<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418973/xemkue8ds6a7tdoopkb9.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/allison-zisook">Allison Zisook</a>Opening: Thursday, October 28, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmJean Albano Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418974/iefuzvjmaxdlsr4klyi0.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/alan-lerner">Alan Lerner</a>Opening: Friday, October 29, &nbsp;7 – 10&nbsp;pmFirecat Projects&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418975/n0yobuhwjkp5fz1bfrwh.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jessica-gondek">Jessica Gondek</a>Opening: Friday, October 29, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmARC GalleryMy work endeavors to blur the distinction between hand and machine. The title of the exhibition, Ironmades, is a nod to the early 20th Century Dada movement engaged with machinery and readymades.&nbsp; As an artist, I continue building on this tradition to bring it into the digital era of the 21st Century as our relationship with technology continues.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418976/audkxow8ioj7mtvuwle8.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/nancy-rubins">Nancy Rubins</a>Begins October 29Rhona Hoffman GalleryRhona Hoffman Gallery is pleased to present a new body of sculptures from Nancy Rubins’&nbsp;Fluid Spaceseries, alongside new works on paper. Throughout her decades-long career, Rubins has been interested in forms and materials, often known best for her gravity-defying large-scale sculptures. In her most recent sculptural series, Rubins continues her practice of assembling found objects through the use of wiring. She has further developed this sculptural series by abstracting her found materials, and, working on a much more intimate scale, created calligraphic sculptural forms. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418977/bszaa3gx1whxmehanjx3.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/both-and-alex-chitty-julia-fish-miyoko-ito-avery-z-nelson-and-brittney-leeanne-williams">Both And (Alex Chitty, Julia Fish, Miyoko Ito, Avery Z. Nelson, and Brittney Leeanne Williams)</a>Opening: Saturday, October 30, 12 – 4&nbsp;pmTiger Strikes AsteroidTiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago is thrilled to present&nbsp;Both And,&nbsp;featuring nuanced abstract paintings by Chicago-based artist Miyoko Ito (1918–1983), alongside contemporary sculptures and paintings by Alex Chitty, Julia Fish, Avery Z. Nelson, and Brittney Leeanne&nbsp;Williams.&nbsp;Each artwork is powerful in its ambiguity, containing contradictions in terms of spatial illusion and reference(s) which obliterate any supposed binary between “abstraction” and “representation.”&nbsp;By situating Ito’s work in relation to that of the artists working today, the exhibition opens up a dialogue around abstraction that calls attention to distinctive engagements with color, space, timelessness, and form.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418977/ol10qcg6rshrwoqyvg52.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/blake-jones-presents">Blake Jones &amp; Friends: Doublespeak</a>Opening: Saturday, October 30, 12 – 5&nbsp;pmVertical Project Space&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start October 28 - 30

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418973/ynqhf8rp5ccmmug9svko.jpg"></figure>Jaume Plensa's Water's Soul, 2020 Unveiled In NJWater’s Soul, a new site-specific sculpture by internationally renowned artist Jaume Plensa, was officially unveiled on October 21 in Newport on the Hudson River waterfront in Jersey City, New Jersey. This monumental installation depicts the serene face of a young subject holding a finger to her lips in a state of silent contemplation. The sculptural portrait, though monumental in scale, humbly gestures for quietude, a beckoning towards empathetic self-reflection. Plensa’s installation serves as a tribute to the Hudson River, aligning with the artist’s ongoing interest in bodies of water as proxies for humankind.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418974/vxv0bicurwboti8yenpc.jpg"></figure><a href="https://link.chicagobusiness.com/click/25430109.45690/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2hpY2Fnb2J1c2luZXNzLmNvbS9yZXNpZGVudGlhbC1yZWFsLWVzdGF0ZS9yaWNoYXJkLWRyaWVoYXVzLWxha2UtZ2VuZXZhLWVzdGF0ZS1zYWxlLWFsbW9zdC00MC1taWxsaW9uP3V0bV9zb3VyY2U9YnJlYWtpbmctbmV3cyZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj0yMDIxMTAyMiZ1dG1fY29udGVudD1oZXJvLWhlYWRsaW5l/5f4c3915c90d524d8471bc4aCd5afd95b">Richard Driehaus’ Lake Geneva estate for sale at almost $40 million</a>The financial star and historic preservationist, who died earlier this year, presided over many press-worthy parties and fireworks shows at the lavish estate, one of the biggest properties on the lake.&nbsp;<a href="https://link.chicagobusiness.com/click/25430109.45690/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2hpY2Fnb2J1c2luZXNzLmNvbS9yZXNpZGVudGlhbC1yZWFsLWVzdGF0ZS9yaWNoYXJkLWRyaWVoYXVzLWxha2UtZ2VuZXZhLWVzdGF0ZS1zYWxlLWFsbW9zdC00MC1taWxsaW9uP3V0bV9zb3VyY2U9YnJlYWtpbmctbmV3cyZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj0yMDIxMTAyMiZ1dG1fY29udGVudD1oZXJvLXJlYWRtb3Jl/5f4c3915c90d524d8471bc4aD9fb4f73f">READ MORE&nbsp;</a> via Crain's&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418975/y2ghgojcm1r6fcsuxitx.jpg"></figure><a href="https://3arts.org">2021 3Arts Awards Will be Largest to Date</a>3Arts, the Chicago-based nonprofit grantmaking organization, will award Chicago artists with nearly $1 million in unrestricted cash grants during the 14th annual 3Arts Awards, taking place virtually on Monday, November 1, 2021, live on YouTube. The virtual event is free to the public and features three world premiere performances by past 3Arts awardees. Registration is <a href="https://3arts.org/event">required</a>Since 2007, 3Arts has supported more than 1,200 artists—representing 70% women artists, 67% artists of color, and 14% Deaf and disabled artists—and distributed $4.5 million in grants and services. On November 1, 3Arts will be awarding 134 artists including:· Ten 3Arts Awards recipients who will receive $30,000 in cash grants.·&nbsp;121 artists selected by past 3Arts awardees will receive $4,000 each in unrestricted grants, through a major one-time expansion to Make a Wave—3Arts’ artist-to-artist grant program—with support from Make a Wave Presenting Partner The Joyce Foundation, sending a bigger “wave” than ever through Chicago’s cultural core.·&nbsp;Recipients of the second annual 3Arts Next Level/Spare Room Award—a $50,000 unrestricted cash award given to three women visual artists who are past awardees.These announcements—together with $230,000 in emergency relief grants given to 3Arts artists in 2021—make this the largest award year in 3Arts history.&nbsp;</body></html>

CGN Art World Recap: 10/22

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418973/p6opya8qtu8no9sr7ju5.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/alex-katz-the-white-coat">Alex Katz: The White Coat</a>Opening: Friday, Oct 22, 2021 5 – 7&nbsp;pmGray WarehouseCreated between 2020 and 2021, Katz’s White Coat paintings are based on the likeness of Vivien Bittencourt, a photographer and filmmaker, and the artist’s daughter-in-law. Across these eleven portraits, Katz paints Vivien in a variety of dynamic compositions unified by a brilliant light blue ground color. With a discerning eye for color, form, and economy of line, Katz upholds the immediacy of portraiture while balancing the specific and abstract, intimate and remote, geometric and gestural.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418974/zxkspmee94xl9jgaigj6.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/there-is-still-magic-here-a-solo-exhibition-of-oil-paintings-by-jennifer-cronin">There is Still Magic Here: A Solo Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Jennifer Cronin</a>Opening: Friday, Oct 22, 2021 6 – 10&nbsp;pmElephant Room Gallery“There is Still Magic Here” is a new series of paintings illustrating everyday, overlooked landscapes as an agent for exploring the wonder in our daily lives. Over the past year, Cronin began the habit of taking daily walks. It was during these walks that she would stop to photograph seemingly mundane urban surroundings which in that moment, beckoned to her. The resulting paintings are a rich representation of the magic the artist felt when viewing these landscapes.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418975/lm84mih04rdv63jcvqhe.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-balm-art-for-black-women-s-wellness-6385ba85-b706-40f7-b255-a48a279588ed">The Balm: Art for Black Women’s Wellness</a>Opening: Friday, Oct 22, 2021 6 – 8&nbsp;pmSouth Side Community Art CenterThe Balm: Art for Black Women’s Wellness&nbsp;emerged as a collective artists’ action. Eight women who engage the time-honored tradition of using their artistic practice to give vision and form to our healing have contributed work across a variety of media and points of view. Themes emerged organically, with works that stand in both testimony and conversation.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418976/b7sp3afqv25b1awnudoy.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/ryan-licht-sang-bipolar-foundation">Ryan Licht Sang Bipolar Foundation</a>Oct 22 – 24, 2021Zolla / Lieberman GalleryThe juried artwork in INSIGHTS IV, as well as those from the previous exhibitions, has been generously donated to the Foundation’s Permanent Exhibition Collection by the artists.&nbsp; Now comprised of more than 70 pieces, including paintings, photographs, sculpture, jewelry, ceramics and textiles, the Permanent Collection will be the basis of traveling exhibitions to give voice to artists with Bipolar Disorder and to reduce the stigma associated with it.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418977/keubkepoh6lvqi3fx23y.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/nontraditional-materials-exhibition">Nontraditional Materials Exhibition</a>Opening: Saturday, Oct 23, 2021 6 – 9&nbsp;pmDragonfly GalleryNontraditional Materials Exhibition showcases artwork that is beyond classical painting and sculpture. Dragonfly Gallery will highlight artists experimenting with unexpected materials and unconventional methods of creating. Transforming the materials to create extraordinary artwork.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418978/srakirxbfhnlqkx2hxvb.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jessica-stockholder-specific-shapes">Jessica Stockholder: Specific Shapes</a>Opening: Saturday, Oct 23, 2021 5 – 8&nbsp;pmKavi Gupta GalleryStockholder's&nbsp;work is created in response to, and incorporates, the contemporary flood of consumer products made with industrial materials and processes; it inhabits and confronts a world where those who make and consume such objects are also hyper-aware of the threat they pose to human existence. Stockholder leverages the ways our use of technology has altered our relationship with the surfaces of our devices, which disguise their internal mechanisms. Incorporating these concepts and objects into her compositions, she allows for myriad meanings and references to accumulate, resulting in works that remind us how important form is to all areas of life and that it has political resonance.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start October 22 & 23

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418973/qobzlbb2assvtifwlj3g.png"></figure><a href="https://hilton-asmus.com/on-the-road-again/?v=32aec8db952d">Hilton | Asmus Contemporary Hosts Splashy Party with Cindy Crawford in the Name of Charity and Art&nbsp;</a>Hilton | Asmus Contemporary hosted an exclusive evening with supermodel Cindy Crawford and world- renowned British fine art photographer David Yarrow to celebrate the opening of their exhibition CHANGING LANES on Oct. 9 in their new, second space in Bridgeport at the Morgan Arts Complex. The presentation featured Yarrow's newest works, including a re-creation of Cindy's iconic 1992 Pepsi ad, with proceeds benefiting the UW Kids Cancer Program, where Crawford's brother was once treated for Leukemia. Hilton | Asmus is also located in River North.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418975/k2t1se2zzu0sjvsm7x9q.png"></figure><a href="https://wgntv.com/morning-news/around-town/around-town-checks-out-par-excellence-redux-the-back-9-at-elmhurst-art-museum/?utm_source=EAM+Mailing+List&amp;utm_campaign=e50235730f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_24_08_17_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_2e43eedea7-e50235730f-374555725&amp;mc_cid=e50235730f&amp;mc_eid=9f943455be">WGN Around Town checks out ‘Par Excellence Redux: The Back 9’ at Elmhurst Art Museum</a>WGN News gives a preview of this unusual, interactive art exhibit at Elmhurst Art Museum. Par Excellence Redux: The Back 9&nbsp;promises an unusual twist on a familiar pastime. Book a tee time for the second edition of this show.&nbsp;Via WGN&nbsp;Zhou Brothers Unveil New Sculpture&nbsp;On October 12 the Zhou Brothers unveiled Red Angel statue, a gift to Chinatown in memory of the late Bernie Wong, founder of the Chinese American Service League (CASL). The sculpture is at the corner of Princeton Avenue and Tan Court, in front of the Chinese American Service League&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

CGN Art World Recap: 10/18

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418973/kjbxh18rdkha9azmxgp6.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/michelle-wasson-on-feronia">Michelle Wasson: On Feronia</a>Opening: Friday, October 15, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmEpiphany Center for the Arts&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418974/af49jpfhhgtu526nweim.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/lily-pad-showcase-five-year-anniversary-a6dd7cfa-74c0-43a1-be0d-f461cca7e126">Lily Pad Showcase: Five Year Anniversary</a>Opening: Friday, October 15, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmLily Pad | West&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418975/qzdxevx7akh9jgx9fxb1.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/weekend-bash-studio-sale">Weekend Bash &amp; Studio Sale</a>Opening: Saturday, October 16, 12 – 5&nbsp;pmCircle Contemporary (Arts of Life)&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418976/ca2vmnxixrlhtpy4lsxr.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/kandinsky-the-rediscovered-bauhaus-sketchbook-1c01d593-1fe1-4520-865d-ded48eca3834">Kandinsky: The Rediscovered Bauhaus Sketchbook</a>Opening: Saturday, October 16, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmUkrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA)&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418976/uma7a1hsrbgbtxzo6go8.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/georges-coulomb-play-on-color">Georges Coulomb: Play on Colour</a>Opening: Saturday, October 16, 3 – 8&nbsp;pmExpression Gallery of Fine Art&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418977/qesoo953hj92nuagq5f0.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/still-life">Still Life</a>Opening: Saturday, October 16, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmThe Franklin&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418978/zfmraibai0atefssmmla.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/dan-oliver-afire">Dan Oliver: Afire</a>Opening: Sunday, October 17, 1 – 4&nbsp;pmEvanston Art Center&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start October 15 - 17

<html><head></head><body>By CGN StaffThe Great Chicago Fire began on the evening of October 8, 1871 and raged for two more days.&nbsp;The fire is a legend around the world, the stuff of stories and history books, far from the reach of modern day life, though we live its after effects every day without even knowing it.&nbsp;Around the city several arts institutions are marking the century and a half since fire through immersive, creative exhibits. Some highlights and related shows are below.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418973/nbu7abq4kpflmqj0hcpk.jpg"><figcaption>The Currier &amp; Ives lithograph shows people fleeing across the Randolph Street Bridge. Thousands of people literally ran for their lives before the flames, unleashing remarkable scenes of terror and dislocation. "The whole earth, or all we saw of it, was a lurid yellowish red," wrote one survivor. "Everywhere dust, smoke, flames, heat, thunder of falling walls, crackle of fire, hissing of water, panting of engines, shouts, braying of trumpets, roar of wind, confusion, and uproar."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currier_and_Ives">Currier and Ives</a> - Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-23436)</figcaption></figure>Chicago History MuseumThe Chicago History Museum has been under construction for months now but is reopening in time to mark the anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire and to welcome visitors back to new spaces and an expansive exhibition covering the history of the fire itself.&nbsp;Chicago's busy streets were taken over by flames for three days, overwhelming a city built of wood and causing severe destruction. After the fire died, recovery efforts exposed deep social and economic inequalities when more than 100,000 people became homeless, and society placed blame upon the Irish immigrant O'Leary family. The devastation also sparked change and regrowth in Chicago by introducing new fire safety guidelines and rebuilding as the resilient city known today.  &nbsp;One hundred and fifty years later, City on Fire: Chicago 1871  guides visitors through the crucial events and conditions before, during, and after the fire—many of which draw striking comparisons to today's social climate. This family-friendly exhibition features more than 100 artifacts from the Chicago History Museum's collection, interactive and multimedia elements, and personal stories from survivors of the fire. The exhibition is designed for families to&nbsp;learn, explore, and&nbsp;discover&nbsp;the impact the Great Chicago Fire had on the city and the people who lived here. Featured in the City on Fire: Chicago 1871 exhibition is a 40-feet-long painting study created as a guide for a larger Chicago Fire Cyclorama painting, which was displayed in Chicago in 1892-93 in a round building constructed for visitors to have an immersive experience.Full exhibition info available at the museum's special website <a href="https://www.chicago1871.org/about">Chicago1871.org</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418974/q51fznfs7cqgydivfe2r.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;<a href="https://driehausmuseum.org/programs/detail/fiery-night">The Driehaus Museum</a>Part of the museum's Story Time: Fiery Night on Saturday, October 9 at 9:30 am and 11:00 am.&nbsp;A child-friendly introduction to the Great Chicago Fire in a historic setting. Guess who’s coming to the Marble Palace for tea? Chicago’s own Mrs. Catherine O’Leary and the Nickersons’ neighbor, Mrs. Anna Tree! History comes alive during Story Time as kids meet these historical figures to hear a personal account of their experiences in 1871 and about the fire that changed everything. Mrs. Tree will recall one unforgettable incident through a reading of Fiery Night: A Boy, His Goat, and the Great Chicago Fire, by Sally M. Walker and Kayla Harren - a true story of strength, courage, and love that is part of the history of the Driehaus Museum neighborhood.<a href="https://46316.blackbaudhosting.com/46316/tickets?tab=3&amp;txobjid=358ab190-20b4-4968-821e-06fb7f996bd3&amp;mc_cid=4b5e10917f&amp;mc_eid=UNIQID">BUY TICKETS </a>$15 for one adult and child; $5 for each additional child&nbsp;Wrightwood 659On view now is <a href="https://wrightwood659.org/exhibitions/romanticism-to-ruin/">Romanticism to Ruin: Two Lost Works of Sullivan and Wright</a>, an exhibition that &nbsp;attempts to conjure the essence of two long-gone masterpieces. Louis Sullivan’s Garrick Theatre Building in Chicago stood for only sixty-nine years and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Larkin Building in Buffalo lasted only forty-four years,The <a href="https://e.wordfly.com/click?sid=MTQ0MV8xMjY4XzEwNDZfNzM4MA&amp;l=2e95df88-6c26-ec11-a826-0050569d9d1d&amp;utm_source=wordfly&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=RomanticismtoRuinweek3&amp;utm_content=version_A">Great Chicago Fire</a> actually had an impact on the design of the Larkin Building in Buffalo, NY, some 30 years later.The threat of fire held a special significance for John D. Larkin,&nbsp;who was&nbsp;an eyewitness to the vast destruction&nbsp;of&nbsp;the Chicago fire of 1871.&nbsp;The original Larkin &amp; Weller soap-manufacturing business was located on Halsted Street in Chicago, a couple of blocks from the edge of the fire. Larkin&nbsp;insisted&nbsp;that Frank Lloyd Wright design an&nbsp;"absolutely fire-proof construction." In response,&nbsp;Wright created a&nbsp;steel-framed building that was clad in brick inside and out. Of course in the end, it wasn't fire that destroyed the Larkin&nbsp;Building,&nbsp;but mankind's blinding urge for&nbsp;"progress," resulting in the 1950 demolition of Wright’s masterpiece to make room for a truck barn.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

150 Years Since the Chicago Fire – Marking The Anniversary Through Art

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721420196/ohwv120qgfyxjunp40le.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/opening-celebration-for-smart-to-the-core-medium-image">Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago</a><a href="https://uchicago.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aba2086a45b4ee8391b89447b&amp;id=9f5daebdbf&amp;e=00938adab1">Smart to the Core: Medium / Image&nbsp;</a>Opening: Wednesday, Oct 6, 2021 5 – 7&nbsp;pmExplore the social and perceptual impact of visual culture at this special opening of Smart to the Core: Medium / Image. With the exhibition designed and curated around the University of Chicago’s popular “Media Aesthetics” course, the opening will include a gallery walkthrough, remarks from curators and faculty, light refreshments, and a unique visual experience.<a href="https://uchicago.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aba2086a45b4ee8391b89447b&amp;id=20610feb6d&amp;e=00938adab1">RSVP for the opening</a><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418963/ixd5hbtvtstizvalx98m.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/common-gesture">Oliva Gallery</a>&nbsp;Common GestureOpening: Friday, Oct 8, 2021 5 – 10&nbsp;pmSlow or quick, direct or indirect, gestural marks have an immediate response to the surface that they associate themselves with. These marks celebrate materiality and highlight passages of the body’s movement through space. Gestures not only accentuate time, but they have the potential to organize or disrupt a composition. In the works of Lisa Marie Barber and Sarah Dupré there is a clear embracement of line, color via paint or glaze, and play upon surface texture.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418964/qz6ewc1etuixzirp6vid.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/shahidul-alam-we-shall-defy">Wrightwood 659</a>Shahidul Alam: We Shall DefyOct 8 – Nov 27.&nbsp;Wrightwood 659 presents&nbsp;Shahidul Alam: We Shall Defy. We Shall Defy includes photographs by Alam and his community of artists and activists, as well as illustrations, verse, and more by three additional artists: Amal Akash, a singer-songwriter and visual and performance artist based in Dhaka; Alam’s niece Sofia Karim, an architect and visual artist in London; and New York-based filmmaker, writer, photographer, and installation artist Naeem Mohaiemen and the King Kortobbyo team. Together, their work explores the turbulent path that Alam and his team have navigated in their struggle to achieve justice and equity.The primary focus of the exhibition is a series of 9 large banners that are inspired by an ancient form of Bangla art—Patachitara, cloth scrolls containing detailed depictions of mythical narratives. The banners in the exhibition are printed with photographs by Alam and 14 artists, thereby integrating the contemporary and ancient methods of storytelling while expanding on the turbulent experiences of the Bangladeshi people.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418965/moj2ty7xhrjnuil6ejr1.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/spirits-of-the-sand-and-sea-george-klauba">Hofheimer Gallery&nbsp;</a>Spirits of the Sand and Sea: George KlaubaOpening: Friday, Oct 8, 2021 5 – 8&nbsp;pmSpirit Sailors roamed the dry sandy deserts of Australia, finding kinship with Aborigines through their tattoos and totems.&nbsp; They came from battles in the Pacific during WWII, their souls searching together for home and the heavens.All artwork is inspired by the book "The Walkabout of Sailor Jim" by Judith Lloyd Klauba and George Klauba.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418966/kawggjcek4kekjq3r4yp.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/thinkspace-presents-at-vertical-gallery">Vertical Gallery</a>‘LAX / ORD III: Growing the Focus’October 9 – 30. Opening reception Saturday, October 9, 12–6pm.Featuring a mural installation from Langston Allston plus a group show featuring 3 small works from 24 additional artists. LAX / ORD is a group exhibition showcasing new small format works by some of the most relevant and exciting artists working in the New Contemporary Art Movement. Connecting the West Coast art scene to that of the MidWest’s, this survey exhibition will feature local and international artists curated by one of the movement’s most active and respected proponents: Los Angeles’ Thinkspace gallery.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418966/gzj7t0e4wahqnzec6uai.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/indira-freitas-johnson-the-resonance-of-emptiness">Evanston Art Center&nbsp;</a>Indira Freitas Johnson: The Resonance of EmptinessOct 9 – Nov 14In <a href="https://www.evanstonartcenter.org/exhibitions/indira-freitas-johnson-resonance-emptiness">The Resonance of Emptiness</a>, Indira Freitas Johnson explores the concept of emptiness and the interconnectedness of all things offering viewers an aesthetic experience of emptiness and stillness while exploring the shifting distinctions between strength and vulnerability, permanence, and decay, and the extraordinary and mundane.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418967/fb0oqzw6nzgds8l1wnim.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/american-society-of-marine-artists-north-regional-exhibition">Krasl Art Center&nbsp;</a>American Society of Marine Artists North Regional ExhibitionOct 9 – Nov 28The American Society of Marine Artists is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to recognize, encourage and promote marine art and maritime history. Their National Exhibition travels to KAC’s galleries this fall to highlight the beauty in and around water.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418968/sxa2lwmczutfrh5t0azk.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/5th-midwest-open-juried-by-alison-wong">Woman Made Gallery</a>5th Midwest Open, juried by Alison WongOctober 7 – November 6. Reception: October 9th, 4 – 7 PMArtist Walkthrough: November 6th, 3:30 PM&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions October 6–9

The Art Institute's Docent Firing Drama in two parts (so far)&nbsp;• Original editorial from the Chicago Tribune: <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-art-institute-docents-firing-20210927-dfrho66bjba2bp27phz2yndwzu-story.html">Editorial: Shame on the Art Institute for summarily canning its volunteer docents</a>• Response Op-ed from the Chair of the Board of Trustees: <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-art-institute-docent-change-response-20210930-himtjin2xne2jkkkb7hzz5xpra-story.html">Op-ed: The Art Institute — and its critics — must embrace change</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/letters/ct-letters-vp-092921-20210928-gbyhrtorv5dm5p35ymvdzitpai-story.html">Letters in response</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://blockclubchicago.org/2021/09/30/old-town-developers-tap-world-class-architect-to-design-projects-in-the-neighborhood/?utm_source=cred-thursday-alert-dealmaker&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=20210930&amp;utm_content=article4-readmore">Old Town Developers Tap David Adjaye to Design Projects In The Neighborhood</a>Developers have recruited architect David Adjaye to overhaul several properties in Old Town, including the site of the old Treasure Island Grocery Store.Adjaye, known for projects like the National Museum of African American History and Culture, was selected to design buildings owned by Fern Hill and Moody Church, a historic non-denominational Christian Church at 1635 N. LaSalle Drive.Via Block Club&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/10/04/lucas-museum-acquisitions">Museum of Star Wars creator George Lucas goes on buying spree with international, if not intergalactic, focus</a>When the filmmaker George Lucas announced his plans to build the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art nearly a decade ago, the idea of “narrative art” seemed as flimsy as a makeshift Hollywood stage set. To many, it simply seemed like a superficial way of grouping the comics, illustration art and Norman Rockwell paintings that Lucas has long collected along with some beloved Star Wars art, costumes and other artefacts from the extensive Lucasfilm Archives. &nbsp;But these days, with construction of the museum in Los Angeles well under way (the projected opening is in 2023) and a string of recent acquisitions, the museum’s interest in visual storytelling and mythmaking—as well as myth-busting—is evolving. The focus is extending well beyond the fantasy of an innocent white America featured in Rockwell’s work to include art by major Black and Latino artists.Via The Art Newspaper&nbsp;&nbsp;Thumbnail image: A docent and tour group consider "American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman), 1968" by David Hockney, in the Modern Wing at the Art Institute of Chicago on Aug. 25, 2014. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune)

What We're Reading: 10/4/21

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418963/i4ehsk0l47awssqnq9a5.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;By CGN StaffSaatchi Art's The Other Art Fair is back in Chicago this week for its third edition in the city. After bouncing around to a couple venues and seasons the fair is now part of the fall calendar and is coming to the West Loop to Revel One, an expansive site on Fulton Market.&nbsp;As always TOAF differs from other international art fairs because of its emphasis on independent artists and affordable art.&nbsp;We will be checking out the fair in advance on Thursday, but here for you, courtesy of the fair organizers, is a list of the top 10 things to experience at The Other Art Fair Chicago. Plan ahead and then see everything for yourself!&nbsp;One item not on the list, but which of course should be, is that CGN will once again have a fair booth on-site (booth #109). Stop by to see us in person, say hello, or pick up a copy of the 2021 CGN Arts Guide and the fall 2021 magazine!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1. Sneak Peek at The Hoxton<a href="http://www.thehoxton.com/">The Hoxton Hotel</a> will display works of art from four Chicago-area artists including <a href="https://www.saatchiart.com/elliscollage">Allie Ellis</a>, <a href="http://www.britnimara.com/">Britni Mara</a>, <a href="https://www.saatchiart.com/account/profile/1750821">Yoora Lee&nbsp;</a>, <a href="https://www.saatchiart.com/kaisersmith">Yvette Kaiser Smith</a> as a preview to the Fair’s opening.&nbsp;&nbsp;2. Meet the Artists and SHOPShowcasing works by over 120 talented artists, all of whom have been specially selected by an expert-led selection committee. The Other Art Fair provides art lovers with the opportunity to discover and buy art directly from the very best independent artists. For a full list of artists, visit <a href="http://chicago.theotherartfair.com/">http://chicago.theotherartfair.com</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;3. Special Exhibit: Arts of Life x Duck Feet<a href="https://artsoflife.org/">Arts of Life’s</a> Ricardo Partida is a Mexican-born, Chicago-based painter who will make his curatorial debut at the Fair to create Duck Feet. The exhibit will feature 20 artists currently living and working in Chicago, a city that champions individuality and each artist is influenced by the inevitable hybridities found in the art styles of their community.&nbsp;&nbsp;4. Up and ComersAs part of The Other Art Fair’s continued mission to break down traditional barriers of the contemporary art world, New Futures, presented by <a href="http://www.thisiscolossal.com/">Colossal</a> is designed to launch the careers of talented emerging artists including free exhibition space and mentorship. Chicago-based Artists include: <a href="https://www.saatchiart.com/andreacoleman">Andrea Coleman</a>, <a href="https://www.saatchiart.com/ashleybradley">Ashley Bradley</a>, <a href="https://www.saatchiart.com/tiannabracey">Tianna Bracey</a> and Francine Almeda.&nbsp;5. Screen Printing<a href="http://www.allstarpresschicago.com/">All Star Press</a>’s installation will pull back the curtain on the screen-printing process. Attendees of the Fair will get an inside look at the messy, chaotic process of printmaking, this process will draw contrast with the beautiful, error free final prints that the process makes possible. Artists <a href="http://www.griffingoodman.com/">Griffin Goodman</a>, <a href="http://www.kellyknaga.com/">Kelly Knaga</a> and <a href="http://www.sentrock.com/">Sentrock</a> will each paint a new piece, which will then be deconstructed to create a series of totally unique limited edition monoprints.&nbsp;6. FriYay! Friday Late with AMFMJoin The Other Art Fair and <a href="http://www.amfm.life/">AMFM</a> on&nbsp;Friday October 1, 6:30-10pm&nbsp;for Friday Late. Enjoy a curated program of music, performances and special events including a DJ set by <a href="http://www.joshuadubman.com/fire-aux">DJ Fire Aux</a>.&nbsp;7. Illustration Corner with Society6Each day of the Fair, the Illustration Corner will feature a series of talented illustration artists from across Chicago creating 60 second illustrations. Lucky attendees will take home a free, original work of art!&nbsp;First come, first serve.&nbsp;8. Interactive Mural by Emmy Star BrownChildren under 12 gain FREE entry to the Fair. Let kids unleash their artistic flair and participate in creative art activities suitable for all ages including a mural wall created by Chicago-based painter and muralist, <a href="http://www.emmystarbrown.com/">Emmy Star Brown</a>, known for her bold use of color. The mural will have shapes and lines open allowing attendees to join in on the creative process.&nbsp;&nbsp;9. Photo FinishView and shop a collection of works by emerging Photographers, Lois Bielefeld, Stephanie Taiber and&nbsp;Jonathan Castillo. <a href="https://www.filterphoto.org/">Filter Photo’s</a> mission is two-fold: first, to serve and support the photographic communities of Chicago and the Midwest; and second, to highlight Chicago as a vital center of the national photographic community.&nbsp;10. Soul &amp; Smoke Food TruckCalling all foodies, <a href="https://soulandsmoke.com/">Soul &amp; Smoke</a>, will be serving their delicious, slow roasted meats and sides outside the Fair so you won’t go hungry while shopping and exploring art.&nbsp;SHOW HOURS AND FAIR DATES Thursday, September 30: 6pm – 10pm Private View // Preview Evening Friday, October 1: 3pm – 10pm Saturday, October 2: 11am – 7pm Sunday, October 3: 11am – 5pm&nbsp;For more information, to view the&nbsp;Safer Fair Plan&nbsp;and to purchase tickets, please visit&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theotherartfair.com/chicago/">https://www.theotherartfair.com/chicago/</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

The Other Art Fair Returns to Chicago This Weekend 

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418963/yjntxveqqv0ww4nefgap.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/hannah-levy-surplus-tension">Hannah Levy: Surplus Tension</a>Opening: Thursday, Sep 30, 6 – 7:30&nbsp;pmArts Club of ChicagoCrafted of such evocative materials as steel and cast silicone, her forms at once evoke inanimate decor and sensual beings. In Hannah Levy: Surplus Tension, Levy departs from the specificities of the Arts Club’s Miesian aesthetic of shiny terrazzo, travertine cladding, or sumptuous silk and velvet drapery to reflect upon the underside of mid-century modern. She delves into the details of an architectural moment that is commonly held to be characterized by clean lines and white walls to find corsetlike leather ties around tubular metal chairs or mirror surfaces in black marble akin to reflecting pools. Levy further calls into question the gendering of that aesthetic by acknowledging the contributions of Mies’s longtime collaborator Lilly Reich, who early on used textile to inventively demarcate space as Mies did in his design for The Arts Club rooms.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418964/do865vlknxzx2islzqrs.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/pop-up-exhibition-and-book-signing-kirill-polevoy-chasing-light">Pop-Up Exhibition and book signing Kirill Polevoy, Chasing Light</a>Opening: Thursday, Sep 30, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmGallery Victor ArmendarizA self-taught photographer, Kirill Polevoy, first started making photographs with an old Russian film camera "Zorki"&nbsp;in 2003. In 2010, he switched to the digital format and primarily works in black and white. Kirill currently resides in Chicago, where he concentrates on street photography with an occasional landscape.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418965/nlxcokjnlj4uc0ct128q.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jason-brooks-forever-golden-memorial-exhibition">Forever Golden: The Life and Times of Jason Brooks</a>Opening: Friday, Oct 1, 6 – 10&nbsp;pmElephant Room GalleryElephant Room Gallery presents an October 1st - 15th retrospective exhibition honoring legendary graffiti and street artist Jason “The-7-ist” Brooks Golden. The event will memorialize and pay tribute to the 7th year of his passing by sharing previously unreleased works including paintings, drawings, wheat pastes, zines, letters, photos of tags and murals, some of which will be available for sale.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418965/nxjrqv0aycc7kbaywri9.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/looking-up-photographer-henri-dauman">Looking Up: Photographer Henri Dauman</a>Opening: Friday, Oct 1, 5:30 – 8&nbsp;pmThe Art Center Highland ParkThe Art Center Highland Park in partnership with The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Arbor Terrace Highland Park is thrilled to be bringing the incredible work of internationally renowned Life Magazine Photographer, Henri Dauman, to our galleries.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418966/kuwu42cdnuwh35yaqcil.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/a-form-by-which-to-be-possessed">A Form By Which To Be Possessed</a>Opening: Friday, Oct 1, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmChicago Artists Coalition (CAC)In this exhibition, Taghavi’s multitude of paintings exploit a single character: a sigil, an occult letter-form believed to cast a spell upon its viewer. The sigil derives from a book of talismans, The Secrets of Qasemi, by the 15th-century Persian poet and scholar, Hussein Va’ez Kashefi, in which the power of flight is promised to its viewer.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418967/rkutgv4bvz86rdgpoezz.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/kina-bagovska-song-after-song">Kina Bagovska: Song After Song</a>Opening: Friday, Oct 1, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmARC GalleryKina&nbsp;studies&nbsp;and explores the symbols of handmade&nbsp;embroidery from Bulgaria and how they are transmitted across generations. In her most current series of paintings, she attempts to reevaluate the aesthetics of the traditional craft and how its assigned value changes nowadays. To emphasize the semantics she combines symbols from Bulgarian embroidery and texts from modern poetry.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418968/jms3tewnaelfai5vgpqp.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/anjali-srinivasan">Anjali Srinivasan</a>Oct 2 – Nov 7Ken Saunders GalleryThe originality and force of these works is nearly breathtaking. The artist’s Quiver Bowls are created from a combination of silicone and super reflective blown glass that result in forms that are biomorphic, soft, shapeless. The artists mirror paintings and fabric sculptures are fiercely original kaleidoscopic explosions that strongly reference the opulent interiors of the 17th century Indian architectural history.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418969/bxfb2mntccpmo6dlpntz.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/steve-geer-stories-to-be-written">Steve Geer: Stories To Be Written</a>Opening: Saturday, Oct 2, 6 – 7:30&nbsp;pmPerspective Group + Photography Gallery, Ltd.In his series “Stories To Be Written,” objects discovered by chance by walking the sidewalks of Chicago are shown in their found context – the ground on which they rest and the towering environment around them. Their unwritten stories are like latent images waiting to be developed with the experience and personal bias of the viewer.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start September 30 - October 2

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418963/wlwt4iksk32wxqnjl0i4.png"></figure><a href="https://www.architecturalrecord.com/women-in-architecture">Amanda Williams Receives 2021 Architectural Record Women in Architecture Design Leadership Award</a>RECORD has announced the 2021 winners of its&nbsp;<a href="https://rhoffmangallery.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ef43352ef9557e0524662970b&amp;id=4dbd5f26f8&amp;e=c50eb07ba1">Women in Architecture Design Leadership awards</a>, which recognize and promote the role of women in the profession in the U.S. across five categories: Design Leader, New Generation Leader, Innovator, Activist and Educator. Now in its eighth year, the award’s winners for 2021 are Design Leader Annabelle Selldorf, New Generation Leader Amanda Williams, Innovator Julie Bargmann, Educator Deborah Berke, and Activist Tamarah Begay. Through their efforts in design and in tackling broader social challenges, these five women have proved to be inspiring leaders in the field of architecture and beyond.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418964/twy4dpbas9hwebevz7ws.jpg"></figure><a href="https://terrainexhibitions.org">Terrain Biennial is Back</a>The 2021 Terrain Biennial runs from October 2nd - November 15th, 2021 in the Chicagoland area and satellite locations nationally including New York and internationally in India.&nbsp;This year, the Terrain Biennial aims to find spaces of joy and community essential for collective healing in these times of isolation, public reckonings, and mourning. Sharing much of the same sentiment as yearbook signatures and pen pal letters, this year’s biennial theme is K.I.T. (keep in touch). After more than a year of lockdown, participants are encouraged to consider how their projects serve communities, encourage lived experiences of art, and facilitate deepening friendships and new connections.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://www.wpr.org/sites/default/files/styles/embed-landscape/public/design_submission_of_shinsaku_munemoto_of_shinsaku_munemoto_associates_architects_.jpg?itok=KY2OHA1z" alt="Rendering of a possible Cold War memorial in Kenosha County"><figcaption>This is a rendering of one design. Rendering courtesy of Tawani Enterprises</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.wpr.org/chicago-billionaire-pritzker-bringing-cold-war-campus-wisconsin">Chicago Billionaire, Pritzker, Bringing Cold War Campus To Wisconsin</a>Design teams from the United States, Italy, Japan, and Jordan are competing to build a Cold War monument in western Kenosha County.Design teams from Japan, Jordan, Italy and the United States are competing to build a Cold War memorial in Kenosha County, Wis.&nbsp;The competition is part of a larger plan to create a campus on nearly 290 acres in Somers to commemorate the Cold War.Chicago billionaire and founder of the Chicago-based Pritzker Military Museum &amp; Library retired Col. Jennifer Pritzker is behind the project.&nbsp;<a href="https://chicagoscomeback.org/?utm_source=CNL%20Art%20Consulting&amp;utm_campaign=61e7cf11d8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_03_01_05_43_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_99ec04cd2a-61e7cf11d8-107428223">Chicago's Comeback Mural</a>Cortney Lederer and CNL Projects worked with Sport for Good Chicago (an initiative of <a href="https://cortneylederer.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=209edfd3257df90385f531e52&amp;id=996b7d1efb&amp;e=a71d7765a5">Laureus USA</a>) to curate and facilitate the production of a traveling mural by Chicago artist <a href="https://cortneylederer.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=209edfd3257df90385f531e52&amp;id=9df75154b4&amp;e=a71d7765a5">Damon Lamar Reed </a>with fabrication support by artist and designer <a href="https://cortneylederer.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=209edfd3257df90385f531e52&amp;id=b1d4791be9&amp;e=a71d7765a5">Caroline Robe</a>. Painted for the month-long Chicago's Comeback campaign, We Play, We Heal, We Grow! the mural was first unveiled at the Crosstown Classic, uniting Chicagoans around the power of sport to help kids heal and thrive. The mural is now traveling around Chicago nonprofits focusing on sports and youth.&nbsp;</body></html>

CGN Art World Recap: 9/28

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418963/xivwlzggyldzkllsijjv.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/crip">Crip*</a>September 23Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418964/n3bn0jlbb8wccqjnlvqn.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/smart-to-the-core-medium-image">Smart to the Core: Medium / Image</a>September 23Smart Museum of Art&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418965/x9neawos2vfd0hyiuy3k.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/romanticism-to-ruin-two-lost-works-of-sullivan-and-wright">Romanticism to Ruin: Two Lost Works of Sullivan and Wright</a>September 24Wrightwood 659&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418965/qhxmd4qhd93qf0tuygpg.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/yoko-ono-mend-piece">Yoko Ono: Mend Piece</a>September 24Tarble Arts Center&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418966/qurabsfjj8opue8u6kvf.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/toward-common-cause-art-social-change-and-the-macarthur-fellows-program-at-40-wendy-ewald-and-amalia-mesa-bains">Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40 Wendy Ewald and Amalia Mesa-Bains</a>Opening: Saturday, September 25, 2 – 5&nbsp;pmWeinberg/Newton Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418967/d3gm94z7nzbbzuudebc0.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/dimitri-pavlotsky">Dimitri Pavlotsky: Portraits Inside Out</a>Opening: Friday, September 24, 7 – 10&nbsp;pmFirecat Projects&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418968/mmvfpxrtgrdrckjm5nyi.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/group-show-curated-by-kennedy-yanko">Surface is Only a Material Vehicle For Spirit</a>Opening: Saturday, September 25, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmKavi Gupta Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418969/c9i5yzqscjv9rzwjyv4t.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/woody-de-othello-hope-omens">Woody De Othello: Hope Omens</a>September 26John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start September 23 - 26

<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/christo-wrapped-arc-de-triomphe/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6i&amp;linkId=132392163&amp;fbclid=IwAR1NzVoorBf6BUVZrsYNc1FqsIzlIBCRoNEv0YC5XoxBJcjQJn3aNKKd_Ec">Christo's dream unveiled: A wrapped Arc de Triomphe</a>In Paris this weekend, traffic stopped and crowds gathered to see the Arc de Triomphe transformed: the huge monument wrapped in shimmering, fabric, tied in place with red rope – the colors subtly emulating the French flag.&nbsp;It's the creation of the artist known simply as Christo. But when Christo died last year at 84, finishing the project became a mission for Christo's small team of three: his nephews, Vladimir Yavachev and Jonathan Henery, and studio manager Lorenza Giovanelli."All the design was done," said Henery. "Every rope, every fold, every pleat, is exactly, exactly and precisely the way Christo designed it. It will be his baby. We're just finishing it for him."Via CBSThumbnail image: Christo's long-planned dream of the wrapped Arc de Triomphe.&nbsp;CBS NEWS&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wbez.org/stories/raisin-exhibit-brings-seminal-chicago-play-to-life/357a5b9e-1dc4-4045-9c09-328f835116a4?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=Web-Share&amp;fbclid=IwAR3xcdDqWm1xpa8UTf7naYKkG6B0tHQjwLa7IjGMkxNx0dhvNZ6HhMVUeVQ">Artists Bring Themes From ‘A Raisin In The Sun’ Home To Chicago</a>A new art exhibition explores themes from “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry — the seminal play set in Chicago — where local and global artists wrestle with the theme of “home.”Via WBEZ&nbsp;<a href="https://news.wttw.com/2021/09/16/sounds-18th-street-unites-mexican-artists-across-us-new-music-festival">‘Sounds of 18th Street’ Unites Mexican Artists From Across US in New Music Festival</a><a href="http://nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org/">The National Museum of Mexican Art</a> will hold its first ever music festival with help from Mexican artists around the country. It’s called Sonido Dieciocho or <a href="https://nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org/events/sonido-18-fest">Sonido 18 Fest</a>,&nbsp;and&nbsp;the theme “Sounds of 18th Street” pays homage to its location.“For a lot of the South Side Mexicans and Latinos, it wasn’t known as Pilsen it was known as La Dieciocho,” says Jorge Valdivia, the museum’s director of performing arts. “That’s how it was commonly referred to way back in the day. Now ‘Pilsen’ is used to refer to it a lot more. So it’s sort of paying homage to La Dieciocho and how we used to identify Pilsen as.”&nbsp;Via WTTW&nbsp;<a href="https://lit.newcity.com/2021/09/20/a-boone-for-poetry-in-conversation-with-the-foundations-new-president/?fbclid=IwAR1Zi3iaHF80krxpRc8nYl5D0KfIqTME4S3vecmW1HmSHyrrbzaQ8Cm0WZ8">A Boone for Poetry: In Conversation with the Foundation’s New President</a>In a 1999 profile published in the New Yorker, the writer Malcolm Gladwell described the “Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg.” Weisberg was the city of Chicago’s first commissioner of Cultural Affairs, serving from 1989 to 2011, when she retired at the age of eighty-one. The essence of the story was that she was one of those people who knew everybody—a “connector”—for jobs, for collaboration, for friendship.The irony is that if Gladwell’s story were to be written today, it would be about the woman who stepped into Weisberg’s formidable—and legendarily extravagant—shoes when she succeeded her as the Commissioner of the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Michelle Boone.Via Newcity&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

What We're Reading: 9/20

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418963/tumi4qjtooflhfyk53c1.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jacob-hashimoto-11df96fa-ba58-4b51-9445-6e9d90e55885">Jacob Hashimoto</a>Exhibition begins September 17Rhona Hoffman Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418964/clhsjfn7wpazsgwbanxv.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/a-la-francaise-the-french-way">A La Française: The French Way</a>Exhibition begins September 17Springboard Arts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418965/eod4rdkyd8kovfdgpzua.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/lea-lund-erik-k-nomads">LEA LUND &amp; ERIK K: Nomads</a>Opening: Friday, September 17, 5 – 7:30&nbsp;pmCatherine Edelman Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418966/w7cnswxai7cav96gik60.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/lauren-wy">Lauren Wy | AUTODESIRE: Volume 1</a>Opening: Saturday, September 18, 11&nbsp;am – 6&nbsp;pmWestern Exhibitions&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418966/byiwyqqocdgcecv3g8q8.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jonathan-muecke">Jonathan Muecke</a>Opening: Saturday, September 18, 11&nbsp;am – 6&nbsp;pmVolume Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418967/cjvnsuqtbtjvamtcv1b6.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/mara-baker-new-monotypes">Mara Baker: New Monotypes</a>Opening: Saturday, September 18, 3 – 5&nbsp;pmBert Green Fine Art&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418968/yxa48yzf9oy4vvkvsj8p.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/melanie-schiff">Melanie Schiff: Blind Spots</a>Opening: Saturday, September 18, 3 – 7&nbsp;pmPATRON&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418969/xxnezp2h2wtt45aof4rb.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/aron-gent-ice-dye-tie-dye">Aron Gent: Ice Dye Tie Dye</a>Opening: Saturday, September 18, 11&nbsp;am – 6&nbsp;pmDavid Salkin Creative&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418969/npbeazsvhycjfjqbljhq.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/was-is-ought">Was/Is/Ought</a>Opening: Saturday, September 18, 12 – 5&nbsp;pmCarrie Secrist Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418970/tfqitxmflyt0qqndrcrz.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/david-shrobe">David Shrobe</a>Opening: Saturday, September 18, 11&nbsp;am – 6&nbsp;pmMonique Meloche Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418971/tqgms9bv6fav90juawgg.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/intersections-3-generations">Intersections: 3 Generations</a>Opening: Saturday, September 18, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmStola Contemporary Art&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418972/wfyi6wifkkdou5uqq2wo.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/chicago-textile-week">Chicago Textile Week: Deep, Far, Home</a>Opening: Saturday, September 18, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmEpiphany Center for the Arts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418972/u1xeeudp5sjhn7sd01xr.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/tongue-in-cheek-irreverence-in-print">Tongue in Cheek: Irreverence in Print</a>Opening: Saturday, September 18, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmChicago Printmakers Collaborative&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start September 17 - 18

<html><head></head><body>By CGN STAFFConsider for a moment the fall of 2019: The first weekend after Labor Day meant dozens of galleries were jammed with art lovers standing shoulder to shoulder. The end of September meant a weekend filled with EXPO Chicago VIP events, and the Ship of Tolerance docked at Navy Pier. The Chicago Architecture Biennial began a three month run, and November brought SOFA Chicago. Everywhere you went, there were people. Lots of people. There were no capacity limits or lines outside.&nbsp;If you wondered throughout 2020 how we could ever return to crowded openings, festivals and art fairs, this season several events are leading the way safely back in person. A few highlights are listed below. Visit chicagogallerynews.com for updates and additional events throughout the fall.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418944/zikteksyu6rmec2xkgby.jpg"></figure>• <a href="https://www.theotherartfair.comhttps://www.theotherartfair.com/chicago/tickets/?utm_campaign=2517&amp;utm_source=CGN&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=CGNbanner970wx250h">The Other Art Fair</a>Billed as "The Art Fair for a new generation of art buyers", TOAF is a young, fresh party sort of art fair. Returning this fall for a third edition, the fair will take place in the West Loop at Revel Fulton Market.Thousands of affordable artworks from 120 independent artists will be exhibited, as well as immersive art experiences, special installations, murals and performances, and COVID-19 safety protocols!&nbsp;Plus, DJ sets, a fully stocked bar and some of Chicago’s freshest street food crews will set up in TOAF's outdoor seating areas.September 30 – October 3.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418944/dizeuwyt9gxrnvghpiqs.jpg"></figure>• <a href="https://www.chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org">Chicago Architecture Biennial</a>The Available City, the 2021 edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, is a framework for a collaborative, community-led design approach that presents transformative possibilities for vacant urban spaces that are created with and for local residents. Through workshops, installations, activations, performances, and programs, The Available City invites a critical global conversation that asks how design can foster collective engagement and agency to identify new forms of shared space in urban areas. The Available City directly confronts the often-opaque process of how cities are designed and developed by proposing an inclusive and transparent design process.&nbsp;The fourth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial presents a new chapter of a decade-long research initiative led by 2021 Artistic Director, designer, and educator David Brown. The Available City introduces a process for bringing ideas generated from community workshops into existence on vacant lots in neighborhoods across the city. Currently, there are more than ten thousand city-owned, vacant sites in Chicago that each measure 25 by 125 feet. In aggregate, these lots are roughly equal in size to Chicago’s downtown center, the Loop. The Available City explores a scalable approach to urban design that recognizes the significance of addressing both individual lots while also envisioning the network of these thousands of sites as a cohesive urban landscape.September 17 – December 18&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418945/zl7dz4eqqoyfxfszl4iy.jpg"><figcaption>Filter Photo</figcaption></figure>• <a href="https://www.filterphoto.org">Filter Photo Festival</a>Filter Photo Festival is a multi-day celebration of photography that takes place every autumn in Chicago. The 2021 Festival will be held September 22nd - 26th and will be primarily in-person at the <a href="https://www.21cmuseumhotels.com/chicago#top">21C Museum Hotel</a>, centrally located downtown in proximity to museums, galleries and other cultural institutions.&nbsp;Programming includes <a href="https://www.filterphoto.org/festival-workshops">workshops</a>, <a href="https://www.filterphoto.org/portfolio-reviews">portfolio reviews</a>, <a href="https://www.filterphoto.org/ken-gonzales-day">lectures</a>, and <a href="https://www.filterphoto.org/artist-talks">artist talks</a>. Additionally, <a href="https://www.filterphoto.org/collaborating-with-the-archive">exhibitions</a> will be hosted at Filter Space gallery in West Town.Portfolio reviews are a central element of the Festival. During a portfolio review, an artist is able to share work directly with local, national, and international photography professionals, including gallery directors, curators, editors, and publishers. Emerging and established photographers are welcome to sign up for these 20-minute, one-on-one sessions.&nbsp;September 22 – 26.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418946/qyzfcgfqmbquophu2col.jpg"><figcaption>Lavezzorio Community Center. Photo by Anna Munzesheimer</figcaption></figure>• <a href="https://openhousechicago.org">Open House Chicago</a>Every October, the Chicago Architecture Center hosts Open House Chicago—a free public festival that offers self-guided history and architecture trails throughout Chicago, talks and programming, and behind-the-scenes access to architecturally, historically and culturally significant sites across the city.Open House Chicago remains one of the largest events of its kind in the world. This year's in-person site visits occur on October 16 and 17, with extended programming and city-wide trails available for the entire month of October.This year's festival will build on the success of the OHC 2020 mobile app to bring expanded content directly to your mobile phone.October 16 – 17, with events throughout October.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Remember...The Crowds? The Return of Larger Scale Exhibitions and Fairs

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418952/dms0a8gc10t2ogb6vsiv.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/stockyard-institute-25-years-of-art-and-radical-pedagogy">Stockyard Institute: 25 Years of Art and Radical Pedagogy</a>Sep 9, 2021 – Feb 13, 2022DePaul University Art Museum (DPAM)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418953/owpi4kygpoan8awbfhh8.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/claude-viallat">Claude Viallat</a>Sep 10 – Oct 30, 2021DOCUMENT&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418954/clb3epaiz87g1bhblitg.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/nancy-fritz-arc-members-show">Nancy Fritz</a>Opening: Friday, Sep 10, 2021 5 – 8&nbsp;pmARC Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418954/qjeztuutx4a7g8hf393d.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/nancy-fritz-arc-members-show">Pugs Atomz: Mookie on the Southside</a>Opening: Friday, Sep 10, 2021 6 – 9&nbsp;pmConnect Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418955/ozrcv8atgvlk26t6orlb.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/scott-ingram">Scott Ingram</a>Sep 10 – Nov 15, 2021Anne Loucks Gallery&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418956/xdmfuscto63ocdpiod1v.jpg"></figure><a href="https://ravenswoodchicago.org/signature-events/ravenswood-artwalk/">Ravenswood ArtWalk</a><a href="https://eatpaintstudio.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=823961c8f3c53e6374f467338&amp;id=cac51aa3d7&amp;e=951696c418">Emily Rapport</a> of Eat Paint Studio, and many other artists, will be part of the return of this popular art event Sept 11-12&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418957/wo9tzsvlvadzugarun3m.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/susan-rothenberg-on-both-sides-of-my-line-1974-1979">Susan Rothenberg: On Both Sides of My Line, 1974-1979</a>Sep 10 – Oct 9, 2021Gray Warehouse&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418958/kvxuroahmiqm2as18rqf.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/an-abstract-universe">An Abstract Universe</a>Opening: Friday, Sep 10, 2021 5 – 9&nbsp;pmOliva Gallery&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418958/y5o7kdc6l95dyyrg56oc.gif"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/david-heo-presence-solo-show">David Heo&nbsp;"Presence" Solo Show</a>Opening: Saturday, Sep 11, 2021 5 – 8&nbsp;pmVertical Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418959/awtyvukv6d0wphnqxdee.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/ethos-and-truth-bruno-surdo">Ethos and Truth: Bruno Surdo</a>Opening: Friday, Sep 10, 2021 5 – 8&nbsp;pmGallery Victor Armendariz&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418960/b3kinmjgdqytgw70i97c.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/autumn-colors">Autumn Colors</a>Opening: Friday, Sep 10, 2021 5 – 8&nbsp;pmVale Craft Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418961/jnbnabqhwcrnb8xcfbb1.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/go-figure-a-survey-of-figurative-art">GO FIGURE! A Survey of Figurative Art</a>Opening: Friday, Sep 10, 2021 5 – 9&nbsp;pmCarl Hammer Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418962/gtwfp8pzgbon2iluhjxw.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/julia-katz-solo-exhibition-and-rndd-walk">Julia Katz: Solo Exhibition and RNDD Walk</a>Opening: Friday, Sep 10, 2021 5 – 8&nbsp;pmAddington Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start September 10 - 11

<html><head></head><body><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/what-just-happened">What Just Happened</a>Exhibition starts September 1Zhou B Art Center&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418952/tecjxy1bleqhmnuiips2.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/small-expressions-the-art-may-be-small-but-it-is-intriguing-to-view">Small Wonders</a>Exhibition starts September 2Kavanagh Gallery at Fine Line Creative Arts Center&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418952/bmhecflgqxtuy6c61kjj.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/nancy-fritz-arc-members-show">Nancy Fritz</a>Exhibition starts September 2ARC Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418953/cbeumieom19w0hqijc9w.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/contemporary-chronicles">Contemporary Chronicles</a>Opening: Friday, September 3, 11&nbsp;am – 6&nbsp;pmSouth Asia Institute&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418954/mh8zlz7y3x3bp28yxs8c.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/claudia-hart-the-unfolding">Claudia Hart: The Unfolding</a>Exhibition starts September 3Haynes&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418955/ed1huv50kepcqwigwhyd.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/dredske-a-ridiculous-clusterf-k">Dredske: A Ridiculous Clusterf#*k</a>Opening: Friday, September 3, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmElephant Room Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418955/q3e3pvgo5lwcjpc4sbxu.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/no-space-between-us-teresa-james-fred-stonehouse">No Space Between Us: Teresa James &amp; Fred Stonehouse</a>Opening: Friday, September 3, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmHofheimer Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/bani-abidi-the-man-who-talked-until-he-disappeared">Bani Abidi: The Man Who Talked Until He Disappeared</a>Exhibition starts September 4Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA)&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/see-my-story-a89717b5-b4e3-47de-bc37-74e51ef940f8">See My Story</a>Opening: Saturday, September 4, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmPerspective Group + Photography Gallery, Ltd.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start September 1 - 4

By CGN StaffSchool is in session (!), galleries are coming back from their last days of vacation before the final install for next week's shows, and everyone is eager to get into the districts to see art again. Things are happening, and it's about to feel like fall in Chicago.&nbsp;The new issue of CGN has just been published, covering news and exhibitions from September through the end of 2021. We're especially happy to welcome back a slate of strong new exhibitions as well as much loved opening receptions for the start of their big fall shows. The gallery buzz is a totally in-person experience, one that has been truly missing since 2019, so whether you will be visiting a gallery by appointment, during regular hours, or with friends for an opening gallery walk, art face-to-face is surely back, triumphantly in sprite of 2021's twists and turns.&nbsp;A handful of shows open this first weekend of September, including the new pop-up Neon and Light museum on West Huron, and then things really get going the Friday after Labor Day and through the first half of the month. Below are some highlights we have grouped for you so you can plan your outings by date and district.&nbsp;See you in the galleries!&nbsp;&nbsp;Labor Day Weekend Openings<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1747847579/luvdlef1yge5oinfb2f9.jpg"><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/no-space-between-us-teresa-james-fred-stonehouse" target="_blank">No Space Between Us: Teresa James &amp; Fred Stonehouse</a>Hofheimer GalleryOpening Reception: Friday, September 3, 5 to 8pmTeresa James's time secluded in the Wisconsin woods during the pandemic inspired her for this exhibition: No Space Between Us is a body of work that reminds us of our role here on Earth. We need each other, and even social distancing can’t keep us apart.&nbsp;The narratives in Fred Stonehouse's work suggest the mythic as seen through the lens of the everyday. Subjects as big as life and death, love and loss, culture and politics commingle with the mundane details of daily life.<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1747847580/tgvqbj7zlgwcfke80gxe.jpg">GHULAM MOHAMMAD (Pakistani, b. 1979)Untitled2014Iranian Ink and Paper Collage on Wasli12 x 10 2/4 in. (30.5 x 26.5 cm).<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/contemporary-chronicles" target="_blank">Contemporary Chronicles</a>South Asia InstituteOpening: Friday, Sep 3, 11&nbsp;am – 6&nbsp;pmFeaturing 15 contemporary South Asian artists, this exhibition represents the manipulation of craft to further reflections on environments, languages, and identities. Artists trained in traditional techniques expand and contract these practices, utilizing new tools and media to complicate their global, national, and individual identities.&nbsp;&nbsp;<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1747847581/qtzuuq9lpqrowcuvs72a.jpg"><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/dredske-a-ridiculous-clusterf-k" target="_blank">Dredske: A Ridiculous Clusterf#*k</a>Elephant RoomOpening: Friday, Sep 3, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmDredske is tapped into current moods and trends, translating that through imagery and collage. This particular body of work addresses intellectual property rights and its role in art. The artist focuses much of his attention on the Supreme brand and logo because of its prominence in the streetwear market and the fact that their logo, white text in italicized Futura Oblique font inside a red box, is an appropriation of artist Barbara Kruger’s text in her artwork.&nbsp;&nbsp;<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1747847582/exyucidsk5ueqajcihgp.jpg">&nbsp;RNDD Gallery Walk: September 10The <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/6th-annual-river-north-design-district-fall-gallery-walk" target="_blank">River North Design District's</a> partnership with River North galleries means there will be a big crowd gathering in dozens of spaces on September 10. For the 6th year (after taking 2020 off) the RNDD showrooms will feature a variety of fine artists and designer vignettes along with special events throughout River North. Each participating showroom and art gallery will be exhibiting artwork created by contemporary artists. Chicago’s top designers will also be selecting their favorite art and creating inspirational vignettes in each showroom.The 2021 lineup begins with a VIP kickoff party at Calia Stone Boutique at 5:30pm, featuring design vignette and work curated by Yamini Designs and Interiors by Francesca. Headline artist is Linc Thelen also featuring art from philanthropic partner Aspire Art360.&nbsp;The walk concludes with an after party hosted by 210 Design House and PROjECT. interiors with artist Pat Sansone and philanthropic partner Digs with Dignity from 8-10pm.View the full list of participating galleries, artists and showrooms <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/6th-annual-river-north-design-district-fall-gallery-walk" target="_blank">here</a>, and buy your VIP and after party tickets as well.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1747847583/elpamyyahokafr6jbq3o.png">A summer crowd at Addington GalleryRiver North Gallery OpeningsWe will highlight individual River North gallery openings next week as well. You can <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?district=river-north&amp;filter=upcoming" target="_blank">see the full list here</a>.&nbsp;<h3>&nbsp;</h3>&nbsp;<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1747847584/aj9kdx9xtfbldj3vritq.png">The Neon and Light MuseumWe covered this earlier this summer, but for a few weeks this fall, there is a very bright pop-up coming to W Huron Street in River North. Dealer Ken Saunders had a light bulb moment earlier this year to highlight the various artists working in neon. The experience promises to be illuminating. <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://neonandlightmuseum.com" target="_blank">Tickets</a> are available in advance for $40.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Logan Square, Garfield Park, West Town/Ukrainian Village<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1747847585/bpubft3nf55bmgbegr44.jpg"><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/an-abstract-universe" target="_blank">Abstract Expressionism – Stanley Dean Edwards</a>Oliva GalleryOpening Sep 10, 5-8pmThe paintings presented here by the artist meet at the nexus of spontaneity and control. Two emotional forces that collide on the canvas, expressing the Yin and Yang of the human psyche.&nbsp;&nbsp;<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1747847586/h8blqxmnw7nuoqdl2r08.jpg"><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/group-ceramics-show" target="_blank">Tender to the Bone</a>GoldfinchOpening Sep 12, 12 - 4pmThrough a range of ceramic forms, the nine artists in “Tender to the Bone” expose relationships between malleability and calcification—the ossifying, changing, breaking, and “resoftening” parts of life.&nbsp;&nbsp;<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1747847586/sbhuyuyot2ws8ct7ehgs.jpg"><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/david-heo-presence-solo-show" target="_blank">David Heo&nbsp;– Presence</a>Vertical GallerySaturday, Sep 11, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmA native of rural Acworth, Georgia, David Heo took his earliest creative inspiration from the drawings of his older brother. As a teen he immersed himself in tattooing, a craft that deeply influenced the hard edges, detailed imagery and bold color palette that are hallmarks of his work today. Heo received his Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; while at SAIC, he frequently employed non-traditional materials like crayons, house paint and construction paper.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1747847587/ohf0xjvlmfmrpcpbvagk.jpg"><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/susan-rothenberg-on-both-sides-of-my-line-1974-1979" target="_blank">Susan Rothenberg: On Both Sides of My Line, 1974-1979</a>Gray WarehouseSep 10 – Oct 9On Both Sides of My Line is a solo exhibition celebrating the life and work of renowned American painter Susan Rothenberg (1945 – 2020) through key examples of her most iconic series: the profile horse paintings.&nbsp;Coming In Part II: Sept 13–30• West Loop and West Town• Art Fairs as well as Other Shows at Museums and Art Institutions&nbsp;&nbsp;

The Fall Art Season Is Here: Part I (Sept 1 - 12)

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418944/amgcekxijhglorjnhmqo.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jim-dine-american-icon">Jim Dine: American Icon</a>Opening: Thursday, August 26, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmSnite Museum of ArtAmong the most distinguished figures in Contemporary art, Jim Dine (b. 1935) is an inspiring presence as a painter, printmaker, sculptor, and poet.&nbsp;Fearlessly experimental, Dine helped define the Pop Art movement, then expanded his creative reach within and beyond the American art scene to become one of the most iconic and influential artists on the international stage.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418945/lbda4gvzuxfqs7g3rnu4.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/hal-fischer-photographs-seriality-sexuality-semiotics">Hal Fischer Photographs: Seriality, Sexuality, Semiotics</a>August 26Krannert Art Museum, University of IllinoisThe exhibition includes a generous selection from Fischer’s earlier work (some of it produced in Urbana), which has not been publicly displayed in decades. This earlier work contextualizes Fischer’s development as an artist, from his student days at the University of Illinois to his creative maturity in San Francisco.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418946/sdvfneqpbr1tzqxcynbm.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/duck-feet-guest-curated-by-ricardo-partida">Duck Feet: Guest Curated by Ricardo Partida</a>Opening: Friday, August 27, 5:30 – 8:30&nbsp;pmCircle Contemporary (Arts of Life)Ricardo Partida is a Mexican-born, Chicago-based painter and recent graduate from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago’s Master of Fine Arts in Studio program. His work largely critiques and illuminates depictions of gender and desire in the Western Art Canon by creating exalted alter egos that question conventional power structures while obscuring artist and subject.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418947/tkgvy0ge4o1gdktyu5v3.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/origins-paul-nicklen-cristina-mittermeier">Origins: Paul Nicklen &amp; Cristina Mittermeier</a>August 27Hilton | Asmus ContemporaryPaul Nicklen (Canadian) is a visual artist and marine biologist who has documented both the beauty and the plight of our planet for over 20 years.&nbsp;Paul’s photography informs and connects by creating an emotional bond with wild subjects in extreme conditions.&nbsp;Cristina is a pioneer in the use of powerful and emotive imagery to propel conservation efforts. Born in Mexico, Cristina is a marine biologist, photographer, and writer who specializes in issues surrounding fisheries and indigenous cultures. Cristina's work has exhibited at the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, The Miller Gallery in Cincinnati, The Paul Nicklen Gallery in New York, Xposure in the UAE , Art Basel Miami, Terras de Salitre/Mar de Mares Festival in Santiago, The Museum of Plastic Pop-Up in New York, The United Nations Headquarters in association with Disney and Girl Up, and at Fotografiska in Stockholm, Sweden.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418948/lk5jes5uggxjcwjwznox.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/moment-like-this-juried-by-jessica-bingham">Moments Like This</a>Opening: Saturday, August 28, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmWoman Made GalleryA group exhibition juried by&nbsp;Jessica Bingham&nbsp;featuring the work of 42 women and non-binary artists. Moments Like This&nbsp;explores the Slow Living lifestyle, and considers the practice of rest and retreat as an anti-capitalist practice. The works invite the audience to contemplate, process, rest, and come back into ourselves and our communities.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418948/jo3rmdw27hfw4rye2l4s.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/sandra-leonard">Sandra Leonard</a>August 28Evanston Art Center&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start August 26 - 28

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418938/lb0wpjvnsgq7o6aehebq.jpg"><figcaption>The Chicago Architecture Biennial, opening September 17, reimagines city-owned vacant lots.&nbsp;</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/september-2021/the-chicago-architecture-biennial-takes-a-fresh-approach/?fbclid=IwAR2KSzwpztPiA5v3BGZwe4t_ytW6PuJCbkQYef72YEMIOBtgXhAVfDC-dCE">The Chicago Architecture Biennial Takes a Fresh Approach</a>For many, the mention of “architecture” conjures thoughts of floor plans and blueprints that become houses and buildings and skylines — facts and figures about which are conveyed to us on riverboat tours of the built environment.But the fourth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, which opens September 17, centers on the unbuilt. Dubbed The Available City, the 2021 biennial pairs contributing architects and designers with community organizations to imagine — and, in some cases, implement — new projects for Chicago’s approximately 10,000 city-owned vacant lots.Via Chicago Magazine&nbsp;<a href="https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/3aqvpk/dawoud-bey-early-photos?fbclid=IwAR3IM6S75yHa1de-yhR27JosJOWFg5ioSuVSAUKq3W1hG9_jwxzty1DKfg4">Dawoud Bey picks 8 of his favourite early images</a>Dawoud Bey began photographing the streets of Harlem in the mid 1970s after receiving a camera that belonged to his late godfather. He took a class at his local YMCA, purchased some books, and quietly began observing the street with this camera in hand. Almost 50 years later, Dawoud’s archive of portraiture traces seismic changes – social, political and technological – that play out in the grandest and smallest details of his images. This year, an exhibition of his work, <a href="https://whitney.org/exhibitions/dawoud-bey">Dawoud Bey: An American Project</a>, currently on show at the Whitney Museum, further cements his status as one of America’s most vital documentarians, and a pioneer of a medium that was once overlooked.Via I-D Vice&nbsp;<a href="">Dead Tree Near Loyola Beach Gets New Life As 16-Foot Sculpture</a>For decades, a massive locust tree at Loyola Beach provided shade to parkgoers, including chess players squaring off under its canopy. The tree has died, but it is being reborn as a 16-foot-tall sculpture.The <a href="http://www.chicagotreeproject.org/">Chicago Tree Project</a>, a joint effort from the Park District and Chicago Sculpture International, turns diseased and damaged trees into public art. Artist and sculptor Plamen Yordanov is using a chainsaw to reconfigure the Loyola tree into a stack of geometric shapes.Work started last week and will likely be complete in early September, making it the 46th tree transformed into a sculpture under the seven-year-old initiative.Via Block Club&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/chuck-close-portraits-photorealism-richard-serra-vija-celmins-roy-lichtenstein-cecily-brown-walker-art-center-11629481046?fbclid=IwAR31A9HMNYq1zVOQR0E_MtnYxBfZwhxNenlt1OTaRLBvWn0SS9e3MeP8-vU">Chuck Close (1940-2021): Painting Monumental Portraits, Chronicling the Art World</a>Chuck Close, one of the most important painters of the postwar era and a blue-chip name in the contemporary art world, died on Thursday at age 81. One of the last surviving pioneers of the old New York art scene in SoHo, where he moved in 1967, Mr. Close became a marquee figure thanks to his monumental portraits. Painted from photographs taken by Mr. Close and executed with such precision that he found himself included in the nascent Photorealism movement (an association he rejected), they were field-filling head shots in which every detail down to the smallest pore was meticulously recorded. While he experimented with style and medium across his long career—painting, printmaking, drawing, collage, photography, tapestry—Mr. Close will always be remembered for <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-SEB-1388?mod=article_inline">his attentiveness to the human face,</a> for his regard for and manipulation of that most unique of physical characteristics.Via Wall Street Journal&nbsp;Thumbnail image: Chuck Close’s ‘Big Self-Portrait’ (1968) PHOTO: CHUCK CLOSE/PACE GALLERY&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 8/23

<a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/08/15/1025950962/black-lives-are-celebrated-in-bisa-butlers-extraordinary-technicolor-quilts">Black Lives Are Celebrated In Bisa Butler's Extraordinary, Technicolor Quilts</a>At the top of the Grand Staircase at the Art Institute of Chicago hang massive, colorful banners announcing the art work of Bisa Butler.Butler's specialty is fabric, specifically quilts. And the bold images of Black people she stitches together, using textiles like paint in an explosion of color, is quilting transformed.Via NPRThumbnail: Bisa Butler, Dear Mama, 2019, Collection of Scott and Cissy Wolfe. Photo by Margaret Fox. © Bisa Butler&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-art-banksy-chicago-opens-20210814-hdbi5peonbhqrjzbvw3gxyw7eu-story.html">‘Art of Banksy’ opens in Chicago with the British street artist’s ‘Flower Thrower’ and ‘Flying Copper’ — but not his involvement</a>After a few bumps and curveballs, “The Art of Banksy” is finally open. With a month’s delay and a change of venue, the exhibit officially launched Saturday on the fourth floor of 360 N. State St., atop the Museum of Broadcast Communications.Via Chicago Tribune&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/new-york-book-fair-canceled-armory-show-pivots-1234601393/">In New York, Fair Weather Darkens As Books Show Cancels, Armory Pivots 55 Dealers&nbsp;Online</a>Because of the spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus and uneven vaccination rates, as well as ongoing travel bans, plans for upcoming in-person trade fairs, including art fairs, are looking shaky. Two prominent New York events have been canceled within the last two weeks.Via ARTnews&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/stonehenge-secret-sandstone-quartz-crystal-1998477">Scientists Have Conducted Tests That Reveal Stonehenge Is Made From a Nearly Indestructible Ancient Material</a>A long lost piece of England’s Stonehenge monument is helping experts understand the mysterious prehistoric structure. Analysis of a core sample taken from one of the site’s massive slabs suggests that the stone’s&nbsp;geochemical composition may have made it uniquely well-equipped to stand the test of time.Made from 99.7 percent quartz crystals, the stones are practically indestructible, according to a new study published in the journal <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0254760">Plos One</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;

What We're Reading: 8/16

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418938/s5oymh9moev4rxnnp538.jpg"><figcaption>Joseph E. Yoakum, Mt Colbart of Nome Alaska, n.d., ballpoint pen, pastel, and colored pencil on paper, 12 by 19 in. PHOTO: ROBERT GERHARDT. COLLECTION OF CHERYL CIPRIANI</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/joseph-yoakum-art-institute-chicago-1234601059/?fbclid=IwAR1sV9qM3bJhvEjUPvx0MCjGhhVbQQ2HYu1H2oaQPHROTFu80abgwWzOUec">The World on a Single Plane: Joseph E. Yoakum at the Art Institute of Chicago</a>Joseph E. Yoakum’s origin story has long been inseparable from the reception of his artwork. In 1962, when he was a 71-year-old retiree living in a storefront apartment on Chicago’s South Side, Yoakum had a dream in which he was urged to make art. He drew nearly every day for the remaining ten years of his life, using inexpensive paper, ballpoint pens, pastels, colored pencils, and sometimes watercolors to create more than two thousand pieces that constitute an atlas of his psychic geography. Among his best-known works are undulant landscapes that are almost psychedelic in their vertiginous perspectives. “What I Saw,” on view at the Art Institute of Chicago, gathers nearly one hundred of these works, plus portraits, sketchbooks, and ephemera—a small but revelatory fraction of Yoakum’s singular output. &nbsp;Via Art in America&nbsp;<a href="https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/more-in-common-a-review-of-the-sindhu-project-enigma-of-roots/">More in Common, a review of The Sindhu Project: Enigma of Root</a>Who could have imagined that a casual conversation in Chicago in 2016 between Mahwish Chisty, an American-based artist from Pakistan, and Gunjan Kumar, an American-based artist from India, would result in the compelling exhibition currently on view at South Asia Institute? During their chat, the artists discovered that their family homes were only four hours apart. But, in an interview with the artist Chisty notes, “Due to the tense political relations between India and Pakistan, we could not have met if we lived in our respective countries, even though we share the culture, traditions, and Punjabi language.” Their conversation and the realization that despite the political situation, they had more things in common than divided them became the genesis for The Sindhu Project: Enigma of Roots.Via Sixty Inches from the Center&nbsp;<a href="https://blockclubchicago.org/2021/08/10/chicago-ugly-buildings-tour-is-an-educational-roast-of-downtowns-least-loved-buildings/?fbclid=IwAR35L1p4sIKMJsWbe1Dvd_PhKTr7TqDkAmFWJIMASFtPx1xvmvxKTjjyVHw">Chicago Ugly Buildings Tour Is An ‘Educational Roast’ Of Downtown’s Least-Loved Buildings</a>Chicago may be the architecture capital of the United States — but that doesn’t mean it’s without unsightly buildings.Mike McMains, of <a href="https://tourswithmike.com/">Tours With Mike</a>, is highlighting some of that ugliness with his tongue-in-cheek Ugly Buildings Tour. It starts Friday, with McMains helping attendees see Chicago’s best, worst buildings and understand why they’re just so hideous.Via Block Club Chicago&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 8/11

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418938/yuikrqfjwibrq3wsaucg.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/chop-it-up-black-wall-street-journey-7f74b3c8-9b4c-4d37-8e89-c890ea7eb2ec">CHOP IT UP: Black Wall Street Journey</a>Thursday, August 12, 5:30 – 7&nbsp;pmSmart Museum of Art&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418939/fnbjjtckbrmw7qgwsxog.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/photos-at-zoom-discussion-session-wardell-milan">Photos at Zoom Discussion Session: Wardell Milan</a>Friday, August 13, noon – 1&nbsp;pmMuseum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418940/jqkixb6qalzzzppu1hkt.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/special-musical-guest-rb-green">Special Musical Guest RB Green</a>Friday, August 13, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmEat Paint Studio&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418940/veclelwnkhk3brfczvyv.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/case-talks-presents-cathy-edelman-anette-skuggedal-in-conversation-with-leslie-thomas">Case Talks Presents: Cathy Edelman / Anette Skuggedal in conversation with Leslie Thomas</a>Saturday, August 14, 10 – 11&nbsp;amCASE Art Fund&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418941/ckwbxjy5rbxvqgolafrb.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/artist-talk-nereida-patricia-and-jack-schneider">Artist Talk: Nereida Patricia and Jack Schneider</a>Saturday, August 14, 1 – 2&nbsp;pmMuseum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Talks This Week: August 12 - 14

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418938/lymhsu0ldgwk2xqazxjz.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/hard-soft-the-work-of-daniel-flood-and-marc-benja">Hard/Soft: The work of Daniel Flood and Marc Benja</a>Opening: Friday, August 13, 5 – 10&nbsp;pmOliva Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418939/fwdgd9ehul2mdfymupbc.gif"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/deborah-butterfield-new-sculptures">Deborah Butterfield: New Sculptures</a>August 13Zolla / Lieberman Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418940/ked4kpnaqafvakjqso5g.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/sue-julien-83377e01-0194-4d4f-b52c-94ce60ad00ff">Sue Julien</a>Opening: Friday, August 13, 7 – 10&nbsp;pmFirecat Projects&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418940/qh6frtfj6m1n3rljn530.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/survey-3-i-sense-something-has-changed">Survey 3: I Sense Something Has Changed</a>Opening: Friday, August 13, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmHatch Projects&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418941/nz6exvm6npsskfbqz6fe.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/art-resuscitation-celebration">Art Resuscitation Celebration</a>Friday, August 13, 6 – 7&nbsp;pmARC Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418942/haljrvz7t6xbydh733qh.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/wingchow-solo-show">Wingchow – solo show</a>August 14Vertical Project Space&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News

Chicago Gallery News