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Eye Exam: Public Displays of Artistic Affection 27 Aug 2013 | 02:30 pm
By Jason Foumberg As the art world shifts interest away from loner studio practices, it is relationships—long-distance relationships, no-strings-attached relationships, contractual relationships—that ...
Art Break: What A Theaster Gates Performance Sounds Like 27 Aug 2013 | 02:15 pm
In a sweeping exodus from the Cotton Belt, black sharecroppers from Mississippi and Alabama boarded the Illinois Central Railroad to Chicago. From 1916-1970, six million African Americans fled the r...
Review: Linda Adele Goodine and Antonio Martinez/Gallery 19 27 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
RECOMMENDED The tried and sometimes true genre of identity photography makes a powerful comeback in curator Tommy Reyes’ insightfully apposite pairing of feminist self-portraitist Linda Adele Goodine’...
Review: Richard Gibbons/Roy Boyd Gallery 27 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
Liturgical Christian art is no more likely found in galleries of contemporary art than in mosques. So, at first it was puzzling to find three chapel-sized altarpieces in Roy Boyd Gallery, a space us...
Review: Steinunn Thórarinsdóttir/Solti Garden 27 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
RECOMMENDED Squeezed into a narrow stretch between Michigan Avenue and a ten-foot embankment, and dominated by the hawk-like gaze of Dame Elisabeth Frink’s monolithic bust of Sir Georg, Solti Garden w...
Hijack the Newspaper: A Newcity Artist Project 13 Aug 2013 | 09:50 pm
Newcity is seeking an artist to hijack our print publication for the September 5 issue. The artist will take full command of our cover art and three-to-four pages inside of our free alt-weekly newspap...
Head Case: What’s With Those Buddhas and Why are They Being Smashed or Stolen? 13 Aug 2013 | 04:30 pm
By Josh Kovensky A bashed Buddha is not a pretty sight. Nor is it expected—vessels of peace, supposedly pointing the way toward the cessation of suffering, Buddha statues do not seem a target for the ...
Review: Gaylen Gerber/Museum of Contemporary Art 13 Aug 2013 | 04:05 pm
RECOMMENDED For decades, Gaylen Gerber has rendered conspicuous the assumed neutrality—both perceptual and rhetorical—of exhibition spaces and the institutions that house them, through gray monochroma...
Review: Dan Schreck/Park Schreck Gallery 13 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
RECOMMENDED You have surely noticed, most likely just in passing, the intricate designs printed on the insides of envelopes, especially those that come from financial institutions. Dan Schreck has tak...
Review: Peter Brotzmann and Hedwig Eberle/Corbett vs. Dempsey 13 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
RECOMMENDED Rosalind Krauss and Yve-Alain Bois’ eclectic collection of writings on twentieth-century art, ”Formless: A User’s Guide,” separates the concept of the “formless” (Georges Bataille’s inform...
