<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>

What Chicago Galleries Are Bringing to EXPO CHICAGO: PART 1

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419359/ammqst3nxbd5pzdrmisw.jpg"><figcaption>Jules Allen, Untitled, 1996–97, Gelatin silver print. Image: 11 ¼ x 17 7/8” (28.6 x 45.4 cm), Edition of 3 + 1 AP. Courtesy the artist and GRAY.</figcaption></figure>McArthur Binion and Jules Allen: Me and YouGRAY&nbsp;This two-person exhibition features 11 new paintings by McArthur Binion and a survey of gelatin silver prints by New York-based photographer Jules Allen.McArthur Binion’s new series, Handmadeness, delves fully into the lexicon of what Binion terms the under conscious: visual markers of his identity collaged in a repeating, interwoven grid. These images in the paintings’ ground layer span a range of sources, from the deeply personal and autobiographical to the public and political. Binion obscures the under conscious with washes of ink in novel color combinations and a lattice-like layer in paint stick, the artist’s chosen materials since the 1970s.Allen studied photography under Jack Welpott, whose formalist leanings were rooted in the tradition of Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, and he received a MS in clinical psychology to better understand the human subject. In 1978, Allen moved to New York and met Binion among a rich milieu of Black avant-garde musicians and artists.Me and You commemorates a 40-year dialogue between the two artists, whose mutual admiration originated in the Black avant-garde of 1980s New York City.Apr 12–May 31 • Opening reception Apr 12, 5–8pm2044 W. Carroll (60612)<a href="https://www.richardgraygallery.com">richardgraygallery.com</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419360/ojijsda5r05qxcv4wxy1.jpg"><figcaption>Nicole Eisenman (b. 1965, Verdun, France; lives in Brooklyn, NY), Beer Garden with Ulrike and Celeste, 2009. Oil on canvas; 65 × 82”. (165.1 × 208.3 cm). Hall Collection. Image courtesy Hall Collection.</figcaption></figure>Nicole Eisenman: What Happened&nbsp;MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (MCA)Nicole Eisenman: What Happened is the artist’s first major comprehensive survey. Through over 100 works dating back to 1992 Eisenman explores political, economic, and social themes through her formally experimental and often-humorous portraits of daily life. The MCA is the only US venue and the last destination for the exhibition. &nbsp;April 6–Sept 22<a href="https://visit.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/nicole-eisenman-what-happened/">mcachicago.org</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419361/mfnosdkxnmvi3d4qlf4k.jpg"><figcaption>Christina Ramberg, Probed Cinch, 1971. Private collection, New York. © The Estate of Christina Ramberg. Photography by Clements/Howcroft, Boston.</figcaption></figure>Christina Ramberg: A Retrospective&nbsp;and&nbsp;Four Chicago Artists: Theodore Halkin, Evelyn Statsinger, Barbara Rossi, and Christina RambergART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGOWhile best known for her stylized paintings of fragmented female bodies, throughout her brief yet focused career, Christina Ramberg vacillated between the depiction of various figural elements—hair, hands, torsos, and garments—while also creating equally rich, abstracted forms that emphasize structure and surface.&nbsp;The first comprehensive exhibition devoted to Ramberg in almost 30 years presents approximately 100 works, from intimate early paintings focused on the pattern and form of women’s hairstyles and garments, to mature work featuring cropped female torsos in lingerie that contains and restrains. The exhibition presents her most iconic imagery while grappling with all phases and elements of Ramberg’s continually evolving career.<a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/9723/christina-ramberg-a-retrospective">Christina Ramberg: A Retrospective</a> • Apr 20–Aug 11&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419362/jughfflawgo7vsq5p6ah.jpg"><figcaption>Barbara Rossi, Flower Returning to the H2O, 1978, Acrylic on hardboard, Gift of the Robert A. Lewis Fund in memory of William and Polly Levey</figcaption></figure>Four Chicago Artists: Theodore Halkin, Evelyn Statsinger, Barbara Rossi, and Christina Ramberg explores the art of four artists, all formally educated at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and informally inspired by the city’s cultural resources—from the Field Museum to Maxwell Street Market. Each artist developed highly unique practices. The works that resulted are as visionary as they are true to feeling, centering the transformation of shape, line, and color into otherwise incommunicable meaning.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/10097/four-chicago-artists-theodore-halkin-evelyn-statsinger-barbara-rossi-and-christina-ramberg">Four Chicago Artists</a> • May 11–Aug 26&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419362/uianrqyno3jcbeoi7gah.jpg"><figcaption>Vera Klement in her studio</figcaption></figure>Vera Klement&nbsp;ZOLLA/LIEBERMAN GALLERY&nbsp;In a career spanning over six decades, Klement’s work was a reflection of her many influences. From classical music to literature to modern art, these themes are filtered through her early formative experience fleeing the Nazis with her family just before World War II and a lifetime examining that loss of home and identity. Klement passed away in October 2023.&nbsp;Jul 12–Aug 15 • Opening reception Jul 12, 4–7 pm 325 W. Huron (60654)<a href="https://www.zollaliebermangallery.com">zollaliebermangallery.com</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419363/vdjpikkn8dnm4e14q21b.jpg"></figure>Victoria Martinez: Braiding Histories&nbsp;CHICAGO CULTURAL CENTERThis one-person exhibition features the art of Chicago-based creative Victoria Martinez, who works in a variety of materials and scales, drawing inspiration from the body, the urban environment, architecture, and graffiti. Victoria Martinez: Braiding Histories is part of Art Design Chicago, a citywide collaboration initiated by the Terra Foundation for American Art that highlights the city’s artistic heritage and creative communities.Apr 6–Jul 28 • 78 E. Washington (60602)* Artist tour and talk April 10 @ noon, part of EXPO ART WEEK&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419364/jllsyjwp4qimtfpf4e0a.jpg"></figure>Grid Luck: Alberto AguilarCLEVE CARNEY MUSEUM OF ARTIn Grid Luck, Alberto Aguilar delves into the grid’s role as a generative and expansive tool. Taking inspiration from the College of DuPage Permanent Art Collection, the exhibit reimagines the materials and spaces within the Cleve Carney Museum of Art, resulting in the creation of new site-specific works. Aguilar’s innovative use of existing objects from institutional spaces as his material provides a novel take on traditional art making while providing fresh perspective on overlooked possibilities.Jun 29–Oct 6&nbsp;College of DuPage, 425 Fawell Blvd., Glen Ellyn (60137)&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theccma.org/grid">theccma.org</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419364/p6jhrqabkbmyaq8ufyaq.jpg"><figcaption>Bruce Webber, Targets; Right: Bill Mitchell, Amalgam</figcaption></figure>CSI x ALMAALMA FINE ART &amp; INTERIORSThe 2024 Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibition takes place at ALMA Art &amp; Interiors in Bridgeport. Sculptors were invited to enter up to three works to exhibit in the 10,000 sf space. The curated collection, showcasing nearly three dozen artists and a wide range of artistic expressions across various media, opens during EXPO After Hours on Friday, April 12, 5–10pm. Opening weekend is April 13 and 14.April 12–Sept 13636 S. Iron (60609)<a href="https://www.almaartandinteriors.com">almaartandinteriors.com</a><a href="https://www.chicagosculpture.org">chicagosculpture.org</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419365/whkewjtwrdnqnkvbaaxr.jpg"><figcaption>Sif Itona Westerberg, Dog Barking, 2021, aerated concrete, ebonized wood, 47.2” x 31.5” x 2”, installation view. Photo by CGN&nbsp;</figcaption></figure>Sif Itona Westerberg: Twin Flame, Double RuinDRIEHAUS MUSEUMWesterberg takes inspiration from the Ancient Greek myth of soulmates—a single body that was divided into two parts, fated to forever yearn and search for its reflection. The exhibition title borrows terminology from new age concepts of interpersonal connection, a ‘twin flame’ often described in psychology as akin to soulmates, which Westerberg contrasts with ideals of creation and metamorphoses through the double entendre of ‘ruin’ in reference to either disaster or the remnants of Classical artifacts. Westerberg transforms industrial materials such as aerated concrete into delicate, sensitive surfaces engraved with the retellings of ancient lore.Thru Apr 14 • 40 E. Erie (60611)<a href="https://driehausmuseum.org">driehausmuseum.org</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419366/cmndowa0rwxwxnzdc3y3.jpg"><figcaption>Selva Aparicio, Remains, 2013/2024. Lettuce, particle board, and paper. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Selva Aparicio</figcaption></figure>In Memory OfDEPAUL ART MUSEUMDomestic violence is an epidemic that crosses geographical, cultural, and linguistic barriers. And yet it is private, existing within someone’s home in isolation and extreme vulnerability. For her first solo museum exhibition Chicago-based artist Selva Aparicio (b. 1987) transforms each of DePaul Art Museum’s first-floor gallery spaces into a domestic setting by way of a careful excavation of the artist’s life and memories. Responding to the architecture of the museum, Aparicio creates new site-specific works as well as remakes previous ones.Thru Aug 4 • 935 W. Fullerton (60614)<a href="https://resources.depaul.edu/art-museum/Pages/default.aspx">depaul.edu</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419367/b9md0i12oitnzsqz2cdn.jpg"><figcaption>Erin Jane Nelson, The Tree That Threw Herself in the Ocean, 2022, pigment prints, artist tape, glass and bio-based resin on glazed stoneware, 50” x 34” x 5”</figcaption></figure>Erin Jane NelsonDOCUMENTNelson’s practice is grounded in photography sourced from her archive of found and original images. Each project delves into new conceptual frameworks as far-ranging as regional histories of the Southern barrier islands, formative personal relationships, spirituality as a process of mourning and healing, and science fiction narratives. Through speculative world-building, layering and research, her work broadly explores the psychological impact of the climate crisis through a feminist lens.Jun 7–Aug 3 • 1709 W. Chicago (60622)&nbsp;<a href="https://documentspace.com">documentspace.com</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Spring 2024's Art Highlights 

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419359/nhgo2uu6pnmnc0i9oaav.jpg"></figure><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419360/dt5xgtjm6smqtbzjhqxc.jpg"></figure>Driehaus Museum Renovation ContinuesLast &nbsp;week the museum team conveyed the nearly&nbsp;nine foot sculpture, The Archer, up to the 6th Floor balcony. The renovation work is 94% complete and they are making plans for a grand opening. Stay tuned for more details.The museum also announced that you can enjoy a springtime view of the Driehaus Museum all year, with artist Harper Veresiuk's watercolor interpretation of the 1883 Nickerson Mansion. Available as prints and magnets in the <a href="https://shop.driehausmuseum.org/?mc_cid=4e482f5bb3&amp;mc_eid=d1db3f815c">museum store</a>.&nbsp;<a href="https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/03/20/a-night-at-mr-kellys-at-the-newberry-offers-trip-back-to-days-of-storied-chicago-nightclub/?utm_source=Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=A+Night+At+Mr++Kelly+s++At+The+Newberry+Offers+Trip+Back+To+Days+Of+Storied+Chicago+Nightclub&amp;utm_campaign=Wednesday+Arts+March+20%2C+2024">‘A Night At Mr. Kelly’s’ At The Newberry Offers Trip Back To Days Of Storied Chicago Nightclub</a>Have you ever wished you could have seen Ella Fitzgerald live on stage, singing Gershwin tunes? Laughed at Bob Newhart’s Abraham Lincoln public relations man bit in person when he was an up-and-coming comic? Visited a dark, smoky and swinging nightclub in mid-20th century Chicago with a two-drink minimum, surrounded by hip luminaries?If you visit “A Night at Mr. Kelly’s,” the new exhibition at the Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton Ave., you’ll get as close as you can in 2024 (short of a VR machine).The exhibition, which opens Thursday, offers a multitude of artifacts and oral histories to help craft what life was like in one of the city’s coolest nightclubs in the 1950s and ’60s.Via Block Club Chicago&nbsp;City Announces Headliners for Millennium Park 20th Anniversary CelebrationMayor Brandon Johnson and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) announced the first round of special programming for the City’s Millennium Park 20th Anniversary Celebration (July 18–21). Scheduled to take place almost exactly 20 years since the Park’s official opening on July 16, 2004, this four-day free celebration features award-winning headliners, activities for families and youth, workouts, new public art, dance performances, and concerts— presented by DCASE with the Grant Park Music Festival, Millennium Park Foundation, and others. This special anniversary programming will be in addition to the annual music festivals, film and music series, workouts, family programming and more offered season-long in <a href="https://link.mediaoutreach.meltwater.com/ls/click?upn=u001.dh1HrHFyOntfOcUtuUd3tRQTdV7nSi9T-2BCzOvduUdm8R-2BL89Vma351sXnEAOr2205hbW_0g5QiKQ3ANfCkWXxwzczn1phIok0-2FnBF8GNWXrNhq2-2B4ftGj9DI8Jn4AfRAGeAJVn7gGoI0v4yHfyxNzcTgWoLurliSnTAPDeTMjcpIoytOOx4olIMMV-2FUlia6rP-2BnJxdGCsDxwuBXtzUN-2F90mrZtEZ6Pv6RaA7fMIKi-2FCMYuKokB9jH3unCm4UFiZscYlJkDBNJP84-2FUXe2x8ajoRayq1RreONFp03Z5Mm5qXA6-2BQUm8MUa4Wn0Nq1PZBU5n-2FKXVbLcxkqqy6xu6s7nmFzZbZK-2FZC2pryDDlPE2bRGqRU-2BB6D749zsEZ2EcVy5uVRCItq98w3Fj6YrwcQRcgbQWYxOpAV5Vp7SG0Og4PGSq4tEVP1525dtmRehjE-2F9DcWN6hNRbVdu9jwXikDHIZn5a0w-3D-3D">Millennium Park</a>—the #1 attraction in the Midwest and among the top 10 most-visited sites in the United States. &nbsp;“Millennium Park is where we showcase the best of our city’s vibrant arts, culture, and talent from across the globe,” said Mayor Brandon Johnson. “I look forward to celebrating the Park’s milestone anniversary and its unrivaled art, architecture, and cultural events with unforgettable free programming all summer long.”<a href="https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/millennium_park_20.html">More details here</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

CGN Art World Recap: 4/1/24

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419359/h1k9xjbfxpbyefmt8jfw.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/muscle-memory-paul-gerard-somers">Muscle Memory: Paul Gerard Somers</a>Exhibition begins March 29SoNa Chicago Art Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419361/awuwnrdydan3hgrjrice.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/liz-martino-march-29-to-may25">Lucia Calderon Arrieta: Gloop N Droop Rinconsito</a>Opening: Friday, March 29, 6 – 8&nbsp;pmInternational Museum of Surgical Science (IMSS)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419361/pjs7raefii48lci6ts8f.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/liz-martino-march-29-to-may25">Liz Martino | BLAMM-O: moments of seeing more</a>Opening: Friday, March 29, 7 – 10&nbsp;pmFirecat Projects&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419362/t1ajur89fmnr5zxqhb02.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/abraham-my-chaotic-order">Abraham: My Chaotic Order</a>Opening: Friday, March 29, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmEpiphany Center for the Arts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419363/ud4qnscdkkckumobwen4.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jennifer-angus-flying-jewels-other-lofty-insects">Jennifer Angus: Flying Jewels &amp; Other Lofty Insects</a>Exhibition begins March 29Frederik Meijer Gardens &amp; Sculpture Park&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419364/iavrlsuybx3gpqgy7wdq.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/perceptions-of-flow-movement">Perceptions of Flow “Movement”</a>Exhibition begins March 30Evanston Art Center&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions March 29 & 30

<html><head></head><body><a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment-and-culture/2024/03/18/clinee-hedspeth-appointed-new-commissioner-for-chicago-department-of-cultural-affairs-and-special-events">Clinée Hedspeth Named New Commissioner of DCASE</a>Mayor Brandon Johnson announced Monday the appointment of Clinée Hedspeth as the new commissioner of the city's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE).Hedspeth previously served as legislative director under Johnson during his time as Cook County Commissioner. She has also worked as director of curatorial services at the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center, and more recently as associate specialist of 20th century and contemporary art at Phillips Auctioneers, where she identified and evaluated art.The announcement comes one month after Johnson announced the termination of the <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment-and-culture/2024/03/04/dcase-leadership-still-in-flux-as-city-braces-for-start-of-festival-season">previous DCASE commissioner, Erin Harkey</a>, although she remained on the job until last Friday. News of Harkey’s departure came just weeks before the city’s festival season gets underway, and was a surprise to some in the arts community.Via Chicago Sun-Times&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/saic-using-ai-predict-admissions#/">School of the Art Institute of Chicago turns to AI to help admissions</a>The School of the Art Institute of Chicago will use machine learning and artificial intelligence to make more accurate enrollment predictions, a move that could save the school money and offer a path forward for cash-strapped art schools nationally.Via Crain's (paywall)&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419359/bssm8nlqy2voza6dasu6.jpg"><figcaption>“Still Life 1985” by artist Jim Bachor is on display and for sale at his gallery at 1111 W. Lawrence. Anthony Vazquez / Chicago Sun-Times</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.wbez.org/stories/chicagos-pothole-picasso-opens-a-studio-gallery-in-uptown/f6138b68-fe43-4dc8-a607-27057e1050ea">Chicago’s ‘Pothole Picasso’ opens a studio/gallery in Uptown</a>Local artist Jim Bachor, who has been called the “Pothole Picasso,” has opened a gallery/studio in&nbsp;<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/uptown">Uptown</a>, with the hope to get back to his true calling, fine art mosaics.The studio, located across from the Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom at 1111 W. Lawrence Ave., is about 1,000 square feet and is divided by a small gallery in the front and a larger studio space in the back, where Bachor said he will move his workshop from the basement of his Mayfair home.Via WBEZ&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

CGN Art World Recap: 3/21/24

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419352/dnzylo7tme3x9vupv8ur.jpg"><figcaption>The newly designed 2024 “I voted sticker,” top left, sits next to the 2022 sticker, left, and the 2023 sticker, right, at the Cook County Office building, March 14, 2024. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/03/15/chicago-has-a-new-i-voted-sticker-meet-the-artist-behind-the-bold-and-simple-design/">Chicago has a new ‘I voted!’ sticker. Meet the artist behind the bold and simple design.</a>As Tuesday’s Illinois primary election approaches, early voters have been introduced to a new unique design for what’s arguably the most fun part of casting a ballot in Chicago — getting the iconic “I voted!” sticker.The Chicago Board of Elections ordered 2 million of the apple-size stickers. The new design features a ballot box set over a dark blue backdrop and above the four red stars from Chicago’s city flag. The stickers are handed out like little prizes after voters cast their ballots, passed out at precincts and included in vote-by-mail packets across the city.The artist behind the new sticker, Jane Ignacio, has designed everything for the board for more than 20 years, from its social media posts to its election judge handbooks.“Going to the polling place on Election Day is like my Super Bowl,” the freelance designer said in an interview Thursday.Via Chicago Tribune&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/03/17/museum-visitor-numbers-recover-from-pandemic-related-falls?utm_source=The+Art+Newspaper+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=fe82dc1714-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_03_18_12_31&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-fe82dc1714-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D">International museum attendance figures back to pre-pandemic levels</a>Visitor numbers at the world’s largest museums of art have largely returned to their pre-pandemic levels, an exclusive survey by The Art Newspaper has found.The Covid-19 pandemic caused museum visitor numbers to plummet across the world as institutions shut their doors and people were forced to stay inside. The number of people visiting the most-visited 100 museums fell from 230 million in 2019, the last full pre-pandemic year, to just 54m in 2020. Since then we have seen a slow recovery, with 71m visitors in 2021 and 141m in 2022.Via The Art Newspaper&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artbasel.com/stories/women-collectors-patronage-lisa-perry-komal-shah-survey-global-collecting-ubs?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=240315_EDNL24_editorialnewsletter_aud-G&amp;utm_content=content">Women are spending more on art than men – we look at why</a>From a distance, a work by Mitsuko Asakura might read as a linear interplay of glowing, expressionist color – until the middle drops out in a pendulous swoop of slackened silk. The&nbsp;Kyoto-born septuagenarian&nbsp;textile artist, who fuses traditional fiber dyeing and European tapestry methods with experimental forms, has been revered among a community of craftspeople in Japan. But it was not until her inclusion in a group show at collector Lisa Perry’s female-focused Onna House in East Hampton, New York, in 2022, that her work was noticed by a board member of the Museum of Arts and Design and subsequently entered the permanent collection.Via Art Basel&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/mexican-artist-crushes-tesla-under-221059483.html?guccounter=1">Mexican artist crushes Tesla under giant stone head</a>A giant stone head resembling an ancient Indigenous sculpture sits on top of a crushed Tesla car. It's not the scene of a freak accident, but a piece of art&nbsp;-- whose creator says he wanted to provoke Elon Musk.Chavis Marmol, a 42-year-old sculptor who has never owned a car and travels by bicycle, came up with the idea of dropping the nine-ton carving onto a blue Tesla 3 in Mexico City using cranes.Via AFP&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 3/19/24

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419352/tlxnxhosfiuulkphol20.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/phyllis-bramson-david-leggett">Phyllis Bramson and David Leggett: Double, Double Toil and Trouble!</a>Opening: Friday, March 22, 6 – 8&nbsp;pm&nbsp;ENGAGE Projects&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419353/nwx4dxyd01ssspsno3z1.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/a-body-of-others-by-jude-griebel">A Body of Others by Jude Griebel</a>Opening: Friday, March 22, 6 – 8&nbsp;pm&nbsp;International Museum of Surgical Science (IMSS)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419354/rvifmbww31l5tkk0n7mf.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/works-in-progress-bc732630-07ab-4058-9dfb-83470dfdfbb6">Works in Progress</a>Opening: Saturday, March 23, 1 – 3&nbsp;pm&nbsp;South Shore Arts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419354/srtjz12mipkycpai1vvv.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/it-s-for-the-birdshttps://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/it-s-for-the-birds">It's for the Birds</a>Opening: Saturday, March 23, 6 – 9&nbsp;pm&nbsp;Blue Moon Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419355/iw2rbhjwdvqcwqv67c4u.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/alice-shaddle-fuller-circles">Alice Shaddle: Fuller Circles</a>Exhibition begins March 23Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions March 21 - 23 (Part II)

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419352/rnfubks9duxw1spid5gz.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/2024-faculty-spotlight">2024 Faculty Spotlight</a>Exhibition begins March 21The Cleve Carney Museum of Art (CCMA)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419353/ivtp4xxmoe4twcnqxpeo.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/teatricci">Teatricci</a>Opening: Thursday, March 21, 6 – 8&nbsp;pm&nbsp;Istituto Italiano di Cultura&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419354/dawp9l7uxtm3z7ze8u6n.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/entering-the-unconscious">Entering the Unconscious</a>Exhibition begins March 21Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419355/nqguhw7enoq983mcty5z.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/pooja-pittie-only-in-dark-the-light">Pooja Pittie: Only in Dark the Light</a>Opening: Thursday, March 21, 5 – 7&nbsp;pm&nbsp;McCormick Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419356/qnzbrr46hzclqxq9wb18.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/john-chamberlain-black-mountain-poems-1955">John Chamberlain: Black Mountain Poems 1955</a>Opening: Thursday, March 21, 6 – 8&nbsp;pm&nbsp;Corbett vs. Dempsey&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419357/zg9vtnvxfyjwxsn3ay64.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/a-night-at-mister-kelly-s">A Night at Mister Kelly's</a>Exhibition begins March 21Newberry Library&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419358/t5eyux09tpitapc5du6q.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/meiji-modern-50-years-of-new-japan">Meiji Modern: 50 Years of New Japan</a>Opening: Thursday, March 21, 6 – 8&nbsp;pm&nbsp;Smart Museum of Art&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions March 21 - 23 (Part I)

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419352/f9ww9iocfikgz871hqol.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-image-pool">The Image Pool</a>Exhibition begins March 14DePaul University Art Museum (DPAM)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419353/xy2vjchqadautde5qmax.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/you-re-not-really-seeing-this">You’re Not Really Seeing This</a>Opening: Friday, March 15, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmEvanston Art Center&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419354/fxmayijn8abjlwxpqdq4.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/figuration-and-form">Figuration and Form</a>Opening: Friday, March 15, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmLily Pad | West&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419355/r82yipf2xvjx2aag03if.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/david-love-pastures-of-plenty">David Love: Pastures of Plenty</a>Opening: Friday, March 15, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmTandem Press&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419355/z5ydrzp2omemq9amqhet.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/with-a-little-help-from-my-friends">With a Little Help From My Friends</a>Opening: Friday, March 15, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmCircle Contemporary (Arts of Life)&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions March 14 - 19 (Part I)

<html><head></head><body>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419352/z8vr6rucvykhhjz7trou.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/lorraine-peltz-83c4cac4-224a-4a56-b9a5-3cdc16de6d1a">Lorraine Peltz</a>Opening: Friday, March 15, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmZolla / Lieberman Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/imagined-landscapes-group-show">Imagined Landscapes: Group Show</a>Opening: Friday, March 15, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmCarl Hammer Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419353/ny3hpqqk1vcqyazcvca6.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/new-exhibition-and-opening-reception-6ddcd0ac-d0f1-4986-8c67-d29ffdc89b20">Anthony Adcock: Gridlock</a>Opening: Friday, March 15, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmAddington Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419354/xyq3ljbkkgxd5i21udck.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/new-exhibition-and-opening-reception">Equipoise: Carol Pylant</a>Opening: Friday, March 15, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmGallery Victor&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419354/yghkt0puz0yhe3ktycas.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/mina-loy-strangeness-is-inevitable">Mina Loy: Strangeness Is Inevitable</a>Opening: Tuesday, March 19, 5:30 – 8&nbsp;pmThe Arts Club of Chicago&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions March 14 - 19 (Part II)

<html><head></head><body><a href="https://www.wbez.org/stories/chicago-dcase-leadership-in-flux-after-erin-harkey-termination/05af57ca-e283-4c80-8ccc-ea59e3bbcac9?utm_source=Newsletter_Daily-Rundown-Non-Member&amp;utm_medium=WBEZEmail&amp;utm_campaign=Daily_Newsletter_Daily-Rundown_Sponsored_20240305&amp;utm_content=3%2F5%2F2024&amp;DE=WBEZEmail">DCASE leadership still in flux as city braces for start of festival season</a>The city’s top cultural chief, Erin Harkey, is still on the job more than two weeks after she was terminated by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, a mayoral spokesperson confirmed Monday.The spokesperson, Ronnie Reese, said that the first deputy commissioner, Jennifer Johnson Washington, would temporarily fill the role once Harkey departs.Johnson, who has been slow to embed his own leadership team at City Hall, terminated Harkey and the city’s buildings commissioner in <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/brandonjohnson/2024/02/16/mayor-brandon-johnson-firings-erin-harkey-cultural-affairs-chief-matthew-beaudet-building-commissioner">mid-February</a>.News of Harkey’s termination came just weeks before the city’s festival season begins and was a surprise to some in the arts community. The Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events is in charge of events like The Taste of Chicago and Blues Fest. It also funds a number of arts organizations and individual artists, an effort that Harkey, who was appointed by former Mayor Lori Lightfoot, expanded.Esther Grisham Grimm, executive director of the nonprofit arts organization 3Arts, said it “feels like the rug got pulled out from under us, just as we were gaining momentum.”Via WBEZ&nbsp;<a href="https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/03/07/galerie-f-closing-after-more-than-a-decade-of-championing-chicago-street-artists/?utm_source=Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=Scientology+Church+Opens+In+South+Loop&amp;utm_campaign=Thursday%2C+March+7%2C+2024+Morning+List">Galerie F Closing After More Than A Decade Of Championing Chicago Street Artists</a>Galerie F is closing after more than a decade in Chicago.The popular street art gallery at 211 W. 23rd St. announced its closure on social media Tuesday night, along with a massive sale of <a href="https://galeriefchicago.com/">75 percent off everything online</a> and in store.The shop will be open noon-6 p.m. Saturday for its closing sale, and possibly Sunday, according to the gallery’s Instagram.“With much painful consideration, we’ve decided to pull the plug on this bugger,” <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C4KCdsQrUvk/">owner Billy Craven wrote</a>. “Choppin’ it up with y’all while you checked out the shows or flipped thru the bins … that’s been saved to our grey matter. Forever!”Via Block Club&nbsp;<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/real-estate/2024/03/06/state-street-preservation-chicago-2024-endangered-properties-demolition?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=030624%20Afternoon%20Edition&amp;utm_content=030624%20Afternoon%20Edition+CID_2ba55a2ecf1c04dca1d1114118af59eb&amp;utm_source=cst_campaign_monitor&amp;tpcc=030624%20Afternoon%20Edition">State Street skyscrapers hit top ranking on list of most endangered Chicago buildings</a>Two early 20th century skyscrapers on State Street lead off an advocacy group’s 2024 list of notable properties that could face demolition.The pair of buildings continues Preservation Chicago’s fight with the federal government, which wants to demolish the towers it owns at 202 and 220 S. State. The terra cotta clad sentries from another era have made the organization’s list in four prior years.But the rest of the group's annual “Chicago 7” list of buildings it deems most endangered is devoted to newcomers as preservation priorities, sites that testify to different parts of the city’s history. They have added beauty or style to the streetscape, but some are vacant and could be lost.Via Chicago Sun-Times&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419352/czmy6cysgj9mg8x6pty7.jpg"><figcaption>Stanley Quenchers. via Stanley Facebook</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world-archives/stanley-quencher-art-2420207">The Stan Culture for Stanley Quenchers Has Some Pretty Cringey Parallels With the Art World</a>Like many of you, Stanley Quenchers blipped onto my radar sometime in December. My friend in New York called as she was chasing around Brooklyn in a panic, trying to land one of these mugs for her 9-year-old daughter. Then the TikTok videos arrived into my feed, bodies racing past one another to <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@jazzedbyjaz/video/7318835095551642926?q=target%20stanley%20cup%20jump&amp;t=1704905423629">grab mugs</a> in deep magenta at a single shelf in a fluorescent-lit store.Via Artnet&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 3/7/24

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419352/zjqhtkuatmbnk1fzqrin.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jacob-hashimoto-fables">Jacob Hashimoto: Fables</a>Opening: Friday, March 8, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmRhona Hoffman Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419353/ewetznnprhx0mq36lhpx.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/student-exhibit-a-captivating-connection-between-art-and-science">2024 Annual SAMA Show: A Captivating Connection Between Art and Science</a>Opening: Friday, March 8, 6 – 8&nbsp;pmInternational Museum of Surgical Science (IMSS)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419354/ldkfulgv1a4aonglwtdr.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/comic-catwalk-a-solo-show-by-skela-aka-sanguine-skills">Comic Catwalk: A Solo Show by Skela AKA Sanguine Skills</a>Opening: Saturday, March 9, 4 – 8&nbsp;pmChicago Truborn&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419354/u7gaaj3w82kwvndjuztr.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/in-control">In Control</a>Opening: Saturday, March 9, noon – 4&nbsp;pmUkrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419355/sula7uaitp0qwxq4zdyz.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/andreas-fischer-sky-hole">Andreas Fischer: Sky Hole</a>Opening: Saturday, March 9, 2 – 5&nbsp;pmGoldfinch&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions March 8 & 9

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419346/tsp2ziqkkfpgar8j3lz1.jpg"><figcaption>Oracle, 1970. Private collection, Chicago. © Estate of Miyoko Ito. Photograph: Tom van Eynde &nbsp;</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.worldofinteriors.com/story/miyoko-ito-japanese-american-artist-works">Miyoko Ito: Heart of Hearts represents the first book dedicated to the artist's life and work</a>Even in the most public of places, a book is still an interior object. Page after page, we open and close folios like doors, arriving and then departing. In that sense, the new volume by Pre-Echo Press is the fitting format to display the work of Japanese-American artist Miyoko Ito, including 210 paintings, as well as drawings and ephemera. ‘The most comprehensive inventory to date of Ito’s works,’ Miyoko Ito: Heart of Hearts fully invokes the painter’s searching interplay of interiors and exteriors, inner landscapes and floating souls.Via World of Interiors&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024/02/27/art-institute-showed-willful-blindness-in-buying-nazi-looted-art-n-y-prosecutors-say?tpcc=022824+Morning+Edition">Art Institute showed ‘willful blindness’ in buying Nazi-looted art, New York prosecutors say</a>The Art Institute of Chicago has been accused of exhibiting "willful blindness" to evidence suggesting it was purchasing artwork stolen during the Holocaust when it acquired a drawing that authorities say was looted by the Nazis.The damning allegations were made in court documents filed in New York last week that argue the Art Institute benefited from a decadeslong "conspiracy of silence" over the drawing "Russian War Prisoner" by Egon Schiele.The 160-page filing by the Manhattan district attorney's office lays out its case contending the work of art was stolen by the Nazis from cabaret star Fritz Grunbaum and later laundered through art dealers before arriving in New York.Via Chicago Sun-Times&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/venice-biennale-organizers-responds-to-calls-to-exclude-israel-and-iran-2443316">Venice Biennale Organizers Respond to Calls to Exclude Israel and Iran</a>Organizers of the Venice Biennale have responded to a call to exclude Israel from the event in light of the human toll in the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza.Via Artnet&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 2/29/24

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419346/k96cxg9wiheacrf3asiz.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/lens-2024">LENS 2024</a>Opening: Saturday, March 2, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmPerspective Photo Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419346/yd7o7skvwqmyjdyihucj.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/25th-international-open">25th International Open</a>Opening: Saturday, March 2, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmWoman Made Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419348/wqdhhvaswc9ythezjmh9.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/aimee-beaubien-through-the-hothouse">Aimée Beaubien: Through the Hothouse</a>Exhibition begins March 2Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419349/m8bzefxs9wl2sf5do9ce.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/skin-would-call-a-poor-eye-simple-by-jessica-tucker">skin would call a poor eye simple by Jessica Tucker</a>Opening: Saturday, March 2, 6 – 8&nbsp;pmInternational Museum of Surgical Science (IMSS)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions March 1 & 2 (Part III)

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419346/ifct0ygkizbtaeonpvnt.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/surrealism-2024-group-show">'Surreal' Group Show</a>Opening: Friday, March 1, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmVertical Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419346/njp4rf1wofi4ersuf9dn.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/on-a-lighter-note">On a Lighter Note</a>Opening: Friday, March 1, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmVivid Art Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419347/pm0tlylplunl9yind4tn.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/geochroma-barbara-campbell-thomas-amy-sacksteder">GEOCHROMA: Barbara Campbell Thomas &amp; Amy Sacksteder</a>Opening: Friday, March 1, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmJames May Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419348/hpwcbmefdi1koatproxl.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/focus-click">Focus &amp; Click</a>Opening: Friday, March 1, 5:30 – 8&nbsp;pmThe Art Center Highland Park&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419349/tbgytjtzttj5hihoaejy.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/fred-dorothy-fichter-butterflies-are-blooming">Fred &amp; Dorothy Fichter Butterflies Are Blooming</a>Exhibition begins March 1Frederik Meijer Gardens &amp; Sculpture Park&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

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