<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419408/ezvvcfhsikf6qe2yppyz.jpg"><figcaption>The Crown Fountain in Millennium Park. Peyton Reich / Sun-Times &nbsp;</figcaption></figure><a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment-and-culture/2024/07/12/millennium-park-crown-fountain-chicago-20th-birthday-jaume-plensa?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=071224%20Afternoon%20Edition&amp;utm_content=071224%20Afternoon%20Edition+CID_444d029ea5e58f49a635ffba1ad8bc86&amp;utm_source=cst_campaign_monitor&amp;utm_term=The%20faces%20in%20the%20fountain%20Millennium%20Parks%20Crown%20Fountain%20still%20watching%20over%20Chicago%20after%2020%20years&amp;tpcc=cst_cm">The faces in the fountain: Millennium Park's Crown Fountain still watching over Chicago after 20 years</a>Millennium Park turns 20 on Tuesday. But the 24.5-acre expanse became the king of Chicago city parks almost as soon as it opened in 2004 — four years late and with a price tag of $490 million, more than triple the original estimated cost. About $220 million of that came from private donations.At a black-tie cocktail party before the park opened, former Chicago Park District CEO Forrest Claypool, speaking with the late WTTW-Channel 11 host John Callaway, dismissed the tardiness and cost overruns.“The park is so beautiful that in 15 years nobody will remember any of that,” Claypool said.Via Chicago Sun–Times&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-history-majors-job-prospects-2511339">Do Art History Majors Really Face the Worst Job Prospects of Any Profession?</a>Art History majors face the worst employment prospects of any profession after graduating from college, <a href="https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/college-labor-market#--:explore:outcomes-by-major">a study</a> by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has found. The data, released by the Fed in February, became a talking point online this week, just as students close out the academic year and many start the job hunt.Diving into the report, specifically it found that Art History majors face an unemployment rate of 8 percent, the most of any university major. The vast majority that have jobs are holding down positions they are overqualified, according to the underemployment rate of 62.3 percent.Via Artnet&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/new-york-artists-reate-works-jfk-new-terminal-1234712124/">18 New York Artists Tapped to Create Works for JFK’s New&nbsp;Terminal</a>John F. Kennedy Airport, one of the world’s busiest crossroads, will soon be its destination in its own right for world-class art. Eighteen artists hailing from seven countries have been tapped to create installations for the airport’s new Terminal 6, set to open in 2026, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced on Tuesday.&nbsp;The $4.2 billion terminal is now set to host works by artists based in New York, including Sky Hopinka, Charles Gaines, and Barbara Kruger. The group also includes a significant amount of artists who are based in New York City or New York State but were born abroad, such as Felipe Baeza and Uman, who were hail from Mexico and Somalia, respectively.Via ARTnews&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/07/16/christies-first-half-2024-results">Christie’s first half auction sales decline 22% year-on-year, to $2.1bn</a>The latest proof that the art market is down but not out arrived today (16 July), as Christie’s announced select results from the first half of 2024. The auction house’s total revenue from live and online auction sales during this period reached $2.1bn worldwide, around $600m less (-22%) than it made under the hammer during the opening six months of 2023. The drop is even steeper when compared to the same period in 2022, when competition for the collections of Anne Bass, Thomas and Doris Ammann and Hubert de Givenchy propelled Christie’s to a hearty $4.1bn in revenue from auction sales—nearly double its equivalent results this year.Yet several other metrics showed that Christie’s has held surprisingly steady in the face of recent turbulence. Its healthy 87% sell-through rate was on par with that in both 2023 and 2022. The index of hammer price to low estimate was 111% through this June, meaning that the winning bids for all lots sold (before fees) outperformed their minimum expectations by around 11%.Via The Art Newspaper&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 7/17/24

<html><head></head><body>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419408/hrgzb0ntakk8npqkbdv2.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/darin-latimer-fix-your-hearts-or-die-war-on-every-corner">Darin Latimer: Fix your Hearts or Die (War on Every Corner)</a>Opening: Friday, July 19, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmEpiphany Center for the Arts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419409/xasfafkuoghxoypax7bd.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/memorable-ordinary">Memorable Ordinary</a>Opening: Friday, July 19, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmKim Storage Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419410/ewsnjgila1r0tljpgt3m.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/in-conversation-with-dale-washington">In Conversation with Dale Washington</a>Opening: Friday, July 19, 6 - 9 pmBridgeport Art Center&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419411/hz8fkruil6vbfemvhrno.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/mid-summer-dreams">Midsummer Dreams</a>Opening: Saturday, July 20, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmChicago Sculpture International (CSI)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions July 19 - 21

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419408/xdr1sxyhqjsbxqdz1gt2.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/in-bloom">In Bloom</a>Opening: Friday, July 12, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmCircle Contemporary (Arts of Life)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419409/w4hhntijylodamwsxwns.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/fear-is-a-joke">Fear Is A Joke</a>Opening: Friday, July 12, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmT. Mari Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419410/cmp3mj3vz7klf0yk0mzs.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/be-of-love-care-in-an-age-of-discontent">Be of Love: Care in an Age of Discontent</a>Opening: Friday, July 12, 7 – 11&nbsp;pmPublic Works&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419411/jdwpcxfgc6b9jipalncb.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/hope-a-prelude">Hope: A Prelude</a>Opening: Friday, July 12, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmHilton Contemporary&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419412/iylg2mqqlutc5ifdgctu.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/arts-of-life">Human Resources | Group Show with Arts of Life</a>Opening: Friday, July 12, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmChicago Artists Coalition (CAC)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419412/khhpclmkwlzuhdaenvhs.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/aleksander-najda-and-vasyl-savchenko">The Ground of Things: Aleksander Najda and Vasyl Savchenko</a>Opening: Friday, July 12, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmUkrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419413/xa0gbnjf4fgtv1tbl6f5.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/vera-klement-26ffa579-a8f2-47d6-bce6-5af0337adc2f">Vera Klement: After A Life</a>Opening: Friday, July 12, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmZolla / Lieberman Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions July 12 & 13 (Part I)

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419408/yncf8qyiaa6jyd7hjcdh.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/new-exhibition-and-opening-reception-4fd4828c-849a-44c6-8d9d-5dc8f33e3068">Wesley Kimler</a>Opening: Friday, July 12, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmGallery Victor&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419409/djdgcdhxreirnzeixrgg.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/opening-reception-for-2024-vicinity">Opening Reception for 2024 Vicinity</a>Opening: Saturday, July 13, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmPerspective Photo Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419410/tbcii1qyqnjotiim5k7d.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/new-exhibition-and-opening-reception-e2f4fb32-2124-48b0-9c91-15e69a175491">Karen Perl: When the Dreams Came</a>Opening: Friday, July 12, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmAddington Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419411/jgplixnos6apquvyldnf.jpg"></figure>The Night You Love Me – Diego De La RosaOn view July 12-August 30<a href="/organizations/w-gallery">Povos Downtown</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419412/snvfonjwu9vvksy0j9sl.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/a-bigger-table-50-years-of-the-chicago-poetry-center-8bf99681-09ba-465f-8058-82d0f33697fb">A Bigger Table: 50 Years of the Chicago Poetry Center</a>Opening: Saturday, July 13, 2 – 5&nbsp;pmPoetry Foundation&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419413/xtxhnv6t9zv3ui12i7xd.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/doug-stapleton-false-augury-collages-and-objects">Doug Stapleton | False Augury: Collages and Objects</a>Opening: Saturday, July 13, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmBert Green Fine Art&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419414/cw58pcybwbhgjwprwtzx.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/new-edition">Where a knot begins and ends</a>Exhibition begins July 13Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419414/bxagpnluwgxyl8nvqxl7.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/connectivity">Connectivity</a>Opening: Saturday, July 13, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmWoman Made Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions July 12 & 13 (Part II)

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419408/xaqvyy12vqqfhyprtyjn.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;By CGN StaffThe River North Gallery District spaces are banding together again to host their traditional mid-summer gallery walk on Friday, July 12 from 5–8pm. Afterward, walk attendees are invited to enjoy cocktails and al fresco dining at River North's many restaurants.&nbsp;A July gallery walk has been around in the district for many years. This time of year galleries are eager to invite collectors and visitors to the city &nbsp;on self-guided tour of &nbsp;spaces located on Huron, Superior, and Wells Streets, while meeting artists, curators, and gallery staff.&nbsp;The Mid-Summer River North Gallery Walk is free and open to the public. Maps are available at Addington Gallery (704 N Wells St.)Some galleries are opening new exhibitions while others are hosting receptions for ongoing summer shows.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Participating galleries:<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/joan-holleb-heading-home">Addington Gallery</a> - Exhibiting Karen Perl<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/spring-summer-group-show">Carl Hammer Gallery</a> – Exhibiting Boundaries and Beyond: Imagined Landscapes<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/gallery-victor-armendariz">Gallery Victor Armendariz</a> – Exhibiting Don Pollack, Wesley Kimler, and Matthew Cook&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/hilton-asmus-contemporary">Hilton | Asmus Contemporary</a> – Exhibiting Cristina Mittermeier<a href="http://www.zggallery.com">Zg Gallery</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/group-exhibition-featuring-meredith-kopelman-lynn-neuman-james-ostrander-ruth-poor">Zolla/Lieberman Gallery</a> – Exhibiting Vera Klement&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

River North's Mid-Summer Gallery Walk Happens Friday, July 12, 2024

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419401/sj4yenxjkisggwdigupy.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/teresa-baker-shift-in-the-clouds">Teresa Baker: Shift in the Clouds</a>Opening: Wednesday, June 26, 5:30 – 8&nbsp;pmThe Arts Club of Chicago&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419401/ytk1xdaajskngtkafvp6.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/rebecca-shore-being-there">Rebecca Shore: Being There</a>Opening: Thursday, June 27, 6 – 8&nbsp;pmCorbett vs. Dempsey&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419402/sbp9jrv3f2npgtiqwyro.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/a-bigger-table-50-years-of-the-chicago-poetry-center">A Bigger Table: 50 Years of the Chicago Poetry Center</a>June 27Poetry Foundation&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419404/iyd1v37xiji8c66ybk1e.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/connected-landscapes-the-macinnes-brothers">Connected Landscapes: The MacInnes Brothers</a>​Opening: Thursday, Jun 27, &nbsp;7–9&nbsp;pmGallery of Contemporary Mosaics&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419404/ujc9b02jrrcojzvhtvhf.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/indigo-seven-gilded-agility">Indigo Seven: Gilded Agility</a>Opening: Friday, June 28, 6 – 8&nbsp;pmInternational Museum of Surgical Science (IMSS)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419405/y8p0pjchhhl69h8pvac0.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/grid-luck-alberto-aguilar">Grid Luck: Alberto Aguilar</a>Opening: Sunday, June 30, 2 – 6&nbsp;pmThe Cleve Carney Museum of Art (CCMA)&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions June 26 - 30

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419401/pvztobn7y9rikwtlgvjb.png"></figure>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/deconstructing-paper-pulp">Deconstructing Paper &amp; PULP</a>Opening: Friday, June 21, 5:30 – 8&nbsp;pmThe Art Center Highland Park&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419402/qkxj1gbsoyisnb9a3k9o.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/third-fridays-in-bridgeport-d26e08d8-79d9-4c96-9eb0-1694a3cbecb2">Third Fridays in Bridgeport</a>Friday, June 21, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmAlma Art &amp; Interiors&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419402/tprx4yckrdqej6wnrn8s.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/ellsworth-kelly-spectrum-colors-arranged-by-chance">Ellsworth Kelly: Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance</a>Exhibition begins June 22The Art Institute of Chicago&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419403/puu6rlvrnj1gnvuv7wzt.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/laleh-motlagh-talk">Laleh Motlagh Talk</a>Saturday, June 22, 1 – 2&nbsp;pmSoNa Chicago Art Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419404/gwzl2zo0mqobspzlsbxz.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/words-of-art-dennis-lee-mitchell-and-rhonda-gates">Words of Art: Dennis Lee Mitchell and Rhonda Gates</a>Saturday, June 22, 2 – 4&nbsp;pmZolla / Lieberman Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419404/bcssg5k9yznmogmzyl8l.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/artist-walkthrough">Artist Walkthrough</a>Saturday, June 22, 2 – 4&nbsp;pmWoman Made Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419405/kjysgayiwn15ditoqstb.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/meet-our-collective-artists-8deb7934-aeb8-4a56-8b4a-0b1b2c3a1cf5">Kay Smith | Acrylic Paintings</a>Opening: Saturday, June 22, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmBlue Moon Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions June 21 & 22

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419395/jhgzrwaidkwius75orzw.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/implied-motion-stanley-dean-edwards-and-david-roth">Implied Motion: Stanley Dean Edwards and David Roth</a>Opening: Friday, June 14, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmOliva Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419396/srine2u9vdqwl9gvlvt8.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/sharon-louden-perennials">Sharon Louden, PERENNIALS</a>Opening: Friday, June 14, 6 – 8&nbsp;pmENGAGE Projects&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419397/mmnvmfn1xkewytbbmow6.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jessie-mott">Jessie Mott: Pluto</a>Opening: Saturday, June 15, 2 – 5&nbsp;pmGoldfinch&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419398/q0eknvzytfh9xk4ylw57.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/teen-show-a9c01ed3-7296-4475-a805-778b79cf71f6">Pit Stop</a>Exhibition begins June 15Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419399/k8n3snrro3ge75btuaxi.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/diana-motta-metaphysical">Diana Motta: Metaphysical</a>Opening: Saturday, June 15, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmSTASIAS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419400/f1z4ewtkbmjjc6myzkyh.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/spring-lab-2024-exhibition">Spring &amp; Lab 2024 Exhibition</a>Saturday, June 15, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmMarwen&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions June 14 & 15

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419395/nwndkq2xxo9dnn7i6ras.jpg"><figcaption>Vivian Maier, Chicago, IL, 1960. ©Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy of Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, NY.</figcaption></figure><a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/first-us-retrospective-vivian-maier-street-photographer-2497184">In Her First U.S. Retrospective, Vivian Maier Proves to Be Much More than a Street Photographer</a>In 2011, a new art star burst onto the scene. A nanny and a self-taught photographer, Vivian Maier had roamed the streets of New York City and Chicago in the 1950s, ‘60s, and ‘70s, her pint-sized charges in tow, snapping pictures of derelicts and swells, skyscrapers and train yards, naked mannequins and discarded dolls.She had taken hundreds of thousands of these photos. She stashed them in a storage unit until she couldn’t afford the payments any longer. She died destitute in 2009, at the age of 83. But then a young real estate developer named John Maloof bought the contents of her locker at a Chicago auction, scanned what he found, and uploaded it to Flickr.Via Artnet&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world-archives/long-lost-degas-2495196">Artwork Bought Online for $1,000 Identified as a Long-Lost Degas Worth $13 million</a>A savvy online thrifter got the deal of a lifetime when they spotted a pastel drawing listed as a “fake” Degas in 2021. The surprisingly masterful composition caught the punter’s eye and, with the help of expert Michel Schulman, they determined that it was most likely Éloge du maquillage (In praise of cosmetics)&nbsp;(1876), a known brothel scene painted by Degas that had been recorded as missing for several decades.Via Artnet&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/art-basel-2024-top-price-secondary-market-artworks-1234708939/">A First Look at the Big Ticket Artworks that Galleries Are Bringing to Art&nbsp;Basel</a>If one were to liken the marquee New York auctions in May to the homecoming game between rival high schools, then Art Basel is certainly the art world’s prom. Next week, 287 galleries from around the world, including the four biggest, will jet to Switzerland, closely followed by the traveling circus of collectors, art advisers, and, of course, journalists.Via Artnews&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wbez.org/neighborhoods/2024/05/28/whats-that-building-former-little-village-firehouse?tpcc=cst_cm">The National Museum of Mexican Art plans to turn long-vacant structure into the Yollocalli youth arts center</a>In Little Village, an old fire station has stood empty and unused since its modern replacement opened three blocks away in 2011.The building finally heads toward a new use as a youth arts center filled with performance and studio spaces, an indoor garden made from an old spiral staircase and disco balls.“Lots of disco balls,” said Vanessa Sanchez, the director of Yollocalli Arts Reach, a program of the National Museum of Mexican Art in Pilsen.Yollocalli, which means “House of the Heart” in the indigenous Mexican language Nahuatl, is adding this facility to its longtime home in the Little Village Boys and Girls Club.The museum bought the mothballed fire station from the city for $1 and is starting a $2 million rehab of the building at 2358 S. Whipple St. and plans to open it in early 2025.Via WBEZ&nbsp;<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024/06/05/insect-asylum-aims-to-inspire-with-public-cicada-art-now-on-display-cicada-parade-a">Insect Asylum aims to inspire with public cicada art, now on display in Chicago neighborhoods</a>For those enjoying the hunt for cicadas, you’re in for a big treat. Really big.In Ravenswood Manor alone, residents have spotted a rare silver, jewel-eyed cicada, as well as one with blue eyes and multicolored wings. Another cicada has the familiar red eyes and orange wings, but its shell is a plastic shopping bag.These new creatures are 18-inch, plaster sculptures decorated by Chicago artists, and they are popping up in parks, in front of homes and even on light poles.Via Chicago Sun-Times&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 6/6/24

<html><head></head><body>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419395/xahqayvkkqwuep2pdmtj.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/laura-catherwood-all-things-stirring-solo-show">Laura Catherwood: All Things Stirring</a>Opening: Friday, June 7, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmVertical Gallery – West Town&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419396/qtyr8q7dg4odtomzros3.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/david-keel">David Keel: A Walk in the Stars</a>Opening: Friday, June 7, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmVivid Art Gallery – Winnetka&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419397/oms4qxe1xqxu94opxppn.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/katherine-steichen-rosing-atmospheric-intricacies">Katherine Steichen Rosing: Atmospheric Intricacies</a>Opening: Friday, June 7, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmJames May Gallery – Milwaukee, WI&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419398/xcilewd2uarlczwghfqz.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/joe-forte-american-wallpaper">Joe Forte: AMERICAN WALLPAPER</a>Opening: Friday, June 7, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmARC Gallery – West Town&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419399/plw73rb3l6cmxyjw5tjw.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/moises-salazar-in-my-arms">Moises Salazar: In my Arms</a>Opening: Friday, June 7, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmEpiphany Center for the Arts – West Loop&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?filter=upcoming">View the full CGN calendar here</a></body></html>

New Exhibitions June 7 (Part I)

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419395/prtpdbllija48wvdx1hr.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/krista-franklin-any-bright-spark">Krista Franklin: Any Bright Spark</a>Opening: Friday, June 7, 5–8&nbsp;pmWestern Exhibitions – West Town&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419396/ejizsjafbqypeykhk9tc.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/noe-martinezl-as-raices-conversan-por-debajo-de-la-tierra">NOÉ MARTÍNEZL: as raíces conversan por debajo de la tierra</a>Opening: Friday, June 7, 5–7:30&nbsp;pmPATRON – West Town&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419397/ldcdlqpshrrjxysomu9n.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/collage-culture">Collage Culture</a>Opening: Friday, June 7, 4–7&nbsp;pmmoniquemeloche – West Town<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419398/wek4zl5hauzgwmlaekdx.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/erin-jane-nelson-c569dbcd-f421-40fd-8004-92d3d551be4c">Erin Jane Nelson</a>Opening: Friday, June 7, 5–8&nbsp;pmDOCUMENT – West Town&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419399/oapoqrjy13tmwdwcwjik.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/matt-paweski">Matt Paweski: Table Setting</a>Opening: Friday, June 7, 5–8&nbsp;pmVolume Gallery – West Town&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419400/hmfhqpqp3azi23oyls5r.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/constructions-1979-2011">Constructions: 1979 - 2011</a>Opening: Friday, June 7, 5–7&nbsp;pmRhona Hoffman Gallery – West Town&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?filter=upcoming">View the full CGN calendar here</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions June 7 (Part II)

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419390/aiwtedjtxuuovfbe9q1x.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;Judy Ledgerwood to Be Represented by GRAY in New York, In Addition to Global Rep with Rhona HoffmanGRAY announced it is pleased to welcome Judy Ledgerwood to the gallery’s roster of artists. In a painting career spanning four decades, Ledgerwood has confronted and expanded the history of abstract painting by decentering perceptions of its neutrality and prioritizing visual engagement and pleasure.&nbsp;GRAY will represent Ledgerwood in New York and globally alongside Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago. Ledgerwood’s first solo exhibition will open at GRAY New York in Fall 2025.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419391/gvgpcvphxfxd8zgxolzi.png"></figure>&nbsp;Mongerson Gallery Artists Part of Exhibition in DetroitMongerson Gallery is pleased to announce the inclusion of works by Charles McGee and Harold Neal in the upcoming exhibition&nbsp;Kinship: The Legacy of Gallery 7&nbsp;at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.&nbsp;The exhibition, to which Mongerson Gallery was honored to provide the loan of multiple works,&nbsp; highlights the cultural legacy of Gallery 7, one of the first galleries in Detroit dedicated to the work of Black artists. Founded by Charles McGee, Gallery 7 was active from 1970 through 1979, and was central in establishing&nbsp;Detroit's artistic legacy and place in the national Black Arts Movement.&nbsp;<a href="mailto:info@mongersongallery.com">Please Contact the Gallery</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419392/zy8efkg9ltvkelkyljsr.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;<a href="https://theartcenterhp.org">The Art Center Highland Park to Host Late Night June 12</a>Late Night at the Galleries resumes Wednesday, June 12 from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. when TAC opens up the outdoor lawn for these monthly summer events and invites anyone and everyone to hang out, listen to music, and peruse their art exhibits.TAC's next Late Night will feature The Crossing Borders Music String Quartet and Nisa Pov, Resident Artist of the National Cambodian Heritage Museum. This will be an amazing night of new arrangements of Cambodian classics. Performances will include beautiful new arrangements made by Crossing Borders Music violinist Rasa Mahmoudian and overseen by Pov for the Cambodian Day of Remembrance.Bring a blanket, dinner, lawn chairs, and enjoy a concert on the TAC Lawn.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

CGN Art World Recap: 6/3/24

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419390/wmomhafzuar6bsuo3axi.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/like-queer-animals-curated-by-vasia-rigou">Fleurs de Macadam</a>Opening: Wednesday, May 29, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmChicago Artists Coalition (CAC)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419391/d5wijpmwplljcjuqb9rc.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/time-and-again">Time and Again</a>Opening: Thursday, May 30, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmPistachios Contemporary Art Jewelry and Objects&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419392/rjvr9zyzlqkpyhonwluj.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/opening-reception-with-artist-talk-by-dakota-mace">Opening reception with artist talk by Dakota Mace</a>Opening: Thursday, May 30, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmMuseum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419393/bgkwi32sn3v9xwyk9jvo.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/nate-otto">Nate Otto</a>Opening: Friday, May 31, 7 – 10&nbsp;pmFirecat Projects&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419394/uzsxxinq6no3netnclvw.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/laleh-motlagh-entanglement">Laleh Motlagh: Entanglement</a>Opening: Friday, May 31, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmSoNa Chicago Art Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions May 29 - June 1 (Part I)

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419390/wpbgog7l4hkm8li5uosb.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/aeron-maxwell-chasing-visions-in-hyperspace">Aeron Maxwell: Chasing Visions in Hyperspace</a>Opening: Friday, May 31, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmEpiphany Center for the Arts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419391/wuly1colgvpfcvinbtu5.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/open-lens-xiv">Open Lens XIV: A Juried Fine Photography Exhibit</a>Opening: Sunday, June 23, 1 – 3&nbsp;pmGallery Seven&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419392/dudhdhyxp5u5xuk32yqk.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/arthur-jafa-works-from-the-mca-collection">Arthur Jafa: Works from the MCA Collection</a>Exhibition begins June 1Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419393/g2au5ny6ppngv5kodmhf.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/no-grout">No Grout</a>Exhibition begins June 1John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419394/hngsx4fhmdfdqn2vqmq1.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/sandra-ullmann">Slipping Away: Sandra Ullmann</a>Opening: Saturday, June 1, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmPerspective Photo Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions May 29 - June 1 (Part II)

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419390/lfybzjrzk2x4q7zjwpud.jpg"><figcaption>Randolph Street Market</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;In spite of cicadas most of us will look for any excuse to be outside this summer, and one way to take advantage of these beautiful short months is to combine your outings with some art viewing. Find that right work of art or vintage treasure and you can hold on to summer long after August.&nbsp;There is a strong lineup of everything from block parties to street festivals, to a suburban mural celebration and an internationally famous vintage market. Below we list a handful of markets, art fairs and events that you want to put on your calendar.&nbsp;Happy summer!&nbsp;– CGN&nbsp;<a href="https://randolphstreetmarket.com">• Randolph Street Market – West Loop</a>May 25 and 26, 10am-5pmAdvance ticket rates availableRSM Festival kicks off with the 2024 Outdoor+Indoor Summer Season Opener Garden Party this Memorial Day weekend. Experience 300 vendors in a European-style market with the best of unique vintage, antique &amp; repurposed furniture, art, decor, ephemera, vintage fashion for men/women, fancy foods. Always a party but especially in nice weather!&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.57thstreetartfair.org">• 57th Street Art Fair – Hyde Park</a>Saturday, June 1, 11–6Sunday, June 2, 10–5Admission is freeKick off the summer at the first major art fair of the season, located in the beautiful Hyde Park neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. The 57th Street Art Fair is for seasoned collectors as well as anyone new to the art scene. Meet friends, bring your family, enjoy the day at this historic, welcoming, fun event. All artists exhibiting at the Fair are stationed in their booths throughout the weekend to discuss their work. 180 artists are participating.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419391/acgzhkjzkedgykdjrrap.jpg"><figcaption><a href="https://fuexqizab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001hWyAjN4Zp_IdS0aKpbn50_PnFcjU_nwGHOm62toYJO4qeKTgDLg5qqGtyVfDeITIzV-wUAOItIEl5KO6lJK851Hc1x_ChFomoI7c_VdiGvK3z1-GBnTfGrWLKjl7DPlxB3S7yywabuC5mSr72wVcMMSbfaWw-hk9K01Va5ypSUYhG7gDLzsR8e-IRzCH9YEY&amp;amp;c=yRmKN-931VdgaSz2cKLIGsaRACsfOd6_Z8hBjODx7VnGCqrQ3fuu-g==&amp;amp;ch=jpNJP_5I9CQJq6h5TKL45SckwHlfUSv1lF0mFR5FdTC0_u-hT4dUng==">Rubén Aguirre</a> (1979, Chicago)</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.celebratehighwood.org/international-mural-fest/">• International Mural Festival – Highwood, IL</a>June 6–9Downtown Highwood Metra Station Parking LotJoin Celebrate Highwood as they launch a new event throughout the City of Highwood in their first-ever International Mural Festival. A diverse base of 12 internationally renowned muralists will paint vibrant art installations on the exterior walls 12 building throughout Highwood.In addition to 12 hand-selected artists, this all-ages festival will feature hands-on art activities for attendees, a live-mural art area with pieces to be auctioned off, live music, food and drink vendors, an outdoor bar, and a full carnival.Event beneficiary is <a href="https://theartcenterhp.org/">The Art Center of Highland Park.</a>Artists include: Chicago area artists include: <a href="https://www.theshiftchange.com/">Ruben Aguirre</a>. <a href="https://www.asendone.com/">Asend One</a>, <a href="https://annapmurphy.com/Bio">Anna Murphy</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dontfretart/?hl=en">Dont Fret</a>, <a href="http://www.worksbyelee.com/about-page">E Lee</a>, and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/stuk.one">Stuk One</a>, as well as <a href="https://al-diaz.com/about/">AL DIAZ</a> and <a href="https://linktr.ee/chrisrwk">Chris RWK</a> of NYC, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/iameelco/?hl=en">Eelco</a> from The Netherlands, and other visiting artists including <a href="http://www.epicuno.com/who-is-epic-uno">Epic Uno</a>, <a href="https://www.wanecod.com/bio">Wane COD,</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/zimad_art/?hl=en">Zimad</a>, and more.&nbsp;<a href="https://evanstonmade.org/first-saturday-evanston/">• Evanston Made, First Saturdays</a> and Plein Air Festival – Evanston, ILJune 1, July 6, August 3, September 7Evanston Made hosts First Saturday Evanston Art Events, a self-guided exploration of Evanston’s Creative Community, featuring art on display at venues across Evanston.&nbsp; Shop for handmade goods, meet small business owners, enjoy a delicious meal, learn to sketch and make art Friends.&nbsp;Also taking place is the third annual <a href="https://evanstonmade.org/evanston-plein-air-festival-2024/">Evanston Plein Air Festival</a>. Artists are invited to paint in the Plein Air style, all over Evanston for a week, capturing the beauty of Evanston’s natural environment, favorite landmarks and built environment. &nbsp;July 13–21, 12pm - 5pm&nbsp;<a href="https://www.oldtownartfair.org">• Old Town Art Fair – Old Town</a>Saturday, June 8, 10am–7pmSunday, June 9, 10am–6pmDon't plan on driving and parking anywhere nearby.&nbsp;$12 donations requested. Kids are free.&nbsp;In operation since the late 1950s, this familiar fair + urban party takes place in the heart of the charming Old Town Triangle Historic District and is at the heart of Old Town's deep artistic history. This year there will be 200+ nationally acclaimed artists, an estimated 30,000 art lovers, a Garden Walk, Live Music, Food Court and Children’s Corner.&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="https://amdurproductions.com/event/gold-coast-art-fair/">• Gold Coast Art Fair – Michigan Ave./Loop</a>Saturday and Sunday, June 15 and 16, 10am–5pmThis fair is a 66 year Chicago tradition, the Gold Coast Art Fair in Chicago’s Grant Park. Browse thousands of art pieces from 250 artists and also enjoy live music and food and drink stations. You can even try your own hand at making art and help your kids get inspired in the Kids Art Zone with art projects, face painting and more.&nbsp;Attendees are also invited to bring their gently used art where it will be donated to Chicago Furniture Bank, a nonprofit that distributes furnishings and art to those leaving shelters and moving into permanent housing.All surrounding streets and garages are open for Gold Coast Art Fair visitors. The fair will not be effected by NASCAR street closures.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bucktownartsfest.com">• Bucktown Arts Fest – Bucktown</a>August 24 and 25FreeA neighborhood tradition, this entirely volunteer run fair that began in the '80s gives all proceeds to&nbsp;fund, develop and support arts education&nbsp;programming at Holstein Park and in the Bucktown/Wicker Park neighborhoods. What began&nbsp;as four artists showing their work in the park&nbsp;has grown into a community tradition that hosts an estimated 30,000 people each year. The fest is free to the public, with no gates and no donation request.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Summer Art Festival Season Comes to Chicago and the Suburbs

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419390/yuozmuijwgvsfpre4iht.jpg"><figcaption>Portrait by Jonathan Yeo Studio</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68981200">King Charles: First official portrait since coronation is unveiled, painted by Jonathan Yeo</a>The first official painted portrait of King Charles III since his coronation has been unveiled at Buckingham Palace.&nbsp;The vast oil on canvas shows a larger-than-life King Charles in the uniform of the Welsh Guards.The vivid red work, measuring about 8ft 6in by 6ft 6in, is by Jonathan Yeo, who has also painted Tony Blair, Sir David Attenborough and Malala Yousafzai.Queen Camilla is said to have looked at the painting and told Yeo: "Yes, you've got him."Via BBC&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/experts-react-christies-website-hack-offline-2486213">‘Devastating’: Experts React as Suspected Cyberattack Keeps Christie’s Website Offline During Marquee Auction Week</a>It is not a good week for an auction house to suffer a technological failure, but that is what Christie’s is facing as it prepares for its <a href="https://news.artnet.com/market/here-are-the-top-lots-at-the-1-4-billion-new-york-evening-sales-this-week-2483621">marquee New York auctions</a> of Modern, contemporary, and Impressionist art. Since Thursday, the house’s website has <a href="https://dgc6x3fx379s3.cloudfront.net/">displayed a message</a> saying that it is offline and supplying phone numbers to contact its various locations. While the house has only called it a website outage, it is <a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/christies-website-hacked-ahead-of-marquee-sales-2485036">widely thought to be a cyberattack</a>. The house’s app displays a message that it was down for “scheduled maintenance.”Via Artnet&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artforum.com/columns/big-dreams-little-village-554003/">Big Dreams for Little Village: A makeover in Motor City</a>Detroit, a metonym for boom and bust in American industry across the twentieth century, has a split personality courtesy of the national news media. This poster child for yesterday’s urban blight is being shaped into a fledgling paradise for tomorrow, with space for urban farms, artists’ studios, and other major real-estate opportunities. This cyclical narrative of rebirth is echoed on the city’s seal:&nbsp;Speramus meliora&nbsp;and&nbsp;resurget cineribus, Latin phrases for&nbsp;“we hope for better things” and “it will rise from the ashes.” Art and culture play a starring role in this burgeoning new identity for the metropolis, but astride these persistent narratives are niggling questions regarding economic inequality and sustainability, plus the robust skepticism of many longtime Detroiters.&nbsp;<a href="https://hyperallergic.com/915055/sale-of-rosa-de-la-cruz-collection-raises-concerns-in-miami-art-world/">Sale of De la Cruz Collection Raises Concerns in Miami’s Art World</a>Last month, the Cuban-born, Miami-based art collector and philanthropist Rosa de la Cruz died at the age of 81. A few weeks later, the museum that housed her private collection in the city’s Design District closed permanently. A portion of the artworks were consigned by Christie’s, where they will go under the hammer in a series of sales <a href="https://press.christies.com/christies-presents-christies-presents-the-rosa-de-la-cruz-collection">kicking off</a> May 14, in New York City.&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 5/15/24

<a href="https://www.artforum.com/news/federal-court-bars-des-moines-art-center-destroying-mary-miss-land-art-installation-553807/">Federal Court Bars Des Moines Art Center from Destroying Mary Miss Land Art Installation&nbsp;</a>A federal judge on May&nbsp;3 issued a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/des-moines/2024/05/05/federal-court-orders-halt-to-removal-of-des-moines-park-art/73579401007/">preliminary injunction</a>&nbsp;preventing the Des Moines Art Center from <a href="https://www.artforum.com/news/des-moines-art-center-to-destroy-seminal-land-art-work-by-mary-miss1-548344/">dismantling</a>&nbsp;a major Land art installation that it commissioned from artist Mary Miss decades ago. In regard to the contested work, Miss’s&nbsp;1989–96 environment&nbsp;Greenwood Pond: Double Site,&nbsp;Judge Stephen Locher of the&nbsp;US District Court for the Southern District of Iowa ruled that “the Art Center cannot demolish the artwork without Miss’s consent (which she will not grant) because the Art Center promised in a contract not to do so.” Locher noted, however, that Miss could not force the museum to restore the work, which it has said it cannot afford to do, saying, “The end result is therefore an unsatisfying status quo: the artwork will remain standing (for now) despite being in a condition that no one likes but that the court cannot order anyone to change.”Via Art Forum&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/05/08/students-arrested-school-art-institute-chicago-fashion-institute-technology-pro-palestine">Students arrested at School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Fashion Institute of Technology amid crackdown on Palestinian solidarity encampments</a>As universities across the US continue to crack down on campus protests and encampments in support of Palestine, 68 protesters at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and around 50 at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York were arrested on 4 May and 7 May, respectively.Protesters from SAIC and Columbia College Chicago had set up an encampment in the North Garden of the Art Institute of Chicago, renaming it “Hind’s Garden” in honour of <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2024/hind-rajab-israel-gaza-killing-timeline/">Hind Rajab</a>, a six-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed along with her family by Israeli forces in Gaza. The protesters told <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2024/05/05/arrests-art-institute-protest">Axios</a> that the SAIC administration initially agreed to let them stay in the garden until the morning of 5 May if the encampment subsequently moved to an academic building. While the protesters were discussing the offer, they said, the school's administration informed them that police were en route.Via The Art Newspaper&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/05/arts/design/frank-stella-abstract-artist-appraisal.html">Frank Stella Went From Bauhaus to Fun House</a>Frank Stella, who died on Saturday at age 87, once joked that he harbored only one regret. We were sitting in his scruffy studio in the East Village, and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/04/magazine/frank-stella-s-expressionist-phase.html">he said</a> he was sorry that he had failed to take legal action when the men's wear store bearing his name opened in New York in the mid-70s. “People call here all the time asking for cashmere coats,” he said.Stella, it can safely be said, was not a fashion plate. To the end of his life, he had the aura of a nervous whiz kid with oversize glasses and frizzy hair. He counted himself among the socially marginalized and once joked in a personal letter about “all us miscreants who drifted into the Bowery of Life, the art world.”Via NYTimes&nbsp;Thumbnail: School of the Art Institute of Chicago students and other pro-Palestine protesters are arrested at the Art Institute of Chicago on 4 May David Jank / Alamy Stock Photo &nbsp;

What We're Reading: 5/8/24

<html><head></head><body>BY BIANCA BOVAFor an ideal day or weekend trip out of Chicago, make the drive (or board the Hiawatha) up to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Though not often considered an art destination, there is much of note to be seen in the city’s museums, galleries, and on the streets through the summer.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419385/gsipmp69mi0myhm0n2s7.jpg"><figcaption>Eddie Martinez, Untitled, 2020. Courtesy of MAM and TImothy Taylor, New York. Part of 50 Paintings &nbsp;</figcaption></figure>Milwaukee Art Museum –50 PaintingsNow on view in the famed winged Santiago Calatrava-designed museum is 50 Paintings, a comprehensive survey of works created within the last five years by 50 international artists. Co-curated by the museum’s senior curator of contemporary art Margaret Andera, and renowned artist-curator Michelle Grabner, this landmark exhibition is not to be missed.&nbsp;Through June 23, 2024Idris Khan: Repeat After MeAlso on view through August 11 is British artist Idris Khan's first U.S. museum solo exhibition, which traces Khan’s investigations across time and media. Showcasing major works covering every facet of the artist’s career, the exhibition also inaugurates a never-before-seen body of paintings Khan created expressly for the presentation at the Museum. In these works, Khan synthesizes his earliest concerns with photographic reproduction while delving into the integral role of color in iconic masterworks of art history and our memories of them.Make time to visit the permanent collection galleries while you’re there, if only to see Robert Gober’s mesmeric 1997 work Untitled (Suitcase), back on view following a years-long period of conservation.&nbsp;• <a href="http://mam.org">Mam.org</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419386/ecpnbl6tmr3wsqhdmbuz.jpg"><figcaption>Sarah Lucas, William Hambling, 2021. Courtesy of Sculpture Milwaukee and James Prinz &nbsp;</figcaption></figure>Sculpture Milwaukee, Nature Doesn’t Know About Us; Actual Fractals, Act I &amp; IIThe nonprofit organization producing exhibitions of contemporary sculpture with a dedicated focus on public art practices has three concurrent exhibitions running on the streets of Milwaukee. Nature Doesn’t Know About Us, curated by Ugo Rondinone and featuring a laundry list of bluechip artists remains on view, alongside Actual Fractals: Act I curated by the organization’s new executive director, the artist and dealer John Riepenhoff. Actual Fractals: Act II, also curated by Riepenhoff, opens this June. Pick up a map from a streetside box on arrival, and keep an eye out as you transit the city.&nbsp;Nature Doesn’t Know About Us and Actual Fractals: Act I are on view through October 2024; Actual Fractals: Act II is on view&nbsp;June 2024-October 2025• <a href="https://www.sculpturemilwaukee.com">sculpturemilwaukee.com</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419387/eg77hn3sfdooufpxzsvv.jpg"><figcaption>On view at Kim Storage, from left to right: Maggie Robertson, Tim Anderson, April Behnke</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;Kim Storage Gallery, The Beginning is Always TodayPay a visit to Milwaukee’s newest gallery, which presents its program as being concerned with the “evolving landscape of contemporary art.” Gallerist Kimberly Storage (“Storage” being her surname, and not a modifier of “Gallery” as one might assume) presents her inaugural exhibition, <a href="https://kimstoragegallery.com/show/kim-storage-gallery-the-beginning-is-always-today">The Beginning is Always Today</a>, as a survey of work by roughly a dozen artists of varying style and pedigree in a space in the Historic Third Ward’s Marshall Building.&nbsp;On view through May 4• <a href="https://kimstoragegallery.com">kimstoragegallery.com</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419388/yv4gbkr3ngc33bj1nco6.jpg"><figcaption>The Suburban, (exterior: Tyree Guyton, Timeology). Courtesy of Sculpture Milwaukee, The Suburban, and James Prinz &nbsp;</figcaption></figure>The Suburban, Lisa SigalMichelle Grabner and Brad Killam’s storied gallery, now in its twenty-fifth year, currently features new work by Lisa Sigal, an artist and educator based in Brooklyn. Her work encompasses painting, sculpture, socially-engaged projects, curating, and public art. Over the last three decades, she has exhibited in galleries and institutions in North America, Europe, and Asia. With Nova Benway, Sigal was a co-founder of <a href="https://drawingcenter.org/search/?s=open%20sessions">Open Sessions</a> at the Drawing Center, an initiative that offers support and exhibition space to early-career artists. With Byron Kim, she now co-directs the <a href="https://www.art.yale.edu/about/study-areas/summer-programs/norfolk">Yale Norfolk School of Art</a>, a summer residency program in Norfolk, CT.Also on view are Timeology by Tyree Guyton (part of Sculpture Milwaukee’s Nature Doesn’t Know About Us curated by Ugo Rondinone) and Half Ton Box by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle.Lisa Sigal's work is on view May-August 2024• <a href="http://www.thesuburban.org">thesuburban.org</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419389/pjvmbku0emdtg5duavos.jpg"><figcaption>Nicolaes Maes (Dordrecht 1634—1693 Amsterdam), Portrait of Three Children as Ceres, Ganymede, and Diana, 1673. Oil on canvas. Museum purchase, 2005.4. Collection of the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University.</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;The Haggerty Museum of Art, Image in Dispute: Dutch &amp; Flemish Art From the Collection of the HaggertyMarquette University’s art museum houses a surprisingly eclectic permanent collection of historical and contemporary art. This exhibition by the Haggerty’s Consulting Curator of European Art Kirk Nickel examines artistic responses to the changes reshaping community identity in the Low Countries between 1560 and 1675. Narrow in its scope and breathtaking in the lavishness of the works included, it’s a must-see for anyone craving a counterbalance to the incoming onslaught of blockbuster summer shows at major museums.&nbsp;Image in Dispute: Dutch &amp; Flemish Art from the Collection of the Haggerty is on view through May 12, 2024&nbsp;• <a href="https://www.marquette.edu/haggerty-museum/">marquette.edu/haggerty-museum/</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Head North: On in Milwaukee

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419377/h3byah21pdmqqxxn5y5e.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/laurie-victor-kay-introspections">Laurie Victor Kay: Intersections</a>Opening: Wednesday, May 8, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmAnne Loucks Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419378/gorkrxd2zmtqmj5whmsb.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/lyn-tietz-scenes-of-nature">Lyn Tietz: Scenes of Nature</a>Opening: Sunday, May 5, 1 – 3&nbsp;pmGallery Seven&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419379/jzznh1vdajq8unm9yzdg.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/senior-capstone-exhibition-e9205309-b1ad-4209-80cb-e25804944916">Senior Capstone Exhibition</a>Opening: Thursday, May 2, 7 – 9&nbsp;pmWadsworth Family Gallery at Lewis University&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419380/hyzsidtuqohvrd6gnc7b.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/student-perspectives">Student Perspectives</a>Exhibition begins May 2Perspective Photo Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419380/vdshkt5hcj5d5ehosubf.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/chryssa-new-york">Chryssa &amp; New York</a>Exhibition begins May 3Wrightwood 659&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419381/tyoutf5jkgcdjxn3gc2e.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/dominick-di-meo-torsoscape">Dominick Di Meo: Torsoscape</a>Opening: Friday, May 3, 6 – 8&nbsp;pmCorbett vs. Dempsey&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419382/bi9pzcu1pbgerwcobzgx.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/william-villalongo-myths-and-migrations">William Villalongo: Myths and Migrations</a>Exhibition begins May 3Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419383/wkiqxegjgx7nefk3d2ju.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/ceres-gallery-new-york-arc-gallery-chicago">Ceres Gallery New York/ ARC Gallery Chicago</a>Opening: Friday, May 3, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmARC Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419385/tjfvlb7nkqz6iybq8m6b.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/adam-siegel-works">Adam Siegel: Works</a>Exhibition begins May 3The Art Center Highland Park&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions May 1 - 4 (Part I)

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419377/gpecfk8wqe1eik43xfhz.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/vince-phan-and-molly-blumberg">Garden of Liminal Bodies</a>Opening: Friday, May 3, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmChicago Artists Coalition (CAC)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419378/jl30ycbsfd1624ij7a7f.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/emmy-star-brown-familiar-form">Emmy Star Brown: Familiar Form</a>Opening: Friday, May 3, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmVertical Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419379/xdotz1e7rzaaxcpr3te9.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/half-half-2024-mfa-thesis-exhibition">Half &amp; Half: 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition</a>Opening: Thursday, May 2, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmBlock Museum of Art&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419380/loialxknl80mgrpksux8.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/solo-exhibition-of-the-art-of-alfredo-palmero">Contemporary Classicism: The Art of Alfredo Palmero</a>Opening: Friday, May 3, 6 – 8&nbsp;pmLily Pad | West&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419380/a3yy4pcl8mxfqzp42fej.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/miyoko-ito-needle-stone-and-mud">Miyoko Ito: Needle, Stone, and Mud</a>Opening: Friday, May 3, 6 – 8&nbsp;pmCorbett vs. Dempsey&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419381/ijh0izdyeoyvp2apabsv.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/2024-school-of-art-design-bfa-exhibition">2024 School of Art &amp; Design BFA Exhibition</a>May 4Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419382/wvwm34cxnz4wknl5y1un.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/opening-passages-artists-respond-to-chicago-and-paris">Opening Passages: Artists Respond to Chicago and Paris </a>May 4Chicago Cultural Center&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419383/pmkqw85pz79yz6baphdj.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-politicians-some-of-them">The Politicians (some of them)</a>Opening: Saturday, May 4, 5 – 8&nbsp;pm(northern) Western Exhibitions&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419384/dgldnvo2wny95ebnq4mq.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jordan-strafer-decadence">Jordan Strafer: Decadence</a>Opening: Saturday, May 4, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmThe Renaissance Society&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions May 1 - 4 (Part II)

<html><head></head><body><a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/museums-auction-guarantees-2468321">An Unexpected Player Has Begun Providing Auction Guarantees</a>Museums and auction houses have always been odd bedfellows.Museums turn to auction houses to sell art <a href="https://news.artnet.com/market/toledo-museum-deaccessioning-at-auction-2098238">deaccessioned</a> from their collections, sometimes <a href="https://news.artnet.com/market/baltimore-museum-of-art-cancels-sothebys-sale-1919088">sparking controversy</a>, and to <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/creating-space-artists-for-the-studio-museum-in-harlem-an-auction-to-benefit-the-museums-new-building">organize fundraisers</a>. Auction houses, meanwhile, have become more active as sponsors of museum exhibitions and biennials, <a href="https://news.artnet.com/market/as-biennale-budgets-shrink-auction-houses-help-fill-the-gap-2470504">raising some eyebrows</a>.But now the two sectors are collaborating in an intriguing new way.In what appears to be to be an unprecedented move, the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio has started providing guarantees for artworks that it wants to acquire at auction.Via Artnet&nbsp;<a href="https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2024/04/11/artist-idris-khan-milwaukee-museum-of-art">Artist Idris Khan’s First American Museum Solo Exhibition Comes to the Milwaukee Art Museum</a>For Idris Khan, there’s beauty in repetition. Growing up in a Muslim household in the U.K., the London-based artist followed his father’s religious devotion. “We were praying together, but I never really knew why I was doing that. I never knew the language; I sort of just repeated.”Iteration is now a lifelong investigation, and the main subject of his first solo U.S. museum show “<a href="https://mam.org/exhibitions/repeat-after-me/">Repeat After Me</a>,” on view at the Milwaukee Museum of Art. The title is a mantra from Khan’s father: “‘Repeat After Me’ came from what he used to say to me in the mosque.” Viewers can see this fascination in the looping scrawl of Bicycle Wheel...after Duchamp, 2014, and the overlapping staffs in Bach...Six Suites for the Solo Cello, 2006. And in the new work created expressly for the exhibition, Khan continues to seek the beauty and constraint in the ritual of repetition.&nbsp;Via Cultured&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419377/ypdpk1bicmdvd9aahdjm.jpg"><figcaption>Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Fräulein Lieser, 1917 © Auktionshaus im Kinsky GmbH, Wien</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/04/24/klimt-portrait-mystery-30m-auction-im-kinsky-vienna">Klimt portrait surrounded by mystery sells for €30m in Vienna</a>A late portrait by Gustav Klimt with a tangled history and surrounded by mysteries sold for a hammer price of €30m at Im Kinsky in Vienna, an auction record for Austria.The recent discovery of Portrait of Fräulein Lieser (1917) was described by the Vienna auction house as “a sensation”. It was previously only known from a black-and-white photograph and had been believed lost until Im Kinsky received a phone call from the consignor around 16 months ago.Via the Art Newspaper&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 4/24/24

<html><head></head><body>This year's <a href="https://www.expochicago.com">EXPO CHICAGO</a> features 170 galleries from around the world – from Paris to to Cape Town to Seoul. Several exhibiting galleries also operate close to home all year round, and in recognition of the special programming that these Chicago and regional galleries are exhibiting this weekend, we have a short wrap–up below.&nbsp;Please double check booth details as you are able with an onsite map.&nbsp;Also visit our CGN booth P7 to say hi and pick up a copy of our spring issue and the 2024 CGN Arts Guide!&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2024/4/what-chicago-galleries-are-bringing-to-expo-chicago">Read Part 1</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2024/4/what-chicago-galleries-are-bringing-to-expo-chicago-part-2">Read Part 2</a>– CGN Staff&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419368/trou7eyetedmoqttzokx.jpg"></figure> THE MISSION PROJECTSBooth #115Part of EXPOSURE at EXPO Chicago, The Mission Project is presenting a solo booth this year, featuring new work by Peruvian artist Kenji Nakama. A native of Lima, Nakama made his U.S. debut in a group exhibition last spring at THE RESIDENCE. This presentation will be his first solo exhibition in the United States. Selected work from two of Nakama’s most recent series, Folding Studies and Exhaled Series, will be presented. These compositions are made of manipulated strips of blank white paper. Some are representational – from Warhol’s iconic image of Marilyn Monroe to Van Gogh’s self-portrait – and some are abstract, but all elicit a sense of movement, the gestures of brushstrokes, or the illusion of oil paint dragging on a surface.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419369/xytuckoz1spt9lulfe6c.jpg"></figure>F.L. Braswell Fine ArtBooth #377F.L Braswell Fine Art is a private dealership focusing on modern and contemporary art by European and American artists. Based in Chicago, Illinois and founded in 2000, areas of specialty include original prints, works on paper and abstract art from the 1930s to present. The gallery is part of Editions + Books at EXPO.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419369/uzogz493671gspyiegf7.jpg"></figure>PovosBooth #421This is the gallery's first time at EXPO, and it is featuring the work of Ashton Hadari and William Schaeuble. Offsite the gallery will open its second, downtown location on Friday, April 12 with a show of gallery artists as well.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419370/jvothukgvesie2qxdews.jpg"></figure>Volume GalleryBooth #232Volume is showcasing works by several gallery artists, from Matt Paweski to Luftwerk to Christy Matson (Matson's solo show opens Friday at the gallery in West Town).&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419371/qjcafmlcwvqlqsxppnnm.jpg"></figure> Chicago Printmakers CollaborativeBooth #376CPC is featuring many working printmakers in their booth this year and that means there is a lot of work to browse. In addition to what's hanging on the walls there are many more works you can flip through, many affordably priced and worth a look especially if you are a new or aspiring collector. The gallery is showcasing Chicago galleries as well as printmakers from around the country.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419371/wewfnr0pcdkbtd4cyagz.jpg"></figure> Bert Green Fine ArtBooth #375Part of Editions and Books, the gallery is featuring a full selection of published prints, including the public debut of 4 new editions. One of the editioned works is a wooden toy gun by Mac Pierce, sold in an edition of 6. Other editions are by Mark Wagner and Industry of the Ordinary.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419372/x2ooqzexfpt6sacxnjqm.jpg"></figure>MICKEYBooth #430The gallery will be showing artists Ryan Nault &amp; Amy Stober. At the gallery's West Town location they are holding special hours during EXPO: Friday: 5-8pm with many other galleries around the city, and Saturday/Sunday: 12-6pm.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419373/iat1a1lvefcp8s5l0f8c.jpg"></figure>AMFMBooth #430Black artists, Erin LeAnn Mitchell, Erol Scott Harris, Kelvin Kweku Haizel, Lola Ayisha Ogbara, and Modou Dieng Yacine. Mitchell, Harris, Haizel, Ogbara, and Yacine explore the domestics of home, time, architecture, and interiority through the use of the body and figure in their work through abstraction, sculpture, painting, and textile.&nbsp;#&nbsp;The EXPO CHGO ONLINE viewing room is also on view now and connects you digitally with exhibitors and allows you to view the artworks on display at the fair in advance of the opening. Accessible only until&nbsp;Friday, April 19&nbsp;at&nbsp;9:00pm&nbsp;CT, the online viewing room is the place to learn more about exhibitors, discover highlights you might have missed, and contact the galleries.<a href="https://expochicago.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=feab88d1702b05fff44372e88&amp;id=7a38fe8fb3&amp;e=c5b146cc27">BROWSE EXPO CHGO ONLINE – Powered by Artnav</a>&nbsp;CGN will cover the Special Exhibitions participants in another post.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What Chicago Galleries Are Bringing to EXPO CHICAGO: PART 3

<html><head></head><body>This year's <a href="https://www.expochicago.com">EXPO CHICAGO</a> features 170 galleries from around the world – from Paris to to Cape Town to Seoul. Several exhibiting galleries also operate close to home all year round, and in recognition of the special programming that these Chicago and regional galleries are exhibiting this weekend, we have a short wrap–up below.&nbsp;Please double checkbooth details as you are able with an onsite map.&nbsp;Also visit our CGN booth P7 to say hi and pick up a copy of our spring issue and the 2024 CGN Arts Guide!&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2024/4/what-chicago-galleries-are-bringing-to-expo-chicago">Read Part 1</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2024/4/what-chicago-galleries-are-bringing-to-expo-chicago-part-3">Read Part 3</a>– CGN Staff&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419368/uoqijgxzvinqv4ibco7c.jpg"><figcaption>Bassim Al-Shaker, Resurrection, 2023, Oil on canvas, 80 x 60 inches</figcaption></figure>Rhona Hoffman GalleryRhona Hoffman Gallery, founded originally as Young Hoffman Gallery in 1976, specializes in international contemporary art in all media, and art that is conceptually, formally, or socio-politically based. The gallery will feature <a href="https://www.rhoffmangallery.com/art-fairs/expo-chicago4">many gallery artists</a> in their booth this year, from Derrick Adams to Amanda Williams, Spencer Finch, Julia Fish, Bassim Al-Shaker and Judy Ledgerwood, among others. Off-site in their West Town space works by Jacob Hashimoto are on view.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419369/lesyzrmawtwurrvmhk9e.jpg"><figcaption><a href="https://documentspace.com/artist/julien-creuzet/">Julien Creuzet</a></figcaption></figure>DOCUMENTBooth #333Document, with locations in Chicago as well as Lisbon, Portugal, will be featuring the work of artists Elizabeth Atterbury, Kiah Celeste, Julien Creuzet, Jimmy DeSana, Anneke Eussen, Victoria Fu, Gordon Hall, Laura Letinsky, Erin Jane Nelson, Natani Notah, John Opera, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Tromarama, Andrew Norman Wilson.&nbsp;Gallery artist Laura Letinsky also has a special program offsite at the <a href="https://molosco.com">Four Seasons</a>, where her photographs are displayed alongside a new porcelain collection by Molosco. This is Molosco’s first pop-up store in North America.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419370/j9v1feufcjnio7weeens.jpg"><figcaption>May Tveit, Say Yes, 2017, Corrugated cardboard, 85 x 68 x 3 inches</figcaption></figure> Secrist | BeachBooth #305The gallery just unveiled a new name and brand identity in time for EXPO. Appearing for the first time at an art fair as with their new name and Chicago location, for EXPO Chicago, SECRIST | BEACH will present a curated installation&nbsp;featuring new works by represented artists&nbsp;Hilma’s Ghost,&nbsp;Stephen Eichhorn, Anne Lindberg and Liliana Porter. Also on view will be works by artists who will be featured in concurrent invitational salon curations at SECRIST | BEACH’s new Chicago location: Kristoffer McAfee, Jacqueline Surdell and May Tveit. Thematically, this presentation will showcase materiality as a principal means of artistic communication, while investigating conceptual ideas such as&nbsp;the spirituality of abstraction,&nbsp;our common connection to nature and the conceptual necessities of the human condition.One of the artworks on view will be a monumental painting by Hilma’s Ghost (Dannielle Tegeder and Sharmistha Ray), Cosmic Altar. This significant artwork, developed in collaboration with a psychic medium and professional witch, is work of such significance, it inspired and won a major public commission that will be realized in New York City later this year. Another artwork, Say Yes by Kansas-based artist May Tveit, is a large abstract wall sculpture made from corrugated cardboard that was developed while in residence at the Lawrence Paper Company, a 130-year old business in Lawrence, Kansas. This artwork evokes metaphorical connotations from ziggurats to minimalism and machine-age living, creating a telling context for today.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419371/xgng6o46v7im94owaunj.jpg"><figcaption>Sam Jaffe</figcaption></figure> 65GRANDBooth #225The gallery will be featuring the work of artists Sam Jaffe &amp; Brian Kapernekas&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419371/oheqpac20cb9eqrmc2hw.jpg"></figure> Anthony GalleryBooth #231Anthony Gallery is pleased to present new work by multidisciplinary artist Michael C. Thorpe at the 2024 edition of EXPO Chicago. Fact and Fiction furthers Thorpe’s exploration of quilting as a painterly medium, utilizing both photographic and textile processing to craft composite artworks that blur the lines between reality and imagination.This series begins with reference photographs printed onto canvas. Consisting of cluttered countertops, quiet basements, and living room corners, these reference images are rooted in the everyday. Thorpe bears witness to the inner workings of his perception by interrupting photoreal veneers with invented textile compositions. Sketching with his sewing machine, he fuses the plain with the technicolor, collaging his quilted forms onto canvas, curating a variety of whimsical patchwork tableaux.Guided by his creative intuition and unhindered by aesthetic pretenses—in his own words, first thought, best thought—Thorpe uses automatism to scaffold geometric scenes bursting with color and narrative possibility. It is in establishing these parameters that he is able to breathe life into the most mundane of spaces. Fact and Fiction’s unfailing positivity and generous spirit are contagious, transforming our everyday world into one brimming with possibility.Fact and Fiction welcomes Thorpe back for his second solo presentation, preceded by his participation in 2023’s Flying on a Moving Mountain, and the group exhibition GUMBO.&nbsp;&nbsp;#&nbsp;The EXPO CHGO ONLINE viewing room is also on view now and connects you digitally with exhibitors and allows you to view the artworks on display at the fair in advance of the opening. Accessible only until&nbsp;Friday, April 19&nbsp;at&nbsp;9:00pm&nbsp;CT, the online viewing room is the place to learn more about exhibitors, discover highlights you might have missed, and contact the galleries.<a href="https://expochicago.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=feab88d1702b05fff44372e88&amp;id=7a38fe8fb3&amp;e=c5b146cc27">BROWSE EXPO CHGO ONLINE – Powered by Artnav</a>&nbsp;CGN will cover the Special Exhibitions participants in another post.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What Chicago Galleries Are Bringing to EXPO CHICAGO: PART 2

<html><head></head><body>This year's <a href="https://www.expochicago.com">EXPO CHICAGO</a> features 170 galleries from around the world – from Paris to to Cape Town to Seoul. Several exhibiting galleries also operate close to home all year round, and in recognition of the special programming that these Chicago and regional galleries are exhibiting this weekend, we have a short wrap–up below.&nbsp;Please double checkbooth details as you are able with an onsite map.&nbsp;Also visit our CGN booth P7 to say hi and pick up a copy of our spring issue and the 2024 CGN Arts Guide!&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2024/4/what-chicago-galleries-are-bringing-to-expo-chicago-part-2">Read Part 2</a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2024/4/what-chicago-galleries-are-bringing-to-expo-chicago-part-3">Read Part 3</a>– CGN Staff&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419368/wayrdd5swxbesa1ivugl.jpg"><figcaption><a href="https://qvrzaq.clicks.mlsend.com/ty/c/eyJ2Ijoie1wiYVwiOjM4NzU1NixcImxcIjoxMTc2MjI3MDA0MzE2Mzk4NzIsXCJyXCI6MTE3NjIyNzAxNjkzMDc2ODQyfSIsInMiOiIzMWQ4YmVmMTdkNDBiOGE0In0">Judy Ledgerwood</a>:&nbsp;Field Flowers, 2020, monotype.</figcaption></figure>Manneken PressBooth #472Manneken Press will participate as part of <a href="https://qvrzaq.clicks.mlsend.com/ty/c/eyJ2Ijoie1wiYVwiOjM4NzU1NixcImxcIjoxMTc2MjI3MDA0MDg1NzExOTAsXCJyXCI6MTE3NjIyNzAxNjkzMDc2ODQyfSIsInMiOiI0MjEyODZmZjNhNWU3OTYwIn0">Editions + Books</a>, a distinct gallery section which features artist books, editions and multiples. Manneken will feature works by <a href="https://qvrzaq.clicks.mlsend.com/ty/c/eyJ2Ijoie1wiYVwiOjM4NzU1NixcImxcIjoxMTc2MjI3MDA0MTgwMDgzNzcsXCJyXCI6MTE3NjIyNzAxNjkzMDc2ODQyfSIsInMiOiI3NTI4YmMzYWFmZWMwMDFlIn0">Matt Magee</a>, <a href="https://qvrzaq.clicks.mlsend.com/ty/c/eyJ2Ijoie1wiYVwiOjM4NzU1NixcImxcIjoxMTc2MjI3MDA0MjIyMDI2ODQsXCJyXCI6MTE3NjIyNzAxNjkzMDc2ODQyfSIsInMiOiI3NGZiODFlMGY4ZTdlZGIxIn0">Philip Van Keuren</a>, <a href="https://qvrzaq.clicks.mlsend.com/ty/c/eyJ2Ijoie1wiYVwiOjM4NzU1NixcImxcIjoxMTc2MjI3MDA0Mjc0NDU1NjYsXCJyXCI6MTE3NjIyNzAxNjkzMDc2ODQyfSIsInMiOiJjNTgyOTYyZjZmZWYxNDllIn0">Sarah Smelser</a>, <a href="https://qvrzaq.clicks.mlsend.com/ty/c/eyJ2Ijoie1wiYVwiOjM4NzU1NixcImxcIjoxMTc2MjI3MDA0MzE2Mzk4NzIsXCJyXCI6MTE3NjIyNzAxNjkzMDc2ODQyfSIsInMiOiIzMWQ4YmVmMTdkNDBiOGE0In0">Judy Ledgerwood</a> and others.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419369/njbdxgdwhftpeg6yhfgd.jpg"><figcaption>Ebony G. Patterson, …bent… and rippled in the swallow….submitting to ….an ending, 2023. Digital print on archival watercolor paper with hand-cut and torn elements, construction paper, and plastic, mounted on wallpaper. 86 x 107 x 16 in</figcaption></figure>moniquemelocheBooth #313moniquemeloche will present a curated selection of works by Luke Agada, Candida Alvarez, Sanford Biggers, Antonius-Tín Bui, David Antonio Cruz, Yvette Mayorga, Lavar Munroe, Maia Cruz Palileo, Ebony G. Patterson, Cheryl Pope, David Shrobe, Arvie Smith, Shinique Smith, and Jake Troyli.Several of the gallery's artists will be participating in EXPO's programming as well. A highlight will be:&nbsp;<a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001cbzQpKrrUq66ZmWJyKdN7ykJR8n3wisinQWQJCap-9I2Sq_iBFuhEdRLAlcXJszlnrLv5vFyAy6eh5jPMI_tvZB9cMgxuNIzQUICa9KYvmiIOV-EKmx1nWvwRTEII0NAQ45wvl2GpIRy92Y1ccSesSEmHSEppRZ7J-UpCF-138t7X8sv3Hhy_w==&amp;c=-tG4hbFlsizi5fEQWG3ENM2Mk4JyYxqjciU0IxPz3hE4nug1SotcUQ==&amp;ch=vOt4tvkq9C_9j-0iY8N-rRIhkF0FhRTo6aKvA1hewY5qXDUCGUO1lA==">For Freedoms | Art Making and the Social Change Stage: Curating Civic Listening Through Art Identities</a>Antonius-Tín Bui, Shinique Smith, Jake Troyli and Lisa Lee, moderated by Toni Anderson&nbsp;Thursday, April 11, 2-3 pm on the /Dialogues Stage&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419370/nuwr0zuqwxssw8hq0egu.jpg"><figcaption>Roger Brown,&nbsp;Visit the Oregon Coast,&nbsp;1979,&nbsp;oil on canvas with taxidermy seagulls,&nbsp;72 x 54 x 12 inches. &nbsp;</figcaption></figure>Corbett vs DempseyBooth #237The gallery will present a multifarious mix of artists from its program. On the front line, the booth will feature major works by four of Chicago's greatest sculptors: H.C. Westermann, Joseph Goto, Diane Simpson, and Richard Rezac. Roger Brown's incredible 1979 hybrid Visit the Oregon Coast bridges second and third dimensions, with a shelf of taxidermied seabirds. As always, painting occupies a central position in the gallery's pantheon, and this year is no exception, with new work in several media by Ellen Berkenblit, Brian Calvin, Gabrielle Garland, Magalie Guérin, Roscoe Mitchell, Lui Shtini, Omar Velázquez, and Molly Zuckerman-Hartung. Spotlight sections will present paintings by Karl Wirsum (concurrent with his dual&nbsp;New York exhibitions), Nicole Eisenman and Rebecca Morris (proximate to&nbsp;their sequential shows at the MCA Chicago), Ted Halkin (in anticipation of his upcoming show at the Art Institute of Chicago), and the indomitable 98-year-old Dominick Di Meo (in anticipation of his upcoming gallery show at CvsD).*The gallery is also participating in Barely Fair this weekend and will present a suite of exquisite pocket-sized&nbsp;paintings by Rebecca Shore. These works feature a variety of subject matter: landscapes, still lives and interiors, each constructed from a particular perspective. Highly&nbsp;refined with attention to detail throughout the image, Shore's works are animated by the phenomena of daily life.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419371/tgnuzqmcurgb7odm2v7l.jpg"></figure> CONVERSO MODERNBooth #148CONVERSO, based in Chicago since the mid-90s, has become one of America’s most prominent dealers of modern furnishings and objects. Known for highlighting furniture by architects, rare prototypes, and limited-editions that attract attention from collectors and designers alike, their booth at EXPO will offer collectors much to covet.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419375/gcads9xwnststafkapho.jpg"></figure> Les EnluminuresBooth #343Les Enluminures is enthusiastic to showcase 11 timeless, extraordinary works by exceptionally skilled artists. The exhibition features ten exceptionally rare, manuscripts. Essentially panel painting in book form, their quality is on par with (and in some cases originating from) that expected from royal collections. This group is crowned by a Renaissance necklace, wholly original. Its ageless design is a veritable technical tour de force. &nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419375/fbgogyyfdj9ilz4d2pt1.jpg"><figcaption>Raphaël Barontini, Au Balcon du Palais Sans-Soucis, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Mariane Ibrahim</figcaption></figure> Mariane Ibrahim GalleryBooth #203Mariane Ibrahim will unveil a solo presentation of artist Raphaël Barontini at EXPO CHICAGO.&nbsp;Barontini will also be featured in a citywide collaborative public art initiative between EXPO CHICAGO and the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) in collaboration with the Chicago Digital Network to exhibit artwork on all CDN billboards and City Information Panels "CIPs" in the Central Business District from April 1—21, 2024. Participants included both emerging and established artists from Chicago and around the world.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419376/lgcghccszc8x3rimcc61.jpg"><figcaption>Anna Kunz, Mock Orange, acrylic on canvas, 2024, 60 x 66 inches, signed, dated and titled verso</figcaption></figure> McCormick GalleryBooth #271This is Tom McCormick's 40th year at the art fair - he first packed up his truck to participate when John Wilson was running Art Expo in the 1980s. This year his booth will feature many gallery artists, including Anna Kunz, Pooja Pitte, Kim Piotrowski, Gwen Yen Chiu, John Santoro, Michael Hedges and Janis Kanter. The gallery will also exhibit works by artists whose estates the gallery represents: Richard Hunt, Perle Fine, Mary Abbott, Melville Price and Jan Matulka.&nbsp;&nbsp;#&nbsp;The EXPO CHGO ONLINE viewing room is also on view now and connects you digitally with exhibitors and allows you to view the artworks on display at the fair in advance of the opening. Accessible only until&nbsp;Friday, April 19&nbsp;at&nbsp;9:00pm&nbsp;CT, the online viewing room is the place to learn more about exhibitors, discover highlights you might have missed, and contact the galleries.<a href="https://expochicago.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=feab88d1702b05fff44372e88&amp;id=7a38fe8fb3&amp;e=c5b146cc27">BROWSE EXPO CHGO ONLINE – Powered by Artnav</a>&nbsp;CGN will cover the Special Exhibitions participants in another post.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

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