<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419077/mbnnmyqx7h9xbjjde0ei.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/joey-africa">Joey Africa</a>Opening: Saturday, June 11, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmStola Contemporary Art&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419078/b0utywlshqdoisxlto3s.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/cheryl-pope">Cheryl Pope: Variations on a Love Theme</a>Opening: Saturday, June 11, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmMonique Meloche Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419079/uw3v9yedl8nlhiuksj5n.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/brad-novak-hybrid-2-0-solo-show">Brad Novak: Hybrid 2.0</a>Opening: Saturday, June 11, 12 – 5&nbsp;pmVertical Project Space&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419079/uqc0tzv6zqrl5yqo9pud.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/generations">Generations: 30 Years of Woman Made Gallery</a>Opening: Saturday, June 11, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmWoman Made Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419080/va8pugnlz8hfdfpzsvyj.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/woomin-kim-doo-jip-salim">Woomin Kim: Doo Jip Salim</a>Opening: Sunday, June 12, 12 – 4&nbsp;pmGoldfinch&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419081/qie0bzd76xzihssmrlox.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/brandon-chavis-for-colored-queers">Brandon Chavis: for colored queers</a>Opening: Sunday, June 12, 12 – 4&nbsp;pmGoldfinch&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions June 8-12 (Part II)

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419077/qzbuhrmy5kaxcxaaelom.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/almudena-rodriguez-pygmalion-effect-d6f1219a-8ef7-436f-8949-22762e6c84d9">Almudena Rodriguez: Pygmalion Effect</a>June 8PAGODA RED&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419078/eg6n35go34gxcyubcznn.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/women-of-the-blues-a-coast-to-coast-collection">Women of the Blues: A Coast to Coast Collection</a>Opening: Wednesday, June 8, 7 – 10&nbsp;pmEpiphany Center for the Arts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419079/s4gleer2qrfzks6hqlr8.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/some-parts-of-us-depaul-university-s-graphic-design-senior-capstone-show">Some Parts of Us: DePaul University’s Graphic Design Senior Capstone Show</a>Opening: Thursday, June 9, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmEpiphany Center for the Arts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419080/ffeykpchlupi3oczygyg.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/magalie-guerin">Magalie Guérin: hard green</a>Opening: Friday, June 10, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmCorbett vs. Dempsey&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419081/gkvcq5iiemzj3efh6gq9.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/inscription">Inscription</a>Opening: Friday, June 10, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmMu Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419082/hcr2eqtovp2eqwx0r6ny.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/frank-spidale-paintings-and-drawings">Frank Spidale: Paintings and Drawings</a>Opening: Friday, June 10, 7 – 10&nbsp;pmFirecat Projects&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419083/yt7gacgbkkyusawjkvet.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-shape-of-light-contemporary-painting-and-studio-glass">The Shape of Light. Contemporary painting and studio glass.</a>June 10Rockford Art Museum&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions June 8-12 (Part I)

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419067/ud99vojxkdnrvibym988.jpg"><figcaption>VHT Studios &nbsp;</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/look-inside-gold-coast-home-sale-after-rehab-antiques-importers">Golden Triangle Owners Selling Rehabbed Gold Coast Home</a>Doug Van Tress and Chauwarin Tuntisak, owners of the Golden Triangle, are asking $2.7 million for their roughly 4,000-square-foot four-story home on Division Street, which comes on the market June 6.Via Crain's&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/cezanne-show-through-the-artists-eyes-2121490?utm_content=from_newscta&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Saturday%20AM%205%2F28&amp;utm_term=Daily%20Newsletter%20%5BALL%5D%20%5BMORNING%5D">A Once-in-a-Generation Cezanne Show Asks Us to Look Through the Artist’s Eyes: Slowly, Deliberately, and at Every Brushstroke</a>“Why Cezanne? Why today?”&nbsp;These were the questions the curators of a new, once-in-a-generation retrospective of the French painter at the Art Institute of Chicago asked themselves as they went to work a few years back. When it comes to Cezanne, who, perhaps more than any other artist, laid the groundwork for the 20th-century avant-garde, how do you say something new—and how do you say it in a way that can be understood by someone who’s never picked up a brush?&nbsp;The curators, Gloria Groom and Caitlin Haskell, decided to look closely at Cezanne’s canvases for their answers—examining, through advanced imaging techniques, how the artist confronted his own questions about the urgency of painting through every brush stroke he ever made.Via Artnet&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artle-the-new-wordle-2123784?utm_content=from_artnetnews&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Tuesday%20PM%205%2F31&amp;utm_term=US%20Daily%20Newsletter%20%5BAFTERNOON%5D">Artle Is the Art-Historical Version of Wordle You Didn’t Know You Needed to Play</a>If you’re an avid museum-goer who’s been swept up in the recent craze for the word game Wordle, we’ve got exciting news.This month, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC released a new art-historical, image-based version of the game it calls <a href="https://www.nga.gov/artle.html">Artle</a>. And it’s already a hit, the museum reports, driving an increase in web traffic of over 40 percent since the game’s launch.Via Artnet&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/05/31/louvre-launches-civil-action-as-part-of-art-trafficking-case-connected-to-former-director-jean-luc-martinez">Louvre launches civil action as part of art trafficking case involving former director Jean-Luc Martinez</a>The Louvre Museum has decided to become a civil party in the wide-ranging <a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/05/26/former-louvre-director-jean-luc-martinez-charged-in-connection-with-antiquities-trafficking-investigation">criminal investigation</a> into the alleged trafficking of ancient objects from the Middle East. The decision was made in connection with “the purchase of Egyptian antiquities by Louvre Abu Dhabi”, according to a statement from the institution.Via The Art Newspaper&nbsp;<a href="https://classicchicagomagazine.com/david-adler-alert-2/">David Adler Alert!</a>David Adler: Great House Architect, a four-part documentary highlighting the life, clients, and classical architecture of the man often known as “Chicago’s society architect”, will be broadcast each Friday night in June on PBS Chicago’s WTTW Prime channel thanks to the vision of Kristin Noelle Smith, producer and host. This series features interviews of experts on location at four separate Adler estates, including two in Lake Forest, one in Lake Bluff and another in Ipswich, Massachusetts.Via Classic Chicago&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 6/1/22

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419067/mwtrucc1wjjfgc6gr4t7.jpg"><figcaption>Jennie C. Jones</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jennie-c-jones">Jennie C. Jones: Nocturnes</a>Opening: Saturday, June 4, 5 – 7:30&nbsp;pmPATRON&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419068/xatyhy9iptlffhfyjkpj.jpg"><figcaption>Suzanne Metzel</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/suzanne-metzel-still-life">Suzanne Metzel: Still Life</a>Opening: Saturday, June 4, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmPerspective Photo Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419069/nu2epruzuvcytcr9oep6.jpg"><figcaption>Joseph Renda Jr.</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/joseph-renda-jr-larger-than-life">Joseph Renda Jr.: Larger Than Life</a>Opening: Saturday, June 4, 12 – 6&nbsp;pmVertical Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419070/diah2bbspwf8qsvoq94o.jpg"><figcaption>Via Pistachios</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/from-these-hands">From These Hands</a>Opening: Saturday, June 4, 3 – 5:30&nbsp;pmPistachios Contemporary Jewelry Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419071/abzpxhhtw6rtezvjiokx.jpg"><figcaption>Joe Cimino</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/ephemeral-history-when-light-takes-form-by-joe-cimino">Ephemeral History: When Light Takes Form by Joe Cimino</a>June 4Saint Kate – The Arts Hotel&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419071/hz1zdgy5ipr2xrpmid1a.gif"><figcaption>Sherman Beck</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/sherman-beck-solo-exhibition">Sherman Beck: Solo Exhibition</a>Opening: Saturday, June 4, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmKavi Gupta Gallery - Washington Blvd.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions June 3–4 (Part II)

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419067/jx3o1brq3yur26kgx6ho.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/kambua-chema-postcards-from-morocco">Kambua Chema: Postcards from Morocco</a>Opening: Saturday, June 4, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmPerspective Photo Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419069/uuqnxxi8nochpgele9uz.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/layer-mark-repeat">Layer, Mark, Repeat</a>Opening: Friday, June 3, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmChicago Artists Coalition (CAC)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419069/zaz9yzzdtgx68fuplafd.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/alberto-aguilar-seeing-thoughts-through">Alberto Aguilar: Seeing Thoughts Through</a>Opening: Friday, June 3, 6 – 8&nbsp;pmENGAGE Projects&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419070/pwtf8vmpjaundhschtkb.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/nature-and-imagination-the-thin-line-between-figuration-and-abstraction">Nature and Imagination: The thin line between figuration and abstraction</a>Opening: Friday, June 3, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmLily Pad | West&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419071/t8up5v1blaurml8iqaim.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/evanston-made-bipoc-members-group-show">Evanston Made BIPOC Members Group Show</a>Opening: Friday, June 3, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmEvanston Art Center&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions June 3–4 (Part I)

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419067/xvtglj9snvufo54koe2b.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/norman-teague">Norman Teague</a>Exhibition Begins May 26The Art Center Highland Park&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419068/ipgbu02mtswoelxoeud2.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/zoe-beaudry-deep-time-garbage-minutes">Zoe Beaudry: Deep Time, Garbage Minutes</a>Exhibition Begins May 26ARC Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419069/bktmnowthmhmf3cidmob.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/art-is-a-private-room-recent-works-by-isabelle-gougenheim">Art Is A Private Room: Recent Works by Isabelle Gougenheim</a>Opening: Thursday, May 26, 5:30 – 7:30&nbsp;pmIsabelle Gougenheim Designs&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419069/uan9q6otpfhplsry4ax6.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/a-is-for-albano-artists">A is for Albano Artists</a>Opening: Thursday, May 26, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmJean Albano Gallery&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419070/o4zoaiqfghmfwufhkmzp.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/rick-sindt-skin-remembers">Rick Sindt: Skin Remembers</a>Exhibition Begins May 27Gallery Victor Armendariz&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419071/bznpchoh5imeclpeid8i.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/art-from-here">Art from Here</a>Opening: Friday, May 27, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmTarble Arts Center&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419072/ke4rfyowqyuwgiypxjnl.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/phil-gayter-maskeraid">Phil Gayter: MASKERAID</a>Opening: Friday, May 27, 6 – 8&nbsp;pmInternational Museum of Surgical Science&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419074/vavij8hatpyo2hiljqnj.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/junli-song-solo-exhibition">Junli Song: Body Rhythms</a>Exhibition Begins May 28Chicago Printmakers Collaborative&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419075/luuesnefo54dfz3l1crv.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/nature-spirits-photo-montages-by-kristin-ashley">Nature Spirits: Photo Montages by Kristin Ashley</a>Opening: Saturday, May 28, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmBlue Moon Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419076/mbpr58ystaoer881wthm.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/circuition">Circuition</a>Closing reception: Saturday, May 28, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmMu Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start May 26–28

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419059/nhteqep6mt4frerr5spn.jpg"><figcaption>Nick Cave at the MCA. Photo: &nbsp;Manuel Martinez / WBEZ</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wbez.org/stories/artist-nick-cave-and-his-soundsuits-take-over-chicago-mca-dusable/ca18cf2c-3371-49d0-8068-5c2fc3b37a53">Nick Cave may be the artist we need right now</a>The question struck Nick Cave the moment he learned about the death of yet another Black man, Michael Brown, at the hands of police in 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri.“Is there racism in heaven?,” the artist asked himself in the Chicago studio where he employs several full-time art assistants but often works alone.He immediately started Until, a room-swallowing installation of kinetic wind spinners that is the first thing you see entering his new mega-show at the <a href="https://mcachicago.org/exhibitions/2022/nick-cave-forothermore">Museum of Contemporary Art.</a> From a distance, the spinners shimmer and sparkle like suncatchers you might see in a backyard garden. Up close, they are tear drops, bullets and guns.Via WBEZ&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-hope-poster-obama-sold-auction-20220520-v6vtim73ebfcpgrpksaxuzegoi-story.html">Iconic ‘Hope’ portrait of Obama sells at auction for $735,000</a>The original Shepard Fairey “Hope” portrait of former President Barack Obama has sold in an auction for $735,000.The iconic red and blue portrait <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-obama-campaign-poster-expo-chicago-20220406-inmhh64u2fc7xj7nkrtxfbtzja-story.html">was displayed in April </a>as part of EXPO CHICAGO by Heritage Auctions (222 W. Hubbard St.), which reported the sale Friday. It was created in 2008 by the Los Angeles-based street artist as a form of grassroots activism to support then-Senator Obama’s first campaign. Fairey based the image on an Associated Press photograph by Mannie Garcia.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/contemporary-artists-rashid-johnson-sheree-hovsepian-ask-4-995-million-for-manhattan-townhouse-11652895955?mod=djemRealEstate_h">Contemporary Artists Rashid Johnson, Sheree Hovsepian Ask $4.995 Million for Manhattan Townhouse</a>A Manhattan townhouse owned by contemporary artists Rashid Johnson and Sheree Hovsepian is hitting the market for $4.995 million.Via the Wall Street Journal&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/beeple-phishing-scam-twitter-2119491">Hackers Took Over Beeple’s Twitter Account and Stole More Than $400,000 in NFTs and Crypto From the Artist’s Followers</a>A phishing scam targeting the Twitter account of the popular digital artist Beeple made off with over $400,000 in cryptocurrency and NFTs yesterday.According to on-chain analysis of the scam, hackers were able to gain access to Beeple’s Twitter account for approximately five hours, tweeting out two separate links to a malicious website that would, in turn, drain victims’ MetaMask wallets of Ethereum and high-value NFTs such as Mutant Ape Yacht Club, VeeFriends and Otherdeeds, among others.&nbsp;Via Artnet&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 5/23/22

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419059/onhk5zrset6gzr8dma67.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/meditations-on-shape">Meditations on Shape</a>Opening: Friday, May 20, 5 – 10&nbsp;pmOliva Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419060/hu0lymqpjzjkz5cxpyyt.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/transfiguration-paintings-ar-nfts-by-sergio-gomez">Transfiguration: Paintings, AR &amp; NFTs by Sergio Gomez</a>Opening: Friday, May 20, 7 – 10&nbsp;pm33 Contemporary Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419061/vald5olrvfplqfzpsnev.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/fantasia-ariel-solo-exhibition">Fantasía Ariel: Plucked</a>Opening: Friday, May 20, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmElephant Room Gallery&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419062/g0sxblhmtvtwgjxtmqyi.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/3rd-friday-open-studios-311f7cfd-8fa3-4d60-97f3-968e415f6162">3rd Friday Open Studios</a>: <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/bac-10th-annual-art-competition">BAC 10th Annual Art Competition</a> &amp; <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/ihsae-teacher-show">IHSAE Teacher Show</a>Opening: Friday, May 20, 7 – 10&nbsp;pmBridgeport Art Center&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419062/i5fpbnfc2xiii74fytpt.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/suzanne-rose">Suzanne Rose</a> &amp; <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/rene-romero-schuler-1a722069-a964-44ca-ad77-b690f8de9540">René Romero Schuler</a>Opening: Friday, May 20, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmZolla / Lieberman Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start May 20

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419059/nl9hrlyasrtigzkfihfa.jpg"><figcaption>Pictured: <a href="https://www.americansforthearts.org/by-program/networks-and-councils/public-art-network/public-art-year-in-review-database/14-movements-a-symphony-in-color-and-words">“14 Movements: A Symphony in Color and Words”</a> by lead artist Mat Tomezsko, commissioned by Mural Arts Philadelphia. Photo by Steve Weinik.</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.americansforthearts.org/news-room/art-in-the-news/new-study-highlights-how-the-arts-make-streets-safer">New Study Highlights How the Arts Make Streets Safer</a>Can art improve roadway safety? A report released in March by Sam Schwartz Consulting in partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies examined the impact of art in the streetscape by comparing historical crash rates and real-time behavior of motorists and pedestrians at 22 “asphalt art” sites before and after the projects were installed, with illuminating results.The <a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F3uzQXLF&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cdandersson%40bloomberg.org%7Ccb6088e9da594986173908da207dc64a%7C411991d20760424f9834fb81e52d7293%7C0%7C0%7C637858021848833231%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=6zEPf4QGPZTL5JnfRg97mLJdvRbQWbZV6EO%2FECMOs7k%3D&amp;reserved=0">Asphalt Art Safety Study</a> is the latest addition to Bloomberg Philanthropies’ <a href="https://asphaltart.bloomberg.org/">Asphalt Art Initiative</a>, which began in 2019 with a how-to guide for communities to install artwork in streetscapes, sidewalks, and crosswalks. The safety study aimed to research the safety impact of public art installed in streets. Examples of asphalt art include intersection murals, crosswalk art, painted plazas, and sidewalk extensions.Via Americans for the Arts&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/05/10/warhols-blue-marilyn-195m-christies-new-york-ammann-collection">Warhol's Blue Marilyn sells for record-smashing $195m at Christie's auction of Swiss dealers' collection</a>Powered by an iconic, dazzling and record-breaking Andy Warhol portrait of screen siren Marilyn Monroe, which sold to the US dealer Larry Gagosian for $195m, the collection of the late Swiss art dealing siblings Thomas and Doris Ammann reached $273m ($317.8m with fees) at Christie’s New York on Monday night. Pre-sale expectations ranged from $284m-$420m, indicating in part the tumbling effect of a brutal day on Wall Street and across other financial markets.Via the Art Newspaper&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/ct-ent-kinetic-light-disability-dance-wired-mca-20220428-mzpgaobsqfgy5lkkdqjmiqaqyy-story.html">Wheelchair aerial dance at center of ‘Wired’ at the MCA, a performance that centers disability</a>Alice Sheppard does not shy away from a challenge. In devising her latest dance, “Wired,” she and her Bay Area disability arts company Kinetic Light had to first write the rule books for wheelchair aerial dance.Kinetic Light’s mission is to create art that centers disability. Sheppard and the rest of the company are disabled artists who make work for disabled performers. Key to that vision are questions and advocacy around access — who “gets” to dance and who “gets” to watch or experience art? Since the company’s founding in 2016, Sheppard’s work consistently explores the intersections of disability, race and gender. “Wired,” premiering May 5-8 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, is no exception, though it’s the first of Kinetic Light’s growing catalog to incorporate aerial dance.Via Chicago Tribune&nbsp;<a href="https://www.milwaukeemag.com/this-documentary-is-going-to-change-the-way-we-look-at-art-criticism/">This Documentary Is Going to Change the Way We Look at Art Criticism</a>After a decade of work, local&nbsp;art critic, journalist, filmmaker and occasional&nbsp;MilMag writer* Mary Louise Schumacher is just months away from completing her documentary exploring the ever-changing world of art criticism.&nbsp;With the interviews and research for the most part done, the finish line is in sight – it’s just final touches and <a href="https://seedandspark.com/fund/outofthepicture#story">fundraising</a> from here forward.&nbsp;Schumacher started her documentary out of a place of concern, because when newsrooms started seriously slashing budgets in the 2000s, art critics were among the first to go.&nbsp;Via Milwaukee Magazine&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 5/11/22

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419053/axppk9wyfxivlu6uvrfo.jpg"><figcaption>Paul Cézanne. Bathers (Les Grandes Baigneuses), about 1894–1905. The National Gallery, London, purchased with a special grant and the aid of the Max Rayne Foundation, 1964. &nbsp;</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;By JACQUELINE LEWISPaul Cézanne has been widely considered the father of modern art, perhaps the G.O.A.T. of his accomplished peer group, as Claude Monet and Camille Pissaro called him the “greatest of us all.” Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse later affirmed the sentiment.&nbsp;An upcoming retrospective of Cézanne’s art at the Art Institute of Chicago will delve into the 19th century artist’s mind, dissecting his creative practices and highlighting why they remain so vital more than 100 years later.Cézanne’s artistic process sought to answer the question of whether or not an artist could create art by utilizing only one sensation at a time – sometimes color, then technique or subject. He wanted to understand what happened by working in a singular focus. Was the art truer, more visceral? These were novel considerations that led Cézanne to develop his own deliberately nonlinear process, which led to the birth of the Modern Art movement and also gained him the eternal reputation as “artist’s artist.”&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419054/bzkyxfss86nxdp5iaidk.jpg"><figcaption>Paul Cezanne. Still Life with Apples, 1893–94. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. &nbsp;</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;Curated by the Art Institute of Chicago’s Gloria Groom and Caitlin Haskell, with the Tate Modern’s Achim Borchardt-Hume and Natalia Sidlina, the exhibition features an astounding 90 oil paintings and 40 watercolors acquired from public and private collections, and it’s the first major Cézanne retrospective in the U.S. in more than a quarter century. It’s the first exhibition on Cézanne organized by the Art Institute in more than 70 years. To support this staggering presentation, Cézanne includes a technical distillation of the artist’s process, supported by a collaboration amongst current Art Historians, artists and conservators, illuminating Cézanne’s position as a giant of art history for our own time.May 15–Sept 5, 2022&nbsp; •&nbsp; <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/9288/cezanne">The Art Institute of Chicago</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419054/pkc9wiqc9f8gvrrblzm1.jpg"><figcaption>Paul Cezanne.&nbsp;Montagne Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine, about 1887. The Courtauld Gallery, London, © Courtauld Gallery / Bridgeman Images. &nbsp;</figcaption></figure></body></html>

An Artist's Artist: Paul Cézanne

<a href="https://www.chicagobusiness.com/nonprofits-philanthropy/theaster-gates-arts-incubator-breaks-ground-grand-crossing">Theaster Gates' arts incubator breaks ground in Grand Crossing</a>Rebuild Foundation, an arts and culture nonprofit founded by artist Theaster Gates, broke ground on a new arts incubator on the city’s South Side.Rebuild has raised over $7.6 million from private investors and other organizations to begin the $10.35 million renovation of the former St. Laurence elementary school for the new 40,000-square-foot space. Rebuild bought the school in January 2016 after the site was slated for demolition.Via Crain's&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wbez.org/stories/73-million-effort-to-save-lincoln-parks-north-pond-begins-thursday/3b256471-526b-4101-9949-292b1dabcd0d">A $7.3 million effort to restore Lincoln Park’s North Pond is underway</a>Lincoln Park’s <a href="https://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks-facilities/lincoln-park-north-pond-0">North Pond</a>, constructed in the mid-1880s, has slowly been filled with sediment runoff — making it only a few feet deep in some places. But thanks to fundraising efforts, there will soon be more water in the pond, along with other improvements.The <a href="https://lincolnparkconservancy.org/">Lincoln Park Conservancy</a> raised more than $7 million to restore the pond, and work began last week and is scheduled to continue into fall.Via WBEZ&nbsp;<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2022/5/2/23054224/christopher-columbus-statues-monuments-project-grant-arrigo-park-protests-sposato-onesti-lightfoot">Lightfoot hints strongly at ignoring expected recommendation to permanently sideline Columbus statues</a>Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday hinted strongly that she plans to ignore a controversial recommendation from her own monuments committee to permanently sideline statues of Christopher Columbus in Grant and Arrigo parks and remove the Balbo Monument in Burnham Park.Lightfoot said she has not yet officially received the volatile suggestion. She expects to get it soon and plans to “take a look at it.”Via Chicago Sun Times&nbsp;<a href="https://classicchicagomagazine.com/chicago-scots-celebrate-scottish-heritage/">Chicago Scots Tour City Museums with CEO of National Trust for Scotland</a>On his first trip to Chicago, Phil Long was delighted. Walking around the city, he declared “it’s a city that is very rich in extraordinary buildings…and has a strong sense of what’s visually important.” Architecture and design are Phil Long’s passion. As the Chief Executive of the National Trust for Scotland since 2020, he has responsibility for a full range of Scottish heritage from the craggy peaks of the northern Highlands to the sophisticated Charles Rennie Mackintosh-designed Hill House. On their first stop in a four-city U.S. trip, Long and his wife Annie Campbell Long enjoyed a full range of Chicago’s architecture and artistic offerings, organized by the Chicago Scots, his enthusiastic hosts dedicated to all things Scottish and Illinois’ oldest nonprofit organization.The tour of Chicago included a packed schedule on Monday, April 5, when the Art Institute, the Driehaus Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) were on the agenda. Chicago Scots President and CEO Gus Noble, Chicago Scots Board of Governors member Ginny Van Alyea, and Kirstin Bridier, Executive Director of the National Trust of Scotland, USA, accompanied the Longs.Via Classic Chicago (top image via Libett Richter)&nbsp;&nbsp;

What We're Reading: 5/4/22

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419053/u01fe6ugsfewb4ukw7rp.jpg"><figcaption>The northern facade of the Museum building, as viewed from Stony Island Avenue. Credit: The Obama Foundation.</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;By JACQUELINE LEWISAfter several years of will-they, won’t-they updates widely in the press, the Obama Presidential Center finally broke ground in Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side in September 2021. Though still early in the construction process, plans for the Center and its promised programs herald an exciting cultural and artistic addition to a part of the city that often receives less development and attention than North Side neighborhoods.&nbsp;Most notably the Center's architecture is designed to embody ascension: the building appears to move upward towards the sky, symbolizing Obama’s own grassroots movement that started with little and ultimately made him the first African American President of the United States. The Center’s shape visualizes hands coming together to honor all of the hands that shaped America and now the Center itself. On the side of the main building a portion of one of Obama’s speeches will be visibly carved, with words honoring those who crossed the Edmund Peters Bridge in Selma, Alabama, highlighting their strength and courage in a new time and place. The Obama Center's ambitious goal, made real through its physical structure, is to tell a full story of America, including the voices of the unheard.&nbsp;*Barack Obama has said, “Part of what makes Chicago a world-class city is its cultural and artistic institutions.” The Obama Foundation has made it a goal to include Chicago artists in the creation of the Center, notably commissioning a sculpture by Richard Hunt, who was born in nearby Woodlawn and raised in Englewood. At age 86 Hunt continues to be a prolific titan of Chicago art. Hunt’s sculpture for The Center, titled Book Bird and depicting a bird breaking joyfully out of an opened book, will be placed in the Library Reading Garden outside of the new Chicago Public Library branch on the Obama Presidential Center campus. ‘Book Bird’ will depict how reading and learning allows readers to enter new places and fly free, according to the Center's website. Hunt states that the sculpture “encapsulates the progress one can make through reading and studying” and it will help visitors find their own wings to The Obama Center and well beyond.More information about plans for the Center may be found <a href="https://www.obama.org/the-center/">here</a>.&nbsp;</body></html>

Sneak Peek: The Obama Presidential Center

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419059/jqioyqrykjmvakslqabf.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/marcos-bontempo">Marcos Bontempo</a>Exhibition Begins May 6&nbsp;Carl Hammer Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419060/ntxkj0umzdpjo7dna8i7.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/new-paintings-by-michael-hoffman">New paintings by Michael Hoffman</a>Opening: Friday, May 6, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmAddington Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419061/blkybd4y25uhdmhaxrvv.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/threaded-together">Threaded Together</a>Opening: Friday, May 6, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmAlma Art &amp; Interiors&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419062/qpoazxipcrikptpaxvwy.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/hama-woods-enjoy-the-silence">Hama Woods "Enjoy the Silence"</a>Exhibition Begins May 7Vertical Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419063/jo8a4tfyabqnp9ssfxre.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/nelson-armour-28-days">Nelson Armour: 28 Days</a>Opening: Saturday, May 7, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmPerspective Photo Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419064/roz5qdhjkmx0gyegxreh.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/laitnoamerica-in-chicago-exhibition">Laitnoamerica in Chicago</a>Opening: Saturday, May 7, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmDragonfly Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419064/hlmsjpt2d2pmnvbstwlh.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/rahmon-olugunna">Rahmon Olugunna</a>Opening: Saturday, May 7, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmStola Contemporary Art&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419065/kmfhjip7iqzq7mcpzv4s.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/opening-night-reception-2022-school-of-art-design-bachelor-of-fine-arts-exhibition">2022 School of Art + Design Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition</a>Opening: Saturday, May 7, 4 – 6&nbsp;pmKrannert Art Museum, University of Illinois&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start May 5-7 (Part II)

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419053/jt85x5uiqea4dsdbmjey.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/vidvuds-zviedris-new-works">Vidvuds Zviedris: New Works</a>Exhibition Begins May 5McCormick Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419054/okwkvkja6fypwtwf49ht.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/david-klamen-life-trophies">David Klamen: Life Trophies</a>Opening: Thursday, May 5, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmGRAY West Town&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419054/upbrhfv1gfo37zzq5d35.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/moga-modern-women-daughters-in-1930s-japan">Moga: Modern Women &amp; Daughters in 1930s Japan</a>Exhibition Begins May 6Wrightwood 659&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419055/c1yjjhrgavhliovc715j.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/carley-schmidt-mfa-thesis-exhibition-78fceb48-4f7f-4571-a650-e6f6330cdc1a">Carley Schmidt: MFA Thesis Exhibition</a>Opening: Friday, May 6, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmTandem Press&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419056/gfp6d7ybloh3y8palvie.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/michael-rakowitz-the-monument-the-monster-and-the-maquette">Michael Rakowitz: The Monument, The Monster, and The Maquette</a>Opening: Friday, May 6, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmRhona Hoffman Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419057/kwzjufbppxe96qzhjf2m.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/spring-show-opening">Urban Garden</a>Opening: Friday, May 6, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmVale Craft Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419057/tdhs7w553cjjsxxqyjwv.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/gut-by-alexander-utz">GUT by Alexander Utz</a>Exhibition Begins May 6International Museum of Surgical Science&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419058/cq0feto7d23xlqcedozj.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/circuition">Circuition</a>Opening: Friday, May 6, 6 – 10&nbsp;pmMu Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start May 5-7 (Part I)

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419053/ofblnrx7szfkjji3aqgv.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/rodger-bechtold-and-mary-jo-o-gara-painted-short-stories">Rodger Bechtold and Mary Jo O’Gara: Painted Short Stories</a>Exhibition Begins April 29Anne Loucks Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419054/rtdbgdgntp4denxyeqrg.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/gina-litherland">Gina Litherland: Braids of the Past</a>Exhibition Begins April 29Corbett vs. DempseyAll the characters in Litherland’s luminous paintings inhabit liminal spaces, whether they’re lodged inside a tree trunk, on a penumbral coastline, or mysteriously hovering a few feet above the ground. Hers are ecologically-minded images, but they’re rooted in a unique vision of our shared planetary and symbolic atmospheres.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419054/ixkjpucwt6r0yhzvlacn.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/exhibition-in-partnership-with-mercy-housing-lakefront">Key Change</a>Opening: Friday, April 29, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmWeinberg/Newton GalleryWith photographic and painted depictions of homes, the exhibition initially positions housing as a place that can be abandoned – sometimes, unjustly stolen. Architectural collage demonstrates housing as a temporal exercise in which influences and precedents engage in dialogue with future spatial thinking. Silent home movies and idiosyncratic sculpture subsequently suggest that housing is a productive place in which intimate moments, lifelong memories, and nurturing meals are made and shared.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419055/fcsswhe4galb4qdzzzbu.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/fiber-fashion-feminism">Fiber-Fashion-Feminism</a>Opening: Friday, April 29, 7:30 – 9&nbsp;pmThe Art Center Highland ParkFiber-Fashion-Feminism is a deftly curated exhibit of fiber artists from all over the country. Curator Caren Helene Rudman reached out to some prominent names in the genre, notably Anne Wilson, a Chicago-based artist in the Art Institute of Chicago Art Institute’s Fiber &amp; Material Studies Department and a leader in the field. Each of the nine selected artists, Nneka Kai, Jennifer Markowitz, Laura Morrison, Marty Ornish, Maria Pinto, Nirmal Raja, Katrin Schnabl, Yana Schnitzler, Ginny Sykes, bring a unique perspective to the work.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419056/ko41ivfbbhrkbicsmrrw.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/kelly-boehmer-growling-stomach">Kelly Boehmer: Growling Stomach</a>Opening: Friday, April 29, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmARC GalleryBoehmer’s soft sculptures display a tragic sense of humor. Using art history as a starting point she creates tension and anxiety through sewing the work by hand, with raw, anxious stitches of red thread. Her old sculptures are cut up and are incorporated with upcycled taxidermy to make new work.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419057/rbxih7wcjgn4j1rbs1jt.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/john-heliker">John Heliker: Drawings of the 1930s and 1940s</a>Exhibition Begins April 29Corbett vs. DempseyThis rare exhibition of the artist's work is drawn from a small collection of works on paper from a prime period early in his career, when he was drawing and sketching actively alongside Social Realist contemporaries including William Gropper and Ben Shahn.&nbsp; Like those artists, Heliker was politically active on the left, and starting in the late 1930s he made drawings published in&nbsp;New Masses, the Marxist magazine, and joined the WPA Federal Art Project as an easel painter.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start April 29–30 (Pt. 1)

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419053/unfuyxermqngdbsoizl9.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/aranda-lasch-with-terrol-dew-johnson-bundling">Aranda\Lasch with Terrol Dew Johnson: Bundling</a>Opening: Friday, April 29, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmVolume GalleryDesign studio Aranda\Lasch have collaborated with renowned artist and basket weaver Terrol Dew Johnson of the Tohono O’odham Nation for over a decade. Their collaboration stems from the commonalities of algorithmic techniques, repetition and ciphering used in both computer-generated design and Tohono O’odham basket weaving. They approach basket construction as a framework for experimentation and expression, sharing knowledge and tradition; and as a medium of exchange that bundles various materials and voices together.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419054/hiqmkat3cnf7un8ogr3z.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/michael-pellew-no-life-till-kings-county">Michael Pellew: No Life Till Kings County</a>Opening: Friday, April 29, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmARC GalleryMichael Pellew’s never-ending love affair with pop music and rock-and-roll returns to Western Exhibitions with over 200 drawings of album covers from his favorite artists presented as cassette tape inserts, free-standing paintings of rock stars, and drawings of Pellew interviewing stars about cassette tapes and classic rock.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419054/ka6otmi5qhdvqdqq8as3.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/meryl-levenstein-found-my-footing-on-the-forest-floor">Meryl Levenstein: Found My Footing on the Forest Floor</a>Opening: Friday, April 29, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmARC GalleryMy work is contemplative. It is therapeutic. Each stitch and decorative detail is thoughtfully placed. While I work, I am ridiculously focused and not easily distracted. The work is slow and deliberate and hell on my hands. But I am happiest when I am designing my scepters, because I do not fret about the world and my role on the planet while I am sewing and sharing. Instead, I feel strong and optimistic about being present in this messed-up era. The repurposed branch reminds me that I, too, am noble enough and mindful enough to live my life boldly.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419055/uoshz8beubtiehdddscj.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/bed-stuy-to-chi-artists-from-land-studio-gallery">Bed-Stuy to Chi: Artists from LAND Studio &amp; Gallery</a>Opening: Friday, April 29, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmWestern ExhibitionsFounded in 2005 and located in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, LAND is a unique nonprofit day-habilitation program that teaches life skills through the modality of art, nurturing the talents of participating artists, while integrating individuals into the community of contemporary art.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419056/ydlrxbbuqvkrvkstxrma.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/kiah-celeste">All the best, Kiah Celeste</a>Exhibition Begins April 30DOCUMENTLife today, in 2022, remains as bewildering as ever, yet All the Best, Kiah Celeste makes a compelling argument for coming down from the digital clouds and experiencing what Albers would call “the adventure of being close to the stuff the world is made of.”&nbsp;In the half-dozen sculptures Celeste created for the exhibition, material is the adventure, evidence of a tactile thinking that can excavate aesthetic pleasure from the rubbish heaps of contemporary industrial culture.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419057/zab1lyx6e2ix6d1ffegv.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/corrine-slade-araceli-zuniga-embodiment">Corrine Slade &amp; Araceli Zuniga: Embodiment</a>Exhibition Begins April 30FLXST Contemporary&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419057/bi7kipamlm3qu5aa6g1i.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/nyeema-morgan-the-set-up">Nyeema Morgan: The Set-up</a>Exhibition Begins April 30PATRON&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start April 29–30 (Pt. 2)

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419036/htzqq3h9bof4jsr4a1jn.jpg"><figcaption>from ChiArts Kerfuffle!&nbsp;</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;This spring and summer there are openings to attend and art fairs to wander, but this season of reopening also means the return of parties that benefit your favorite arts groups and causes. Many area arts organizations and institutions moved mountains to keep their valuable programs going throughout the pandemic. Now they're asking for your support while you can also join in the fun. There are lots of events planned that will make supporting good causes reason to celebrate and to catch up with fellow art lovers in person.&nbsp;Check out the <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?category=galas-special-events">full list of benefits and galas here</a> - updated regularly!&nbsp;– CGN&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://theartcenterhp.org/spring-benefit-2022/">Common Thread: 2022 Spring Benefit</a>Friday, April 29Benefitting <a href="/organizations/the-art-center-highland-park--3">The Art Center Highland Park</a>TACHP's annual spring benefit is first and foremost a showcase to celebrate 62+ years as the premier home of arts and culture on the North Shore. It also has the added purpose of raising potentially 10% of the organization’s income for the year.&nbsp;This year’s event, <a href="https://track.robly.com/ad168851-f011-46d9-9fb2-c905880ac24f8bddd3094870260065b75412537464cf">Common Thread</a>, is a return to live celebrations. Along with a fashion show, passed food, cocktails, and the return of DJ Tess handling the music, it will include the opening of the exhibit, Fiber-Fashion-Feminism, featuring fiber artists Maria Pinto, Laura Morrison, Ginny Sykes, Nirmal Raja, Yana Schnitzler, Katrin Schnabl, Marty Ornish, Nneka Kai and Jennifer Markowitz.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/artea-and-spring-market">arTEA Party</a>Saturday, April 30 and Sunday, May 1Benefitting <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/evanston-art-center--3">Evanston Art Center</a>A fundraiser for the Evanston Art Center will consist of donated handmade mugs by local artists and EAC students with local refreshments. Each ticket holder will receive their choice of donated mug and refreshments from local businesses.&nbsp;There will be handmade one-of-a-kind works from over 20 local artists for sale on Saturday, April 30 and Sunday, May 1. Works include paintings, drawings, jewelry, ceramics, and mixed media.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.elmhurstartmuseum.org/events/25th-annual-art-in-wilder-park/?utm_source=AIWP+lists+combined+with+EAM+Mailing&amp;utm_campaign=4f70caafc0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_24_08_17_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_194c5dc994-4f70caafc0-374609273&amp;mc_cid=4f70caafc0&amp;mc_eid=9f943455be">25th Annual Art in Wilder Park</a>Saturday, April 30 and Sunday, May 1Benefitting <a href="/organizations/elmhurst-art-museum">Elmhurst Art Museum</a>Elmhurst Art Museum and RGL Marketing for the Arts partner to host joint 25th anniversary celebrations for the 2022 edition of Art in Wilder Park, which will feature over 100 Midwest artists, along with events and exhibitions at the Elmhurst Art Museum. Both days (April 30 &amp; May 1) are presented in festival style with one of a kind Art, Food Vendors, and Kid’s Court activities including hands-on activities for families hosted by various community organizations&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/chiarts-foundation-s-annual-benefit-kerfuffle-2022">ChiArts Foundation's Annual Benefit – KERFUFFLE! 2022</a>Tuesday, May 3Benefitting <a href="/organizations/chi-arts-the-chicago-high-school-for-the-arts">ChiArts –&nbsp;The Chicago High School for the Arts</a>The ChiArts Foundation’s spring benefit and presentation Kerfuffle! raises funds to support The Chicago High School for the Arts’ tuition-free, pre- professional arts conservatories, serving 600 students form all of Chicago’s 50 wards.Celebrate ChiArts’ five conservatories with performances, artwork, poetry stations, and more. Guests will enjoy a cocktail reception, dinner, and opportunities to explore various performance exhibits throughout one of Chicago’s most unique venues, Epiphany Center for the Arts in the West Loop.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/crystal-ball">Crystal Ball</a>Saturday, May 14Benefitting <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/chicago-art-department-cad--2">Chicago Art Department&nbsp;</a>CAD is proud to announce the return of the Crystal Ball, celebrating the Magic of Community. CAD will recognize its 18th year as a non-profit arts organization, with a mission to provide space and resources for socially minded artists to grow their practice while questioning the city we live in.The event will bring together CAD resident artists, partners, and supporters to celebrate in-person for the first time since 2019, including alumni artists who will showcase work in a Silent Auction. The event will also feature artist interventions that celebrate bright futures through live tarot, crystal gazing, and magic. The space will be transformed into a magical oasis by CAD Resident artist and Crystal Ball Curator, Jane Georges, who will be creating immersive experiences for guests to enjoy. On display in CAD’s Main Gallery will be Everything Must Go, an exhibition featuring the works of Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist Jeffrey Michael Austin, best known for their uncanny and illusory sculptural installations.&nbsp;<a href="https://mcachicago.org/calendar/2022/05/artedge-nick-cave-the-color-is">ArtEdge Gala: Nick Cave: The Color Is</a>Saturday, May 21Benefitting the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) and taking place at the <a href="https://www.dusablemuseum.org/">DuSable Museum of African American History Roundhouse</a>ArtEdge, Chicago’s premier gala, builds upon the MCA’s legacy of unforgettable events dedicated to celebrating contemporary art in Chicago. In 2022 the MCA celebrates renowned artist Nick Cave and the highly anticipated debut performance of The Color Is at the DuSable Museum of African American History Roundhouse. Presented on the occasion of the MCA exhibition Nick Cave: Forothermore, The Color Is features original fashion design, dance choreography, and a one-night performance by legendary Labelle.Proceeds from this event will support the MCA’s collaborative efforts to provide a platform for living artists, in pursuit of a creative and diverse future.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/darkroom-benefit-auction-and-party">DARKROOM</a>Thursday, June 2Benefitting the <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/museum-of-contemporary-photography-mocp--2">Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP)</a>DARKROOM is the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago's (MoCP) annual benefit auction and party, which will be held at the Columbia College Chicago Student Center, 754 S. Wabash.&nbsp; &nbsp; Photography enthusiasts will enjoy hors d'oeuvres, drinks, and music while perusing auction items by celebrated contemporary artists, including work by Alec Soth, Dawit Petros, Alice Hargrave, Natalie Krick, Zora J Murff, Bob Thall, Dave Jordano, Doug Fogelson, and more. The benefit auction, which is presented by Sotheby’s, will remain open online for a week following the event. &nbsp; Longtime MoCP supporters Lawrence K. and Maxine Snider will be honored during the evening for their contributions to the museum.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/visionary-ball">Visionary Ball</a>Thursday, June 2Benefitting <a href="/organizations/intuit-the-center-for-intuitive-and-outsider-art">Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art</a>Intuit's Visionary Ball at Salvage One, 1840 W. Hubbard Street, unites the worldwide community of artists, art appreciators and advocates for Intuit. All proceeds support the museum’s ability to offer accessible outsider art exhibitions and programs to students, teachers and audiences around the world.The cocktail event will be hybrid: in-person celebrations will take place at Salvage One in Chicago, which is an indoor and outdoor venue and antique store; friends from afar can participate in the livestreamed 30-minute program beginning at 7 p.m. central on Zoom. ﻿&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/2022-artbash-starry-night">2022 ArtBash: Starry Night</a>Saturday, June 25Benefitting <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/2022-artbash-starry-night">Lubeznik Center for the Arts</a>.&nbsp;Taking place at the Bluechip Casino Hotel SpaJoin Lubeznik Center for the Arts and our emcee, Mary Ann Bergerson Ahern from NBC 5 News Chicago, as we reach for the stars and help support our mission of integrating art, education and community to provide access to compelling exhibitions and programs that explore contemporary ideas. Your support ensures everyone has access to the arts!Cocktails &amp; dinner • Silent auction • DancingNo black tie –Keep it casual and wear something that sparkles like the stars in the night sky!&nbsp;<a href="https://nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org/events/gala">Gala de Arte</a>Friday, May 13Benefitting <a href="https://nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org/events/gala">National Museum of Mexican Art</a>Taking place at the Sheraton Grand HotelEvery year, the Gala de Arte is critical in generating funding that ensures our city continues to boast a world-class museum – one of the most significant Mexican art museums in the U.S., and the only AAM accredited museum in the country dedicated to Mexican Art.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artencounter.org/kaleidoscope">Kaleidoscope: Annual Spring Gala &amp; Art Auction</a>Thursday, May 12Benefitting <a href="https://www.artencounter.org/kaleidoscope">Art Encounter</a>Taking place at the Greenhouse LoftOur annual spring gala, Kaleidoscope, supports Art Encounter’s broad menu of programs in the community, which include educational programs for public school students, hands-on workshops for residents of senior living facilities and neuro-diverse adults, and transformative, large-scale murals for the general public. Join us this May at the beautiful Greenhouse Loft in West Lakeview for refreshments, cocktails, a wine raffle, an art auction, and more.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

This Spring's Art Parties and Benefits

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419053/rdp4qyv52msbid66zkyh.jpg"><figcaption>The Other Art Fair</figcaption></figure>By CGN Staff<a href="https://www.theotherartfair.com/chicago/">The Other Art Fair</a> took place last <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2021/9/the-other-art-fair-returns-to-chicago-this-weekend">September</a> in Chicago and it is back already this weekend, taking place April 21-24 on Fulton Market.&nbsp;Presented by Saatchi Art, The Other Art Fair is billed as the leading artist Fair to discover and buy art directly from the very best emerging artistic talent.&nbsp;Founded in London, UK in 2011, annual and biannual editions take place across the globe in Brooklyn, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, London, Melbourne, Sydney, and Toronto.Over 100 artists from across the globe as well as in Chicago are participating. There will also be a large scale mural custom made by All Star Press artist JC Riviera at the entrance to the fair.&nbsp; VIPs can get a free drink, courtesy of BOMBAY SAPPHIRE® upon arrival and food is back, now that COVID allows the show to say goodbye to last year's restrictions. And as far as the art and programs, visitors can see a range of installations and exclusive print drops by the likes of AMFM, Arts of Life and Pigment International. You can also have your portrait done by artist Anna Marie Tendler on site and snag an exclusive comic print for $50 by the creators of Love Man, David Krueger and Ben Marcus, &nbsp;thanks to TOAF's charity partner, Chicago's own Arts Of Life.&nbsp;Enjoy the fair!&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

The Other Art Fair Is This Weekend

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419053/itfp5l59zlewor9fs5l7.jpg"><figcaption>Stamp courtesy of USPS</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.wbez.org/stories/shel-silverstein-forever-stamp-dedicated/6be02a24-2fab-4b05-a47c-ae21ef2fc971">There’s a new stamp honoring Chicago-born Shel Silverstein</a>The children’s book author and Playboy illustrator Shel Silverstein was not known to be particularly studious during his days attending Darwin Elementary School in Chicago’s Logan Square.Instead, he had a tendency to doodle, officials said Friday at a ceremony hosted by Chicago Public Schools and the United States Postal Service to unveil and dedicate the Shel Silverstein Forever Stamp.Via WBEZ&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-abraham-lincoln-presidential-library-museum-legislation-20220419-xoser5cc7vakznshjedupy5aam-story.html?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daywatch&amp;utm_content=911650455797#nws=true">After long being mired in politics, Lincoln museum has ‘potential to be incredibly great’ under restructuring plan</a>Ever since it opened late and over budget in 2005, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield has been regularly beset by problems tied to the historically transactional nature of Illinois politics.Via Chicago Tribune&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wbez.org/stories/the-chicago-reader-is-in-jeopardy/eb7e037e-a576-4855-8e3c-aa13fa282e6f">The Chicago Reader is in jeopardy after a dispute between staff and a co-owner</a>Transitioning to non-profit status is in peril, and if that doesn’t happen, popular alt-weekly the <a href="https://chicagoreader.com/">Chicago Reader</a> will not have the funds it needs to continue paying staff. The union is saying this fate could be avoided if co-owner Leonard Goodman signs documents allowing the transition to non-profit to continue.Via WBEZ&nbsp;<a href="https://art.newcity.com/2022/04/20/much-ado-about-small-things-the-return-of-barely-fair-chicagos-tiniest-international-art-fair/">Much Ado About Small Things: The Return of Barely Fair, Chicago’s Tiniest International Art Fair</a>The long-awaited return of Barely Fair—Chicago’s tiniest international art fair—was brimming with spectacle. Arriving at Vernissage on a bustling Friday evening in April, one might assume that the interminable line of people led to the bar. Not so. The string of partygoers—libations already in hand, abuzz with anticipation—were queued to see the art. Visitors patiently waited to enter a diminutive gallery that offered even smaller attractions: thirty miniature art fair booths produced at 1:12 scale of the white cubes familiar to the international art circuit.&nbsp;Via Newcity&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 4/20/22

<a href="https://mcachicago.org/publications/blog/2022/announcing-the-d-daskalopoulos-collection-gift">MCA receives ‘one of the most impactful donations’ ever</a>We are excited to announce the donation of a significant body of important contemporary artworks gifted to us by MCA Trustee, Dimitris Daskalopoulos. The gift featuring 100 works jointly held between the MCA and the Guggenheim is one of the most impactful donations to our collection in the MCA’s history. Each work in this trove reinforces and clarifies our institutional values, especially our longstanding commitment to supporting bold artistic experimentation. These works will enrich our collection, bolster strengths in our current holdings and fill existing gaps. Among the major artists whose work will be entering our collection for the first time are Ghada Amer, Karla Black, Paul Chan, Robert Gober, Sarah Lucas, Alina Szapocznikow, and Rebecca Warren.Via MCA PR&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ox-bow.org/oxbow-house">Ox-Bow House</a>Ox-Bow School of Art, located in Saugatuck, Michigan, announces Ox-Bow House, a place for fellowship, education and art, in the neighboring city of Douglas, Michigan. &nbsp; Ox-Bow House is a pilot project by Ox-Bow School of Art, a 112-year old, independent summer art school that has been welcoming artists from around the nation and beyond to West Michigan since its founding in 1910. Ox-Bow’s classes, workshops, residencies, and public programs are developed in-house by a professional staff of artists, curators, and educators. With a vibrant community of nationally and internationally respected artists on their campus each year, Ox-Bow House seeks to extend this resource to the public through a diverse menu of programs throughout the year.&nbsp; &nbsp;Via PR&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagobusiness.com/it-hits-market/mies-van-der-rohes-former-chicago-home-sale">Mies van der Rohe lived here. You could be next.</a>The Pearson Street co-op unit where the giant of modern architecture lived for most of his three decades in Chicago is coming on the market in a week.Via Crain's Chicago Business&nbsp;<a href="https://artonthemart.com/programming/">Art on theMART to Project Works by CPS Students</a>Art on theMART is adding a new projection to their previously announced Spring Program that will feature artwork from eight soon-to-graduate Chicago Public Schools (CPS) seniors. The artwork for the projection, consisting of self-portraits, was collected in conjunction with CPS’s All-City Visual Arts program. Following a selection process, eight CPS seniors who submitted to the All-City High School Visual Arts Exhibition were selected to have their work featured on the façade of theMART. Students’ artwork was selected based on a score given for technical skill, craftmanship, originality and student voice. The projection, officially titled Select Works from the CPS Class of 2022, will premiere April 22 at 8:30 p.m. following a brief speaking program, and will run twice nightly at 8:30 and 9 p.m. through May 4. &nbsp;Via PR&nbsp;<a href="http://www.weinbergnewtongallery.com">Weinberg/Newton Announces Key Partnership</a>Weinberg/Newton Gallery a non-commercial gallery dedicated to promoting social justice causes, is partnering with Mercy Housing Lakefront to present Key Change. Addressing the present-day housing crisis, Key Change will feature works by Gabrielle Garland, Tonika Lewis Johnson, Maymay Jumsai, Riff Studio and South Side Home Movie Project. Key Change is curated by Weinberg/Newton Gallery Director Nabiha Khan-Giordano and is presented in collaboration with Mercy Housing Lakefront. The exhibition will run from April 29 to July 16, 2022.Via PR&nbsp;

CGN Art World Recap: 4/14/22

<html><head></head><body>By CGN Staff<a href="https://www.expochicago.com">EXPO CHICAGO</a> returned this past weekend, featuring 140 galleries from around the world and crowds that turned out in droves. Thursday night's Vernissage preview saw steady crowds of well-dressed collectors, dealers and members of the art world. While art fairs were largely put on hold for much of the past two years, artists have continued to be busy and that productive creativity was on display this past weekend.&nbsp;There were thousands of works of art on view as well as dozens of lectures and topical programs. For CGN the fair was a chance to see colleagues and friends, to meet subscribers, share the new issue of the summer magazine and to observe the engagement of art in person again. We saw much of what others saw as we wandered the fair aisle by aisle, but what we took photos of was colorful, appealing and typically larger in scale.&nbsp;Here for you are some of our highlights of EXPO 2022.&nbsp;The fair will be back again next April.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419041/pcj5cti5lbkytwbmb2he.jpg"><figcaption>Stephen Eichorn installation in Carrie Secrist's booth&nbsp;</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419042/rmq9gxullbpeyeyjsa4y.jpg"><figcaption>Jose Lerma, Nino Mier Gallery</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419043/si94mnlcbseuqn3jchr2.jpg"><figcaption>A wall of Karl Wirsum works at Corbett vs Dempsey's booth</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419044/d4ethomoafedzxjqeypb.jpg"><figcaption>Sarah Zapata, A Famine of Hearing, 2016, Deli Gallery – IN/SITU at EXPO&nbsp;</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419045/nspfo9llvhe508ecuiqt.jpg"><figcaption>Zhuang Hong Yi, Blossom: Four Seasons, Rice paper and acrylic on canvas, 2021. Smith Davidson Gallery</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419046/f3jen8vuri45koqsu8mb.jpg"><figcaption>Dinh Q. Lê, Monuments and Memorials #11, cut and woven chromogenic prints and linen tape, 2021, P.P.O.W. Gallery</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419046/w8xrtne7xdmtazyieypg.jpg"><figcaption>Ebony G. Patterson at monique meloche</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419047/cxvr4rj8vwxuwjacc2h3.jpg"><figcaption>Asad Faulwell, Levitator, 2020, acrylic, pins and photo collage on canvas, Lawrie Shabibi&nbsp;</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419048/gtnrybu5mffixgfxu709.jpg"><figcaption>James Siena, Trectiuff, Graphite and acrylic on linen, 2020, Miles McEnery Gallery</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419049/nnhuncsyjnn03biv3jsp.jpg"><figcaption>Manolo Valdés at Ascaso Gallery</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419050/ddspzzztvbfpbtscqu0g.jpg"><figcaption>Left: Claude Viallat, acrylic on tarpaulin, 2016; right: a photograph by Laura Letinsky, DOCUMENT Gallery&nbsp;</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419050/nabskqwyia59ljuslnqy.jpg"><figcaption>Leon Polk Smith, Constellation U, paint on canvas, 1968, GRAY&nbsp;</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419051/galjplf1p4dxrrgxxnay.jpg"><figcaption>Anna Kunz, McCormick Gallery</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419052/alfvvfspgzyd41iy3c4e.jpg"><figcaption>Jackie Milad, mixed media on paper collages, 2021, De Buck Gallery</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What We Saw at EXPO 2022

<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/04/08/expo-chicago-2022-latin-american-presence?utm_source=The+Art+Newspaper+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=2d16b66823-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_04_08_04_36&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c459f924d0-2d16b66823-61117077">With strong showing by Latin American artists and galleries, Expo Chicago expands the definition of a regional fair</a>The description “a regional fair” can seem at best dismissive and at worst derogatory. <a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/keywords/expo-chicago">Expo Chicago</a>, with its wealth of international programming that sees galleries, curators, institutional directors and attendees from across the globe descend upon the Jewel of the Midwest, reimagines what it means to be regional.Instead of exemplifying an exclusive definition of the word “regional”, this year's Expo Chicago fair is very much inclusive and expansive. This fact is made clear by the fair’s <a href="https://www.expochicago.com/exhibitors/exposure">Exposure section</a>, which was curated Humberto Moro, the recently named director of program for the Dia Art Foundation. In organising the section, Moro focused his curatorial lens on Latin American galleries and artists that could, in turn, underscore issues like labour rights, social and environmental justice, and the influence of technology on the world, all of which should be considered global concerns.Via the Art Newspaper&nbsp;<a href="https://news.wttw.com/2022/04/05/frida-kahlo-s-personal-collection-photos-comes-pilsen">Frida Kahlo’s Personal Collection of Photos Comes to Pilsen</a>After touring worldwide for over 10 years and reaching nearly 1 million visitors, Frida Kahlo’s personal collection of photos has made it to Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood.The personal photo collection was rediscovered in the influential Mexican-born <a href="https://papersowl.com/discover/the-blue-house-frida-kahlos-private-universe">artist’s home known as La Casa Azul</a>. When Kahlo died in 1954 in her Mexico City home, her husband, Diego Rivera, locked some of her artworks and objects in a room. Fifty years later, that room was unlocked, and hundreds of unpublished photographs were discovered.Via WTTW&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/mechanic-found-trove-artworks-connecticut-dumpster-may-worth-hundreds-thousands-dollars-2097396">A Man Pulled Some Unusual Art From a Dumpster, Thinking It’d Be Fun for Halloween Decor. It May Actually Be Worth a Scary Amount</a>Four and a half years ago, a mechanic pulled a trove of unidentified artworks from a Connecticut Dumpster, hoping to use them for Halloween decorations. But after some amateur sleuthing, he learned the pieces belonged to a once-prominent New York artist—and they may be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.The artworks, it turns out, were made by Francis Hines, a late, largely-forgotten Abstract Expressionist who made a name for himself wrapping canvases, sculptures, and even entire buildings in fabric before departing the New York art world for a quiet life in Connecticut.&nbsp;Via Artnet&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/11/arts/design/fearless-girl-statue-new-york.html">New York Lets ‘Fearless Girl’ Hold Her Ground, for Now</a>The popular “Fearless Girl” sculpture will continue to stand outside the New York Stock Exchange after city officials voted on Monday to extend the sculpture’s temporary permit for 11 months. This decision comes with the stipulation that the city, the owner of the sculpture and the artist return in six months with a process for deciding the artwork’s ultimate fate.Via NYT&nbsp;Key image: Hilary Swift for The New York Times

What We're Reading: 4/11/22

<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/4/5/23011633/chicago-designers-theaster-gates-prada-dorchester-design-lab-program-artists-of-color">Theaster Gates, Prada create incubator to support designers of color</a>The Design Lab, a collaboration between Theaster Gates’ Rebuild Foundation and Prada Group, aims to uplift and invest in designers of colors in fashion, architecture and the industrial arts.“We spent a lot of time watching how many of the fashion houses in the design world and the museum institutions have been acknowledging and celebrating the contributions of Black artists and designers and people of color, but it felt like much of that has been marketing strategy,” said Gates, co-chair of Prada Group’s Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Council.Via Chicago Sun Times&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wbez.org/stories/expo-art-fair-returns-to-navy-pier-after-two-years/fcca5fc6-6abc-4671-8d1e-1d699105cb9f">Meet the curator on a search for Chicago’s next art star</a>When Jamillah James was tapped for the high-profile job of helping relaunch the Institution of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in 2016, she arrived with a mission: to create space for emerging artists, especially Black and brown ones.Among the first places she searched was Chicago, where she had previously played the drums in an experimental band, dabbled in arts programming, and studied art history and theory at Columbia College.Via WBEZ&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/market/expo-chicago-2022-2093135?utm_content=from_&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=US%20News%20Morning%204%2F8%2F22&amp;utm_term=US%20Daily%20Newsletter%20%5BMORNING%5D">Expo Chicago Lights Up for the First Time in Years, Drawing Dealers From Near and Quite Far</a>It’s been a lifetime since Expo Chicago—or at least it feels that way—which makes it just amazing to see the city’s bold&nbsp;Navy Pier filled out with&nbsp;collectors, gallerists, curators, and the like for fair’s 2022 edition.“It’s a good excuse to bring people to town to show how strong our galleries, museums, and universities are,” Aron Gent, director of local gallery Document, said at the fair’s Thursday vernissage.&nbsp;Via Artnet&nbsp;Key image: Theaster Gates. Photo credit: John R. Boehm&nbsp;

What We're Reading: 4/8/22

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419041/shz9f2ejymrtrslt3aua.jpg"><figcaption>HPAC's Kate Lorenz</figcaption></figure>Hyde Park Art Center Director Kate Lorenz Stepping Down After 12 YearsIn an email sent Wednesday, Kate Lorenz shared, "I’m writing to share the news that after more than 12 years as Executive Director at Hyde Park Art Center, I've decided the time is right to step down from my role and pass the baton to new leadership. I couldn't be more proud of what our Hyde Park Art Center village has accomplished over the last dozen years, and I couldn't be more excited for what's ahead for all of you–our community of artists, students, neighbors, colleagues, partners, visitors, and creative leaders in our city.I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to our wise and dedicated board of directors, our resilient and talented staff, all of our supporters, and for each of you who have been a part of our work in ways near and far. It’s been an honor and privilege to be a part of this incomparable community as its Executive Director. &nbsp;I’ll be continuing to support the board and staff in ensuring a smooth transition until my last day on May 13th. To that end, the board will have more to share about the search for a new leader and interim plans in the coming weeks."&nbsp;<a href="https://www.maineantiquedigest.com/.../lincoln-by.../8740">Lincoln by Saint-Gaudens Brings $1.15 Million</a>"Abraham Lincoln: The Man (Standing Lincoln)" by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907) sold for $1,152,500 against the $700,000/900,000 estimate at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/skinnerauctions/?__cft__[0]=AZXC320cZaQX-k5aoio7EGUCQxzSToREN7FbMSZFoY1uKXiRU80ILZ1SI5rswWL3qMYcb4KpY8dLPRpj1cDZtOTDwJwMLr0vdjDPRwUpwk2c6ASJdaKMrMXz7oth9r97y9OGu8efFZVJwO6VeuV1Zvc5s8GpgJcCopF3_jk735-rksCMgydnaQS9g_GjKs0rn68&amp;__tn__=kK-R">Skinner Auctions</a>The casting, a 40" high bronze, one of approximately 17, was signed and inscribed “Copyright 1912 by A. H. Saint-Gaudens” to make it clear that it was a posthumous reduction by the artist’s widow, Augusta Fisher Homer Saint-Gaudens, herself an artist. She oversaw the castings, making certain they were exact renderings of her husband’s original, beginning in 1912 and ending before 1926.The bronze came from a Massachusetts educational institution and is headed to the Lunder Institute for American Art at Colby College, Waterville, Maine, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ColbyMuseum/?__cft__[0]=AZXC320cZaQX-k5aoio7EGUCQxzSToREN7FbMSZFoY1uKXiRU80ILZ1SI5rswWL3qMYcb4KpY8dLPRpj1cDZtOTDwJwMLr0vdjDPRwUpwk2c6ASJdaKMrMXz7oth9r97y9OGu8efFZVJwO6VeuV1Zvc5s8GpgJcCopF3_jk735-rksCMgydnaQS9g_GjKs0rn68&amp;__tn__=kK-R">Colby College Museum of Art</a>Saint-Gaudens’s original, a 12' tall Lincoln he began in 1885, is in Lincoln Park, Chicago.Via Maine Antiques Digest&nbsp;<a href="https://artonthemart.com/programming/">UNTITLED,&nbsp;Nick Cave, Comes to Art on theMART in May. Special Preview during EXPO</a>Acclaimed American artist Nick Cave’s video work, made specifically for Art on theMART, is a remix of Cave’s original film Drive-By (2011) with new footage. Bridging dance, performance, film and public art, Cave’s new projection features his iconic Soundsuits in motion. Brightly colored figures will dance across theMART’s iconic riverside façade, transporting the viewer to a kaleidoscopic other world on the river’s edge. Amidst the flurry of movement, a figure adorned with a stop-sign emerges, reminding viewers of the underlying sense of urgency despite the jubilant expression of freedom.Untitled will run on Art on theMART May 5 – September 7, 2022Cave’s projection will coincide with his first career-spanning retrospective, Forothermore, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, on view nightly from May 14 through October 22, 2022.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagobusiness.com/greg-hinz-politics/thompson-center-sold-prime-group?utm_source=breaking-news&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=20220331&amp;utm_content=article1-headline">Helmut Jahn's Thompson Center Sold for $70 million</a>The state of Illinois and Prime Group have signed a contract to sell—and preserve—the historic James R. Thompson Center at Clark and LaSalle for $70 million.Via Crain's&nbsp;</body></html>

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