitions and other events worldwide, including an internationally touring show titled “The Whole World a Bauhaus.”By Kyle MacMillan, The Sun Times<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/bauhaus-centennial-exhibit-elmhurst-art-museum-chicago/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418090/orbmgcrrwqdtcy7jstme.jpg"></figure><h2>Instagram-friendly wndr museum moves from pop-up to permanent</h2>The goal is “becoming a cultural fixture here in the West Loop,” Vaile said. “We think we’ve found an area in the art world that hasn’t been truly explored.”Wndr, 1130 W. Monroe St., has billed itself as an art and science experience, and its initial set of 19 immersive, walk-through exhibits followed the theme of The Finite to the Infinite, with art pieces treating atoms and outer space.By Steve Johnson, Chicago Tribune<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-wndr-museum-permanent-0220-story.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: February 19, 2019

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418022/cgxsxslq20yvx5pkkwe5.webp"></figure><h2>Chicago Biennial announces theme for third edition</h2>After the city’s first two biennials, with titles like “The State of Art and Architecture,” and “Make New History,” this year Artistic Director Yesomi Umolu and her team have chosen a theme that makes an effort to showcase the less shiny history but all important stories of Chicago.By Sara Freund, Curbed Chicago<a href="https://chicago.curbed.com/2019/2/5/18212022/chicago-architecture-biennial-theme-2019">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418022/n4n5kfkzfsiluswbfbbf.png"></figure><h2>Chicago searches for the right design to expand O’Hare Airport and make passenger connections less stressful</h2>The five designs in competition—selected from a total of 12 submissions—share a number of similarities: sweeping roofs, vista-like open spaces that connect passengers more directly to the entire terminal and the airfield, straightforward navigation within the terminal, and—in three designs—green spaces that offer respite to harried travelers.“The O’Hare Global Terminal is a once-in-a-lifetime project that demands the best in aviation experience and an in-depth understanding, respect, and passion for Chicago’s global leadership in design and culture,” says Scott Duncan, Design Partner with Skidmore, Owings &amp; Merrill, which developed its design for O’Hare’s expansion in collaboration with ARUP and Ross Barney Architects.By John Caulfield, Building Design + Construction<a href="https://www.bdcnetwork.com/chicago-searches-right-design-expand-o%E2%80%99hare-airport-and-make-passenger-connections-less-stressful">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418024/wmeb0ickt2h6rum5s2mj.jpg"></figure><h2>After nixing painting sale, Emanuel finds another way to restore branch&nbsp;library</h2>Emanuel had originally planned to raise the entire $15 million needed for the regional library upgrade by selling off “Knowledge and Wonder,” a large painting by Marshall that hung on the second floor of the Legler branch.By Fran Spielman, Chicago Sun Times<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/mural-painting-knowledge-wonder-legler-library-kerry-james-marshall-west-garfield-park/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418025/srurwidqtzj51wduqqpt.jpg"></figure><h2>Ai Weiwei and Frank Gehry Talk Art, Legos and Being Cultural Renegades</h2>Two creative people in two different fields in one wide-ranging conversation. This time: the artist and the architect.By Jori Finkel, The New York Times<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/12/t-magazine/ai-weiwei-frank-gehry-conversation.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: February 12, 2019

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418027/pelrm49tuteiaksyct1i.gif"></figure><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>Smaller Museums And Galleries Shining In Chicago's Flourishing Arts Scene</h2>When you think Chicago, you think big. Big buildings, big pizza, big museums. <a href="https://www.artic.edu/">The Art Institute of Chicago</a> hosts the largest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artworks outside of France.Institutions of that scale cast a shadow. Existing within that shadow can be found a vibrant museum and gallery scene, two examples of which are hosting noteworthy shows this month.By Chadd Scott, Forbes<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/chaddscott/2019/02/02/smaller-museums-and-galleries-shining-in-chicagos-flourishing-arts-scene/#1ad649d18c28">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418030/payxyqtjlvtgyedoz3i7.jpg"></figure><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>Chicago Architecture Biennial promises to explore new stories about Chicago — and avoid 'Archi-babble'</h2>The third Chicago Architecture Biennial, the big exhibition of contemporary architecture and design that opens in September, promises something more provocative: A look at old Chicago stories that have been shoved out of the spotlight and new ones that will emerge through fresh comparisons with the cities of Sao Paulo, Johannesburg and Vancouver, British Columbia.By Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kamin/ct-biz-chicago-architecture-biennial-20190204-story.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image" data-storehaus-transformation="{&quot;crop&quot;:{&quot;x&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:&quot;96.32161458333334&quot;,&quot;w&quot;:&quot;2500&quot;,&quot;h&quot;:&quot;1820.7194010416667&quot;}}"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418030/pltmgtgph46ai0woqf2r.jpg"></figure><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>Finding my Filipino identity in Maia Cruz Palileo's art</h2>Document senior editor Ann Binlot writes on her search for representation of her Filipino heritage only to find it through the art of contemporary artist Maia Cruz Palileo.By Ann Binlot, Document Journal<a href="http://www.documentjournal.com/2019/02/finding-my-filipino-identity-in-maia-cruz-palileos-art/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418031/ivmt2vbkjdgbdvdxhdsk.png"></figure><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>“Eye Deal: Abstract Bodies of the Chicago Imagists” at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art</h2>Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA) is hosting an exhibition titled “Eye Deal: Abstract Bodies of the Chicago Imagists.” The exhibition is on view through June 9, 2019.“Eye Deal: Abstract Bodies of the Chicago Imagists” highlights the acclaimed holdings of art by Chicago Imagists that the museum boasts of. The Imagists were a group of figurative artists who emerged in Chicago in the mid-1960s.&nbsp;Via Blouin Artinfo<a href="https://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/3522021/eye-deal-abstract-bodies-of-the-chicago-imagists-at-the">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418032/xweoxpyzpfkowbxxryrk.jpg"></figure><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>MOCA Exhibit Celebrates Chicago's AFRICOBRA Black Artist Collective</h2>During the civil rights era of the 1960s and 70s, a group of black artists in Chicago created vibrant and provocative art as a powerful form of peaceful protest.&nbsp;AFRICOBRA, which stands for “The African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists," used the aesthetic of black art and imaging to fight the the media's perception&nbsp;of their own communities. Now, the collective's work is being displayed in Miami as part of North Miami's&nbsp;<a href="https://mocanomi.org/">Museum of Contemporary Art&nbsp;</a>Black History Month programming.By Alejandra Martinez<a href="http://www.wlrn.org/post/moca-exhibit-celebrates-chicagos-africobra-black-artist-collective">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: February 5, 2019

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418033/qdagn9k9lbmmnwayo3aa.gif"></figure><h2>Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago to Lower Admission Prices For Visitors Impacted by Gender Pay Gap</h2>The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago has announced that starting next month the institution will offer visitors who have been impacted by the gender pay gap reduced admission prices. The new pricing tier, which aims to raise awareness about pay disparity in the workplace, will roll out on February 24, following the opening of “<a href="https://www.artforum.com/search?search=Laurie%20Simmons">Laurie Simmons</a>: Big Camera/Little Camera,” the first major retrospective dedicated to the artist.Via ARTFORUM<a href="https://www.artforum.com/news/museum-of-contemporary-art-chicago-to-lower-admission-prices-for-visitors-impacted-by-gender-pay-gap-78498">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418034/aqdq8kck5jiicmcqsgdf.gif"></figure><h2>Chicago artist Matthew Hoffman to jury 'Love,' West Chicago's 2019 community art banner exhibit</h2>The stars are aligned for "Love," the 2019 community art banner exhibit, as Matthew Hoffman, the renowned Chicago-based artist and creator of the You Are Beautiful art phenomenon and West Chicago's most recent piece of public art, loveevenmore, has agreed to jury the submissions of area artists scrambling to get their artwork in by the Feb. 1 deadline.By Rosemary Mackey, Daily Herald<a href="https://www.dailyherald.com/submitted/20190125/chicago-artist-matthew-hoffman-to-jury-love-west-chicagos-2019-community-art-banner-exhibit">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418035/oz8umf07bmnvgahhvdfa.gif"></figure><h2>This Chicago Artist Is Making Delightful Murals Out Of Snow</h2>LOGAN SQUARE — <a href="https://evk.myportfolio.com/projects">Eduardo Vea Keating</a> is having some fun with all of the snow that has so many of us holed up in our homes.The 43-year-old artist is responsible for the skyline snow mural that popped up on the side of the corner store at Sawyer and Fullerton avenues on Sunday afternoon. He said it took him about an hour to make, and, unlike a painted mural, required zero tools.By Mina Bloom, Block Club Chicago<a href="https://blockclubchicago.org/2019/01/29/this-chicago-artist-is-making-delightful-murals-out-of-snow/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418036/nprzuhxqkgmhn8ybejzv.gif"></figure><h2>Venice Architecture Biennale's U.S. Pavilion Coming to Chicago</h2>Dimensions of Citizenship: Architecture and Belonging from the Body to the Cosmos, the official US entry at the recently-concluded 16th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, will be on view for the first time in the United States at Wrightwood 659, a new art space located at 659 W. Wrightwood Avenue in Chicago, from February 15 through April 27, 2019. Devoted to exploring the notion of citizenship today and the potential role of architecture and design in creating spaces for it, Dimensions of Citizenship comprises seven unique installations, each created by a transdisciplinary team of architects and designers.Via Arch Daily<a href="https://www.archdaily.com/910247/venice-architecture-biennales-us-pavilion-coming-to-chicago">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: January 29, 2019

<html><head></head><body>Long before many of us adapted to binge-watching TV, art fairs became the new normal for bingeing on art in one often dizzying and overwhelming weekend. Love them or hate them, Chicago is host to a range of art fairs during the year, and each fair is an invaluable asset to the cultural community it serves and the creatives it brings together for a few short (or long!) days. From neighborhood celebrations to international expositions, each offers something unique for those who come to see and buy art as well as for artists and professionals who come to network and exchange ideas.&nbsp;Following is a list of fairs taking place throughout the area in 2019.&nbsp;Wear comfortable shoes, if you want to – and please try to pause and look at the art for a moment before snapping that Insta-worthy pic. Talk to the dealers or artists hanging around their booth - they're each experts ready to talk and connect.&nbsp;Fairs below listed in order of when they take place during the year. This list will be updated periodically.&nbsp;– CGN Staff&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417884/tohrfagzihjvwuj9pb3g.gif"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/chicago-antiques-art-design-show">CHICAGO ANTIQUES + ART + DESIGN SHOW</a>May 16–19, 2019 • The Merchandise Mart – River North100 premier international exhibitors presenting fine antique furniture, decorative and fine arts displayed in gallery settings.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417885/t2djegjj2zye5aasgwnu.gif"></figure><a href="http://chicago.theotherartfair.com">THE OTHER ART FAIR</a>May 16–19, 2019 • Mana Contemporary – PilsenPresented by Saatchi Art, TOAF showcases work by 130 independent and emerging artists in a unique and immersive environment. Returning to Chicago for the second year.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417886/qsf1b1rrgdehe6sciatz.gif"></figure><a href="57thstreetartfair.org">57TH STREET ART FAIR</a>June 1 and 2, 2019 • Hyde ParkOne of the oldest fairs in the country, this outdoor celebration is adjacent to the University of Chicago&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417887/pyxmk7yotgoomjy2yuno.gif"></figure><a href="oldtowntriangle.com">OLD TOWN ART FAIR</a>June 8 and 9, 2019 • Old Town Triangle DistrictTaking place along the tree-lined streets of Old Town this fair, founded in 1950, features 250 nationally acclaimed artists and welcomes 30,000 art lovers.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417888/hxus6vfft9itoazeywj6.gif"></figure><a href="deerpathartleague.org">ART FAIR ON THE SQUARE</a>September 1 and 2, 2019 • Lake Forest, ILThe 65th Annual Art Fair on the Square is a juried art show, located in historic Lake Forest Market Square&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417890/czko8ulmikxeuznpxjb1.gif"></figure><a href="expochicago.com">EXPO CHICAGO</a>September 19–22, 2019 • Navy PierThe eighth edition of the International Exposition of Contemporary and Modern Art features international exhibitors alongside one of the highest quality platforms for global contemporary art and culture. Many special programs and alignments are planned throughout the year as well as in September.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417891/cv2mvakmzl4fhbgdmkd3.gif"></figure><a href="http://www.chicagoartistscoalition.org/annual-2018">THE ANNUAL&nbsp;</a>September 2019 • Chicago Artists Coalition – Kinzie CorridorThe ANNUAL is a&nbsp;yearly sales exhibition celebrating cutting-edge Chicago-based artists. Arranged by a guest curator, The ANNUAL creates an accessible forum for collectors to discover affordable new work and engage directly with its creators.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417892/of6kz0tdhgeb28nhnbqf.gif"></figure><a href="americancraftexpo.org">AMERICAN CRAFT EXPO</a>September 21–23, 2018 • Chicago Botanic Garden – Glencoe, IL&nbsp;One of the country’s premier fine craft shows, presented by The Auxiliary of NorthShore University HealthSystem (Northshore), featuring approximately 140 artists&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417893/ghw7awditwggdgcjnpo6.gif"></figure><a href="sofaexpo.com">SOFA CHICAGO</a>Oct 31–Nov 3, 2019 • Navy PierThe Sculpture Objects Functional Art and&nbsp;Design Fair began in 1994 and focuses on artworks&nbsp;that cross the boundaries of fine art, decorative art and design.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417894/hwkleb1kdpnjsx3sb5vv.gif"></figure><a href="amdurproductions.com">AMDUR PRODUCTIONS ART FESTS</a>Multiple dates and locations in the region: Gold Coast Art Fair; Botanic Garden Art Fest; Millennium Art Festival; Southport Art Festival; and others.&nbsp;</body></html>

All the World's a Fair: 2019 Art Fair Lineup

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418074/kd53hcxhqq2xoebptrc6.png"></figure>Here are the five finalist designs competing for O’Hare Airport’s massive $8.5B expansionOn Thursday, the city released minute-long videos previewing each design. Residents can get a closer look at the concepts by checking out physical models of each proposal on display at the <a href="https://chicago.curbed.com/2018/11/7/18072234/ohare-expansion-lead-architect-finalists">Chicago Architecture Center</a> for free now through January 31. Bid materials will also be posted inside O’Hare’s Terminal 2.By Jay Koziarz, Curbed Chicago<a href="https://chicago.curbed.com/2019/1/17/18185431/ohare-design-competition-global-terminal">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418075/v91jwzoizmy92x0b4ndt.png"></figure>Will a nine-story surrealist mural draw shoppers to Mag Mile?Passers-by on Michigan Avenue can now see a nine-story mural designed by Spanish artist Ignasi Monreal, who's also responsible for massive "art walls" commissioned by Gucci in New York, London, Milan, Hong Kong and Paris.By Brigid Sweeney, Crain's Chicago Business<a href="https://www.chicagobusiness.com/retail/will-nine-story-surrealist-mural-draw-shoppers-mag-mile">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418076/lse69oycylv4xoqqqelo.png"></figure>Big Fairs Dominate the Art World. Small Galleries Are Seeking Another Way.Contemporary art dealers, like pretty much everyone else involved in bricks and mortar retail, are struggling to attract customers through their doors. A collaborative event is one way of coaxing them back. It might not be the art world’s equivalent of Black Friday, but the Condo group exhibition, whose fourth London edition opened on Saturday, has given smaller dealerships a chance to see new faces in their galleries.By Scott Reyburn, The New York Times<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/15/arts/design/condo-london.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418077/knyclprzfarydqtwowx0.png"></figure>Legal fight over building the Obama Center in Jackson Park heats&nbsp;upThe battle over locating the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park heated up on Tuesday as opponents argued in federal court briefs that City Hall rigged the deal for what would be the first-ever complex of its kind allowed in a public park in Chicago.By Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun Times<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/legal-fight-over-building-obama-center-jackson-park-heats-up/">Read More</a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: January 22, 2019

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418026/oudvmbyigyd4are9ufeo.gif"><figcaption>Visitors to Hilton | Asmus in River North</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;Art walks have long been popular, since they are an inviting and manageable way to visit galleries and art spaces, usually in a single evening.&nbsp;In 2019 there are lots of local openings and open studio nights happening throughout the city and into the suburbs and beyond.&nbsp;Check out our list below and enjoy a night (or Saturday morning) out with art.&nbsp;Events are listed in order of when they occur (First Friday, 2nd Friday, 3rd Friday, Saturdays, Monthly, Quarterly and so on) and in Chicago, Suburbs and beyond.&nbsp;– CGN Staff&nbsp;CHICAGO&nbsp;• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?district=river-north&amp;filter=openings">River North First Fridays / Openings</a>5–8pm • FreeNew shows generally open Jan 11, Mar 1, May 3, July 12, Sept 6, Nov 1Near Franklin/Superior&nbsp;• <a href="Wickerparkbucktown.com">Flat Iron First Fridays</a>6–10pm • Free1579 N. Milwaukee &nbsp;• <a href="Chicagoartsdistrict.org">Chicago Arts District 2nd Fridays</a>6–10pm • FreeS. Halsted + 18th St. (Pilsen East)&nbsp;• <a href="Fineartsbuildingstudios.com">Fine Arts Building Open Studios</a>2nd Fridays, 5–9pm • Free410 S. Michigan&nbsp;• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/free-cgn-saturday-gallery-tours">River North Saturday Gallery Tours</a>11am–12:30pmDepart from Fabcakes (714 N. Wells)Tours run weekly except major holidays.312-649-0064&nbsp; &nbsp;• <a href="Bridgeportart.com">Bridgeport Art Center 3rd Fridays Open Studios</a>7–10pm Free1200 W. 35th St. &nbsp;• <a href="Bronzevillenights.com">Bronzeville Arts District Trolley Tour</a>3rd FridaysJune–September &nbsp;• <a href="Zhoubartcenter.com">Zhou B Art Center 3rd Fridays, Bridgeport Art Walk</a>7-10pm • Free1029 W. 35th St. • <a href="www.westtownartwalk.com">West Town Art Walk</a>September 27 and 28, 2019 &nbsp;• FreeF 5–8pm + after parties; Sa 12pm-6pmChicago Ave. b/t Milwaukee and Hoyne&nbsp;• <a href="Rivernorthdesigndistrict.com">River North Design District Walk</a>Friday, September 6Multiple receptions take place in select showrooms and galleries outside of the Merchandise Mart &nbsp;SUBURBS&nbsp;• <a href="http://oakparkartsdistrict.com/event-directory-2/">Oak Park Arts District</a> (OPAD)3rd Fridays6–10pm FreeOn Harrison St. &nbsp;• <a href="evanstonmade.org">Evanston Made</a>Visit <a href="evanstonmade.org">evanstonmade.org</a> for a list of event dates in 2019 featuring open studios, art walks and more in Evanston on Chicago’s North Shore. &nbsp;MILWAUKEE&nbsp;• <a href="Historicthirdward.org">Gallery Night and Day</a>Milwaukee, WI – Historic Third WardJan 18 and 19; April 26 and 27; July 19 and 20; Oct 18 and 19F 5–9 and Saturday 10–4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

2019 Art Walks

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418003/pcbqijckqslqwjyibd99.jpg"></figure><h1>Hindman LLC Acquires Leslie Hindman Auctioneers and Cowan's Auctions</h1>The new venture brings together two of America's defining auction firms, uniting a nationwide network of specialists and resources. Born to serve and grow the industry landscape through digital transformation and customer service, Hindman LLC reflects the shared vision of Leslie Hindman and Wes Cowan, the respective founders of each firm.Via PR Newswire<a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hindman-llc-acquires-leslie-hindman-auctioneers-and-cowans-auctions-300775073.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418004/qwuvldpelws77e6kkio6.jpg"></figure><h2>Here Are the Biggest, Splashiest, and Most Anticipated Art Biennials Around the World in 2019</h2>If you want to see the biggest art events around the globe this year, you better save up your frequent flyer miles. This year’s leading biennials, triennials, and other art festivals extend across four continents.By Caroline Goldstein, artnet news<a href="https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/biennials-and-beyond-2019-1430257">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418005/ehxsbpq18l7o4bimnew9.jpg"></figure><h2>James Turrell's Roden Crater project gets $40m funding boost—with a little help from Kanye West</h2>Hope springs eternal that Roden Crater, the extinct volcano in Arizona that <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jspq9twrRo">James Turrell has turned into an evolving masterwork of light</a> and Land Art since the 1970s, will one day be completed. Today (14 January) there were signs that fundraising could be turning a corner.By Nancy Kenney, The Art Newspaper<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/roden-crater-gets-a-boost-from-a-new-partnership-and-usd10m-from-kanye-west">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: January 15, 2019

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417831/bfjdgi8ljow8iignw0lr.png"></figure>&nbsp;My son turned three not long before this publication, also now in its third year, went to print. On a daily basis the unpredictabilty of motherhood, along with running a magazine, keeps me on my toes. I’m always feeling short on time and more than a little overwhelmed. But in both cases year three seems to be pretty great. With each year there are big challenges to meet as well as small accomplishments to savor. The balancing act is worth it – for the obvious joys where my son is concerned, but for CGN I also take a parental pride in being able to develop a valuable resource that encourages people to make art a part of their life and also supports the many creatives throughout our community.This is the third edition of our annual CGN Arts Guide, and as with everything, we strive to make each version better than the one before. In 2019 we welcome 19 galleries and art spaces to these pages – a sign that we are actually sharing more art with our readers than before, even in the middle of a tumultous art climate. We work together to support small and midsize galleries, arts nonprofits and museums, independent artists and many others. So far the hopeful bright spots dispel any shadows of uncertainty. Another thing we know for sure in our third year of publishing this Guide is that, despite the inevitable challenges that keep coming, in order to keep your head above water you must keep moving. Have you ever heard of a three year old who gives up? Three year olds do not sit still. Even as the world frustrates, it beckons.This year’s guide is 164 pages (bigger than the previous two years!) and we have made our maps more comprehensive. We also updated our design to match our new website (see below). Even though we never forget where we started, with so much to discover in our world, it’s great being three. And since my daughter turned five this fall, I know that each year can indeed get better – and maybe even a little easier. &nbsp;&nbsp;– Ginny Van Alyea, CGN Publisher&nbsp;2019 CGN Arts Guide cover artwork: Judy Ledgerwood, Trouble, 2010. Oil and raw pigment on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and Rhona Hoffman Gallery</body></html>

Publisher's Letter – 2019: 3rd Time's the Charm

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417825/htxsfgknhkwc4oxho1ph.jpg"><figcaption>Photo Credit: Museum of Contemporary Art Facebook</figcaption></figure><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>2019 Museum Free Days: The Complete List</h2>&nbsp;While Chicago begins to settle into a solid layer of frost for the winter, the museums are just getting warmed up. Big names and lesser-known galleries alike are opening their doors to the public for a much-needed change of pace. <a href="https://urbanmatter.com/chicago/museum-free-days/">Here’s the complete list of&nbsp;free museum days this winter.</a>By Arniecea Johnson, Urban Matter<a href="https://urbanmatter.com/chicago/museum-free-days/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417826/beeu27po63umuadrqbur.jpg"><figcaption>Installation view of “Martine Syms: Incense Sweaters &amp; Ice” at the Graham Foundation in Chicago, 2018. COURTESY THE ARTIST, BRIDGET DONAHUE, NEW YORK AND SADIE COLES HQ, LONDON/PHOTO: NATHAN KEAY</figcaption></figure><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>Order of Appearance: In Chicago Show, Martine Syms Examines How Blackness Is Performed, Absorbed, and Circulated</h2>&nbsp;Martine Syms, the Los Angeles–based artist and self-proclaimed “conceptual entrepreneur,” has mounted a solo show at the Graham Foundation in Chicago that solidifies her place at the forefront of critical explorations of Black femininity and the presence of Blackness in visual culture.By Amarie Gipson, ARTNEWS<a href="http://www.artnews.com/2019/01/08/order-appearance-chicago-show-martine-syms-examines-blackness-performed-absorbed-circulated/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417827/phwzkzvdb0kediteubv2.jpg"><figcaption>A macaron-making class at the Alliance Française de Chicago. (Bill Hogan / McClatchy-Tribune)</figcaption></figure><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>These 11 cultural centers in Chicago make learning fun</h2>&nbsp;If you’re looking for a fresh way to immerse yourself in the city’s diverse cultural landscape, hit up one of many centers showcasing the multitude of cultures from all over the world that make Chicago, Chicago. These organizations offer cooking workshops, language classes, performances, film screenings, art exhibits and more, allowing you to experience a new culture without having to shell out thousands of dollars for a plane ticket.Read on for 11 cultural centers that make learning fun — whether it’s your own heritage or not.By Aine Dougherty, RedEye via Chicago Tribune<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/redeye/culture/ct-redeye-chicago-international-cultural-centers-20181127-story.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417828/vg0q8msboudnu5x3hfib.jpg"><figcaption>Thomas Miller (1912–1920). 7-Up Cans, c. 1972. Private collection. James Prinz Photography, Chicago.</figcaption></figure><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>A Century of Black Designers Receive Belated Recognition in Chicago</h2>&nbsp;In Chicago, an exhibition is putting a new spotlight on black designers who have contributed to the city's artistic legacy for over a century. As part of Art Design Chicago—a yearlong arts initiative in the Windy City funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Richard H. Driehaus foundation—Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) has spent years amassing research on the city’s legacy of black designers.By Carly Olson, Architectural Digest<a href="https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/african-american-designers-in-chicago-art-design">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: January 8, 2019

<html><head></head><body>By GINNY VAN ALYEAWe have just sent our fabulous 2019 CGN Arts Guide to the printer, and we have been thinking about the year ahead nonstop for weeks now. It's hard to believe that a new year is around the corner already, but as we plan for the wide-open calendar that is the month of January, we are really looking forward to a few key exhibitions and events happening in the coming months.&nbsp;A few highlights are included for you here.&nbsp;Happy planning, and happy new year!&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417815/jd6osqnkwsmfnaui9xc5.jpg"><figcaption>Courtesy Snarkitecture</figcaption></figure>The Beach at Navy PierCreated by New York–based designers, Snarkitecture, The Beach Chicago is an EXPO CHICAGO 2019 program, presented by Navy Pier. Snarkitecture’s work focuses on the reinterpretation of everyday materials within a conceptual approach to create unexpected engagements with our surroundings — centered on the importance of experience, this premise extends to The Beach, an all-white ocean of over one million recyclable, antimicrobial plastic balls in a large, open room along with deck chairs, lifeguard chairs, umbrellas and signage that mimic a day at the beach. This immersive art installation along is surely a creative way to escape the bitter cold Chicago weather this winter.&nbsp;January 19–February 3, 2019&nbsp;Navy Pier, Aon Grand Ballroom&nbsp;Also: January 17 – Snarkitecture free panel discussion before the opening at the <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/panel-discussion-with-snarkitecture">Graham Foundation</a> to discuss The Beach<a href="navypier.org">navypier.org</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417817/r7lyzdv0kia2o4oilznl.gif"><figcaption>Dawoud Bey. Untitled #1 (Picket Fence and Farmhouse), from the series Night Coming Tenderly, Black, 2017. Rennie Collection, Vancouver. © Dawoud Bey. &nbsp;</figcaption></figure>Dawoud Bey: Night Coming Tenderly, BlackAfter Dawoud Bey turned 60, already renowned as a portraitist, he turned his camera on architecture and landscapes; accustomed to urban scenes, he decided to photograph thickets, a picket fence, and Lake Erie. Through these choices Bey wanted to make a greater shift: from pictures of the here and now to the vast, historical subject of the Underground Railroad.&nbsp;Jan 11–Apr 14, 2019 &nbsp;&nbsp;Art Institute of Chicago<a href="artic.edu">artic.edu</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417818/stqnetlyvahz3btlcud6.gif"><figcaption>Laurie Simmons, Walking House, 1989. Pigment print; 84 × 48 in. Photo courtesy of the artist and Salon 94, © Laurie Simmons.</figcaption></figure>Laurie Simmons: Big Camera / Little CameraThe Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago’s major retrospective of works by Laurie Simmons celebrates an artist recognized as a pioneer of new directions in photography. Known for using dolls and props as proxies for people and places, Simmons has long explored archetypal gender roles.Feb 23–May 5, 2019Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA)<a href="mcachicago.org">mcachicago.org</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417818/yvv3swss33v7u6irtwgi.gif"><figcaption>A work by Theaster Gates from 2016's solo show, Heavy Sketches, with Richard Gray Gallery</figcaption></figure>Theaster Gates at Gray WarehouseWe don't have the details yet, but we are excited! Stay tuned.&nbsp;Spring 2019Gray Warehouse<a href="richardgraygallery.com">richardgraygallery.com</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417819/m0zmj7vuxi0sbw3ypxpt.gif"><figcaption>A 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial installation at the Chicago Cultural Center. Photo by: Steve Hall</figcaption></figure>Chicago Architecture Biennial ReturnsThe Chicago Architecture Biennial returns for a 3rd edition in 2019. CAB’s second iteration, in 2017, was the largest architecture and design exhibition in North America, featuring over 140 practitioners from more than 20 countries, and it drew more than 554,000 visitors city–wide.The Biennial will once again coincide with EXPO Chicago, making Chicago the place to be in September.September 19, 2019–January 5, 2020Multiple locations.<a href="chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org">chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417821/cjiegne7y67ezn3b3b3d.gif"><figcaption>Kiki Smith, Seer (Alice II)&nbsp; 2005, Courtesythe artist and Pace Gallery, New York. Part of Sculpture Milwaukee 2018.</figcaption></figure>Sculpture Milwaukee&nbsp;Sculpture Milwaukee has become an annual beacon that attracts spectators and art lovers to the city center for several months each year, taking a world-class art gallery experience and turning it inside out. 2018’s edition showcased 21 works created by 22 artists from around the world.The 2019 version returns this summer throughout downtown Milwaukee. Many works are also for sale, if you have a big enough back yard...Multiple locations.Summer 2019<a href="sculpturemilwaukee.com">sculpturemilwaukee.com</a></body></html>

2019: Not-to-Miss Culture List

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417694/zsckmgrsu0qjjci63v6b.jpg"></figure>Public art grant goes to US city affected by school shootingA $1m grant has been awarded to the Florida city of Coral Springs for public art projects promoting “collective healing and reflection” after last February’s deadly high school shooting in neighbouring Parkland, Bloomberg Philanthropies announced on 20 November.The money, disbursed as part of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ 2018 Public Art Challenge, will go toward workshops and artists’ talks at the Coral Springs Museum of Art as well as five temporary art installations to be placed throughout the two cities.By Nancy Kenney, The Art Newspaper<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/public-art-grant-goes-to-us-cities-affected-by-school-shooting">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417695/qexk5qxbfni1x92uv1kg.jpg"></figure>An Art-Covered Stretch of the Berlin Wall Gains Protection From Encroaching Real Estate DevelopersIt’s probably the brightest wall in Berlin, but it marks a dark past. An art-covered stretch of the Berlin Wall has just gained protected status after real estate developers threatened to close in on the historic monument.Popular with tourists, the colorful three-quarters of a mile section of the wall&nbsp;that divided the German capital from 1961 to 1989 is known as the East Side Gallery.&nbsp;This month, the Berlin Wall Foundation, which runs other memorials to the wall throughout the city, took control of the site, bringing a halt to further real estate development around it.By Kate Brown, Artnet<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/berlin-wall-foundation-east-side-gallery-1401991">Read More</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417696/i4enlcgyr6f04whw6ser.jpg"></figure>The Four Social Classes of the Art WorldChristopher Hitchens used to tell a joke that had an Oxford don asking an American student what he’s studying. “My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United States.” “Oh, really? That’s interesting—one didn’t think there was a class system in the United States.” “Nobody does. That’s how it survives.”The subtlety of class in America has always made it a touchy subject. The topic spurs anxiety, mingling delicate issues of wealth and taste. Because America lacks inherited titles, ranks, and peerages, we instead tend to manufacture class hierarchies within our various subcultures. One subculture where the class hierarchy is on subtle display is in our status-conscious art world…at the ubiquitous art party.By Evan Beard, Artsy<a href="https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-four-social-classes-art">Read More</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417696/ihgcmhe9gukbpykzjw0u.jpg"></figure>Excited for Amazon’s Arrival in Long Island City? The Results for New York’s Art Community Won’t Be PrettyIt <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-chooses-new-york-city-and-northern-virginia-for-additional-headquarters-1542075336?mod=e2tw">appears to be official</a>: Amazon will split its second headquarters between Crystal City, Virginia, and Long Island City, New York. The news, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/05/technology/amazon-second-headquarters-split.html">rumored since last week</a>, has dropped like a concussion grenade.Anyone who sells high-end decor is probably excited by all these moneyed new condo owners. Though they might read <a href="https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/how-artists-can-fight-back-against-cities-that-are-taking-advantage-of-them/Content?oid=20655350">a Jen Graves piece from the Stranger</a>, which had one Seattle art and real estate maven theorizing, “the common Amazonian wants a flat-screen TV”—not art.Alongside all this salivating, though,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/09/tech/amazon-hq2-progressive-backlash/index.html">a chorus</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/09/opinion/amazon-new-york-business.html">of dismay</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-hq2-long-island-city-queens-opinion-2018-11"> and alarm</a> <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/11/9/18067908/amazon-hq-2-new-york-virginia-dc-lic-crystal-city">has already</a> been heard.By Ben Davis Artnet<a href="https://news.artnet.com/opinion/amazon-long-island-city-art-1393072">Read More</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417697/jdyu5nqksbwkzhtlcxip.jpg"></figure>Chicago’s Framing Master Celebrates 40 YearsWhen Jay Goltz decided to start a picture framing business right out of college, his family and friends thought he was wasting his degree. “In 1978, if you called someone an entrepreneur, it was an insult, like a hustler,” Goltz says. In hindsight, he thinks the disdain prepared him for the challenges that lay ahead.Forty years later, Artists Frame Service is the largest framing store in the country and one of a few keeping the art of framing alive. Clybourn Avenue, where Artists Frame Service is headquartered, has even been named Honorary Jay Goltz Way by the city of Chicago.By Amber Gibson, Architectural Digest<a href="https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/artists-frame-services-jay-goltz-chicago-40-years">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417698/nmuek59bwscrba4b9yqv.jpg"><figcaption>Gladys Nilsson</figcaption></figure>Elmhurst College symposium explores Chicago Imagist artistsBold, graphic, irreverent and inspired by pop culture, the work of Chicago Imagist artists includes highly original, personal expressions of the human form. On Dec. 16, Elmhurst College will host The Figure, Humor and the Chicago Imagists, a full-day symposium that explores works by Chicago Imagist artists and highlights the college's extraordinary collection of Imagist art.By Desiree Chen, Daily Herald<a href="https://www.dailyherald.com/submitted/20181120/elmhurst-college-symposium-explores-chicago-imagist-artists">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417699/mhxe8ciujoztkdojjo2g.jpg"></figure>Art authentication is not an exact scienceThe process of art attribution has recently come under attack from all sides. Forgery scandals seem to be rampant... This past January, a Modigliani exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa was forced to close early when it was revealed that nearly all the works were fakes. At the same time, fear of litigation has caused foundations representing Jean-Michel Basquiat, Alexander Calder, Keith Haring, Lee Krasner, Roy Lichtenstein, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol to dissolve their authentication boards. Just when we need them most, art experts find themselves increasingly on the defensive.By Jane Kallir, The Art Newspaper<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/comment/art-authentication-is-not-an-exact-science">Read More</a></body></html>

News From Around the Art World: November 26, 2018

<html><head></head><body><h2>David Hockney Is Now the World’s Most Expensive Living Artist</h2>David Hockney became the most expensive living artist Thursday night when Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) (1972) sold at Christie’s for $80 million at the hammer, or $90.3 million with fees. The work sold for exactly its on-request low estimate after nine minutes of bidding.By Nate Freeman, Artsy Editorial<a href="https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-david-hockney-worlds-expensive-living-artist">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417707/fhpsxgmazwvnclojwkuf.jpg"></figure><h2>At Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, new show looks at artists who moved&nbsp;West</h2>Art history is often presented as a tidy continuum — one movement flowing neatly into the next. But the reality is often much more knotty, as artists switch locales, follow teachers and chase whims. “West By Midwest,” running this weekend through Jan. 27 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, offers a case study in this “complex, even messier alternative,” according to co-organizer Charlotte Ickes.By Kyle MacMillan, Chicago Sun Times<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/west-by-midwest-artists-museum-contemporary-art-chicago-ed-ruscha-sterling-ruby-mike-kelley-exhibitions-visual-arts/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417708/oqazqrsq6geh1mzbwgq6.jpg"></figure><h2>A Picasso Stolen in a Major Heist Six Years Ago Was Found Buried in a Romanian Forest. But It Was All Part of a Prank</h2>A painting by Pablo Picasso stolen in a dramatic heist six years ago has been found buried in a Rotterdam forest. Or, at least, it seemed that way at first. But what appeared to be a cinematic recovery has now been revealed to be a hoax. Two Belgian film directors planted a forged version of the painting—recovered 10 days ago by an expert on the theft—as an elaborate prank.By Kate Brown, artnet news<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/picasso-prank-netherlands-1398631">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417709/vdzp4xjwi2odsixyfvyf.jpg"></figure><h2>Exhibitors see steady sales at the second edition of Puerto Rico's MECA art fair</h2>With hurricane recovery well underway despite many delays, twenty-nine exhibitors—down from just over 30 in 2017—presented at this year's edition of the fair. These included returning New York-based galleries White Columns, 47 Canal and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, as well as newcomers yours mine &amp; ours and Bridget Donahue; Embajada from Puerto Rico; and Casa Quien from the Dominican Republic. “It’s important to support Puerto Rico and there are a lot of artist-run spaces and interesting artists here trying to make change after Maria,” says Patton Hindle, co-founder of yours mine &amp; ours.By Ann Binlot, The Art Newspaper<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/exhibitors-see-steady-sales-puerto-rico-second-edition-of-meca">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: November 20, 2018

By GINNY VAN ALYEA&nbsp;Friday, November 2, 2018 will be a big opening night around the city, as many galleries open major shows that will be their final exhibitions of the year.&nbsp;The busy night also coincides with the 25th edition of SOFA, which takes place on Navy Pier all weekend. Following the end of the fair's show on Friday, art lovers are encouraged to go out into the city's dozens of art spaces to see what is new in area galleries.Per history, it's a big opening night in&nbsp;River North, and more openings are also happening in other city arts districts like West Town&nbsp;neighborhoods. On Saturday, more openings take place in West Town and Ukrainian Village, while several also are planned in Evanston.&nbsp;Our short list of highlights is listed below, and our full calendar may be <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar">viewed&nbsp;here</a>.Note that there are several tours, artist talks and auctions also happening through the weekend, so plan ahead and enjoy these early days of November!&nbsp;Don't forget that CGN has a booth at SOFA too, so stop by and say hi!&nbsp;See you in the galleries!&nbsp;<h3>&nbsp;</h3><h2>FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2</h2>Michael Rakowitz: The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist (Room Z, Northwest Palace of Nimrud)November 2–December at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/michael-rakowitz-the-invisible-enemy-should-not-exist-room-z-northwest-palace-of-nimrud">Rhona Hoffman Gallery</a>Based in Chicago, Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz makes work that explores recent contested social, political, and cultural histories. Drawing on personal experiences and research on these subjects, as well as history and popular culture, Rakowitz creates illustrated objects, installations, and performances that invite viewers to contemplate their complicit relationship to the political world around them, recognizing that hospitality and hostility are interlinked.For this exhibition, the&nbsp;gallery’s architecture has been transformed into the layout of&nbsp;Room Zin King Ashurnasirpal II’s 9th century BC palace&nbsp;(near present-day Mosul in northern Iraq), which stood uncovered as a powerful testament to the Assyrian Golden Age from its 1854 excavation by British archaeologists until its tragic destruction in 2015. Working with a team of assistants, Michael Rakowitz has reconstructed the monumental limestone reliefs that once lined the palace walls with depictions of&nbsp;apkallu&nbsp;or winged guardians with human heads, who hold offerings of pollen and young date fronds, beneath cuneiform extolling the King’s greatness.&nbsp;Room Z&nbsp;appears as it stood at the time of its untimely demise with only seven of thirteen panels present.<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3192/original/mr.gif" alt=""></figure><h3>&nbsp;</h3> &nbsp;Michael Koerner: My DNANovember 2–December 22&nbsp;at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/michael-koerner-my-dna">Catherine Edelman&nbsp;Gallery</a>On August 9, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the town of Nagasaki, a short distance from the home of artist Michael Koerner's mother. The chemical fallout from the bomb instantly killed tens of thousands of people, and left many more reeling from its effects for the rest of their lives. Koerner's family is just one example of the devastation that chemical warfare had during WWII. Koerner&nbsp;(b. Okinawa, Japan, 1963) is the oldest of five brothers. Due to&nbsp;genetic deformities resulting from cancer, he is the only remaining living sibling. His brothers' fates (and potentially his own one day) can be linked to their mother, who was eleven years old on&nbsp;that ill-fated August day and lived in Sasebo, Japan, 45&nbsp;miles away&nbsp;from the blast. With a family history of various cancers, it is no wonder Koerner became an organic chemist, currently teaching at the University of Illinois at&nbsp;Urbana-Champaign.Koerner's 6 x 8" tintypes seduce the viewer with glistening deep blacks, metallic silvers, and odd green, yellow and blue hues, to talk about disease. By blowing through a straw, or dripping chemicals from an eyedropper onto tin plates, Koerner manipulates collodian to create sunbursts, explosions, amorphous shapes, and double helixes, all of which reference his family history.<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3193/original/coronae-9870-2017.gif" alt=""></figure> &nbsp;David Lozano,&nbsp;Madera Picado,Blake Aaseby,&nbsp;Gather RoundJohn Fraser,&nbsp;Found in the MakingNovember 2–December 28&nbsp;at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/david-lozano-blake-aaseby-and-john-fraser">Zolla/Lieberman&nbsp;Gallery</a>The work of three artists will be on view at Zolla/Lieberman in River North, and each artist is focused on materials.&nbsp;Papel Picado is a Mexican Folk Art of cutting decorative paper into cut designs that are then displayed as brightly colored banners. Inspired by this historic practice, David Lozano fashions his Madera (wood) Picado series.Within layers of condensed mapping, Blake Aaseby balances a push and pull of painted planes, documented line-work, and recalled shapes in order to form convoluted re-tellings of past events. His work aims at creating maps to a landscape he finds is both fading and forming, one that rests between the past and present.&nbsp;John Fraser's&nbsp;acrylic/wax on carved wood constructions make for playful material illusions that draw the viewer close, out of a desire to know how something was done, and then make the viewer also step back to behold a new artistic object created from a natural resource.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3194/original/johnfraserpromo-orig.gif" alt=""></figure> &nbsp;Shade Garden: Jessica LabatteNovember 2–December 22 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/shade-garden-jessica-labatte">Western Exhibitions</a>Shade Garden, Jessica Labatte’s second solo exhibition at Western Exhibitions, continues the artist’s explorations of paradoxes and illusions within photographic images.&nbsp;&nbsp;The works in&nbsp;Shade Garden&nbsp;champion beauty in the everyday as a radical political gesture in our contemporary moment. The images explore photographic notions of the visible and invisible, the present and withdrawn.&nbsp;Shade Garden&nbsp;will include two interrelated series of color photographs.The first series is a group of floral still lives. Small and medium sized prints will be installed in a salon fashion in the gallery alongside three monumentally scaled prints. The second series of photographs capture the experience of being in the garden, as color and dappled light are constantly in flux. In these seemingly abstract works, color, light, and shadow explore an imagined virtual space beyond traditional notions of photographic representation.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3195/original/labatte-bleeding-heart-small.jpg" alt=""></figure> &nbsp;Keysook Geum: Moving in ColorsOpening November 2 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/keysook-geum-moving-in-colors">Andrew Bae Gallery</a>Dr. Keysook Geum, known for her delicate and wearable creations,&nbsp;is an author and professor at Hongik University in Seoul, South Korea&nbsp;in the Textile and Fashion Design Department. She had the honor of designing the dresses and uniforms for the&nbsp;Pyeongchang Winter Olympic&nbsp;Games&nbsp;in 2018. Multiple new works will be on view at the gallery and the artist will be present at the opening on November 2.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3200/original/geum.gif" alt=""></figure><h3>&nbsp;</h3>KA-BAM! HOLY MOLY! 70's and 80's Chicago Art from the Lonn Frye CollectionNovember 2–December 29 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/ka-bam-holy-moly-70-s-and-80-s-chicago-art-from-the-lonn-frye-collection">Carl Hammer Gallery</a>A unique look at a host of Imagist works from a private collection will be on view at Carl Hammer in River North, and the opening takes place in conjunction with many other area galleries on November 2.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3196/original/brown-breadbasket-dustbowl.gif" alt=""></figure> &nbsp;On Guard, a group exhibition curated by Kasia KayNovember 2–December 2 at Matthew Rachman Gallery, curated by <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/on-guard-a-group-exhibition-curated-by-kasia-kay">Kasia Kay Art Projects</a>Kasia Kay had a gallery for several years in the Fulton Market district, and today she deals privately and curates pop-up exhibitions. On Guard, a group exhibition will open and be on view at Matthew Rachman Gallery in West Town. On Guard&nbsp;is meant to be a reminder of the courage within all of us and to empower viewers to fight for their rights on both personal and collective levels. The exhibition brings together a group of contemporary artists exploring the sport of boxing in relation to the nature of life that always keeps us on our feet and on guard. While&nbsp;On Guard&nbsp;centers on female-identifying artists, the multifaceted components of their identities and practice are to be present in the exhibition as well. With a multisensory experience that features multidisciplinary works, the show examines not only courage and fears, strength and vulnerability, but also notions of gender equality, safety and violence, as well as the sport’s poetic contradictions, all through traditional and non-traditional depictions of boxing-related imagery.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3197/original/2x1a8390-katya-and-michel-for-emails-.gif" alt=""></figure> &nbsp;<h2>Two ticketed special opening events take place also on Friday evening:&nbsp;</h2>Mansion - A SOFA SoireeNovember 2, 7–9pm&nbsp;at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/mansion-a-sofa-soiree">The Golden Triangle</a> with the River North Design District&nbsp;The&nbsp;Golden Triangle and The River North Design District (RNDD) have partnered&nbsp;with&nbsp;SOFA CHICAGO&nbsp;on Friday, November 2&nbsp;to&nbsp;host&nbsp;The Official SOFA After-Party&nbsp;for the&nbsp;art&nbsp;fair, celebrating its 25th&nbsp;anniversary this year. The private event features 20&nbsp;works from artist Adam Siegel who will debut his new show&nbsp;Archetype: Excavation and Expectation at The Golden Triangle.Guests will enjoy an evening in a private mansion full of art and ancient antiquities and experience global design in an intimate, glamorous, and comfortable setting.&nbsp;The evening is being bill as a secret night of culture, with&nbsp;dance, cool music, performance art, fashion, innovative food and artisanal beverages. Tickets are $35.<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3198/original/asgtnov.gif" alt=""></figure> &nbsp;Annual Fall Show of New Work in LakeviewNovember 2–30 at&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/annual-fall-show-of-new-work">Art De Triumph &amp; Artful Framer Studios</a>Artist Nancie King Mertz hosts a fall party at&nbsp;ArtDeTriumph &amp; Artful Framer Studios&nbsp;on Friday,&nbsp;Nov. 2nd, 5-8pm.Featuring&nbsp;Mertz's&nbsp;new paintings of 2018, complimentary wine and delicious appetizers from Gundis Kurdish Kitchen will be offered. If you book a spot for $25 per person, you will have&nbsp;$25 to spend on cards, coasters, gifts, prints, framing or originals.<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3202/original/mertzfall.gif" alt=""></figure><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h2>SATURDAY NOVEMBER 3</h2>Samira Yamin:&nbsp;Passing Obliquely From One Medium Into AnotherNovember 3–January&nbsp;18 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/samira-yamin-passing-obliquely-from-one-medium-into-another">PATRON</a>PATRON's&nbsp;first solo exhibition with Los Angeles based artist Samira Yamin&nbsp;opens on November 3rd. In a 2012&nbsp;interview with In the Make&nbsp;Yamin explained "On a very basic level, I’m drawn to images of the Middle East because I know they in some way represent me to myself, or at least they’re representations against which I’ve constructed my identity." Yamin's&nbsp;parents left Iran in 1982, not long after the Iranian Revolution, and just as the Iran-Iraq war was beginning. She also said, "I think of my work as an interrogation of photojournalism, so yes, absolutely. I want my work to create, or reveal, or emphasize tension at various points in the life of the image."<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3204/original/patrongallery-3778-1540877959.gif" alt=""></figure> &nbsp;Greg Gossel: Labor of LoveNovember 3–24 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/greg-gossel-labor-of-love">Vertical Gallery&nbsp;</a>Gossel has a background in design, and his work is an expressive interplay of many diverse words, images, and gestures. Gossel’s multi-layered work illustrates a visual history of change and process that simultaneously features and condemns popular culture. His work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and abroad, including Japan, London, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Copenhagen, and Chicago. His commercial clients include American Express, Levi’s, Burton Snowboards, Stussy, VICE Magazine, and Interscope Records.<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3201/original/greg-gossel-hello-and-goodbye-8-44x33-vertical-gallery-1024x1024.gif" alt=""></figure> &nbsp;Top of page image: Michael Koerner,&nbsp;Finger Prints #6191, 2018, from the&nbsp;Finger Prints&nbsp;series,&nbsp;6 x 8" collodion on tin, Unique

A summary of openings taking place in Chicago in early November 2018

November Openings Preview

By GINNY VAN ALYEAWhen I used to lead introductory&nbsp;tours of SOFA,&nbsp;there were some general points I always wanted to leave my group with as they headed out on their own to explore what can be an overwhelming and overstimulating art fair.&nbsp;There is so much to see and take in, that at some point your senses might not be able to handle it! Having a&nbsp;few key things in mind as you wander nearly 80 booths can help you manage the visual binge.While SOFA has made its name by&nbsp;being&nbsp;focused on the same part of the contemporary art market&nbsp;for two and a half decades, it has also evolved to welcome in new perspectives from the art world. Mostly SOFA is dedicated to Sculptural Objects and Functional Art - basically, sculpture and 3D works, but today&nbsp;there is more design on view than ever, which makes sense with SOFA's functional directive, and there is also more 2D work that shows up from time to time, offering, for example,&nbsp;a clever play on painting objects that may in fact by sculptural.&nbsp;This brief, and hopefully handy, overview of what's on view at SOFA this year in the gallery booths should help you see some of the show's hallmarks and come away with an understanding of what makes SOFA a different kind of contemporary art fair all together.Of course, once you go see it all for yourself, you can decide what makes SOFA unique.&nbsp;Complete information may be found at <a href="http://www.sofaexpo.com/">www.sofaexpo.com</a> &nbsp;GLASSGlass is what SOFA is most known for, even though it's not what dominates the fair. However, there's no denying that a visit to SOFA will offer an encounter with lions like Dale Chihuly as well as Lino Tagliapietra (after 16 years with CGN I can say that name four times fast!) &nbsp;The mezmerizing, traveling Hot Glass Show&nbsp;by Corning is also a not-to-be-missed chance&nbsp;to learn about the science and technology behind innovations in glass through live, narrated glassmaking demonstrations, offered all day at the fair.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3176/original/3.gif" alt=""></figure> &nbsp;<h3>&nbsp;</h3>CERAMICCeramic art at SOFA take so many forms. I'm always so taken in by porcelain because even though it's so delicate it can take on so many shapes.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3177/original/ceramic.gif" alt=""></figure> &nbsp;TEXTURE + TECHNIQUESo much of what's at SOFA is about contemporary art but it also references craft and decorative techniques from history, such as basket weaving and other functional arts.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3179/original/1.gif" alt=""></figure> &nbsp;MATERIALSSo much of an artist's challenge is working with various materials, and at SOFA this is always abundantly on view. Artists must figure out how to manipulate and work within a certain medium and then determine how a work can be displayed and enjoyed.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3180/original/6.gif" alt=""></figure>ILLUSIONThis is one of my favorite things about the art at SOFA - so much of it is created just to be visually appreciated and marvelled at. Visitors to the fair spend a lot of time trying to just figure out, 'How did they do that?'<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3182/original/larger-1.gif" alt=""></figure><figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3183/original/larger-2.gif" alt=""></figure> &nbsp;Top image: Kate Tremel,&nbsp;Lacey, 2018,&nbsp;Ceramic,&nbsp;19 × 20 × 20";&nbsp;unique,&nbsp;Steidel Contemporary

A SOFA Scavenger Hunt

By GINNY VAN ALYEA

At EXPO CHICAGO last weekend, I realized that it was a year ago that we started first hearing about Art Design Chicago&#39;s many plans for 2018. What began as a clever, interactive marketing campaign spearheaded by the smart-pants creatives at Leo Burnett, has grown into a smart and engaging lineup of collaborative&nbsp;public programming that has lasted all year long.

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Now that we find ourselves in October already, &nbsp;and we long-ago solved those marketing teases we first saw at EXPO in 2017,&nbsp;we can&#39;t overlook all there is still to do, thanks to ADC.&nbsp;This month alone there is a&nbsp;full slate to experience, as&nbsp;six&nbsp;new exhibitions&nbsp;open at cultural institutions across the city and beyond, exploring topics such as&nbsp;product design,&nbsp;mid-century art deco,&nbsp;Chicago bicycle culture, and much more.

Some upcoming exhibition and event highlights are listed below. Go check these amazing shows out soon. As indicated by the Smart Museum&#39;s current Art Design Chicago exhibition title, the time is now!&nbsp;

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<h4>October 13:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artdesignchicago.org/events/diasporal-rhythms-2018-collectors-home-tours">Diasporal Rhythms Home Tour</a></h4>

Take a peek inside the homes of collectors of artworks by members of the African Diaspora. Chicago-based artists include Juarez Hawkins, Marva Lee Pitchford Jolly, Faheem Majeed, Joyce Owens, Felicia Grant Preston, and more.&nbsp;

<h4><img alt="" data-caption="D.E. Simmons Collection. Photo by Isadore Howard." data-rich-file-id="3082" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3082/original/simmons-2.jpg" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; text-transform: none;" /></h4>

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<h4>October 17:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artdesignchicago.org/events/music-at-the-1893-world-s-fair?utm_source=Art+Design+Chicago+%28MASTER%29&amp;utm_campaign=78ed7af0b1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_14_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_9706030fea-78ed7af0b1-109297297">Music at the 1893 World&#39;s Fair</a></h4>

What role did music play at the World&rsquo;s Columbian Exposition of 1893? Stop by the Newberry Library (it just completed a major renovation!)&nbsp;for a special musical performance featuring original compositions written for and performed at the Fair in the late 19th century, then stroll through the accompanying exhibition&nbsp;Pictures from an Exposition: Visualizing the 1893 World&#39;s Fair.

<img alt="" data-caption="“Harmony Reigns at the World’s Fair,” from Puck Magazine, 1893" data-rich-file-id="3080" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3080/original/music.jpg" />

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<h4><a href="https://www.artdesignchicago.org/events/up-is-down-mid-century-experiments-in-advertising-and-film-at-the-goldsholl-studio">Block Cinema Film Series</a></h4>

The Block Museum of Art offers a film series showcasing the artistry of the Chicago design firm Goldsholl &amp; Associates, including screenings of mid-century film experiments and advertising campaigns, &aacute; la&nbsp;Mad Men.&nbsp;

In the 1950s, Chicago-based design firm Goldsholl Design Associates made a name for itself with innovative &quot;designs-in-film.&quot; Headed by Morton and Millie Goldsholl, the studio produced television spots, films, trademarks, corporate identities, and print advertisements for international corporations like Kimberly-Clark, Motorola, and 7-Up. Although they were compared to some of the most celebrated design firms of the day, the Goldsholls and their designers are relatively unknown today. Opening in September 2018, the Block Museum&rsquo;s exhibition&nbsp;Up is Down: Mid-Century Experimentation in Advertising and Film at the Goldsholl Studio&nbsp;reexamines the innovative work of Goldsholl and Associates and its national impact.

<img alt="" data-caption="Goldsholl Design Associates, Still from Kimberly-Clark Corporation Kleenex X-Periments: Sneeze, c. 1960. Chicago Film Archives." data-rich-file-id="3084" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3084/original/block.jpg" />

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<h4><a href="https://www.artdesignchicago.org/events/africobra-50?utm_source=Art+Design+Chicago+%28MASTER%29&amp;utm_campaign=78ed7af0b1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_14_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_9706030fea-78ed7af0b1-109297297">AfriCOBRA 50</a></h4>

At Kavi Gupta Gallery, through November 24 at the gallery&#39;s 219 N Elizabeth St. location.

AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists) is the influential black artist collective that defined the visual aesthetic of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 70s. In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of its founding in Chicago, this exhibition presents works by the five original members&mdash;Gerald Williams, Wadsworth Jarrell, Jae Jarrell, Jeff Donaldson, and Barbara Jones-Hogu&mdash;as well as a select group of their peers.

<img alt="" data-caption="Wadsworth Jarrell, Steel Square, 1995. Courtesy of the artist and Kavi Gupta." data-rich-file-id="3085" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3085/original/africobra.jpg" />

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<h4><a href="https://www.artdesignchicago.org/events/break-a-rule-ed-paschke-s-art-and-teaching?utm_source=Art+Design+Chicago+%28MASTER%29&amp;utm_campaign=78ed7af0b1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_14_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_9706030fea-78ed7af0b1-109297297">Break A Rule: Ed Paschke&rsquo;s Art and Teaching</a></h4>

Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University,&nbsp;now through December 9.

Ed Paschke is celebrated as one of the leading Chicago Imagists, a group of artists who emerged in the late 1960s with an expressive style of figurative painting rooted in Surrealism, outsider art, and popular culture. Less is known of his almost 30 years teaching art and artists at Northwestern University. This show celebrates his legacy as an educator with artworks by Paschke alongside his teaching material from the Northwestern University Archives and generous loans from Marc and Sharon Paschke. &nbsp;

<img alt="" data-caption="Ed Paschke, Ponderosa [detail], 1991, Color lithograph on paper, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, 1995.5" data-rich-file-id="3086" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3086/original/resize.jpg" />

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<h4><a href="https://www.artdesignchicago.org/events/yasuhiro-ishimoto-someday-chicago?utm_source=Art+Design+Chicago+%28MASTER%29&amp;utm_campaign=78ed7af0b1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_14_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_9706030fea-78ed7af0b1-109297297">Yasuhiro Ishimoto: SomedaY Chicago</a></h4>

At DePaul Art Museum,&nbsp;now through December 16

Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Someday, Chicago&nbsp;examines the work of American-born photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto (1921&ndash;2012) through the lens of Chicago, where Ishimoto lived for nearly a decade and where he would continue to return throughout his life. Celebrated by many as one of the most influential photographers of Japan in the 20th century, Ishimoto also maintained deep ties to his adopted home city where he arrived in 1945 after having been interned during World War II. It was in Chicago that he first developed his uniquely modernist vision&mdash;both at the historic Institute of Design (ID) in dialogue with L&aacute;szl&oacute; Moholy-Nagy, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and other teachers there; and in the city&rsquo;s streets, where he captured changes reflective of broader societal shifts happening across the United States.

<img alt="" data-caption="Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Untitled, Chicago (El Over River), c. 1950. Silver gelatin print. Image: 7 1/4 in x 10 in. Collection of DePaul Art Museum, Gift of Stephen Daiter." data-rich-file-id="3083" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3083/original/2012-57-original.jpg" />

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<h4><a href="https://www.artdesignchicago.org/events/hairy-who-1966-1969?utm_source=Art+Design+Chicago+%28MASTER%29&amp;utm_campaign=78ed7af0b1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_14_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_9706030fea-78ed7af0b1-109297297">Hairy Who? 1966&ndash;1969</a></h4>

Art Institute of Chicago, now through January 6

The Art Institute of Chicago presents the first major exhibition dedicated solely to the groundbreaking Hairy&nbsp;Who. This&nbsp;self-named, self-organized group of six artists&mdash;Jim Falconer, Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Suellen Rocca, and Karl&nbsp;Wirsum&mdash;all came of age in Chicago, graduated from the School of the Art Institute, and began exhibiting at the Hyde Park Art Center in&nbsp;the late 1960s. Presented on the 50th anniversary of their final Chicago show, The Art Institute&rsquo;s major survey exhibition and publication feature key works as&nbsp;well as archival ephemera contextualizing the group&rsquo;s creative process, working methods, and the social and political milieu in which they made their art.

<img alt="" data-caption="Karl Wirsum, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, 1968. The Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize Fund, 1969.248" data-rich-file-id="3089" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3089/original/sreamin-jay-hawkins.jpg" />

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<h4><a href="https://www.artdesignchicago.org/events/the-figure-and-the-chicago-imagists-selections-from-the-elmhurst-college-art-collection?utm_source=Art+Design+Chicago+%28MASTER%29&amp;utm_campaign=78ed7af0b1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_14_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_9706030fea-78ed7af0b1-109297297">The Figure and the Chicago Imagists: Selections from the Elmhurst College Art Collection</a></h4>

Elmhurst Art Museum, now through&nbsp;January 13, 2019

Over and over the Chicago Imagists cast the figure in numerous roles, distorting it and layering it with metaphor and personal meaning. Outrageous, irreverent, and humorous and inspired by popular culture, these works reflect highly original expressions of the human form.

This exhibition features the Elmhurst College Art Collection, focused on artists working in Chicago between about 1950 and the present. The exhibition is curated by Suellen Rocca, one of the original members of the prominent Imagist group known as the Hairy Who and Curator and Director of Exhibitions at Elmhurst College.

<img alt="" data-caption="Barbara Rossi, Shep Step II, 1973. Acrylic on Plexiglas, 29 x 23 inches. Elmhurst College Art Collection." data-rich-file-id="3087" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3087/original/rossi-shep-step-ii-web-version.jpg" />

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<h4><a href="https://www.artdesignchicago.org/events/the-time-is-now-art-worlds-of-chicago-s-south-side-1960-1980?utm_source=Art+Design+Chicago+%28MASTER%29&amp;utm_campaign=78ed7af0b1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_14_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_9706030fea-78ed7af0b1-109297297">The Time Is Now! Art Worlds of Chicago&rsquo;s South Side, 1960&ndash;1980</a></h4>

Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, now through December 30

During the 1960s and 1970s, Chicago was shaped by art and ideas produced and circulated on the South Side. Yet the history of the period&#39;s creative and social ferment has often remained segregated by the city&rsquo;s social, political, and geographic divides.

The Time Is Now!&nbsp;takes a nuanced look at the cultural history of Chicago&rsquo;s South Side during this momentous era of change and conflict, with a focus on artists of the Black Arts Movement. Through nearly 100 objects, the show upends dominant narratives of the period and unearths rich stories by examining watershed cultural moments from the Hairy Who to the&nbsp;Wall of Respect, from the Civil Rights movement to the AfriCOBRA, from vivid protest posters to visionary outsider art, and from the Free University movement to the radical jazz of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.

<img alt="" data-caption="Gerald Williams, Messages, 1970, Acrylic on canvas. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Purchase, The Paul and Miriam Kirkley Fund for Acquisitions, 2017.8." data-rich-file-id="3088" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3088/original/smart-williams-2017-0008p.jpg" />

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<h4><a href="https://www.artdesignchicago.org/events/living-architecture?utm_source=Art+Design+Chicago+%28MASTER%29&amp;utm_campaign=78ed7af0b1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_14_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_9706030fea-78ed7af0b1-109297297">Living Architecture</a></h4>

Thru&nbsp;December 23, 2018 at 6018North

Chicago has long served as a hub where creative people of different cultures, customs, and perspectives collide and converge.&nbsp;Living Architecture&nbsp;is a timely, large-scale multidisciplinary exhibition that showcases the work of over 50 Chicago contemporary immigrant artists. Located at 6018North, a historical home in the Edgewater community built and designed by immigrants, the exhibition draws from Chicago&rsquo;s rich heritage of immigrant artists&rsquo; work to highlight the continuous influence of immigrants in shaping visual culture locally and nationally.

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<h4><a href="https://www.artdesignchicago.org/events/between-the-buildings-art-from-chicago-1930s-1980s?utm_source=Art+Design+Chicago+%28MASTER%29&amp;utm_campaign=78ed7af0b1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_14_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_9706030fea-78ed7af0b1-109297297">Between the Buildings: Art from Chicago, 1930s&ndash;1980s</a></h4>

Krannert Art Museum,&nbsp;University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,&nbsp;thru&nbsp;March 23, 2019

Coined by art writers and critics in the mid- to late-twentieth century, the so-called Chicago School consisted of two groups of artists&mdash;the Monster Roster and the Imagists. These artists diverged from the broader mid-century trend toward abstraction and were largely ignored or dismissed by critics in New York, who were defining the canon of modernism. However, what happens when the categorization and labeling of a group of artists is unwanted or contested? This exhibition considers the problematic nature of art historical categories and explores what other stories are missed by perpetuating a single narrative. Between the Buildings&nbsp;also reflects Krannert Art Museum&rsquo;s strong collection of works by Chicago-based artists developed by former director Stephen Prokopoff (1983&ndash;1991).

<img alt="" data-caption="Allen Stringfellow, Street Smarts II, ca. 1990s. Collage and watercolor on paper. Krannert Art Museum. Gift of John and Dorothy Gardner." data-rich-file-id="3081" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3081/original/kam-stringfellow-full.jpg" />

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Highlights of Art Design Chicago October 2018

Art Design Chicago's Busy October

<h2>What Sold at Expo Chicago</h2>

On most occasions, art fairs feel like their own little worlds&mdash;festive bubbles cocooned in the thick walls of climate-controlled convention centers, humming on coffee and champagne, impervious to natural light and whatever is happening in the real world.

By Anna Louie Sussman, Artsy

<a href="https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-sold-expo-chicago-10-01-18">Read More</a>

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<h2>Art on theMart kicks off with a really big-screen question: Is Chicago ready for video art?</h2>

Art on theMart, in the inaugural showing of what is being pitched as a three-decade, ongoing public art work, showed itself to be surreal, populist, inscrutable, obvious, confounding and engaging Saturday before a crowd that included city bigwigs down on the Riverwalk and thousands of Chicagoans up on the closed-off Wacker Drive.

By Steve Johnson, Chicago Tribune

<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-art-on-themart-launch-1001-story.html">Read More</a>

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<h2>Art helps bring a divided Chicago neighborhood together</h2>

Their task was to learn about one another &mdash; and differences surfaced quickly. An African American boy from a public school pulled up a pant leg to show where a bullet had pierced his calf. His partner, a white boy who attends a private school and lives three blocks away, was shocked and saddened. The 40 or so kids who had gathered found common ground, too: a love of family, sports, animals and video games; a wish to succeed.

By&nbsp;Associated Press, via The Washington Post

<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/art-helps-bring-a-divided-chicago-neighborhood-together/2018/09/28/60f37ccc-c1b1-11e8-b338-a3289f6cb742_story.html?utm_term=.f6e8b3b9ea2b">Read More</a>

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<h2>When Auctioneers Don&rsquo;t Know or Can&rsquo;t See Their Buyers</h2>

Live online bidding came to some of the major fine art auction houses about a decade ago, but it was not until about five years ago that it became commonplace for auction sales. Today, it is a fundamental part of how auctions work, said Jussi Pylkkanen, global president of Christie&rsquo;s and an auctioneer.

By&nbsp;Nina Siegal, The New York Times

<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/arts/auctions-live-online-bidding.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=arts&amp;region=stream&amp;module=stream_unit&amp;version=latest&amp;contentPlacement=3&amp;pgtype=sectionfront">Read More</a>

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News from Around the Art World: October 2nd, 2018

A summary of local Chicago highlights at EXPO CHICAGO 2018 

Spotlight on Chicago Galleries at EXPO

<h2>Art Gallery by Tadao Ando Set to Open October 12 in Chicago</h2>

A stunning new space for art will open in Chicago next month. Wrightwood 659 is Tadao Ando&rsquo;s second project in the city for the same client. The 35,000-square-foot gallery is located just a few doors down from the Pritzker laureate&rsquo;s first project, a house for media mogul and philanthropist Fred Eychaner&nbsp;completed twenty years ago in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. While the house was the Japanese architect&rsquo;s first free-standing building in the United States, Wrightwood 659 is a conversion of a four-story 1920&rsquo;s apartment building.

By Josephine Minutillo, Architectural Record

<a href="https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13629-art-gallery-by-tadao-ando-set-to-open-october-12-in-chicago">Read More</a>

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<h2>Chicago resurrects its master craftsman</h2>

With their striking wealth of detail&mdash;stained-glass windows with frolicking animals, wood incised with geometric patterns, classical bas-reliefs, brick studded with tile&mdash;Edgar Miller&rsquo;s riotously decorated artists&rsquo; studios in Chicago have earned comparisons with landmarks such as Simon Rodia&rsquo;s Watts Towers in south Los Angeles or Antoni Gaud&iacute;&rsquo;s Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona. Yet Miller (1899-1993) has been largely overlooked in US architectural history.

By Nancy&nbsp;Kenney, The Art Newspaper

<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/chicago-resurrects-its-master-craftsman">Read More&nbsp;</a>

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<h2>&lsquo;3-D Doings: The Imagist Object in Chicago Art, 1964-1980&rsquo; Review: A Celebration of the Weird</h2>

&lsquo;Weird&rdquo; is a word&nbsp;that&rsquo;s lost a lot of currency over the past couple of decades. Things that used to mark a person as someone who played outside the lines&mdash;tattoos, facial piercings, and clothes that make wearers look as if they&rsquo;d just escaped a burning building&mdash;now wax normal. Even the official slogan of the Independent Business Alliance of Texas&rsquo; capital city is &ldquo;Keep Austin Weird.&rdquo;

By&nbsp;Peter Plagens, The Wall Street Journal

<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/3-d-doings-the-imagist-object-in-chicago-art-1964-1980-review-a-celebration-of-the-weird-1537302109">Read More</a>

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<h2>Want to Get Rich Buying Art? Invest in Women</h2>

Once, when asked about discrimination against female artists, the Abstract Expressionist Lee Krasner said the bias was as old as Judeo-Christian history. Brushing aside the weight of that realization, she added, &ldquo;There&rsquo;s nothing I can do about those 5,000 years.&rdquo;&nbsp;She painted anyway, as have women throughout the ages who have continued to create despite official disdain.&nbsp;Centuries and decades later, it seems their persistence may be finally paying off.

By&nbsp;Mary Gabriel, The New York Times

<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/opinion/want-to-get-rich-buying-art-invest-in-women.html">Read More</a>

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News from Around the Art World: September 25, 2018

By GINNY VAN ALYEA

Since EXPO CHICAGO is opening a little later in the month than usual this year, we have been looking forward to it a little bit longer. 

Built around&nbsp;rigorous and challenging programming,&nbsp;strategic international partnerships and&nbsp;strong institutional relationships with major local museums and organizations, the opening of EXPO CHICAGO launches the international fall art season, making Chicago&nbsp;the&nbsp;place to be in September. In addition to heralding the opening of the fair, EXPO ART WEEK&#39;s extensive programming, thanks in large part this year to the efforts and support of Art Design Chicago, is highly anticipated, and there are more shows to see and events to attend than there are hours in the week.&nbsp;

We recently plucked some <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2018/9/see-you-soon-expo-chicago">art highlights</a> to watch for from the fair, and here we share&nbsp;some key events to watch this week, as well as highlights from EXPO&#39;s special programs and a list of notable exhibitors.&nbsp;

From city-wide openings to a marathon interview session to notable book signings and art that&#39;s as big as the Merchandise Mart, there is a lot to take in.

Check out&nbsp;<a href="http://expochicago.com">expochicago.com</a>&nbsp;for the complete guide. 

Our&nbsp;CGN&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar">Arts Calendar</a>&nbsp;is also full of EXPO events, new gallery and museum exhibitions, and much more.&nbsp;Visit the CGN booth at the west end of the show floor to find out about more art events in the area all year long,&nbsp;as well as to&nbsp;say hi and&nbsp;pick up a copy of our CGN Arts Guide and our Fall 2018 magazine.

We look forward to EXPO all year. 

&ndash; See you in the galleries, and at the fair!

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<h3>EXPO CHICAGO FAIR HOURS + BASIC INFORMATION</h3>

VERNISSAGE&nbsp;-&nbsp;Purchase Tickets&nbsp;<a href="https://mcachicago.org/Calendar/2018/09/Vernissage#_ga=2.64153327.1303040742.1537506197-813855648.1537506197">Here</a> 
&bull;&nbsp;Thursday, Sept 27,&nbsp;5-9pm at Navy Pier 
A benefit for the Museum of&nbsp;Contemporary Art Chicago,&nbsp;presented by the MCA Women&#39;s Board.&nbsp;

GENERAL ADMISSION&nbsp;-&nbsp;Purchase Tickets&nbsp;<a href="https://www.expochicago.com/tickets">Here</a> 
&bull;&nbsp;Friday, Sept 28, 11a-7p 
&bull;&nbsp;Saturday, Sept 29, 11a-7p 
&bull;&nbsp;Sunday, Sept 30, 11a-6p

EXPO CHICAGO takes place&nbsp;at Chicago&#39;s historic&nbsp;Navy Pier in the Festival Hall:&nbsp;600 E Grand Ave,&nbsp;Chicago (60611)

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<h3>Notable Exhibitors in 2018</h3>

EXPO features a growing list of exhibiting galleries from around the world. Some participants to watch for from outside of Chicago include:

&bull; Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco 
&bull; DC Moore Gallery, New York 
&bull; GRIMM, Amsterdam, New York 
&bull; Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York 
&bull; Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, Z&uuml;rich 
&bull; Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York 
&bull; Anton Kern Gallery, New York 
&bull; L&eacute;vy Gorvy, New York 
&bull; Luhring Augustine, New York, Brooklyn 
&bull; Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles, New York 
&bull; Gallery Momo, Cape Town, Johannesburg 
&bull; Nahmad Projects, London 
&bull; Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco 
&bull; GALERIA KARLA OSORIO, Brasilia/DF 
&bull; Perrotin, New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo 
&bull; P.P.O.W, New York 
&bull; Galerie RX, Paris 
&bull; Eduardo Secci&nbsp;, Florence 
&bull; Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco 
&bull; Sims Reed Gallery, London 
&bull; Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, Singapore, Hong Kong 
&bull; Templon, Paris, Brussels 
&bull; Pavel Zoubok Fine Art, New York

To see the complete list of all galleries exhibiting at EXPO CHICAGO click&nbsp;<a href="https://www.expochicago.com/exhibitors">here</a>.

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<h3>Special Programming Highlights</h3>

In addition to seeing the world&#39;s top galleries under one room, EXPO offers opportunities to connect with the international art community through unique programming.&nbsp;

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<h3>&bull;&nbsp;/DIALOGUES</h3>

Presented in partnership with the&nbsp;School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), offers panel discussions, conversations and provocative artistic discourse with leading artists, curators, designers and arts professionals on the current issues that engage them. The 2018 program&nbsp;includes an onsite panel and performance at the&nbsp;U.S. Pavilion&nbsp;of the&nbsp;16th Architecture Biennale in Venice, and&nbsp;the third annual /Dialogues Symposium,&nbsp;Present Histories: Art &amp; Design in Chicago, tracing select art and design legacies produced in the city, taking place during EXPO CHICAGO in conjunction with the&nbsp;Terra Foundation for American Art&rsquo;s initiative&nbsp;Art Design Chicago.

SEPT 28, 4:00PM &ndash; ALTERITY AND THE EXHIBITION ENVIRONMENT: FEMINIST HISTORY OF ALTERNATIVE SPACES IN CHICAGO&nbsp;

Alternative spaces are often discussed within the canon of Chicago&rsquo;s exhibition history. Yet, these spaces also played a parallel role in the activities that defined feminist art and social practice in the city&rsquo;s scene. In her chapter for the newly launched book&nbsp;Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now,&nbsp;author Jenni Sorkin delivers a survey of communal alternative exhibition spaces from 1973 to 1993 as they built momentum in Chicago alongside the commercial gallery system and during the women&#39;s movement. The panel features Lynne Warren, Mary Patten,&nbsp;Kay Rosen, and Torkwase Dyson.&nbsp;This conversation will trace the histories and roles of feminism in Chicago&#39;s alternative spaces from the 1970s to the present.&nbsp;Torkwase Dyson, on view at Rhona Hoffman Gallery, will align with EXPO ART WEEK.

<img alt="" data-caption="US Pavilion: Dimensions of Citzenship at Biennale Architettura 2018" data-rich-file-id="3005" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3005/original/venice.jpg" />

SEPT 29, 2:00&ndash;3:00PM &ndash; DIMENSIONS OF CITIZENSHIP &mdash; US PAVILION&nbsp;

How do we visualize belonging? Tracing the responsibility of the architect and the artist to depict not only flows of data, but also manifestations of glitches or abstractions, this discussion will examine the role of representation as an agent to reveal truth. Moderated by Mimi Zeiger, Co-Curator of the US Pavilion, this panel will be hosted within the context of the exhibition at the Venice Biennale for Architecture, entitled Dimensions of Citizenship.&nbsp;Presented in partnership with CULTURED Magazine, and co-commissioners of the US Pavilion the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago.&nbsp;Followed by a book signing.

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<h3>&bull;&nbsp;IN/SITU</h3>

Installed within the expansive, vaulted architecture of Navy Pier&rsquo;s Festival Hall,&nbsp;IN/SITU&nbsp;features large-scale, suspended sculptures and site-specific works. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Curator at large, Latin America&nbsp;Pablo Le&oacute;n de la Barra&nbsp;curates a selection of works featuring artists from leading international exhibitors participating in the 2018&nbsp;exposition.&nbsp;

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<img alt="" data-caption="Iván Navarro. Metal Electric Chair, 2017" data-rich-file-id="3007" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3007/original/navarro.jpg" />

Iv&aacute;n Navarro.&nbsp;Metal Electric Chair, 2017 &ndash;&nbsp;Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

Iv&aacute;n Navarro was born in 1972 in Santiago, Chile, to a family of artists. What Navarro remembers most about his childhood growing up under the regime of General Augusto Pinochet, was the fear of being &ldquo;disappeared,&rdquo; as many political dissidents were. In order to better understand this dark history, Navarro uses light &mdash; a symbol of hope and truth &mdash; as his medium. Navarro uses electric light as his primary medium, making politically charged sculptures and installations that address the violence inflicted by the Chilean state.&nbsp;With their ambient glow, the works are seductive, and yet with the live current coursing through them, they are admittedly unnerving.&nbsp;

Navarro&#39;s&nbsp;This Land is Your Land, (2014), Paul Kasmin Gallery is also on view at the top of the pier outdoors in Polk Bros. Park as part of IN/SITU OUTSIDE.

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Judy Chicago.&nbsp;Cartoon for The Fall from the Holocaust Project, 1987 &ndash;&nbsp;Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco and Salon 94, New York

The Fall is a visual narrative tracing artist Judy Chicago&rsquo;s discovery that the Holocaust grew out of the very &#39;fabric&#39; of Western Civilization, hence the use of tapestry for this work, is the full scale &#39;cartoon&#39; (based on the Italian word &#39;cartoni,&#39; a detailed painting for tapestry). The Fall introduces Chicago&rsquo;s longstanding and formative series the Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light (1985&ndash;93) through a narrative that traces the battle between the Amazons and the giants, based on the Pergammon Altar, through the rise of patriarchal religions and their imposition through force.&nbsp;

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<h3>&bull; Book Signings&nbsp;&ndash; Highlights:</h3>

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SEPT 28,&nbsp;5:00PM &ndash; BOOK LAUNCH:&nbsp;ART IN CHICAGO: A HISTORY FROM THE FIRE TO NOW

Edited by Maggie Taft and Robert Cozzolino,&nbsp;Art in Chicago&nbsp;is a magisterial account of the long history of Chicago art, from the rupture of the Great Fire in 1871 to the present. The first single-volume history of art and artists in Chicago, the book&mdash;in recognition of the complexity of the story it tells&mdash;presents an overlapping sequence of interrelated narratives that together tell a full and nuanced, yet wholly accessible history of visual art in the city.&nbsp;

Funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art, this newly launched book will be available for purchase and&nbsp;signing&nbsp;through the University of Chicago Press.&nbsp;Book price: $65. Location: /Dialogues Stage&nbsp;

SEPT 29,&nbsp;3:00PM &ndash; BOOK SIGNING,&nbsp;DIRK DENISON 10 HOUSES

Architect and educator Dirk Denison reflects on the diverse influences that have shaped his practice over 30 years in a volume featuring 10 remarkable houses designed in a broad range of modernist vocabularies&mdash;each finely tuned to its site and occupants. Taking the form of an in-depth conversation between architect and educator Dirk Denison and journalist Fred A. Bernstein, this volume chronicles Denison&rsquo;s childhood in Detroit, travels and early encounters with the arts and architecture, and his education at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. A perceptive interlocutor, Bernstein deftly draws upon Denison&rsquo;s own insights into how these experiences have influenced his aesthetic sensibilities, design philosophy, and working processes over 30 years of collaborative practice. For design professionals and students of architecture,&nbsp;Dirk Denison 10 Houses&nbsp;draws attention to the manifold ways in which life experiences at all scales nurture and shape a career in the field. More broadly, this book is an engaging read for anyone interested in the gratifying process of conceptualizing and building one&rsquo;s own home. Book price: $44.95. Location: /Dialogues Stage

SEPT 30,&nbsp;3:00PM &ndash;&nbsp;DAWOUD BEY: SEEING DEEPLY

With images ranging from Harlem in the 1970s and 2000s, to photographs that commemorate the 1963 Birmingham church bombing, this volume offers a forty-year career retrospective of the MacArthur &quot;Genius Grant&quot; award-winning photographer Dawoud Bey. An introduction by scholar and curator Sarah Lewis, and essays by noted art historians, scholars, and educators&mdash;including Hilton Als, Maurice Berger, Jacqueline Terrassa, David Travis, Leigh Raiford, and Deborah Willis&mdash;examines Bey&rsquo;s evolving practice. An illustrated Chronology documents Bey&rsquo;s diverse New York art community in the 1970s and 80s and places his work in the context of that community.&nbsp;Presented in partnership with the University of Texas Press and the Museum of Contemporary Art Store. Book price: $65. Location: /Dialogues Stage&nbsp;

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<h3>Highlights from EXPO ART WEEK</h3>

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<h3>&bull; The Time Is Now! &ndash; EXPO ART WEEK Party at the Smart Musuem of Art</h3>

SEPT 25, 8-10pm

Kick off&nbsp;EXPO CHICAGO&rsquo;s EXPO ART WEEK with an evening of overlapping receptions and programming on the South Side, ending at the Smart Museum of Art for a special celebration of&nbsp;The Time is Now! Art Worlds of Chicago&rsquo;s South Side, 1960&ndash;1980. 
 
The party features the live collaborative performance &ldquo;Cultural Confluence&rdquo; from&nbsp;Douglas R. Ewart&rsquo;s Nyahbingi Drum Choir&nbsp;and Tatsu Aoki&rsquo;s Miyumi Project that blends global traditions into a unique confluence of concepts and cultures that represent now and the future. Plus, food, drink, and after-hours access to the Smart Museum.&nbsp;FREE, open to all.

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<h3>&bull; HANS ULRICH&nbsp;OBRIST:&nbsp;CREATIVE CHICAGO&nbsp;&mdash; AN INTERVIEW MARATHON</h3>

SEPT 29, 1-6pm, Aon Grand Ballroom, Navy Pier

The&nbsp;Chicago Humanities Festival&nbsp;in partnership with EXPO CHICAGO and the Terra Foundation for American Art&#39;s Art Design Chicago initiative will present&nbsp;Creative Chicago: An Interview Marathon during the 2018 exposition at Navy Pier. The marathon will be led by&nbsp;Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London, and&nbsp;one of the world&#39;s leading curators, critics, and art historians.

Hosted on a stage commissioned and designed by artist&nbsp;Barbara Kasten, the five-hour interview marathon will be presented within Navy Pier&#39;s historic Aon Grand Ballroom on Saturday, September 29.&nbsp;Free and open to the public. Participants include, among many others: Louise Bernard, Museum Director,&nbsp;Obama Presidential Center Museum; Dawoud Bey, Photographer; Buritt Bulloch, Owner,&nbsp;Old Fashioned Donuts; Richard Hunt, Artist; Jeanne Gang, Architect; Theaster Gates, Artist; Joseph Grigely, Artist/Art Historian;&nbsp;Suellen Rocca, Artist; Tim Samuelson, Cultural Historian of the&nbsp;City of Chicago; Stanley Tigerman, Architect; Amanda Williams, Artist

The celebrated oral historian and iconic Chicagoan, author&nbsp;Studs Terkel, was a major influence and inspiration for Obrist&rsquo;s creative practice, making Chicago a fitting destination for the curator&rsquo;s first U.S. marathon. The two met in the 1990s during one of Obrist&rsquo;s visits to Chicago. Terkel&rsquo;s style of interviewing&mdash;intense, intimate and wide-ranging&mdash;and his subject choices (both major artistic figures and everyday citizens), inspired Obrist&rsquo;s marathon-style approach to interviewing, and is a central aspect of his current artistic and curatorial practice.

Obrist&rsquo;s first interview marathon in the United States, Creative Chicago will capture and chronicle individuals who have helped to define the city&rsquo;s creative landscape, as well as those who are shaping it in the twenty-first century.

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<h3>&bull;&nbsp;ART AFTER HOURS</h3>

SEPT&nbsp;28, 6-9pm

Art After Hours&nbsp;is a citywide open gallery night in more than 30 spaces, inviting EXPO CHICAGO visitors and the Chicago community to experience the city&#39;s vibrant art scene, including alternative exhibition venues and performance spaces,&nbsp;during extended hours. After the fair, head out into the various gallery centers around the city to see the season&#39;s best exhibitions on view. Some spaces are just staying open late, while others are offering tours, meet and greets, film screenings, and performances.&nbsp;

A list of participating galleries with extended hours and special events taking place on the evening of the 28th may be found <a href="https://www.expochicago.com/visit/expo-art-week/schedule-of-events-openings">here</a>.&nbsp;

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<h3>&bull; ART ontheMART</h3>

SEPT 29, 6:30pm &ndash;8:30pm

In the spirit of Chicago&rsquo;s great legacy of public art and culture,&nbsp;Art on theMART&nbsp;will be the longest-running and largest digital art projection in the world.&nbsp;The first-of-its-kind for Chicago, this curated series of digital artworks will be projected&nbsp;across 2.5 acres of theMART&rsquo;s exterior river-fa&ccedil;ade. Beginning at approximately 6:30 p.m., Wacker Dr. between N. Wells St. and N. Franklin St. will be closed off to traffic to enable public viewing of the projections. While viewing the inaugural program, the public will enjoy a live DJ, food trucks and a Lantern Procession presented by Light Up My Arts (LUMA8). The art&nbsp;unveiling&nbsp;will begin at 7:15 p.m. with a fireworks show at 8:00 p.m.

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Top image: Art ontheMART will feature artists such as Diana Thater, Jason Salavon, Jan Tichy and others.&nbsp;
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A summary of what to plan for during EXPO ART WEEK 2018

EXPO ART WEEK: Highlights and Key Events

By GINNY VAN ALYEA&nbsp;

Last weekend&#39;s crush of openings put gallery-goers in the mood to see new art, meet artists and to take stock of what&#39;s new and exciting in area galleries and museums.&nbsp;

The momentum continues this weekend, primarily on the south and west sides, when dozens more shows open, building anticipation as we head into the second half of September. There is a lot of important art being shown this month in&nbsp;Chicago by artists from around the country and around the world, giving gallery visitors a chance to travel to and consider matters around the globe without leaving home.

Obviously there is a lot of great art to see, and these&nbsp;are just a few&nbsp;highlights from this coming September weekend&nbsp;around the city.&nbsp;We will&nbsp;share more of the season&#39;s&nbsp;highlights and coverage as the fall goes on, and don&#39;t forget to view our <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar">full calendar of events</a>.&nbsp;

Enjoy the season of art, and see you in the galleries!&nbsp;

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<h2>Thursday, September 13</h2>

<img alt="" data-caption="David Hockney and Jonathan Wilkinson, Inside It Opens Up As Well, 2018. Photographic drawing printed on 7 sheets of paper, mounted on 7 sheets of Dibond. © David Hockney. Photo credit: Richard Schmidt" data-rich-file-id="2980" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2980/original/hockney.jpg" />

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/david-hockney-time-and-more-space-and-more">David Hockney: Time and More, Space and More...</a>&nbsp;at&nbsp;Richard Gray Gallery&nbsp;(the west side warehouse&nbsp;location) is an exhibition of new work by the artist (we spotted pictures of the octogenarian out on a Chicago Architecture Center River Cruise this week with gallery staff!) The show&nbsp;presents Hockney&rsquo;s recent video and camera-based works in tandem. Making its gallery debut&nbsp;at the center of the exhibition is Hockney&rsquo;s multi-part video installation&nbsp;The Four Seasons, Woldgate Woods, 2010-2011,&nbsp;which was exhibited in 2017 at&nbsp;Centre Georges Pompidou and Tate Britain. The work is composed of four 9-channel video walls and arranged within the space like the cardinal directions of a compass rose. Depicting the same view down a tree-lined country road in Yorkshire, each wall distinctively captures one of the four seasons.

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<h2>Friday, September 14</h2>

<img alt="" data-caption="Torkwase Dyson" data-rich-file-id="2988" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2988/original/tdyson-raymond-2018.jpg" />

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/torkwase-dyson-james-samuel-madison">Torkwase Dyson: James Samuel Madison</a>, a show of new work by this Brooklyn-based artist opens Friday at Rhona Hoffman Gallery.&nbsp;Dyson considers spatial relations an urgent question&nbsp;both historically and in the present day. Through abstract paintings, Dyson grapples with ways space is perceived and negotiated particularly by&nbsp;black and brown bodies. &nbsp;Explorations of how the&nbsp;body unifies, balances, and arranges itself to move through natural and built environments&nbsp;become&nbsp;both expressive and discursive structures within the&nbsp;work. &nbsp;

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<img alt="" data-caption="Edie Fake" data-rich-file-id="2987" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2987/original/fake1.jpg" />

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/gut-rehab-edie-fake">Gut Rehab: Edie Fake</a> at Western Exhibitions is one of several shows opening in West Town this Friday night. The show, featuring 12 elaborately patterned and intensely personal paintings make up the artist&#39;s&nbsp;second solo show at the gallery. Fake&rsquo;s paintings start as self-portraits, and from there, they make a break for it, referencing elements of the trans and non-binary body through pattern, color and architectural metaphor.&nbsp;

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<img alt="" data-caption="Candice Lin" data-rich-file-id="2985" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2985/original/bs-2017-candice-lin-07.jpg" />

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/candice-lin-a-hard-white-body-a-porous-slip">Candice Lin: A Hard White Body, a Porous Slip </a>at the Logan Center opens Friday night. A tour led by the artist takes place the same evening. Los Angeles-based artist Candice Lin creates sculptural environments that breathe, seep, ferment, and decay. Working with an arsenal of sculptural forms that include finely crafted objects, organisms such as plants, insects, and bacteria, and natural compounds, Lin interrogates the ways in which histories of power and marginality are inscribed into bodies and into the natural world.

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<h2>Saturday, September 15</h2>

<img alt="" data-caption="Gerald Williams, Messages (detail), 1970, Acrylic on canvas. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Purchase, The Paul and Miriam Kirkley Fund for Acquisitions, 2017.8." data-rich-file-id="2990" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2990/original/williams-ttin-header.jpg" />

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/the-time-is-now-art-worlds-of-chicago-s-south-sides-1960-1980">The Time is Now!&nbsp;</a>a major new exhibition at the Smart Musuem of Art in Hyde Park&nbsp;offers an immersive examination of the South Side, as told by the art and artists who shaped its contours&mdash; from the Chicago Imagists to the Black Arts Movement. The Time is Now! reassesses the story of postwar Chicago art through a nuanced look at the artists living, working, and exhibiting on the South Side. Presented as part of Art Design Chicago, a citywide exploration of Chicago&rsquo;s art and design legacy spearheaded by the Terra Foundation for American Art. While the show begins Thursday, an opening event,&nbsp;Celebrating South Side Stories, &nbsp;takes place September 15, 11am&ndash;6pm

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<img alt="" data-caption="Shadi Habib Allah" data-rich-file-id="2989" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2989/original/image001.jpg" />

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/shadi-habib-allah-put-to-rights">Shadi Habib Allah: Put to Rights </a>opens Saturday night at&nbsp;The Renaissance Society&nbsp;with an artist talk at 6pm. Habib&nbsp;Allah&nbsp;is a New York and Miami-based Palestinian artist who works across film, sculpture, and installation, often drawing on a process of deep research and on-the-ground engagement in specific locales. Richly varied in form and focus, his projects run the gamut from reimagining a ghost story from 1930s Jerusalem to traveling along illicit trade routes with Bedouin smugglers.

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Hyde Park Art Center has a mega-celebration on Saturday for <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/solid-gold-saturday">Solid Gold Saturday</a>.&nbsp;

&bull; The Art of Being Dangerous, Curated by Erin Toale.&nbsp;Public Critique,&nbsp;1&ndash;3pm and reception 3&ndash;5pm 
&bull; Open Studios, 2&ndash;5pm&nbsp;Welcome&nbsp;Jackman Goldwasser International Artist, Nadim Abbas who will be visiting from Hong Kong&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&bull; Free Family Art-Making Activites, 1&ndash;4pm. Be like the Hairy Who, or Ralph Arnold!&nbsp;

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<img alt="" data-caption="Liliana Porter" data-rich-file-id="2991" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2991/original/lp.jpg" />

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/liliana-porter">Liliana Porter&#39;s </a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/liliana-porter">Memorabilia</a>, opening Saturday at Carrie Secrist Gallery,&nbsp;presents highlights from a celebrated and dedicated artistic career of giving voice to the Everyperson. Through the use of found inanimate objects, Porter posits the human condition as fragile and curious, yet full of wonder.&nbsp;Born in Argentina in 1941, Porter is a member of a pioneering wave of Latinx artists who have mined identity socio-politics using then-new strands of contemporary art making to forge engaging methods of aesthetic engagement.&nbsp;

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<img alt="" data-caption="Firelai Baez" data-rich-file-id="2984" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2984/original/baez.jpg" />

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/firelai-baez">Firelei B&aacute;ez&#39;s </a>work at Kavi Gupta Gallery&#39;s&nbsp;West Washington space employs&nbsp;humor, figuration, and fantasy to explore the narratives and myths that affect the creation and expression of personal identity and social mores. B&aacute;ez is interested in identity, culture, and the divisions humans create between each other. Born in a city on the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, the&nbsp;stark contrast between the poverty of Haiti and the abundance of the Dominica Republic is one element that permeates her work. When she was 10, her family moved to the United States. There, she encountered new racial and gender biases that challenged her to think about what identity means and how it separates some people and unifies others. Her work explores these themes in context with the narratives of the past and the many potential futures she perceives.

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<img alt="" data-caption="Bethany Collins" data-rich-file-id="2983" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2983/original/patron1.jpg" />

PATRON opens <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/bethany-collins-undersong">Bethany Collins, Undersong&nbsp;</a>on Saturday. Undersong&nbsp;makes use of three texts&mdash;translations of&nbsp;The Odyssey; classified ads placed by former slaves searching for family; and patriotic hymns. The first format of Homer&rsquo;s poem of nostos was passed down orally. &ldquo;Lost Friends&rdquo; ads were subsequently read aloud in church services to reach a broader audience. And patriotic hymns achieve national unity only through their collective voice. The vocalization of these texts becomes the undersong&mdash;the burden of the song; the chorus; the refrain&mdash;of an American landscape, one that feels intimately familiar, yet estranging.

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<img alt="" data-caption="Sanford Biggers" data-rich-file-id="2982" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2982/original/18-00-sanford-biggers-neroluce-72-203-4x61-ssbquilt129.jpg" />

<a href="http://moniquemeloche.com/exhibitions/sanford-biggers/">Sanford Biggers</a> has a show of new work opening at Monique Meloche Saturday night.&nbsp;Biggers roots his practice in the excavation of histories to shed light on the present. Having recently spent a year in Rome as a 2017 American Academy Fellow in Visual Arts, Biggers has created a new body of marble sculptures which develop the artist&rsquo;s use of classical materials as a means of destabilizing and reconfiguring their historical evocations. In addition to these marble works, the exhibition will also comprise a new group of quilt paintings and wall reliefs that are demonstrative of Biggers&rsquo; eclectic, trans-historical practice.

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<h2>Sunday, September 16</h2>

<img alt="" data-caption="Sabina Ott" data-rich-file-id="2981" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2981/original/sabinatsa.jpg" />

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/sabina-ott-all-flowers-tell-me">Sabina Ott: All Flowers Tell Me</a> is a special exhibition collaboration between Tiger Strikes Asteroid, the artist run space where Ott was an active member, and her gallery Aspect/Ratio.&nbsp;All Flowers Tell Me&nbsp;celebrates the many facets of Ott&rsquo;s career by exhibiting works previously not shown in Chicago. On view is part of her&nbsp;Sub Rosa&nbsp;series consisting of rich encaustic paintings that celebrate the richness and generosity that represents Sabina Ott. An opening reception takes place Sunday from 12&ndash;4 at TSA&#39;s new space at Mana Contemporary.&nbsp;

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View our full art calendar at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar">chicagogallerynews.com/calendar</a> and sort by date and event type.

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Top images from left: Edie Fake, Liliana Porter, Carolyn Lawrence
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A summary of fall opening highlights in chicago the 3rd weekend in September 

Fall Preview – Part II: West and South Side September Openings

By GINNY VAN ALYEA&nbsp;

Summer has somehow come and gone, and the energy of a new vibrant season is upon us. This coming weekend opens the start of the fall art season throughout the city, and these new shows are just the beginning.&nbsp;

A&nbsp;host of openings, clustered on the evening of Friday, September 7, mark the traditional start of the season, which happens largely in the city&#39;s first commercial artistic center in River North. There are dozens of new exhibitions opening, and many represent the highlight of the gallery&#39;s programming for the entire year.&nbsp;Gallery district lines and identities have evolved over the decades, since the heydey of the 1980s, but new life in today&#39;s River North comes in the form of an art and design collaboration between the nearly two dozen galleries still based near Superior and Franklin streets today and the dozens of design showrooms that have come to also call River North home, following a migration from the Merchandise Mart. The result of that collaboration is the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/4th-annual-river-north-gallery-walk-designer-windows">4th Annual River North Gallery Walk and Designer Windows</a>, which covers a lot of creative ground in one weekend, with gallery artists matched with designers and showrooms, as well as individual galleries opening their latest exhibitions. There are several special events to attend as well, including a Friday kickoff event with Jesse Chicago |&nbsp;Home Element,&nbsp;featuring&nbsp;a live art creation by <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/linc-thelen-gallery">Linc Thelen</a>, and an after party&nbsp;at the <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/archetype-excavation-and-expectation-by-adam-siegel">Golden Triangle</a>. Saturday, September 8 is also a new family day in the district. Complete details and a list of participants may be <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/4th-annual-river-north-gallery-walk-designer-windows">found here</a>.&nbsp;

After a very busy couple of weeks, we of course cannot wait for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/art-services/expo-chicago">EXPO CHICAGO</a> which&nbsp;opens at the end of the month on September 27 with its Vernissage, an opening benefit for the MCA. The art fair&#39;s slightly later than usual start, combined with some very notable programming thanks to Art Design Chicago,&nbsp;means that this September may be the busiest certainly in recent memory.&nbsp;

Obviously there is a lot of great art to see, and these&nbsp;are just a few&nbsp;highlights from this opening September weekend&nbsp;around the city.&nbsp;We will&nbsp;share more of the season&#39;s&nbsp;highlights and coverage as the fall goes on, and don&#39;t forget to view our full calendar of events. Stay tuned for&nbsp;Part II of our Fall Preview,&nbsp;featuring shows opening September 15&nbsp;and beyond, including many shows on the city&#39;s West Side.&nbsp;

Finally,&nbsp;I have to admit that I&nbsp;didn&#39;t see it until I&#39;d finished this wrap up, but all I could hear in my head was &quot;Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves...&quot; (Aretha Franklin on my mind!), as so many of this season&#39;s early highlights feature women!&nbsp;

Enjoy this start to fall, and see you in the galleries!&nbsp;

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<h3>Thursday, September 6</h3>

<img alt="" data-rich-file-id="2956" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2956/original/todros.jpg" />

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/todros-geller-strange-worlds">Todros Geller: Strange Worlds</a>, an exhibition opening at the Spertus&nbsp;Museum / Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies and in partnership with Art Design Chicago, is&nbsp;an exhibition featuring&nbsp;more than 30 works exploring the life and practice of a Chicago artist and educator central to the history of modern American and Jewish art. Geller, who immigrated to Chicago from Ukraine in 1918, was inspired by the blending of old world traditions and modern culture that characterized Chicago&mdash;what he termed the collision of &ldquo;strange worlds.&rdquo;&nbsp;

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<h3>Friday, September 7</h3>

River North, as mentioned above, offers the largest group of&nbsp;openings in the city on September 7.&nbsp;

Highlights include: 

<img alt="" data-caption="Medina Dugger; Alanna Airitam; Endia Beal " data-rich-file-id="2957" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2957/original/edelman.jpg" />

A&nbsp;show at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/how-do-you-see-me">Catherine Edelman Gallery</a>,&nbsp;How do you see me?,&nbsp;features&nbsp;three women who confront the way people of color&nbsp;are perceived in&nbsp;art, the work place, and through their physical appearance.&nbsp;

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<img alt="" data-caption="Bruno Surdo" data-rich-file-id="2958" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2958/original/bruno.jpg" />

Around the corner&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/bruno-surdo-liberation">Gallery Victor Armendariz</a>&nbsp;opens a show by artist Bruno Surdo, titled&nbsp;LIBERATION.&nbsp;The 17 paintings included in the show explore personal yearning for spiritual and individual independence using various motifs and subject matter.&nbsp;The artworks challenge the viewer to connect with images that correspond to their own yearning for personal freedom.&nbsp;

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<img alt="" data-caption="Mary Ann Papanek-Miller" data-rich-file-id="2959" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2959/original/albano.jpg" />

At <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/mary-ann-papanek-miller-preparing-for-winter">Jean Albano Gallery</a> a show focused on the season beyond fall is Mary Ann Papanek-Miller: Preparing for Winter.&nbsp;Papanek-Miller is known for using a layered collection of visual images, creating a narrative within each piece.&nbsp;Her work&nbsp;incorporates reflections from childhood stories, songs, and rhymes which reveal a deep concern for the environment.&nbsp;

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<img alt="" data-caption="Alicia LaChance" data-rich-file-id="2960" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2960/original/cooper.jpg" />

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/coming-full-circle-alicia-lachance-and-joanne-mattera">Melanee Cooper</a> closed her eponymous River North gallery 9 years ago, and now she&#39;s back in the exact same space (740 N Franklin) she left when she moved to California. &nbsp;Her first show celebrating her return is called Coming Full Circle and features the work of artists&nbsp;Alicia LaChance and Joanne Mattera. Artist Arno Elias will also be exhibiting at the gallery.&nbsp;

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<img alt="" data-caption="Vera Klement" data-rich-file-id="2961" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2961/original/klement.jpg" />

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/drawing-show-teacher-and-two-students-vera-klement-heather-accurso-elizabeth-carson-manley">At Printworks</a>,&nbsp;Drawing Show &ndash; Teacher and Two Students &ndash; Vera Klement, Heather Accurso &amp; Elizabeth Carson Manley​ features the work of three esteemed artists from the perspective of the student/master relationship.&nbsp;

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<img alt="" data-caption="René Romero Schuler" data-rich-file-id="2967" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2967/original/rene.jpg" />

Artist Ren&eacute; Romero Schuler is turning 50 this year, and her latest body of work,&nbsp;In Search of Ground, taking up the entire space at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/rene-romero-schuler-in-search-of-ground">Zolla/Lieberman Gallery</a>, has emerged as a body of work that has given Rene solace through pain, strength through grief, and peace through turmoil. On view in addition to her paintings are also&nbsp;India ink drawings and&nbsp;steel wire sculptures.

Many other shows are opening in River North this evening. If you can&#39;t see them all in one night, come back on Saturday morning for the <a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/art-services/free-cgn-saturday-gallery-tours">first&nbsp;free gallery tour</a>&nbsp;of the season from 11am-12:30pm, as well as family day activities that are part of RNDD&#39;s Gallery Walk weekend.&nbsp;

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In the West Loop <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/michiko-itatani-and-paula-henderson">Linda Warren Projects</a> opens their final gallery show on Friday night, and it features the work of two artists:&nbsp;Michiko Itatani and Paula Henderson.&nbsp;While clearly distinct in both style and focus, each artist uses recurring motifs and imagery to explore their individual concerns for the forces that shape and define our human condition.

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Artist Patty Carroll has a Friday evening&nbsp;opening at&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/patty-carroll-anonymous-women--3">One After 909</a> in West Town. The solo exhibition, Anonymous Women is a&nbsp;continuation of a decade-long series.&nbsp;The first variations of the&nbsp;series fully explored the intricacies of homemaking and femininity, while the most current work depicts their twisted friction.&nbsp;Despite the leaps and bounds of progress the women&rsquo;s movement has made over the course of her lifetime, with this work Carroll recognizes how far we still have to go.&nbsp;

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<h3>Saturday, September 8</h3>

<h3><img alt="" data-caption="Ed Paschke" data-rich-file-id="2965" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2965/original/paschkecollege-art-collection.jpg" /></h3>

The Figure and the Chicago Imagists: Selections from the Elmhurst College Art Collection&nbsp;opening at the <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/the-figure-and-the-chicago-imagists-selections-from-the-elmhurst-college-art-collection">Elmhurst Art Museum</a>&nbsp;features the Elmhurst College Art Collection, focused on artists working in Chicago between about 1950 and the present. The exhibition is curated by Suellen Rocca, one of the original members of the Hairy Who and Curator and Director of Exhibitions at Elmhurst College (Rocca is featured on the <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2018/8/artist-suellen-rocca-a-life-story-through-art">fall 2018 cover</a> of CGN). The exhibition features artists such as Ed Paschke, Barbara Rossi, Gladys Nilsson and others and is part of Art Design Chicago.

Note that other Imagist-related exhibitions this fall will take place at the <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/hairy-who-1966-1969">Art Institute of Chicago</a> and <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/break-a-rule-ed-paschke-s-art-and-teaching">The Block Museum of Art</a>.&nbsp;

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<img alt="" data-caption="George Peter Alexander Healy" data-rich-file-id="2966" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2966/original/portraits.jpg" />

Beauty&rsquo;s Legacy: Gilded Age Portraits&nbsp;in America at the <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/beauty-s-legacy-gilded-age-portraits-in-america">Richard H. Driehaus Museum</a>&nbsp;looks at the popular revival of portraiture in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries when both the established elite and the newly wealthy sought out artists who could highlight their social standing and personal affluence. Simultaneous exhibitions at the museum are&nbsp;Gilded Chicago: Portraits of an Era and&nbsp;Treasures from the White City: Chicago World&rsquo;s Fair of 1893.

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Top image: Barbara Rossi at Elmhurst Art Museum, Michiko Itatani at Linda Warren and&nbsp;Medina Dugger at Catherine Edelman Gallery.
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A summary of early September gallery and museum show highlights in Chicago.

Fall Preview – Part I: First September Openings

By APRIL LANE

To those who decry the merciless Chicago heat, the brisk cool isn&rsquo;t the only thing you can look forward to this fall. From large scale expositions to smaller gallery exhibitions, CGN has made a comprehensive list of great art events to come. I recently completed an internship at Chicago Gallery News this spring, and with all the information that comes through the office, I selected just a few special exhibitions coming up in area museums that I am looking forward to and that I hope you will enjoy as well.

(Editor&#39;s note: an additional fall round-up of gallery opening highlights will be published by CGN in early September)

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<h3>The Time is Now! Art Worlds of Chicago&#39;s South Side, 1960-1980&nbsp;</h3>

September 13&ndash;December 30

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/the-time-is-now-art-worlds-of-chicago-s-south-sides-1960-1980">Smart Museum of Art</a>

During the 1960s and 70s, Chicago was shaped by art and ideas produced and circulated on its South Side. Defined by the city&rsquo;s social, political, and geographic divides and by the energies of its multiple overlapping art scenes, it was a vibrant era of creative expression that produced a cultural legacy whose impact continues to unfold nationally and internationally.

The Time Is Now!&nbsp;examines this watershed cultural moment&mdash;brimming with change and conflict&mdash;and the figures who defined it. A companion book is being published with the DuSable Museum as well.&nbsp;

Also, on Saturday, September 15 from 11am-6pm&nbsp;in various south side locations, an <a href="https://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/events/1459/celebrating-south-side-stories/">all-day festival</a> of art, music, film, and food marks opening of&nbsp;The Time Is Now!&nbsp;and other Art Design Chicago projects across the South Side.&nbsp;

Top image: &nbsp;Carolyn Lawrence,&nbsp;Uphold Your Men, Unify Your Families (detail), 1971, Screenprint on wove paper. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Gift of David Lusenhop in honor of the artist, 2013.7. &copy; Carolyn Lawrence.

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<img alt="" data-caption="James Webb. Installation view of Prayer (Johannesburg), 2012. Photo by Anthea Pokroy. © James Webb. Courtesy of blank projects and Galerie Imane Farès." data-rich-file-id="2926" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2926/original/webb-prayer.jpg" />

<h3>James Webb: Prayer</h3>

Museum Admission $20+

Sept. 7&ndash;Dec. 31

<a href="http://www.artic.edu/exhibition/james-webb-prayer">The Art Institute of Chicago</a>

A project by South African visual artist and musician James Webb, this exhibit encompasses recordings of prayers from members of various faiths and spiritual affinites throughout the city of Chicago. The prayers are played on 12 speakers mounted onto a red carpet which visitors can walk up to and closely listen to the prayers being uttered. The work aims to showcase the humanity and solidarity that comes across in the vulnerable act of prayer. Webb&rsquo;s Chicago version of Prayer is his first in North America, having remade this project ten times in various cities since his first in Cape Town, South Africa in 2000 following the end of apartheid. &nbsp;

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<h3><img alt="" data-caption="Karl Wirsum, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, 1968. The Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize Fund, 1969.248" data-rich-file-id="2924" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2924/original/sreamin-jayhawkins.jpg" /></h3>

<h3>Hairy Who 1966-1969</h3>

Museum Admission from $20+

Sept. 27&ndash;Jan. 6, 2019

<a href="http://www.artic.edu/exhibition/hairy-who-1966-1969">The Art Institute of Chicago&nbsp;</a>

In collaboration with Art Design Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago presents Hairy Who 1966-1969, a collective of work made by Chicago-based School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) graduates &nbsp;Karl Wirsum, Jim Falconer, Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Suellen Rocca&nbsp;and Jim Nutt. Starting in the 1960s, the self-made group of artists showcased their vibrant, avant garde and graphic work, which commented on sexuality, gender and social norms, at the Hyde Park Art Center. The exhibition is presented on the 50th anniversary of their final Chicago show, featuring prints, drawings and&nbsp;paintings by the group.

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<h3><img alt="" data-caption="Ralph Arnold, Who You/Yeah Baby, c. 1968. DePaul Art Museum. Reproduced with permission from The Pauls Foundation." data-rich-file-id="2923" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2923/original/ralph-arnold-hats.jpg" /></h3>

<h3>The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold: Art, Identity, and Politics</h3>

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/the-many-hats-of-ralph-arnold-art-identity-and-politics">The Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP)</a>&nbsp;at Columbia College Chicago

October 11&ndash;December 21

The Museum of Contemporary Photography presents The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold: Art, Identity, and Politics. This exhibition showcases the artwork of American artist and teacher Ralph Arnold, who created a body of collages as a response to popular ideas and media depictions regarding gender, race, sexuality during the 1960s and 70s that continues to remain relevant in Chicago&rsquo;s art scene, even in 2018.

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<h3><img alt="" data-caption="Quilt Artwork (detail) by Jessica Skultety" data-rich-file-id="2927" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2927/original/wmg-quilts.jpg" /></h3>

<h3>Quilt + Resist: Art, Politics, Storytelling</h3>

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/quilt-resist-art-politics-storytelling">Woman Made Gallery</a>

Nov 9-Dec 1

Free and open to the public. Opening reception on Friday, November 9.

This event showcases roughly 40 female-identifying quilters who aim to tell stories with a variety of methods -- whether it be abstract or pictoral. &nbsp;Juried by artist and teacher Marcia Grubb and quilt maker, activist and psychologist Adelia Moore, the quilts exhibited aim to tell a variety of stories from different women artists, depicting how they view and interpret the world around them. &nbsp;

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<h3>Saints &amp; Sinners Walking Tour: Chicago&#39;s Legacy of Virtue and Vice</h3>

Fridays through September

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/institutions/richard-h-driehaus-museum">Richard H. Driehaus Museum</a>

Tickets $30-$50. Ages&nbsp;21+

During this walking tour, which takes place weekly this fall, not only will attendees explore Chicago&rsquo;s Gold Coast neighborhood, but they&rsquo;ll learn all about Chicago&rsquo;s prohibition history and the key players in the Temperance movement between 1848&ndash;1871. They will also view numerous historic landmarks and pubs and sip spirits from renowned pubs along the way. &nbsp;

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CGN&#39;s complete calendar of exhibitions and openings may be found <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar">here</a>.&nbsp;
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A round up of fall 2018 art events by a former CGN intern