<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>

What We're Reading: 1/4/23

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419147/zk8eh4nglw3wkx8fsmcp.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;&nbsp;By CGN StaffEvents and exhibitions happening in galleries and museums are added to <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events">CGN's calendar</a> throughout the year. Highlights for 2023 include everything from museum blockbusters to under-the-radar gallery shows and international art fairs – something everywhere for everyone. There are also shows yet to be announced in the 100+ galleries listed in CGN.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419148/imknlgwg3zh3xq1dgda0.jpg"><figcaption>Salvador Dalí, Mae West’s Face which May be Used as a Surrealist Apartment, 1934-35. &nbsp; &nbsp;</figcaption></figure>• Salvador Dalí: The image disappearsFocusing on the pivotal decade of the 1930s, when Salvador Dalí emerged as the inventor of his own personal brand of Surrealism, this exhibition of 25 paintings, drawings, and surrealist objects considers Dalí’s work in light of two defining, if contradictory, impulses: an immense desire for visibility and the urge to disappear.<a href="https://www.artic.edu">The Art Institute of Chicago &nbsp;</a>Feb 18–Jun 12, 2023&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419149/qyfeqlwoxt9czuihjzjz.jpg"><figcaption>A sample of the truth, 2022, wood, metal, cord, sawdust, wood glue, paper, enamel paint. Image courtesy of the artist and Bridget Donahue Gallery. Photo by Greg Carideo. &nbsp;</figcaption></figure>• Jessi Reaves: All possessive lusts dispelledReaves combines iconic modernist design with an irreverent aesthetic in sculpture that toys with functionality. Reaves often begins with found furniture, which she dismantles, converts, remakes, enhances, pads, and embellishes in ways that still allow the suggestion of physical contact or use. By breaking things open, she proposes that they be examined visually and in terms of their purpose in life. The exhibition at The Arts Club of Chicago centers on the work Personal Heat, 2021, a deconstructed étagère with accompanying video that explores themes of renovation and rebellion. The sculptural aspect features a pop punk aesthetic of hot pink animal stripes, as if Reaves had been locked in a room in her great aunt’s house with a can of paint, a saw, and some wood glue.<a href="https://www.artsclubchicago.org">The Arts Club</a>Feb 16–May 20&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419149/becpizl7q4hwzg13vuvt.jpg"><figcaption>EXPO CHICAGO Vernissage, 2019. Image by Cory DeWald &nbsp;</figcaption></figure>• EXPO CHICAGO Turns 10The tenth anniversary of EXPO CHICAGO takes place this spring under the vaulted architecture of Navy Pier’s Festival Hall. The exposition will bring together global galleries and unrivaled programming, alongside unforgettable city-wide events during EXPO ART WEEK.Navy Pier&nbsp;April 13–16, 2023<a href="https://www.expochicago.com">expochicago.com&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419150/awvndsm2yznlts2eopap.jpg"><figcaption>Image courtesy of Shahryar Nashat &nbsp;</figcaption></figure>• Shahryar Nashat – It's All Just Stories“Nashat leads his viewers to an understanding of the mechanics of being human, but stops short of arrival; it is up to us to traverse (or revel in) that uneasy gap.” — Simon Castets and Elena FilipovicCurated by Myriam Ben Salah.<a href="https://renaissancesociety.org">The Renaissance Society&nbsp;</a> &nbsp;&nbsp;May 6–Jul 2, 2023 &nbsp;Image courtesy of Shahryar Nashat&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419151/gwsgsbt9cl7b5gre3bcs.jpg"></figure>• WarholThe Warhol Exhibition includes 94 works from Andy Warhol Portfolios: A Life in Pop/Works from the Bank of America Collection on loan through Bank of America’s Art in our Communities program, and over 11,000 sq. ft. of interactive experiences including a Biographical exhibit, Video installation, 150+ photos taken by Warhol, Children’s Print Factory, Studio 54 experience and a Central Park-inspired outdoor space.<a href="https://www.theccma.org">Cleve Carney Museum of Art&nbsp;</a>June 3–Sept 10, 2023&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419152/jhbz7j3aictjxrba3p7n.jpg"><figcaption>Entrance to Abbesses, Paris Metro. Art Nouveau design by Hector Guimard. Steve Cadman © CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons &nbsp;</figcaption></figure>• Hector Guimard: Art Nouveau to ModernismThis exhibition explores the life and work of Hector Guimard (1867-1942), the French architect and designer whose name is synonymous with the French Art Nouveau movement. Bringing together furniture and design objects including jewelry, metalwork, ceramics, drawings, and textiles from collections worldwide, this is the first major American museum exhibition devoted to Guimard since 1970.Guimard is best known for his designs for the Paris Métro entrances, but the exhibition aims to explore lesser-known aspects of the designer’s life.<a href="https://driehausmuseum.org">Richard H. Driehaus Museum</a>Jun 22–Jan 7, 2024&nbsp;&nbsp;Image: Entrance to Abbesses, Paris Metro. Art Nouveau design by Hector Guimard. Steve Cadman © CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419152/mtfui9qhusc8rikhrwu0.jpg"><figcaption>Ruth Duckworth looking at the maquette for Earth, Water, Sky at the Smart Museum of Art in 2005. Photo by Jim Newberry. &nbsp;</figcaption></figure>• Ruth Duckworth Life As a UnityThis monographic exhibition—the first since a 2006 retrospective—makes use of art historical advances of the last several decades to examine Duckworth’s Chicago work in a new light. Duckworth referred to herself not as a potter or ceramicist, but as a sculptor with clay. The exhibition takes her at her word, foregrounding her sculptural production. Ruth Duckworth: Life as a Unity is part of Art Design Chicago, an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art.<a href="https://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu">Smart Museum of Art</a>Fall 2023&nbsp;Image: Ruth Duckworth looking at the maquette for Earth, Water, Sky at the Smart Museum of Art in 2005. Photo by Jim Newberry.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419153/grojoaxemwdcdrmmyavs.jpg"><figcaption>Bob Thompson, Blue Ma Tribune Tower, 6a architects | © Chicago Architecture Biennial / Tom Harris, 2017 &nbsp;</figcaption></figure>• <a href="chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org">Chicago Architectural Biennial</a>The Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) is dedicated to creating an international forum on architecture and urbanism. CAB’s signature program stands as North America’s largest international survey of contemporary architecture, taking place every two years at the Chicago Cultural Center and sites across the city. CAB programming throughout the year engages global audiences. The Chicago-based collective Floating Museum takes the helm as the artistic team of CAB 5.Various locationsOpening Sept. 2023Bob Thompson, Blue Ma Tribune Tower, 6a architects | © Chicago Architecture Biennial / Tom Harris, 2017&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

2023 Early Culture Preview

<html><head></head><body>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419147/vr4bh8sgags8cako2mgj.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/james-wines-nature-s-revenge">James Wines: Nature’s Revenge</a>Exhibition begins January 6Rhona Hoffman Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419148/vw8edgjrjevmznksf5pt.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/cait-hardie-stillscapes">Cait Hardie: Stillscapes</a>Opening: Friday, January 6, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmARC Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419149/yyywt17vpn3ljy9psqhn.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/btwxt-ii-anne-lindberg-olivia-schreiner">BTWXT II: Anne Lindberg + Olivia Schreiner</a>Opening: Friday, January 6, 6 – 8&nbsp;pmCarrie Secrist Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419150/rgi2qantjrjqlnu9u0k2.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/western-exhibitions-drawing-biennial-ea741e94-cf31-4669-8c04-bd04e87bca45">Western Exhibitions Drawing Biennial</a>Opening: Friday, January 6, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmWestern Exhibitions&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419150/jvq1dgirjutkbkfjpgfg.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/john-opera-the-observers">John Opera: The Observers</a>Opening: Friday, January 6, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmDOCUMENT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419151/r2pk4n7jzvnlnuwwaqap.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/assaf-evron-collages-for-mies-van-der-rohe">Assaf Evron:&nbsp;Collages for Mies van der Rohe</a>Exhibition begins January 6David Salkin Creative&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419152/l38kyvuad1dyjni9wcpv.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/lincoln-and-alice-works-by-julie-cowan-and-julie-meridian">Lincoln and Alice: Works by Julie Cowan and Julie Meridian</a>Opening: Saturday, January 7, &nbsp;4 – 7&nbsp;pmPerspective Photo Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419153/sizz7ckrfgqftmmniqwu.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/gary-simmons-public-enemy">Gary Simmons: Public Enemy</a>Exhibition begins January 10Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA)&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419154/omu8xmdofsyeyoccqwgc.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/within-villages-of-stone">Within Villages of Stone</a>Exhibition begins January 3Lily Pad | West&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions: first week of 2023

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419147/syhedsak0fx4rtzjnkyp.png"><figcaption>Image via The Art Newspaper</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/12/22/art-market-in-2022-is-the-art-worlds-bull-market-coming-to-an-end?utm_source=The+Art+Newspaper+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=0ced47f0e2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_12_23_12_27&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-0ced47f0e2-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D">The art market in 2022: art fair shake ups, single owner auctions and an NFT winter</a>Despite headline figures of record sales, is the art world's bull market coming to an end?Via The Art Newspaper&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/anna-delvey-out-of-jail-but-still-under-house-arrest-pulled-in-more-than-300000-from-her-art-this-year-2235630?utm_campaign=6311893839819&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_content=fb_6325808373819_6325808365219_6311893839819_Facebook_Mobile_Feed_fb&amp;utm_term=fb_6325808373819_6325808365219_6311893839819_Facebook_Mobile_Feed_fb&amp;fbclid=IwAR0sfd2UlCL88L7Lo24fjj6AsCKskPEMKGmwdlZ9JwDTI4fZIGEUPUnsqcM">Anna Delvey, Out of Jail But Still Under House Arrest, Pulled in More Than $300,000 From Her Art This Year</a>In the hours after the New York Post published an update on convicted scammer-turned-artist Anna Delvey’s art career—including that her editioned prints and original artworks with various galleries have pulled in more than $340,000 this year alone—there was another surge of interest, including visits to the web page and inquiries to the gallery.Via Artnet&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419148/wrmznqrdfqm7mypzoruv.jpg"><figcaption>Album cover- Duets For Confused Couples. 12 x 12. Colored pencil. 2022</figcaption></figure><a href="https://artspiel.org/an-interview-with-chicago-artist-vito-desalvo/">An Interview with Chicago Artist Vito Desalvo (of Firecat Projects)</a>By opening night the installation of Vito Desalvo’s rare public showing of his drawings was completed and the exhibition opened without a hitch. It will be showing, through December 31 at Greenkill Gallery in Kingston, NY. With the help of Mariah Karson, we were able to present his work in a manner that he found acceptable. My main task other than that was convincing him to attend the opening. After a great deal of bargaining, Vito not only showed up but was also surprisingly charitable in his conversations with guests.Via Art Spiel&nbsp;<a href="https://news.wttw.com/2022/12/18/artist-pablo-serrano-one-city-s-most-prolific-muralists-making-chicago-home-art">Artist Pablo Serrano, One of the Chicago's Most Prolific Muralists, On Making Chicago a Home for Art</a>Standing outside of Su Familia Real Estate in West Elsdon, where he recently completed a mural on each face of the building, artist <a href="https://pabloserranoart.com/public-art/">Pablo Serrano</a> says for him, art is a method of connection.“Art is responding to life,” he said. “To the things that we're going through, and fundamental questions that go to — where have we been, where are we at, where are we going?”Su Familia’s owners commissioned the mural on the occasion of their 25th anniversary. Serrano says it was an easy connection for him to make between the business of real estate and a larger message about Chicago’s identity.“The title of it is ‘Hope: the Journey Together Towards the Future’ and it features a couple of different elements that are central to what I think is a shared goal of home. When you establish home, whether it’s your apartment or you buy your first home that you’re thinking about your kids, you’re thinking about your family, you’re thinking about your community, your neighbors, the city,” he said.&nbsp;Via WTTW&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 12/28/22

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419147/ezxywc2xfwtwalc3dbfl.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;Via PRJoin us in celebrating the work of Graham Foundation grantees this year as they continue to push our collective exploration of architectural ideas. Innovative ideas are represented in publications, exhibitions, film, and other programs and formats.This year more than 60 published works by grantees were released, including <a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=02edb4c33f&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">Building Schools Making Doctors</a> by Katherine L. Carroll (University of Pittsburgh Press); <a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=ff5f68eddf&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">Cyberfeminism Index</a> by Mindy Seu (Inventory Press); <a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=67579c7282&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">Nineteen Reservoirs</a> by Lucy Sante (The Experiment); <a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=c693491f63&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">Offsetted</a> by Cooking Sections (Hatje Cantz); <a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=7a49cd4f67&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">On Bramante</a> by Pier Paolo Tamburelli (MIT Press); <a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=d3308bd528&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">The Other Modern Movement</a> by Kenneth Frampton (Yale University Press); <a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=f5fe48f07e&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">Radical Pedagogies</a>, edited by Beatriz Colomina, Ignacio G. Galán, Evangelos Kotsioris, and Anna-Maria Meister (MIT Press); <a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=1ec181f808&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">The Smokehouse Associates</a>&nbsp;by Eric Booker&nbsp;(The Studio Museum in Harlem); <a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=7e6feb5eb9&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">Who Is the City For? Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago</a>, by Blair Kamin with photographs by Lee Bey (University of Chicago Press); and <a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=9c61efe54b&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">Architecture of Collage</a> by Marshall Brown (Park Books), which also has a corresponding <a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=be4f3e259e&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">exhibition</a> on view through January 7, 2023, at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.There are currently several exhibitions by grantees on view around the world—closing dates noted—such as <a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=acc5772972&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">Sharing Circles: Carol Newhouse and the WomanShare Collective</a> at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (December 30, 2022); <a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=65e4ac467a&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">Christopher Kulendran Thomas: Another World</a> at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (January 22, 2023); <a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=21e7bed0fb&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">Al Río/To the River</a>, by Zoe Leonard at the Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, (January 29, 2023); <a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=cdb0eab1af&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">Design and Making in the Trinidad Carnival: Histories, Re-imaginations, and Speculations of Computational Design Futures</a>, by Vernelle A. A. Noel at Prince Gilbert Exhibits Gallery, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (February 28, 2023); <a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=ce14be9b2d&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">of [a] tomorrow: lighter than air, stronger than whiskey, cheaper than dust</a>, by Charisse Pearlina Weston at the Queens Museum of Art (March 5, 2023); <a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=bb76406ed4&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">Stephen Burks: Shelter in Place</a> at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta (March 5, 2023); <a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=2717e4349e&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture</a> at the Museum of Design Atlanta (March 12, 2023); <a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=4c5f2588cd&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">Himali Singh Soin: Static Range</a> at the Art Institute of Chicago (May 15, 2023); <a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=b1758e8c52&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">Sack, mask and stick</a> by Sophie Leddick and Edgar Orlaineta at Centro Cultural La Tallera, Museo Casa-Estudio de David Alfaro Siqueiros, Cuernavaca (March 18, 2023); and Stalled!in&nbsp;Designing Peace&nbsp;at Cooper Hewitt (September 4, 2023).Some highlights of creative projects include screenings of the film <a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=e963e39a9b&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">Committee of Six</a>,&nbsp;by Fred Schmidt-Arenales; the premiere of&nbsp;<a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=6f65c9678b&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">A Marvelous Order</a>, an opera about Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs,&nbsp;by Judd Greenstein, Tracy K. Smith, and Joshua Frankel; the launch of&nbsp;<a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=7a608f55ae&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">People’s Graphic Design Archive</a> (PGDA), an open-source online platform for graphic design history; new episodes of the YouTube series <a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=3b6be185f7&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">Planes, Trains, and Canes</a> from Mona Minkara; and a new fellowship program created in collaboration between the Urban Design Forum and the Architectural League of New York, called <a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=4602251f7c&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">New City Critics</a>.In 2022, the Graham Foundation also awarded nearly $1 million for 92 grants to <a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=8902c5abbc&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">individuals</a> and <a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=111566e99c&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">organizations</a> that can be explored <a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=e2452097fa&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">here</a>. At the Graham Foundation’s Madlener House in Chicago, the current exhibitions also feature the work of grantees. Site-specific supergraphics by Barbara Stauffacher Solomon in <a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=be5a79c31c&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">Exits Exist</a>, presents new work by Solomon, who was&nbsp;first supported by the Graham in 1993. The exhibition <a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=96c861bcd7&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">Pidgeon Audio Visual: Architects Speak for Themselves</a>, curated by Florencia Alvarez Pacheco, received a grant for the inaugural presentation in 2019 at Disponible, Buenos Aires and Monica Pidgeon originally received a grant in 1983 to include American architects in her tape/slide talk program featured in the exhibition.Visit <a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=73d1efb9ac&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">grahamfoundation.org</a> to explore these projects and more from 2022.&nbsp;Upcoming Grant Deadlines&nbsp; <a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=713844e40e&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">Grants to Organizations</a> February 25, 2023 <a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=d11ab9f7ac&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">Grants to Individuals</a> September 15, 2023 <a href="https://grahamfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=073b7abdf4d4a7eee3270de4a&amp;id=0e6c7abb88&amp;e=d6900cd5a9">Carter Manny Award</a> November 15, 2023&nbsp;</body></html>

Celebrating Graham Grantees in 2022

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419147/amdovpoluvvz5ki6nbb3.jpg"><figcaption>Portrait of Kenneth C. Griffin, Citadel Enterprise Americas LLC, by Paul Elledge</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/12/mega-billionaire-ken-griffin-has-moved-his-masterpieces-to-the-beach">Billionaire Ken Griffin Moved His Art Out of The Art Institute to Florida's Norton Museum</a>In 2015, the hedge fund titan&nbsp;Kenneth C. Griffin&nbsp;became the first person to spend half a billion dollars on art in a single transaction.&nbsp;David Geffen made a deal with Griffin to sell him Willem de Kooning’s boldly colored abstract masterpiece&nbsp;Interchange for $300 million, and Jackson Pollock’s&nbsp;Number 17A—the splatter painting&nbsp;Life magazine&nbsp;plastered in its pages in 1949, minting Jack the Dripper an American celebrity—for $200 million.&nbsp;Griffin could have scurried away with the masterpieces to one of his homes: a $238 million apartment at 220 Central Park West and a $120 million London mansion near Buckingham Palace, the most expensive apartment in Chicago history, getaways in Aspen and Hawaii, a large chunk of Miami’s Star Island. Instead he let them go on view at the Art Institute of Chicago, placing 20th-century masterworks next to the museum’s iconic impressionist and postimpressionist holdings.Via Vanity Fair&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419148/mnenxpc14jajgfcsmdga.png"><figcaption>From left, Roy Lichtenstein’s “Thinking of Him,” 1963; Marjorie Strider’s “Girl With Radish,” 1963; and Rosalyn Drexler’s “Self-Portrait,” 1964, in “New York: 1962-1964.”Credit...Rosalyn Drexler/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Lila Barth, courtesy of The New York Times</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/07/arts/design/best-art-2022.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare">NYT's Best Art of 2022</a>This was a year whose high points included an adult-feeling Whitney Biennial, a major survey of contemporary Puerto Rican art, and one of the great big-little exhibitions of all time.Via NYT&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/market/trump-nft-trading-cards-sell-out-2231544">Donald Trump’s Surreal Line of NFT Portraits Sold Out Within a Day—and Are Now Trading for as Much as $44,000</a>Former President Donald Trump has sold a lot of self-branded products in his day. Trump Ties. Trump Steaks. There was even a short-lived Trump Shuttle airline. And now, Trump NFTs—excuse me, Trump Digital Trading Cards.The collection of 45,000 non-fungible tokens depicting Trump in absurdly heroic poses, each priced at $99, sold out within a day of last week’s “major announcement” of the drop. Political commentators had been expecting news surrounding Trump’s third presidential campaign. Instead, we got JPGs. Thousands and thousands of them.Via Artnet&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 12/20/22

<a href="https://www.artic.edu/press/press-releases/322/art-institute-receives-a-remarkable-collection-and-3m-endowment-gift-from-the-stenn-family">Art Institute Receives a Remarkable Collection and $3M Endowment Gift from The Stenn Family</a>From November 2022The Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to announce both the acquisition of a transformative collection of contemporary prints and drawings and a financial gift from The Stenn Family. A promised gift of 97 prints and drawings—from artists including Josef Albers, Eva Hesse, Lee Bontecou, Judy Chicago, Donald Judd, and Sol LeWitt—will be united with more than 100 previously given works from The Stenn Family, creating a truly outstanding collection of works on paper by Pop, Conceptual, and Minimal artists from the 20th century. Representing an era that saw a radical change in how works on paper were made, used, and appreciated, this gift will allow museum visitors to see an expansive representation of this foundational moment in the history of drawing.Via AIC PR<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2017/8/collector-irving-stenn-jr-a-lifetime-of-relationships-through-art">Read CGN's interview with Collector Irving Stenn from 2017 HERE</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a41931381/0146-0157-the-chicago-school-december-2022/">How Chicago Became an Art-World Capital Without Giving In to Art-World Clichés</a>The personal dimension of “Young Lords and Their Traces” is a reflection of many facets of [Theaster] Gates’s life in Chicago, where he was born and raised and continues to make his home and work. But in many ways it’s less about losses than gains—how ideas, practices, friendships, relationships, and passions endure and are kept alive. “I used to think that monuments were about statues of old guys,” Gates explains. “But when I was doing my master’s thesis, I wrote about a synagogue on the West Side of Chicago that had been transformed into a Baptist church, a flea market, and a synagogue again over 80 years. The synagogue is a monument. It is a testament to the truth of many accumulated lives.”<a href="https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a41931381/0146-0157-the-chicago-school-december-2022/">Via Harper's Bazaar</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://greatlakesbydesign.com/2022/11/15/in-contemporary-modern-exhibition/">Coverage of the New WHO Modern / (northern)Western Exhibitions&nbsp;</a>In a renovated, bowstring truss building in Skokie, Illinois, a joint venture between (northern) Western Exhibitions and WHO Modern officially opened its doors this past weekend to celebrate the launch of its shared space featuring contemporary art, midcentury modern design, vintage furniture, and decorative objects. The opening event, which took place on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022, celebrated the work of Geoffrey Todd Smith, a Chicago-based artist, and marked the debut of a new community destination initially envisioned by long-time Skokie-resident, Zach Williams, collector and building owner.The creative brainchild of Williams, the space brings together iconic designs and contemporary artwork by artists from Western Exhibitions’ 20-year-long history, and is backed by the combined curatorial expertise of Scott Speh, director and founder of Western Exhibitions, and Donald Schmaltz, partner of WHO Modern.Via Great Lakes Design&nbsp;&nbsp;

What We're Reading: 12/17/22

<html><head></head><body>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419140/l13bpepydjximpgaakvq.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/3rd-fridays-open-studios-bridgeport-art-center">3rd Fridays | Open Studios @ Bridgeport Art Center</a>Opening: Friday, December 16, 7 – 10&nbsp;pmBridgeport Art Center&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419141/hx9mv0jfbhickoq32qhw.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/andrea-jablonski-chicago-af">Andrea Jablonski: Chicago AF</a>Opening: Friday, December 16, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmOliva Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419142/tadmvuimdlznjw5zqh5u.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/renee-robbins-simple-pleasures-and-silver-linings-an-unseen-universe">Renee Robbins: Simple Pleasures and Silver Linings: An Unseen Universe</a>Opening: Friday, December 16, 7 – 10&nbsp;pmsalonlb.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419143/boysrhxsyrzup8xfph5w.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/resist-a-visual-history-of-protest">Resist!: A Visual History of Protest</a>Exhibition begins December 17Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419144/iydudny5yu3ozqqc5ymx.jpg"></figure><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>Opening: Saturday, December 17, noon – 2&nbsp;pmUkrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419145/aiifl4qpkyhctc9sp4ub.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/best-of-firecat-projects">Best of Firecat Projects</a>Exhibition begins December 18Firecat Projects&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions December 16 - 18

<a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/museum-of-contemporary-art-chicago-art-from-the-caribbean-diaspora?utm_source=EXPO+Master+%7C+Main+List&amp;utm_campaign=1dec50fb51-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_ODLV&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_5e6f73ac04-1dec50fb51-58823777">At the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, a Moving Investigation of Art From the Caribbean Diaspora</a>How do we represent the Caribbean? According to&nbsp;Carla Acevedo-Yates, the Marilyn and Larry Fields curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, you can’t. This month, Acevedo-Yates—who is of Puerto Rican descent—welcomed guests to a highly anticipated first look at her new exhibition, “Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today.” Its curation follows the idea of weather, in all its iterations, as a driving mechanism for Caribbean storytelling.&nbsp;Via Vogue&nbsp;<a href="https://www.culturedmag.com">Theaster Gates Digs into Chance the Rapper's Newfound Revolution</a>Chance the Rapper has had an explosive jump from young Chicago poet to sound artist and cold-blooded MC philanthropist. His latest interdisciplinary endeavors—including “The Highs &amp; The Lows,” a music and visual arts hybrid that he premiered at Art Basel, “Child of God,” an exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the Black Star Line Festival in Accra, Ghana in January 2023—cross the definitions and expectations of art and entertainment to connect, represent, and advance Blackness. Here, CULTURED's Winter 2022 coverstar speaks in conversation with artist and professor Theaster Gates, whose two concurrent New York exhibitions at the New Museum and Gagosian 976 Madison Avenue join his long CV of works that try to intellectualize, understand, and, in many ways, salvage the human experience.Via Cultured&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/police-london-gallery-banksy-former-agent-sculpture-2226405">Police Broke Into the Gallery of Banksy’s Former Agent, Mistaking a Sculpture for a Dead Woman</a>Police barged into a London gallery owned by Banksy’s former agent, mistakenly presuming a hyper-realistic sculpture was a person in a critical condition.The work, Kristina (2022) by American artist Mark Jenkins, depicts a casually-dressed woman collapsed over a table.Via ArtnetKey image: Kristina (2022) by Mark Jenkins, commissioned by Steve Lazarides. Courtesy of Laz Emporium.&nbsp;&nbsp;

What We're Reading: 12/9/22

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419140/wkmdg6jeqybezjjhbbro.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/tarik-echols-open">Tarik Echols: Open</a>Exhibition begins December 9Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419142/jnttbpnucxeirxqwacix.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/anne-hughes-phenomena">Anne Hughes: Phenomena</a>Exhibition begins December 9Epiphany Center for the Arts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419143/k1cabhf5tqtwzq6x7nvm.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/visions-of-hope">Visions of Hope</a>Opening: Saturday, December 10, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmStola Contemporary Art&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419144/qasjudffkqz1z4bxboqn.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/edra-soto-the-myth-of-closure-el-mito-del-cierre">Edra Soto: The Myth of Closure / El Mito del Cierre</a>Exhibition begins December 10The Cleve Carney Museum of Art&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419145/xbx2t1l9dvsazwjnizun.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-5th-annual-12-x-12-show">The 5th Annual 12 x 12 Show</a>Opening: Saturday, December 10, noon – 8&nbsp;pmElephant Room Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419146/tthtmgujqaenumxmeu0w.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/liz-flores-solo-show">Liz Flores: Ni de aquí, Ni de allá</a>Opening: Saturday, December 10, noon – 6&nbsp;pmVertical Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions December 9 & 10

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419140/zhqz4tum00l4zv7bozbz.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/sunlight-of-the-seasons">Sunlight of the Seasons</a>Opening: Friday, December 2, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmLily Pad | West&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419141/l2dd9ln8pu1fz4bqfvmx.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/pamela-sloan-bats-to-butterflies">Pamela Sloan: Bats to Butterflies</a>Opening: Friday, December 2, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmARC Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419142/i5lggaorwmi9sbaqb4rh.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/tony-fitzpatrick-the-lunch-drawings">Tony Fitzpatrick: The Lunch Drawings</a>Opening: Friday, December 2, 6 – 8&nbsp;pmT.F. Projects&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419143/frho7cxox6z2as84tfga.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/33rd-annual-international-small-print-exhibition-holiday-sale">33rd Annual International Small Print Exhibition &amp; Holiday Sale</a>Opening: December 3 &amp; 4, 11&nbsp;am – 7&nbsp;pmChicago Printmakers Collaborative&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419144/ta1knwodx10iz89d5d5i.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/monica-kass-rogers-the-alley-project">Monica Kass Rogers: The Alley Project</a>Opening: Saturday, December 3, 6 – 7:30&nbsp;pmPerspective Photo Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419145/jywfzremyqmugwtnhugh.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/max-guy-but-tell-me-is-it-a-civilized-country">Max Guy: But tell me, is it a civilized country?</a>Opening: Saturday, December 3, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmThe Renaissance Society&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419146/yfhqngzgz4yvow15hamh.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/closing-party-for-in-the-house-part-ii">Closing Party for In the House Part II</a>Opening: Saturday, December 3, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmStola Contemporary Art&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Opening December 2 & 3

<a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/11/22/1138555823/national-mall-art-covid-health-care-workers">An art exhibit on the National Mall honors health care workers who died of COVID</a>Susannah Perlman remembers her mother Marla's smile, a big, beaming smile that covered "a couple of ZIP codes."Marla died from COVID-19 last year. She was retired and had served as director of volunteers at a hospital in Pennsylvania.As part of the Hero Art Project, emerging and established artists from around the world have now eternalized the smiles of more than 100 other U.S.-based first responders and health care workers killed by a pandemic they tried to stave off.Via NPR&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/17/arts/design/hospital-rooms-murals.html">Bringing World-Class Art, and Wonder, to Mental Health Patients</a>The artist Sutapa Biswas has works in the Tate collection and was the subject of two major retrospectives last year. But, she said recently, one of the highlights of her career was a piece that few people will ever see: an abstract mural of a night sky in a London psychiatric hospital.Commissioned by the British nonprofit Hospital Rooms and finished last month, the deep blue work depicts a cascade of falling stars and covers an atrium wall at Springfield University Hospital in South London. At moments when mental health patients could be feeling trapped, Biswas said in an interview, her mural might “give them a sense of wonderment, a bit of hope.”Via NYT&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/market/10-memorable-artworks-from-the-past-20-years-art-basel-miami-beach-2213627">Tens of Thousands of Artworks Have Debuted at Art Basel Miami Beach Over the Past 20 Years. Here Are 10 of the Most Memorable</a>We said memorable—we didn’t say good.Via ArtnetThumbnail: Fairgoers take pictures of Maurizio Cattelan's Comedian, for sale from Perrotin at Art Basel Miami Beach. Photo by Sarah Cascone.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/news/art-vandalism-mona-lisa-van-gogh-famous-artworks-1234647552/">25 Famed Artworks That Have Been&nbsp;Vandalized</a>What makes a person want to vandalize a cherished artwork? The factors often vary greatly.Politics often play a role, as has been the case with the many recent protests led at museums by climate activists around the world. Personal interests often can become paramount as well, as they have with a variety of young provocateurs who have targeted others’ artworks, sometimes even as part of their own art practices.In each case, however, the base motive remains the same: to raise a ruckus by disturbing the look or reputation of art people know all too well.Via ARTNews&nbsp;

What We're Reading: 11/27/22

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419134/df30lxqmqjs1vcthkcta.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-riccardos-lively-arts-paintings-return-kogan-20221116-7p5e75m4tvecji3gavf6zyumsy-story.html?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daywatch&amp;utm_content=911668601846">The famous seven paintings that once thrilled patrons at Riccardo’s are reunited at Madron Gallery in Lincoln Park</a>&nbsp;Once upon a time, there were seven very large paintings that dominated the wall behind the palette-shaped bar at Riccardo’s Restaurant and Gallery, which was as lively an oasis as this city has ever known.The paintings were first unveiled in 1948, a stunning addition to the restaurant Ric Riccardo (born Richard Novaretti in Italy) opened in 1934 at the corner of Rush and Hubbard Streets. He had been a ship’s mate (and painter, dancer and musician) who married a woman named Mimi, performed with her at a Georgia nightclub, tried to sell his paintings, worked in magazine publishing and ran a restaurant/speakeasy on South Oakley Avenue.Via Chicago TribuneExhibition details available <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/palette-and-palate">here on CGN</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/arts/design/ron-perelman-fire-paintings.html">Did Five Paintings Lose Their ‘Oomph’? It’s a $410 Million Question.</a>When Steve Wynn, the casino magnate, put his elbow through a Picasso he owned, there was little doubt about the damage he had done to a painting he hoped to sell, in 2006, for more than $100 million.The silver-dollar-size hole in the canvas spoke for itself. His insurance company seems to have disputed only how much value the painting might have lost.But things are not so straightforward in another insurance case that also involves blue chip art and a boldface billionaire. Four years after a fire at Ronald O. Perelman’s East Hampton estate, holding companies to which he is connected are suing his insurers, contending that the blaze damaged five of his artworks worth $410 million.Via NYT&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/the-board-of-artprize-americas-most-popular-art-show-has-quietly-disbanded-leaving-its-future-uncertain-2210709?utm_content=from_www.artnet.com&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=EU%204:50%20p.m.%20afternoon%20newsletter%20for%2011/16/22&amp;utm_term=EUR%20Daily%20Newsletter%20%5BAFTERNOON%5D">The Future of ArtPrize, America’s Most Popular Art Extravaganza, Looks Bleak as Its Board Quietly Disbands</a>One of the country’s biggest contemporary art competitions is effectively shutting down—at least for now.Last month, the board of <a href="https://artprize.org/">ArtPrize</a>, a biennial event in Grand Rapids, Michigan that doled out as much as $450,000 in artist grants every edition, quietly announced that it is “[winding] down its operations” after a 13-year run. The 12th, and last, iteration of the competition concluded just last month.Via Artnet&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 11/16/22

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419134/sn4rliqlg2o6osmlc5vm.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/currentz">Currentz</a>Opening: Friday, November 18, 7 – 10&nbsp;pmBridgeport Art Center&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419135/pj9mqehj9mhofzhzyrmw.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/mark-ballog-making-space">Mark Ballog: Making Space</a>Opening: Friday, November 18, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmEpiphany Center for the Arts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419135/nvqirazpnr6y4snalip5.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/contemplation">Contemplation</a>Opening: Friday, November 18, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmChicago Artists Coalition (CAC)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419136/g9rmxezqbj6lxqtybnla.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/object-oriented">Object-Oriented</a>Opening: Friday, November 18, 5:30 – 8&nbsp;pmThe Art Center Highland Park&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419137/wejhezx7vlhzqmthi4pv.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/david-yarrow-storytelling">David Yarrow: Storytelling</a>Opening: Friday, November 18, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmHilton | Asmus Contemporary&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419138/otfrfgskxnmclk9sgiau.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/third-fridays-in-bridgeport">Third Fridays in Bridgeport</a>Opening: Friday, November 18, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmAlma Art &amp; Interiors&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419139/tdlsuimfnsyi5jblzy2q.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jeanne-garrett-mixed-media-photo-threads">Jeanne Garrett: Mixed Media: Photo Threads</a>Opening: Saturday, November 19, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmBlue Moon Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions November 18 & 19

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419134/yqxtzgrskyiqgudcsn80.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/brian-divis">Brian Divis: In High Regard</a>Opening: Saturday, November 12, 1 – 3&nbsp;pmOS Projects&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419135/hqqwjln7mswj8alsczob.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/james-little-black-stars-white-paintings">James Little: Black Stars &amp; White Paintings</a>Opening: Saturday, November 12, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmKavi Gupta - Elizabeth St.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419135/kljdzx3m3a5xwpywhrki.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/kajahl-submersia">Kajahl: Submersia</a>Opening: Saturday, November 12, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmMonique Meloche Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419136/kbtzhdoeyehexw3pvloq.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/kadar-brock-ad4bfc74-40e8-4376-a96e-dff9515ec53c">Kadar Brock</a>Opening: Saturday, November 12, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmPATRON&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419137/abcle19fjufnwaurzgzm.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/alex-chitty-figs-break-open-of-themselves">Alex Chitty: Figs break open of themselves</a>Opening: Saturday, November 12, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmPATRON&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419138/iyqing2hsp6ucz2vpcj5.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/sweet-16-sixteen-years-of-geoffrey-todd-smith-at-western-exhibitions">Sweet 16: Sixteen Years of Geoffrey Todd Smith at Western Exhibitions</a>Opening: Saturday, November 12, 5 – 8&nbsp;pm(northern) Western Exhibitions&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions November 10 - 12 (Part II)

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419134/qm7ybsudwc9737nzjtgc.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/refracting-histories">Refracting Histories</a>Opening: Thursday, November 10, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmMuseum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419135/as4izqj2undc9t6m66dm.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/marina-rheault-post-interior-wanderings">Marina Rheault Post: Interior Wanderings</a>Opening: Friday, November 11, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmOliva Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419136/y9igojfgkrwf5xdx35zg.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/matt-bodett">Matt Bodett</a>Opening: Saturday, November 12, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmBert Green Fine Art&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419137/bi3g8tni6h7ryu8v9ztc.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/patrick-fitzgerald">Patrick Fitzgerald</a>Saturday, November 12, 12 – 4&nbsp;pmPAGODA RED&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419138/rblsfvypwgu1igfdk4pf.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/connie-noyes">Connie Noyes: we are built in water</a>Opening: Friday, November 11, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmEvanston Art Center&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions November 10 - 12 (Part I)

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419126/bqzrta79gnkgigbjoxyk.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/diana-guerrero-macia-oli-watt">Diana Guerrero-Maciá &amp; Oli Watt</a>Opening: Friday, November 4, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmCarrie Secrist Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419127/fvozpkukjnmcoshuvlcg.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/november-exhibition">Alma III (main gallery)</a>Opening: Friday, November 4, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmAlma Art &amp; Interiors&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419128/sfe7rikn99tclrzibw5m.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/diana-frid-time-is-textile">Dianna Frid: Time is Textile</a>Opening: Friday, November 4, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmAlan Koppel Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419128/ousgh4jmbrnahhxhahqt.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/atomic-number-13-pt-2-group-show">'Atomic Number 13 part 2', curated by ArtBuilds</a>Opening: Saturday, November 5, 12 – 6&nbsp;pmVertical Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419129/mhjrhgjqwdsj0fk4rlso.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/william-bridges-channeling-the-canal">William Bridges: Channeling the Canal</a>Opening: Saturday, November 5, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmPerspective Photo Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419130/biv7wcierqnjqeqijwap.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/minami-kobayashi-somewhere-not-here">Minami Kobayashi: Somewhere Not Here</a>Opening: Sunday, November 6, 3 – 6&nbsp;pmGoldfinch&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions November 3 - 6 (Part III)

<html><head></head><body><a href="https://blockclubchicago.org/2022/11/03/wicker-parks-flat-iron-arts-building-sells-to-new-owners-for-first-time-in-3-decades/?utm_source=Pico&amp;utm_campaign=e84b0929fd-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_05_26_01_35_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_b6b84a5cee-e84b0929fd-127143461&amp;mc_cid=e84b0929fd&amp;mc_eid=9fac193df8">Wicker Park’s Flat Iron Arts Building Sells To New Owners For First Time In 3 Decades</a>Longtime owners of the iconic Flat Iron Arts Building in the center of Wicker Park have sold the property to a pair of local real estate developers.The Flat Iron Arts Building, 1579 N. Milwaukee Ave., has for decades been home to artist studios, performance spaces, cultural organizations and many other local businesses with an artistic bent.The building is also home to several bars and other businesses on its ground floor along Milwaukee and North avenues.Since 1993, the Flat Iron has been owned and managed by <a href="https://www.fineartsbuilding.com/portfolio/">Berger Realty Group</a>, which also operates the Fine Arts Building, 410 S. Michigan Ave., and other properties in Chicago.Via Block ClubTop image: The Flat Iron building in Wicker Park on Nov. 2, 2022. Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419126/pfn5meddka2sxova99d3.jpg"><figcaption>Caroline Kent. Photo by Evan Jenkins</figcaption></figure>Congratulations to Caroline Kent,&nbsp;recipient of the Studio Museum in Harlem's Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize!The Wein Prize, one of the most significant awards given to individual artists in the United States today, was established in 2006 by jazz impresario, musician and philanthropist George Wein to honor his late wife, Joyce Alexander (1928–2005), a long-time Trustee of the Studio Museum and a woman whose life embodied a commitment to the power and possibilities of art and culture. Presented each year at the Studio Museum’s fall Gala, the award recognizes and honors the artistic achievements of an African-American artist who demonstrates great innovation, promise, and creativity. Envisioned as an extension of the Studio Museum’s mission to support experimentation and excellence in contemporary art, the Prize includes an unrestricted monetary award of $50,000.&nbsp;On October 24, 2022, The Studio Museum in Harlem was proud to announce artist Caroline Kent as a recipient of this prestigious award.Via PATRON Gallery&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419127/ikiofy4a7mamnwx8ignq.png"></figure>Chicago Artists Coalition Welcomes new curatorial residents for the HATCH residency program, 2023-24.Denny Mwaura is a curator and writer based in Chicago. He is the Assistant Director at Gallery 400, UIC. Mwaura was the 2021 recipient of the Schiff Foundation Fellowship for Critical Architectural Writing, an award granted by the Department of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago. He received his MA in Modern and Contemporary Art History from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.Sophie&nbsp;Buchmueller is a Chicago-based arts worker with experience in curation, collections management, and museum education. Currently, she is the Registrar at Corbett vs. Dempsey. She is driven by the potential of contemporary art to serve as a framework for knowing and understanding the world—not just as a reflection of reality, but as a mode of active engagement with our often-precarious surroundings. She holds a BA in American Studies and French from Carleton College and MAs in Art History and Arts Administration &amp; Policy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.Sofía Sanchez Bjorboa&nbsp;is an art historian and Chicago-based independent curator. Sofía has held exhibition-making roles in the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico City, the Sullivan Galleries, and the Field Museum in Chicago. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Art History from Centro de Cultura Casa Lamm and a master’s degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Visual and Critical Studies.In 2021, she wrote a book, Anyone who has never been bored cannot be a storyteller, which will be published in May 2023.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Evanston Art Center Announces Its Winter Expo PlansThe Winter Arts &amp; Crafts Expo includes original, handmade works of jewelry, ceramics, fiber, metal, glass, painting, photography, mixed media, and more. All proceeds from the Expo will benefit the ongoing exhibition, education, and outreach programs at the Art Center. The Winter Expo is also the perfect opportunity for families to shop for everyone on their holiday gift list.&nbsp;The Winter Expo is free and open to the general public from November 19th – December 20th. In addition to the regularly scheduled Winter Expo dates, the EAC will also host a special shopping event with handcrafted items made by Art Center students! There are also items offered by Teen Board members. Plus several themed pop-up shops and workshops.&nbsp;Preview Party: November 18&nbsp;from 6-9pm. Tickets: $40 for early registration and $50 at the door. <a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001EgkTX3WzthaL-gzfrsKplKzdqZYIJKq2t77aQzhfufYwLXFdVC1KHzxF6vcu_W00873qV1xWqWqsKecfGyOFHzKw1wBsj3W292hefZpazU9ZGBxVQPvbkQm17JZSLZ8imrAZIU09CwbaLGUZiDD0xLGelAoAWn7JuPv95U6eGSoqGDuQVAzSzoNDYWDS5_aL-3nK_zyIw80=&amp;c=vkkvJfPsPO8nODgmRCjM4-c7UYfw43Cq4ufTufRf14VIziMbWlmhvw==&amp;ch=6n9Ef1prNtiy_1k2hXcS9RpjKkrKtahlqNJEtdeNfn5Re2BsaqQqHw==">Register today!</a>General Shopping: November 19 –&nbsp;December 20Silent Auction: November 18 –&nbsp;20&nbsp;</body></html>

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