<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419172/tmkju2sk3wu4qhj4bmnx.png"><figcaption>Miyoko Ito, “Untitled” (1970), oil on canvas, 48 x 46 inches. Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery. &nbsp;</figcaption></figure><a href="https://hyperallergic.com/807412/miyoko-ito-mysteries-and-longings/?fbclid=IwAR3XrKYksGjOWJYFvVNa8dV0O9ig9SUKt_IN1vGiV0wUpghyPu_j-Qsy6DI">Miyoko Ito’s Mysteries and Longings</a>More than 30 years after her death, Miyoko Ito is having her self-named debut show at the spacious Matthew Marks Gallery (February 24–April 15, 2023). That the show is at a blue-chip art-world establishment signals the merger of artistic achievement and financial viability, and brings long-deserved attention to a body of work that has been under-recognized in New York and should be better known in Chicago, where the artist lived. As much as the gallery has done to make Ito’s work widely visible, I believe that it should have done more, starting with the catalogue (with a chronology) accompanying the exhibition, as no essay provides context for her work.&nbsp;Via Hyperallergic&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/202303/forecast-form-art-in-the-caribbean-diaspora-1990s-today-90141?tid=newsletter&amp;sid=afs-2023-03-14">“Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today,” MCA Chicago</a>In Artforum’s March issue, Daniel R. Quiles reviews “Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today,” curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates. “A diasporic perspective untethers identity from location but not from history,” writes Quiles. “The curatorial approach emphasizes affective charge over didactics or exhaustiveness.”&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/arts/design/artist-job-blanton-museum.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare">Why Is a Day Job Seen as the Mark of an Artist’s Failure?</a>There’s a scene in the 1996 movie “Basquiat” where the incandescent young painter (played by Jeffrey Wright) has a handyman gig at a gallery. Willem Dafoe, making a cameo as an electrician, climbs down a ladder and delivers the immortal line: “You know, I’m an artist too.” Here are the two sides of the myth: the obscure martyr unsoiled by commercial success; and the unbridled genius who can’t help but have it all.In reality, most artists, even most great ones, also have day jobs.Via NYT&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/03/08/notre-dame-cathedral-paris-reopening-2024">Notre Dame to reopen in December 2024</a>The nave of <a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/keywords/cathedral-of-notre-dame">Notre Dame de Paris</a> will be reopened for religious services and visitors in December 2024, five and a half years after <a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2019/04/15/fire-destroys-roof-of-notre-dame-cathedral-in-paris">the fire that destroyed it</a>, according to General Jean-Louis Georgelin, who heads the agency in charge of the cathedral’s reconstruction.The date is symbolic. Immediately after the catastrophe, on 15 April 2019, French President Emmanuel Macron promised to rebuild the Gothic monument “within five years”, a statement&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2019/04/26/notre-dame-experts-explain-why-macrons-five-year-restoration-deadline-is-impossible">criticised</a> by many observers in light of the extent of the damage. Then, in 2020, General Georgelin claimed the cathedral would reopen in April 2024, just in time for the Summer Olympic Games, for which more than 10 million tourists are expected to travel to France. Several experts expressed their doubts.According to the Culture Ministry, work will continue through 2025, notably to <a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2020/07/13/notre-dames-spire-to-be-rebuilt-the-way-it-wasbut-use-of-lead-likely-to-spark-new-controversy">rebuild the spire</a>, which will be a copy of the one created by Viollet-le-Duc in the 19th century. The complete restoration of the building, accompanied by a renovation of the forefront, might continue until 2028.Via The Art Newspaper&nbsp;<a href="https://news.wttw.com/2023/03/08/chicago-artist-gives-barrettes-new-life-colorful-mosaic-portraits">Chicago Artist Gives Barrettes New Life in Colorful Mosaic Portraits</a>Unexpected household items are the focus of a local artist creating portraits for her inner child.Typically, mosaics are made of colorful broken pieces of tile, stone or glass — but not usually barrettes.“It started with wooden beads, then I decided to add more color and decided on hair barrettes,” said artist Keila Strong. “And the rest is history,”It was her piece “Picture Day” that put Strong’s work on the map.“Barrettes speak to childhood joys; I hear them,” Strong said. “Edge control, rollers. Every accessory used holds a memory, and it’s comforting. I don’t think I appreciated it as much before. But turning it into art has given me greater appreciation because I didn’t realize how important barrettes were to my childhood.”Via WTTW&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 3/15/23

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419172/y64h7boxfj7bonwqcmp2.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/rhonda-gates-69b136c8-7a9d-47cf-93c6-b3c3e213e3bb">Rhonda Gates: Measured Ground</a>Opening: Thursday, March 16, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmZolla / Lieberman Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419173/scywo4rtre45czumsdv8.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jimmy-wright">Jimmy Wright: Down Home</a>Opening: Friday, March 17, 6 – 8&nbsp;pmCorbett vs. Dempsey&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419174/c4vebtskk3azcu7fqhyw.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/geissler-sanni-love-america-and-america-loves-me">Geissler &amp; SannI Love America and America Loves Me</a>Opening: Friday, March 17, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmEpiphany Center for the Arts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419175/devxbudnmi8w8mdfg6o2.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/surviving-the-long-wars-unlikely-entanglements">Surviving the Long Wars: Unlikely Entanglements</a>Beginning March 18Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419176/tis8ikzgnu6rsydkexyq.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/grabado-popular-prints-for-the-people">Grabado Popular: Prints for the People</a>Opening: Saturday, March 18, 6 – 10&nbsp;pmChicago Printmakers Collaborative&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419177/d8pig0kyzwr4ggpx9lcb.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/24th-international-open">24th International Open</a>Beginning March 18Woman Made Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Open March 16 - 18

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419172/exvfut7zxvv7j4y8iubu.webp"><figcaption>Rethinking the Bally’s casino complex must be a priority for the new mayor. Photo provided to the Sun Times &nbsp;</figcaption></figure><a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/3/4/23623608/office-of-the-chief-architect-next-mayor-has-a-big-role-to-play-in-the-citys-design-future">Office of the chief architect: Next mayor has a big role to play in the city’s design future</a>Something to remember as Chicago gears up again to elect its next mayor: The Person on Five has the power to remake the city — or large portions of it.For better or worse.It’s easy to lose sight of that as Chicagoans rightfully clamor for a mayor who can make the city safer, keep the streets clean, and not fleece us with higher taxes or shady parking meter-type deals.But the mayor is also the city’s chief architect and urban designer.Via Lee Bey for the Chicago Sun Times&nbsp;<a href="https://hyperallergic.com/802370/keep-an-eye-out-for-these-emerging-chicago-artists-hyde-park-art-center/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=D022323&amp;utm_content=D022323+CID_f0705e156917c7b544107cb030b2c1a7&amp;utm_source=hn&amp;utm_term=Keep+an+Eye+Out+for+These+Emerging+Chicago+Artists&amp;fbclid=IwAR0u6v1F7kyFo_dTp83Hx1d3jvJcSop_pgDVpLL-JXOnZ_ZzxVjj1AsDbhw">Keep an Eye Out for These Emerging Chicago Artists</a>The art world is not an easy place to make it, but Chicago has long been one of the more plausible scenes in which to try. There’s enough, but not too much, of most of what’s needed for a healthy ecosystem: museums, galleries, famous artists, collectors, and emerging talent. We could use a few more critics. The reasonable cost of living, large apartments, liberal politics, and generally functional economy mean that folks mostly have the time and space to make art and even to decide to display it in their extra front rooms, giving rise to waves of artist-run spaces that sometimes go legit and join the ranks of commercial galleries. Those uninterested in making salable objects have a solid local history of social practice on which to draw. The feeder network for this creative circuit are the plentiful art schools, which continually draw new recruits to the city, many of whom stay, and teach, and live — and keep on making art.Are there adequate institutional exhibition opportunities for everyone? Definitely not. Excepting a recent collaboration with the Floating Museum collective, the Art Institute almost never shows artists from the region.Via Hyperallergic&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/climate-activists-this-is-rigged-william-wallace-sword-2265843">A Pair of Climate Activists in Scotland Smashed and Spray-Painted a Glass Case Housing ‘Braveheart’ Knight William Wallace’s Sword</a>Two activists from an environmental group smashed and vandalized a glass case housing the sword of Scottish knight William Wallace, the hero whose legend inspired the 1995 film Braveheart,&nbsp;at a museum in Stirling, Scotland.On March 2 around 11:30 a.m., Alexander Cloudley, a food bank coordinator, and Katrielle Chan, a student, entered the National Wallace Monument’s Hall of Arms, and struck the case containing the Wallace sword with mallets, chisels, and two rocks. They then spray-painted the broken glass with the words “This Is Rigged,” the name of their climate activist group.Via Artnet&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/ct-ptb-vu-museum-folo-st-0305-20230304-2lloziedmzbwdooxs64hqcept4-story.html">Key developments evolving in sale of Brauer Museum artwork by Valparaiso University</a>Repercussions for the sale of cornerstone works from the Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University to raise funds to renovate dorms for first-year students continue to reverberate with three key developments in recent days.The Faculty Senate passed a resolution on a split vote asking for a halt to the sale and for the university to find other ways to fund renovations at dorms for first-year students; Moody’s dropped the university’s bond rating, part of downward slide since 2016; and the Association of Art Museum Directors sent a letter to the museum’s director threatening censure or sanctions if the sale proceeds.Via Post Tribune / Chicago Tribune&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 3/7/23

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419172/snxpw7srbandigrosxc3.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/sarah-krepp-and-olivia-petrides-double-force">Sarah Krepp and Olivia Petrides: DOUBLE/FORCE</a>Opening: Friday, March 10, 6 – 8&nbsp;pmEpiphany Center for the Arts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419173/ls3kwafuxna6gi9msrdy.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/thinking-spring-gallery-artist-group-show">Thinking Spring: Gallery Artist Group Show</a>Opening: Friday, March 10, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmJean Albano Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419174/hbglkci10rbajtkcv9i0.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/in-pursuit-of-spring">In Pursuit of Spring</a>Opening: Friday, March 10, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmAddington Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419174/sztbqvmcqhmwkbiif6uf.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/fred-stonehouse-emblems">Fred Stonehouse: Emblems</a>Opening: Friday, March 10, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmCarl Hammer Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419175/bc24gggcflathd5y5pue.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/sheila-arora-erin-kaya-urban-abstractions">Sheila Arora &amp; Erin Kaya – Urban Abstractions</a>Opening: Friday, March 10, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmRobin Malpass Art&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419176/xw79trqi6fujzwgo7nza.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/duane-linklater-mymothersside">Duane Linklater: mymothersside</a>Exhibition Begins March 11Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Open March 10 & 11

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419172/uosoaien4dz9lzscpu1v.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/copyright-reflected-in-the-shadows">Copyright: Reflected In The Shadows</a>Opening: Saturday, March 4, 12 – 6&nbsp;pm• Vertical GalleryCopyright's&nbsp;paintings represent ideals from the modern world and popular culture, portrayed within classic imagery of simple beauty. Many of his paintings tell stories from ancient mythology, represented by modern idealism and unattainable visions of glamour&nbsp;found in fashion, music and popular culture. Fusing street art, graffiti and&nbsp;traditional styles, he uses a mixture of classic painting techniques, printing and spray paint.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419173/tg9baoqfkgt8ylmgjcn5.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/weird-and-weirder">Weird and Weirder: Drawings By Mac Blackout, Paintings by LARDO Larson</a>Opening: Saturday, Mar 4, 6 – 10&nbsp;pm• AgitatorMac Blackout is a Chicago-based muralist, visual artist, musician, and a key figure in the city's art and music scenes. Mac works in multiple disciplines, creating art that radiates presence and transforms the world around us. His large-scale murals can be seen throughout the Chicago region and in cities across the United States.In this new collection of drawings for the duo exhibition "Weird and Weirder" I focus on the intuitive and automatic elements of creation. These linear figurative works are the product of a long term focused study to visualize a higher spiritual expressive realism through an equilibrium between the analytical mind and the expressive animalistic nuances that make us human.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419174/q8j2tjj6cjggthyfy2ds.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/surviving-the-long-wars-reckon-and-reimagine">Surviving the Long Wars: Reckon and Reimagine</a>Mar 4 – Jun 4• Chicago Cultural Center“Surviving the Long Wars: Reckon and Reimagine” is one of the three featured exhibitions of the second Veteran Art Triennial and Summit. From the “American Indian Wars” to the “Global War on Terror,” the exhibition explores the multiple, overlapping histories that shape our understanding of warfare, as well as alternative visions of peace, healing, and justice generated by diverse and entangled communities impacted by war.&nbsp;Featuring powerful work of Indigenous artists responding to the “American Indian Wars” alongside artists from the Greater Middle East and its diasporas reacting to the "Global War on Terror,” the exhibition explores how these works complicate and relate to the creative practices of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) veterans whose experiences profoundly challenge the dominant histories of these long wars.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419175/wxxnhqdrd62jp0ory2w7.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/sarah-leuchtner-sequential-escapes">Sarah Leuchtner: Sequential Escapes</a>Opening: Sunday, March 5, 2 – 5&nbsp;pm• GoldfinchUsing painting, dye, and collage, Leuchtner's work explores memory, nostalgia, loneliness, and&nbsp;the visual influence of signage and symbols through a painterly lens. "My interest in the&nbsp; symbolic languages of culture such as the emoji lead me to create my own&nbsp;alphabet of imagined shapes," the artist explains. "Each work begins with the development of a metaphorical&nbsp;and physical stencil which is then used across various mediums. These imagined&nbsp;configurations blend objects from my surroundings with historical or present day&nbsp;symbols, creating a geometric and symbolic vocabulary whose repetitive application&nbsp;explores expressions of contemporary social consumption."&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Open March 4 & 5

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419172/c8yp7n1pqiendpbcolx9.png"><figcaption>A portrait of Prince taken by Lynn Goldsmith (left) in 1981 and 16 silk-screened images Andy Warhol later created using the photo as a reference. A federal district court judge found that Warhol's series is "transformative" because it conveys a different message from the original, and thus is fair use. A Second Circuit Court of Appeals panel disagreed.Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/10/12/1127508725/prince-andy-warhol-supreme-court-copyright">The Supreme Court meets Andy Warhol, Prince and a case that could threaten creativity</a>You know all those famous Andy Warhol silk screen prints of Marilyn Monroe and Liz Taylor and lots of other glitterati? Now one of the most famous of these, the Prince series, is at the heart of a case the Supreme Court will examine on Wednesday. And it is a case of enormous importance to all manner of artists.Via NPR&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419173/emz6p2tfbbljf1xav7n4.webp"><figcaption>&nbsp;Image: Provided//J.B. Gerolium. 12-year-old Luciana Domenica Pacilli poses with some of the pieces in her "Crying Tiger Streetwear" line</figcaption></figure><a href="https://blockclubchicago.org/2023/03/02/12-year-old-artist-launches-crying-tiger-streetwear-created-by-painting-original-designs-on-thrifted-clothes/?utm_source=Pico&amp;utm_campaign=9b57295656-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_3_2_morninglist1&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_b6b84a5cee-9b57295656-127143461&amp;mc_cid=9b57295656&amp;mc_eid=9fac193df8">12-Year-Old Artist Launches Crying Tiger Streetwear, Created By Painting Original Designs On Thrifted Clothes</a>Luciana Domenica Pacilli, 12, has turned her family’s dining room into a studio wear.And now Luciana is working on her own fashion line: Crying Tiger Streetwear.“We literally have no dining room now,” said J.B. Gerolium, Luciana’s mother. “It’s sewing machines surrounded by paint palettes and a clothing rack. At dinnertime, we push the sewing machine aside, eat our pasta and get right back to it.”&nbsp;Via Blockclub Chicago&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/hank-willis-thomas-amy-sherald-and-more-star-in-the-new-season-of-art21s-flagship-video-series-dropping-in-april-2259523">Hank Willis Thomas, Amy Sherald, and More Star in the New Season of Art21’s Flagship Video Series, Dropping in April</a>Want to know what it’s like inside the studio of Hank Willis Thomas’s studio? What about Amy Sherald, or Christine Sun Kim?This April, viewers can get a glimpse inside the creative processes and studios of some of the world’s most prominent artists when the 11th season of Art21’s flagship series, Art in the Twenty-First Century, premieres on PBS. One-hour episodes will be released over the course of 2023 organized by the themes “Everyday Icons,” “Bodies of Knowledge,” and “Friends &amp; Strangers.”Via Artnet&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 3/2/23

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419172/lv4fwqsyrsss48bfdwl9.jpg"><figcaption>Image courtesy Sulyiman Stokes. Untitled (Momma #2). Photograph. 11 in. x 14 in. 2021</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.wbez.org/stories/movement-and-history-coalesce-in-exhibit-highlighting-the-great-migrations/4bba7ed3-dad2-4a1f-886a-c207e32e811a?utm_medium=url_copy&amp;audio-first=true">Movement and history coalesce in exhibit highlighting The Great Migration(s)</a>Curator Lola Ayisha Ogbara invites viewers to consider the history of the physical space and how our migration stories shape our connectedness to place. The exhibit includes found, archival and current photographic works that feature everything from subjects looking directly into the camera, exteriors of houses, a man riding a horse, people in line and people playing baseball.Reset sits down with the curator to learn the storied history of the South Side Community Art Center and the motivation behind the exhibit.Via WBEZ&nbsp;<a href="https://www-artnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.artnews.com/art-news/market/art-bridges-foundation-buys-robert-colescott-painting-1234658535/amp/">Alice Walton’s Art Bridges Foundation Is Buyer of $4.5 M. Robert Colescott Painting Auctioned by Bonhams Last Week</a>A 1980 painting by iconic American artist Robert Colescott sold for $4.5 million at Bonhams during a postwar and contemporary art auction at its Los Angeles saleroom on February 17. Shortly after the auction, Bonhams revealed that the work was purchased by Art Bridges Foundation, a nonprofit founded by ARTnews Top 200 Collector and Walmart heir Alice Walton.Via Artnews&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/02/27/olafur-eliasson-to-create-major-new-land-art-project-on-uk-coast">Olafur Eliasson to create major new land art project on UK coast</a>The Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson will create his first permanent outdoor work in the UK—a steel basin filled with sea water—on the West Cumbria coastline in north-west England. Eliasson’s project, provisionally entitled Your Daylight Destination, was devised in collaboration with the writer Robert Macfarlane.Eliasson’s new work is part of a major new public art programme launching this summer called&nbsp;Deep Time: Commissions for the Lake District Coast. The Deep Time initiative is commissioned by Copeland Borough Council and funded by the UK government’s Coastal Communities Fund, Arts Council England and the nuclear waste management company Sellafield’s "Six: Social Impact, Multiplied" programme—a government-led £2.2m regeneration fund.The Art Newspaper&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/arts/design/art-labor-child-care.html">High-Profile Art Couple Offers Worst Job Ever</a>Emily Colucci, a freelance art writer, “constantly, mindlessly” browses the online job listings hosted by the nonprofit New York Foundation for the Arts — and recently she found a doozy.The <a href="https://filthydreams.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/View-Job-NYFA.pdf">ad</a>, seeking a full-time “Executive/Personal Assistant” with “a high level of discretion,” had been posted by an anonymous but high-profile “Art World Family.” It was that phrase that first caught Colucci’s eye: “I thought it might have been a child-care service,” she explained. But the ad itself combined a tone so blithe with a detailed list of tasks so unreasonable that Colucci quickly posted it to the blog she co-founded, Filthy Dreams, under the title “I Found It: The Worst Art Job Listing Ever Created.”Via New York Times&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 2/28/23

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419172/egx9dpn6xvmilvryhxlj.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-ink-wash-paintings-of-shozo-sato">The Ink Wash Paintings of Shozo Sato</a>Exhibition begins March 2Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419173/o4pqdcftmb3fyybgkppl.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/pedro-vaz-lived-landscape">Pedro Vaz: Lived Landscape</a>Opening March 3, 5-8pmParis • London • Hong Kong&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419174/fwxrv6uxei7hgi9fl5ed.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/david-bechtol-through-the-eyes-of-a-traveler-opening-reception-fri-mar-3-5-8pm-https-www-arcgallery-org-david-bechtol-3">David Bechtol: THROUGH THE EYES OF A TRAVELER</a>&nbsp;Opening: Friday, March 3, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmARC Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419175/uoi7rwqgg0i849jjfsha.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/be-longing-the-work-of-indira-freitas-johnson">Be-Longing: The Work of Indira Freitas Johnson</a>Opening: Friday, March 3, 5:30 – 8&nbsp;pmThe Art Center Highland Park&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419176/a3znchb1vcl4wv5qe3z2.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/in-a-place-of-dreams">In a Place of Dreams</a>Opening: Friday, March 3, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmLily Pad | West&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419177/isgf1fgzpg2pqmjbqf50.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/gretchen-beck-gan-nda-donie-koy">Gretchen Beck: Gan nda Donie Koy</a>Opening: Friday, March 3, 6 – 8&nbsp;pmEpiphany Center for the Arts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419177/mpp3266nyxdyw22jhtkb.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/blue-space-group-exhibition">Blue Space: Group Exhibition</a>Opening: Friday, March 3, 5:30 – 8&nbsp;pmENGAGE Projects&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419178/kpfsa4agiikjqotpuhny.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/juxtaposed\">Juxtaposed</a>Opening: Friday, March 3, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmOliva Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419179/ffl6qkpzbug6njkfzv9x.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/meg-lipke">Meg Lipke: Moon Tempo</a>Opening: Friday, March 3, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmDOCUMENT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419180/vjojqq9jriuesmi3wyiv.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/barbara-stauffacher-solomon-i-do">Barbara Stauffacher Solomon: I DO</a>Opening: Friday, March 3, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmVolume Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419181/zus8dhcgnxrh67b4ebpt.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/bloom-a-spring-group-show">Bloom - A Spring Group Show</a>Opening: Friday, March 3, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmPovos Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419182/ageeypkbq1qwv1q6n2kc.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/richard-hull-mirror-and-bone">Richard Hull: Mirror and Bone</a>Opening: Friday, March 3, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmWestern Exhibitions&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions March 2 & 3

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419167/chtkoglisvoms0s8iniy.jpg"><figcaption>"Cosmic Returning" painting from Quantum Chandelier 21-D-02, 2021, oil on canvas,42 x 34 in.</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.jeanalbanogallery.com">Jean Albano Gallery Now Representing Michiko Itatani</a>Michiko's work was recently highlighted in a solo exhibition, Celestial Stage, at Wrightwood 659. The work from this show, as well as Michiko's other work, is now available at the gallery.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.weareplannedparenthoodaction.org/a/black-history-month-youth-and-gun-violence?source=ppaction">Weinberg/Newton to Present Gun Violence Panel&nbsp;</a> Planned Parenthood Illinois Action’s Black Organizing Program and Young Adults for Planned Parenthood are hosting a community conversation on the impact of gun violence in Illinois: Gun Violence: A Public Health Crisis and Racial Justice Issue, Feb 23, 6:30–7:30pm. RSVP <a href="https://weinbergnewtongallery.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=13d5172bf37bbf601de9678f4&amp;id=00a5f21afb&amp;e=15280a40b5">here.</a>There is no doubt that gun violence is a public health issue, but its racial justice implications disproportionately affect Black communities throughout the state. Our panel of community leaders and experts will discuss community-based solutions to ending gun violence and provide resources for processing gun violence trauma.&nbsp; Panelists: Yolanda Androzzo, Executive Director of OimAim Illinois, Rev. Brenda K. Mitchell, State Chapter Co-Leader of Moms Demand Action in Illinois and a Fellow with the Everytown Survivor Network, and Stephanie Love-Patterson, Executive Director of Connections for Abused Women and Children This is program&nbsp;is part of the exhibition <a href="https://weinbergnewtongallery.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=13d5172bf37bbf601de9678f4&amp;id=1a4771dfda&amp;e=15280a40b5">For Those Without Choice</a> which is presented in partnership with Planned Parenthood of Illinois.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=YLj2Y0YM-0uJIpMvI2iH7fe0RzUTkX1DqHvz5clIdUZUQjlNRlJLVzdTUldNU0s0N1lTOEtTOVdLUC4u">Inspiration Corporation Issues Call for Art. Firecat Will Host Solo Exhibition for one Competing Artist&nbsp;</a>Inspiration Corporation's annual art auction,&nbsp;One Inspired Evening, will be held on Friday, April 14th, 2023 at Morgan Manufacturing in Chicago.&nbsp;All art submissions for this upcoming One Inspired Evening will be reviewed by a blind jury prior to the event. The deadline is February 28. All selections will be auctioned off at the event with proceeds benefiting Inspiration Corporation.&nbsp;Benefits include the opportunity to participate in a juried art auction and the chance to compete for the top prize of your own gallery showing, as well as runner-up cash prizes.Inspiration Corporation enables the less fortunate among us to learn and acquire skills to work in the restaurant industry. The art auction is their major fundraiser of the year. Firecat Projects is offering a solo exhibition to one of the submitting artists.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.hydeparkart.org">Hyde Park Art Center Announces 2023 Calendar. Highlights Include Shows by Edra Soto and William Estrada.</a>Hyde Park Art Center has announced its full exhibition schedule for the 2023 calendar year. Under the new leadership of Co-executive Directors Jeanette Tremblay Chambers and Aaron Rodgers, highlights include Destination/El Destino: a decade of GRAFT is the largest exhibition to date of the prolific Puerto Rican artist, educator, and community organizer Edra Soto. A highlight of the exhibition is a new, large-scale commission of the artist’s GRAFT series with porous sculptures, documentary photographs, drawings, and games that activate the Art Center’s indoor/outdoor main gallery. On view&nbsp;April 22- August 6, 2023Also coming this summer is William Estrada: Multiples and Multitudes, on view July 22 - November 19, 2023. Multiples and Multitudes&nbsp;is the first solo exhibition of artist and educator William Estrada, whose socially engaged practice has been rooted in Chicago neighborhoods for over twenty years.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

CGN Art World Recap: 2/22/23

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419167/xqxo57udbxmemk7cqtkq.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/not-all">not all realisms: photography, Africa, and the long 1960s</a>Opening: Thursday, February 23, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmSmart Museum of Art&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419168/wzyx0xdqy2tl35cqylpd.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/magic-the-gathering-auction-preview-reception">Magic: The Gathering, Auction Preview Reception</a>Opening: Thursday, February 23, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmHeritage Auctions&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419168/rqeukzjphdrfzwhainl2.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/fabrizzio-subia-ano-nuevo-2023">Fabrizzio Subia: Año Nuevo (2023)</a>Opening: Friday, February 24, 6 – 8&nbsp;pmInternational Museum of Surgical Science&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419169/kaz2ppyaowdog8xfaqgm.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/aira-dean-abattoir-u-s-a">Aria Dean: Abattoir, U.S.A.!</a>Opening: Saturday, February 25, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmThe Renaissance Society&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419170/kmrrqukmqssejtjr4zj5.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-particle-series-by-kendra-kett">The Particle Series, by Kendra Kett</a>Opening: Saturday, February 25, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmBlue Moon Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions February 23 - 25

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419167/xckyuqo7gofj7avqfasq.jpg"><figcaption>COURTESY OF MARIANE IBRAHIM GALLERY &nbsp;</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a42793257/gallerist-mariane-ibrahim-broadens-her-roster-with-a-mexico-city-outpost/">Gallerist Mariane Ibrahim Broadens Her Roster With a Mexico City Outpost</a>Can a gallery successfully navigate the global art market without a presence in New York or London? It’s a question <a href="https://marianeibrahim.com/">Mariane Ibrahim</a> has simultaneously asked herself and answered. Having established her eponymous gallery in Seattle in 2012, the Somali-French art dealer, known for championing young artists of the African diaspora, moved her business to <a href="https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a41931381/0146-0157-the-chicago-school-december-2022/">Chicago</a> in 2019 and added a Parisian outpost in 2021. This week, her gallery’s third location opens in Mexico City, which she believes will comprise her ideal trilogy. “I’m very happy in Chicago. I’m very happy in Paris, and I’m even happier to be in Mexico,” Ibrahim, who considers herself an “adopted Chicagoan,” tells Harper’s Bazaar. While the choice of Mexico City may come as a surprise compared to more conventional global art destinations, Ibrahim shares the decision was anything but impulsive. “I actually thought Mexico would happen before Paris.”Via Harper's Bazaar&nbsp;<a href="https://news.wttw.com/2023/02/13/chicago-audubon-society-scrub-audubon-name-saying-naturalist-s-troubling-history-doesn-t">Chicago Audubon Society to Scrub ‘Audubon’ From Name, Saying Naturalist’s Troubling History ‘Doesn’t Work For Us’</a>The Chicago Audubon Society announced Monday that it intends to drop “Audubon” from its name, and is encouraging the National Audubon Society to do the same.“Audubon is not an appropriate standard-bearer for our organization,” the Chicago chapter stated in a letter to the national organization. (Audubon chapters are individual entities; regional offices like Audubon Great Lakes are affiliates of the national parent.)Via WTTW&nbsp;<a href="https://onmilwaukee.com/articles/mowa-10?utm_source=OnMilwaukee.com+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=a9d698120a-EMAIL_DAILY_DIGEST&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_ecd5e3eef5-a9d698120a-200932933">Museum of Wisconsin Art celebrates its 10th birthday</a>MOWA will mark the birthday with talks by 10 Wisconsin artists throughout 2023. The so-called TENtalks will feature lectures by Brennen Steines (Feb. 25), David Lenz (March 18), Della Wells (May 20), Michelle Grabner (June 17), Tom Uttech (July 15), Jason S. Yi (Aug. 5), Fred Stonehouse (Sept. 23), Vaughan Larsen (Oct. 7) and Lon Michels (Nov. 18).Via On Milwaukee&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 2/20/23

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419167/oma1c3dtfqge4vasovpf.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jessi-reaves-all-possessive-lusts-dispelled">Jessi Reaves: All possessive lusts dispelled</a>Opening: Thursday, February 16, 6 – 8&nbsp;pmThe Arts Club of Chicago&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419168/l2f7ugltwy8xninbugga.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/3rd-fridays-open-studios-11f2b53d-afe4-42ad-a27f-ca8b6524eb28">3rd Fridays Open Studios</a>Friday, February 17, 7 – 10&nbsp;pmBridgeport Art Center&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419168/diksv3vhw68xq9ohfjxo.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/alex-katz-collaborations-with-poets">Alex Katz: Collaborations with Poets</a>Begins February 18Poetry Foundation&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419169/itylsjlezewsztrhuakg.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/aesthetics-of-loss">Aesthetics of Loss</a>Opening: Saturday, February 18, noon – 4&nbsp;pmUkrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419170/s10satk8dqdsgn3eymnm.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/light-beyond">Light &amp; Beyond</a>Opening: Saturday, February 18, 7 – 9&nbsp;pmZhou B Art Center&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419171/ntih8sxs6imik7qd7wwv.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/of-portals-and-pathways-ii-fiscal-frontiers">Of Portals and Pathways II: Fiscal Frontiers</a>Opening: Sunday, February 19, 1 – 4&nbsp;pmEvanston Art Center&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions February 16 - 19

<html><head></head><body><a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/02/14/banksy-stands-up-to-domestic-violence-with-new-valentines-day-mural-in-coastal-kent-town">Banksy stands up to domestic violence with new Valentine’s Day mural in coastal Kent town</a>Banksy has taken a stand against domestic violence with a new mural painted in the UK coastal town of Margate in Kent to mark Valentine’s Day.Titled Valentine’s Day Mascara, the work shows a woman in a 50s-style gingham checked dress, complete with apron and yellow marigolds, smiling and winking with a swollen, bruised eye. Arms outstretched, she appears to have just disposed of her abusive husband inside a large chest freezer—his legs can be seen sticking out from the kitchen appliance.Via The Art Newspaper&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-chatgpt-dall-e-microsoft-rutkowski-github-artificial-intelligence-11675466857?mod=wsjhp_columnists_pos3">AI Tech Enables Industrial-Scale Intellectual-Property Theft, Say Critics</a>Grzegorz Rutkowski has studied the great masters of texture and light—Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Vermeer—and his ability to mimic their techniques has made him an in-demand painter of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/greg_rutkowski/?hl=en">fantastical beasts and landscapes</a> for the videogame industry.&nbsp;But these days, instead of devoting all his time to painting in his sun-dappled studio near the picturesque medieval square in the town of Pieńsk, Poland, he’s spending ever more of it on Zoom calls, talking to lawyers, artists and others about the strange reason he is suddenly far more famous than he ever thought possible.Via WSJ&nbsp;<a href="https://www.essence.com/news/money-career/emerging-class-shaping-future-black-art/">An Emerging New Class Of Creators Are Shaping The Future Of Black Art</a>“I truly believe that art, at the heart of it, is a tool of expression. As artists, it’s natural that our art reflects our lives, values, and interests. Whether we create art that holds a mirror up to the world or as an attempt to shape it into a new one, these are the tools we can use to navigate these thoughts and feelings,” artist and illustrator <a href="https://www.sabrenakhadija.com/about">Sabrena Khadija</a> told ESSENCE. Khadija is among a new class of artists seeking inclusive spaces to explore creativity.&nbsp;Via ESSENCE&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419167/pdepvwaichbq32zizjfc.jpg"><figcaption>MSCHF's Big Red Boots are stomping across your social media feed.MODEL: SARAH SNYDER/PHOTO GARRETT BRUCE/COURTESY MSCHF</figcaption></figure>Art Collective’s ‘Big Red Boots’ Flood Social Media&nbsp;FeedsThe impish, Brooklyn-based art collective <a href="https://www.artnews.com/t/mschf/">MSCHF</a> has spawned yet another flurry of social media engagement, this time in the form of a pair of sleek, rubbery red boots that would be home in Astro Boy’s wardrobe.Set to be released on February 16&nbsp;(just in time for <a href="https://www.artnews.com/t/new-york-fashion-week/">New York Fashion Week</a>), the “<a href="https://mschf.com/">Big Red Boots</a>” have already been the subject of numerous posts on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.tiktok.com/share/video/7194106381090311430?referer_url=www.businessinsider.com%2Fmschf-red-boots-are-all-over-your-social-media-2023-2&amp;refer=embed&amp;embed_source=121331973%2C120811592%2C120810756%3Bnull%3Bembed_card_play&amp;referer_video_id=7197455788917460229">TikTok</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/nicekicks/status/1622659910214328338?s=20&amp;t=I82s_UFNnEXAzr1aoLHDvQ">Twitter</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CoSfsWoqyLx/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading">Instagram</a>.&nbsp;The boots have a TPU shell that renders them soft but sturdy, like an iPhone case, and pairs are set to go for $350 when they drop. They’re likely to sell quickly, as most items by the collective often do.Via Artnews&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 2/14/23

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419162/rl2sjguwtlxdlfnxfshy.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/robin-malpass-wastes-of-wanderings-sustainable-elegance">Robin Malpass: Wastes of Wanderings: Sustainable Elegance</a>Opening: Friday, February 10, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmRobin Malpass Art&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419163/cas7pqfuggxcwrkcwiks.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/carey-watters-sharp-points">Carey Watters: Sharp Points</a>Opening: Saturday, February 11, 1 – 3&nbsp;pmOS Projects&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419164/gtuslrkdx7e8kwz02oqy.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/miller-shellabarger-photography">Miller &amp; Shellabarger: Photography</a>Opening: Saturday, February 11, 5 – 8&nbsp;pm(northern) Western Exhibitions&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419164/s4xqk1sq5ekx1snld7ui.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/gathering-voices-at-ram-20-years-of-building-america-s-largest-contemporary-craft-collection">Gathering Voices at RAM: 20 Years of Building America’s Largest Contemporary Craft Collection</a>Begins February 8Racine Art Museum&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419165/gnytuobraohsclprbyxi.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/fractured-systems-phoenix-brown-and-claire-smith">Fractured Systems: Phoenix Brown and Claire Smith</a>Begins February 10Saint Kate – The Arts Hotel&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions February 8 - 11

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419162/oilpvj119njorihf8hun.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/lavar-monroe-sometime-come-to-someplace">Lavar Monroe: Sometime Come to Someplace</a>Opening: Friday, February 3, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmmoniquemeloche&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419163/sgbdnbkz4uftxciljf5g.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/liat-yossifor-life-against-itself">Liat Yossifor: Life Against Itself</a>Opening: Saturday, February 4, 5 – 7:30&nbsp;pmPATRON&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419164/y4gwdhjf4mhyqalmizg2.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/robert-hutchison">Robert Hutchison: Draw Your Own Conclusions</a>Opening: Saturday, February 4, 7 – 10&nbsp;pmFirecat Projects&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419164/fxfsrdojsaekv6y4rom7.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/beyond-representation-seeking-new-forms">Beyond Representation: Seeking New Forms</a>Begins February 6Wadsworth Family Gallery at Lewis University&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions February 4 - 6 (Part II)

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419162/on2vfpeg3aba06wqyqdi.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/steve-geer-paula-shur">Steve Geer &amp; Paula Shur</a>Opening: Saturday, February 4, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmPerspective Photo Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419163/j6hn8nx3s4fipsaybjng.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/pattern-and-process">Pattern and Process</a>Begins February 2Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419164/ncquo5tbmewq7de6gtfc.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/color">COLOR</a>Opening: Friday, February 3, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmARC Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419165/i6nv5hryntvekcbofnw3.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/off-white-perceptions-of-color">Off-White Perceptions of Color</a>Opening: Friday, February 3, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmCircle Contemporary (Arts of Life)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419166/kquistjk8nocdxr4cmze.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/outer-harmonies-thirteen-themes-from-the-permanent-collection">Outer Harmonies: Thirteen Themes from the Permanent Collection</a>Opening: Friday, February 3, 7 – 8&nbsp;pmRockford Art Museum&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions February 4 - 6 (Part I)

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419162/lsrzivsjyd0wq45wrtcx.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/hauntology-ghostly-matters">Hauntology: Ghostly Matters</a>Opening: Thursday, January 26, 6 – 8&nbsp;pmMariane Ibrahim Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419163/bkpuhtcmuuek1udyanyr.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/deborah-simon">Deborah Simon</a>Opening: Friday, January 27, 6 – 8&nbsp;pmInternational Museum of Surgical Science&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419164/ggjgfbaonxumabqwq2qe.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/roe-2-0-it-ain-t-over-yet">Roe 2.0 – It Ain’t Over Yet! (Virtual Exhibition)</a>Opening: Saturday, January 28, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmWoman Made Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419165/bctuxnpkqxad7c5bc0xg.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/sub-urban-warrior">Home Sweet Home: Nostalgia...ish</a>Opening: Saturday, January 28, 4 – 8&nbsp;pmChicago Truborn&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions January 26 - 28

<a href="https://www.terraamericanart.org/what-we-offer/grant-fellowship-opportunities/chicago-art-design-initiative-grants/art-design-chicago-2024-exhibitions-grants/?utm_source=EXPO+Master+%7C+Main+List&amp;utm_campaign=73e7555f42-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_ODLVII&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_5e6f73ac04-73e7555f42-58709297">Art Design Chicago 2024 Exhibitions Grants</a>Art Design Chicago is a platform for collaboration and exchange developed with cultural practitioners throughout Chicago. The initiative seeks to catalyze transformative approaches to co-creation and community engagement and stimulate expansive narratives of Chicago art and design, past and present. The Terra Foundation invites proposals for exhibitions to be presented as part of Art Design Chicago. Recognizing current and historical inequities in presentations and understandings of American (and Chicago) art history, the Terra Foundation encourages exhibitions that address these disparities and exclusions.To be considered, programs should focus on the <a href="https://www.terraamericanart.org/what-we-offer/grant-fellowship-opportunities/chicago-art-design-initiative-grants/art-design-chicago-faqs/">visual arts and/or design of Chicago</a>, whether historical or contemporary, including Native American arts of the region. Contemporary art projects should offer a reflective and critical engagement with histories, arts, and/or art histories associated with Chicago contexts.More information <a href="https://www.terraamericanart.org/what-we-offer/grant-fellowship-opportunities/chicago-art-design-initiative-grants/art-design-chicago-2024-exhibitions-grants/?utm_source=EXPO+Master+%7C+Main+List&amp;utm_campaign=73e7555f42-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_ODLVII&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_5e6f73ac04-73e7555f42-58709297">here</a>&nbsp;Chicago Printmakers is Selling Printmaking Care Packages Again&nbsp;For $75 CPC will send a beautiful printy fun pack from you to a recipient anywhere in the U.S. that features a print of your choosing (from 8 possible choices), along with a hand made card to the recipient (that we'll hand write and "sign" for you) plus a bunch of other fun arty goodies. Shipping is included! It's like a BIG GIANT SMALL PRINT HUG in the mail. Take care of your friends and loved ones (and yourself) with uplifting art. The theme here is WELLNESS.<a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001EbVuQl3oNAx1iQVf9iB_862STFhNvp3UgGLcYhsNEuGG6l6OovGeOzDfn41PSIfsb8meHuhcn19iGWjqCJwo0zM05MIvGqiDxfJk7sHTxxNuC4LK89Or2mI68VSflcNdKjXVycueCl5SLIaNoDscoXaebWNcHxpT2giLWHeIIp7-s49IC6GBWMbWcAIau6HTMN-KotxjXvbr3K7GjdYYTTQ4crxo1ZLZh6EErs90lD6k8PfEko0yRF12VhcoZexEnq9Bh9mJTsOv7fZK53eJfyowp692ovPa3s6TParXEN8=&amp;c=DZkHeiCwEyGSfbZibGA1LnXsRPMEIVCTblZ6_ktmwzJ9Z7Udd6ykog==&amp;ch=jc1oeclXEcw2RmmNe7BpyQVXzvosG1bvlEGx4uWLNgxe5mx-p9rSuA==">SHOP CARE PACKAGES</a><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001EbVuQl3oNAx1iQVf9iB_862STFhNvp3UgGLcYhsNEuGG6l6OovGeO30v0F_CzPQeE9GGHhKjHcbTp-GD5ZJc5gH8dB2GtRyRoYhiaRbUrRuMoHJE7ZfCrEx2h-gmt0oIMrYM-Y56H7B4XGmeqPbv1KsxqSnquPiYNKOOnm7F9woGjv1ITsOBEonYxCypddnO&amp;c=DZkHeiCwEyGSfbZibGA1LnXsRPMEIVCTblZ6_ktmwzJ9Z7Udd6ykog==&amp;ch=jc1oeclXEcw2RmmNe7BpyQVXzvosG1bvlEGx4uWLNgxe5mx-p9rSuA==">SHOP PRINTS</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/who-is-theaster-gates-1234651543/#recipient_hashed=613539a43568c1a47820906c3033d813b063aa31da08d3bcc613f3b3d1248578&amp;recipient_salt=57f1da2200d56c9894b7bf21313727239bef88b323c1daff7d2f6c86ce2069bd">From Pottery to Real Estate: Six Essential Works by Artist and Activist Theaster&nbsp;Gates</a>Few artists make work as wide ranging as that of the Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist Theaster Gates, whose art encompasses ceramics, sculpture, music, performance, film, and land development. It also includes what art historians generally call social practice—a medium that focuses on art as a means of social or political engagement—although Gates resoundingly rejects the term.Gates’s projects may at times seem unrelated to one another; what connects classic clay vessels, canvases covered with roofing material, a Black Madonna figure, the revival of neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, and a neon sign reading “Burn Baby Burn” emblazoned above 5,000 records from the personal vinyl collection of a legendary DJ? In fact, there are identifiable threads running through the whole of his oeuvre.Via ARTnews&nbsp;

CGN Art World Recap: 1/24/23

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419155/jltd1feferyh1gpdomee.jpg"><figcaption>Artist and writer Audrey Niffenegger is the founder of the Artists Book House. Photo by Anna Dobrowolski</figcaption></figure><a href="https://evanstonroundtable.com/2023/01/12/artists-book-house-opts-out-of-harley-clarke-mansion/">Artists Book House opts out of Harley Clarke Mansion</a>The Artists Book House informed the city it is leaving the Harley Clarke mansion, bringing an abrupt end to the group’s dream to create a book and literary center in the long-shuttered lakefront building, its founder said Thursday, Jan. 12.The decision was reached reluctantly, after consulting with four fundraising firms, who, while agreeing it was possible to raise the money required to restore the mansion, concluded that it would take eight to 10 years, far beyond what the group had committed to originally, said Audrey Niffenegger, the founder of the Artists Book House, confirming the decision.Note: CGN profiled Niffenegger and the project in the <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2021/9/inpursuit-of-bookish-things-audrey-niffenegger-on-building-artists-book-house-a-home-in-evanston">Fall 2021 issue of CGN</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2023/1/17/23530987/notre-dame-cathedral-restoration-chicago-carla-knoorowski">Chicagoan awarded high honors from France for work rebuilding Notre Dame Cathedral ravaged by fire</a>Carla Knorowski cried as she sat on the couch at her Lake View home and watched news coverage of a fire tearing through Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.It was April 2019. The smoke and flames struck a nerve.Several weeks earlier, Knorowski, a professional fundraiser who’s raised millions for her alma mater, the University of Illinois at Chicago, began working with Friends of Notre Dame de Paris on the organization’s board of directors.Via Chicago Sun Times&nbsp;Elmhurst Art Museum Receives $150K NEA GrantEAM announced they have been awarded a $150,000 matching grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and they are the only museum in the State of Illinois to win this national award.This nationally recognized award will aid future renovations to the museum's roof to protect its permanent collections and sustain our humanities programming.&nbsp;</body></html>

CGN Art World Recap: 1/18/23

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419155/azitb9sju5pvj0wt2no9.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/ted-degener-at-home-with-artists">Ted Degener: At Home with Artists</a>Opening: Thursday, January 19, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmIntuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419156/i84qafm5u37fx1megdqh.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/roscoe-mitchell">Roscoe Mitchell | Keeper of the Code: Paintings 1963-2022</a>Opening: Friday, January 20, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmCorbett vs. Dempsey&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419157/yppivyzbhnna8ob5hypa.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/sacrifice-and-revelations">Sacrifice and Revelations</a>Opening: Friday, January 20, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmFLXST Contemporary&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419157/cnyopq0yaomljmc3fr10.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/environment-s-tallation">ENVIRONMENT/S/TALLATION</a>Opening: Friday, January 20, 7 – 10&nbsp;pmBridgeport Art Center&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419158/nmgpxks9wittk832uwpw.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/collected-pauses-solo-exhibition-jeffrey-sanderson">Collected Pauses – Solo Exhibition, Jeffrey Sanderson</a>Opening: Friday, January 20, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmAlma Art &amp; Interiors&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419159/qx1mdlikah16jpjokdrg.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/for-those-without-choice">For Those Without Choice</a>Opening: Friday, January 20, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmWeinberg/Newton Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419160/ltswbt16eupg5eh4ve8w.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/3rd-fridays-open-studios-ad14fe29-ffb5-4a6d-b767-779c6e7902cb">3rd Fridays Open Studios</a>Friday, January 20, 7 – 10&nbsp;pmBridgeport Art Center&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419161/nxuh5l39aqii2tyhj4nn.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/doug-fogelson-the-witness">Doug Fogelson: The Witness</a>Opening: Saturday, January 21, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmBert Green Fine Art&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions January 19 - 21

<a href="https://www.richardgraygallery.com/exhibitions/gray-at-60">GRAY Announces 60th Anniversary Exhibition</a>GRAY is pleased to announce GRAY at 60, an exhibition and accompanying book commemorating six decades since the gallery’s founding in 1963 by Richard Gray (1928-2018). Featuring works by sixty historical and living artists whose practices have been integral to the gallery’s vision GRAY at 60 presents the legacy and future of one of the United States’s longest running galleries.&nbsp;GRAY at 60&nbsp;opens on Thursday, January 26 from 5-7 PM, at GRAY Chicago (2044 W. Carroll Ave.) and will be on view through March 11, 2023 before the exhibition travels to GRAY New York (1018 Madison Ave.), where it will be on view from March 31 through May 26, 2023.GRAY at 60 pursues a single material—paper—across more than one hundred years of art history to survey the myriad ways in which artists use the medium as an index of touch and a surface for immediacy. The exhibition takes root in the gallery’s intertwined histories of presenting canonical artists alongside those reinventing the canon itself. As gallery principal Paul Gray notes, “From the beginning [of the gallery] there was the eclectic mission of acquiring, exhibiting, and dealing in the masters of the century’s first half such as Matisse, Picasso, Léger, Giacometti, and Gorky, combined with representing and exhibiting prominent mid-career artists of the time, Calder, de Kooning, Avery, and Morris Louis, as well as exhibitions for young and emerging artists like 26 year-old Bob Thompson whom the gallery presented in its inaugural show in 1963.”Reflecting on this history, GRAY at 60 makes space for Modernist, Abstract Expressionist, Pop, Contemporary, and other expansive practices to be shown together. These transhistorical readings posit a logic for the works of Agnes Martin and Barnett Newman to hang alongside a tar paper work by Theaster Gates; for the colorful forms of Joan Miró, Jackson Pollock, Grace Hartigan, and Helen Frankenthaler to enter into dialogue with McArthur Binion’s and Carrie Moyer’s; for Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse to converse with Alex Katz and David Hockney; for a balance between the sculptors Alexander Calder, Jaume Plensa, and Torkwase Dyson’s impressions in two dimensions; and for Rashid Johnson’s figures to join those by Jean Dubuffet, Alberto Giacometti, and Philip Guston.In considering these conversions of art-making across time, GRAY at 60 finds the medium of paper a fitting ledger with which to trace the years past and those to come.&nbsp;<a href="https://ennouncement.exhibit-e.com/t/y-l-nhddrdy-sykijfhl-t/">Learn More</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artencounter.org">Art Encounter Receives NEA Grant</a>Art Encounter is pleased to announce they were approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to receive a Grants for Arts Projects award of $25,000.This grant will support the expansion of <a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001hXli2oGYA4YgZccVSaOcrAX_b-j-nQxVmeHxVGYboROndVNzVLdDat-zBhd-UygtUAGk2_P-oaHdxHmgxa5XZ1N4fnhc8-W7fqZ64rqO30SksVuGqNfyOf0IZCAPU4hAN71fQ23prr78H2CXn8Kbb21VdJTdp32KZVrXAKXStS8=&amp;c=8KchOUsiJU5Tcmk2wm1431d_haOmFX2WAO9L6Zuc-VA_J2vnwdg8XQ==&amp;ch=o1LJRTJen90oDBNJChv_RMe0oFIsO3UIFq0cEJ3187MQo6IQuiATWw==">ARTiculations</a>, our in-school art and writing residency program for students in Chicago Public Schools. Art Encounter is honored to be chosen as one of the 1,251 Grants for Arts Projects awardees, totaling nearly $28.8 million in funding announced by the NEA as part of their first round of fiscal year 2023 grants. This will be Art Encounter’s first time receiving grant funding from the NEA.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-art-instutute-of-chicago-employee-federal-embezzlement-charges-20230113-cxkrk3lj4bap3fanwr2h5h7ovq-story.html">Former Art Institute employee charged in $2 million embezzlement scheme</a>A former payroll manager for the Art Institute of Chicago has been indicted on federal charges alleging he embezzled more than $2 million in museum funds over a 12-year period by falsifying payments to employees.Michael Maurello, 56, of Beach Park, was charged in an indictment made public Friday with two counts each of wire fraud and bank fraud. The more serious bank fraud charges carry a maximum of 30 years in prison if he is convicted.Via Chicago Tribune&nbsp;

CGN Art World Recap: 1/16/23

<a href="https://wgntv.com/daytime-chicago/forecast-form-art-in-the-caribbean-diaspora-1990s-today/">News Spotlight on ‘Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s-Today’</a>WGN News aired a segment on the MCA's new exhibition.Via WGN News&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/01/07/1147678850/a-new-exhibit-in-chicago-features-artwork-by-children-in-ukraine?fbclid=IwAR1fONkqsHrCVX_HmXDTbiHoIZF0g3Ky6XgkeAH4XN5vULVnYPwxx7MosRY">A new exhibit in Chicago features artwork by children in Ukraine</a>NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Yustyna Pavliuk and Adrienne Kochman about "Children of War," an exhibit at Chicago's Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art that features artwork by children in Ukraine.Via NPR&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/01/06/louvre-will-begin-limiting-daily-visitor-numbers-to-create-more-pleasurable-viewing-experience">Louvre will begin significantly limiting daily visitor numbers to create 'more pleasurable viewing experience'</a>In 2022, the Louvre received 7.8 million visitors—19% less than in 2019, albeit a rise of 170% from 2021 when French museums were closed for nearly five months. But the fall in attendance is not necessarily bad news. The Louvre director Laurence des Cars has hit the pause button and decided to limit daily entries to 30,000. Prior to Covid-19, the museum could welcome up to 45,000 people on its most crowded days. With 80% of tickets now issued via a reservation service, the new policy should stabilise attendance at between 7.5 million and 8 million visitors for 2023, the same levels experienced by the museum around 17 years ago.In a statement, Des Cars said she opted for the change “so the visit would be a pleasurable experience, especially for first-timers to the museum who make up 60% of entries".Via Art Newspaper&nbsp;Thumbnail is from MCA's Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today

What We're Reading: 1/11/23

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419147/pgen2o560ydhejqblzfu.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/gallery-artist-group-show-eee16b89-d55e-4a70-aef9-9e6ff01f68a7">Gallery Artist Group Show</a>Opening: Friday, January 13, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmCarl Hammer Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419148/gmccpogpqugsifzpg5nv.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/new-work-group-exhibition">New Work, Group Exhibition</a>Opening: Friday, January 13, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmAddington Gallery&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419149/fxjbs3uz5e1bq1e8nsya.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jean-alexander-frater-and-margaret-welsh">Jean Alexander Frater and Margaret Welsh: Centered.</a>January 13ENGAGE Projects&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419150/ekl7tvsrgh054qfyabuz.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/lora-fosberg">Lora Fosberg</a>Opening: Friday, January 13, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmZolla / Lieberman Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419150/voqcnzrouzy08nlt0h0h.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/welcome-to-winter-art-land">Welcome to Winter Art Land</a>Opening: Friday, January 13, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmJean Albano Gallery&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419151/cd7cccafsnhsc88k7a8s.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/new-work-by-ben-duke-and-suk-ja-kang">New work by Ben Duke and Suk Ja Kang</a>Opening: Friday, Jan 13 5 – 8&nbsp;pmGallery Victor Armendariz&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419152/xrbjwatai6jpq65bpi3p.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/dared-to-be-black-and-shining">Dared to be Black and Shining</a>Opening: Friday, January 13, 6 – 10&nbsp;pmChicago Art Department&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419153/bsg2dvei3el9zvy2yviy.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/intersection">Intersection</a>Opening: Saturday, January 14, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmChicago Sculpture International&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions January 13 & 14

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419147/qqfvvs0vbgjrujhib7i4.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/arts/design/ukraine-children-war-art.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare">Tanks and Teddy Bears: Ukrainian Children Paint the War</a>On the walls of a modern art museum in Ukrainian Village, a neighborhood and cultural enclave here, hangs a drawing of the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/01/magazine/ukraine-mariupol-theater.html">fall of Mariupol</a>, one of the bloodiest battles of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Against a bright orange sky, smoke drawn with a felt-tip pen billows from crumbling buildings as Russian planes fly overhead.The artist? A 9-year-old boy named Roman.Via NYTImage: <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/art-for-post-trauma-recovery-of-children-in-ukraine">Children of War: Art for post-trauma recovery of children of Ukraine</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/wicker-park-historical-home-sale">This former Wicker Park orphanage turned art gallery is still waiting for its next iteration</a>About eight years after buying a historical Wicker Park building to make it their home, the owners, who did not complete the project, are cutting almost $1.8 million from their asking price.McKenzie Maher and Michael Mertz bought the Wood Street building in 2014 when it had long housed live-work spaces for artists and a gallery. They put it on the market&nbsp;in June 2021 at $8.45 million, but later took it off the market. It's going back up for sale Jan. 5 at $6.7 million.&nbsp;That's a cut of $1.75 million, or 21%.Via Crain's&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://news.wttw.com/2022/12/28/chicago-architect-behind-riverwalk-cta-stations-and-eye-catching-mcdonalds-designs">Chicago Architect Behind Riverwalk, CTA Stations and Eye-Catching McDonalds Designs Awarded Prestigious Medal</a>A groundbreaking Chicago architect has been awarded the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects, a prestigious honor previously given to luminaries like Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies Van Der Rohe.Chicagoans not familiar with the name Carol Ross Barney almost certainly have experienced some of her work.Barney says that work is guided by a utopian vision to use architecture to better people’s lives.“Every space needs good design,” Barney said. “The amount of benefit to the quality of life that well-designed environments create is extraordinary.”Via WTTW&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

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