<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417822/hi35merqobkmumoajccf.gif"></figure>Acclaimed Photographer Recalls Learning His Trade in Chicago 70 Years AgoHis photographs range from great moments in sports to sympathetic portraits that document the lives of everyday people. Marvin E. Newman is a native New Yorker, but a long time ago, Chicago was key to his development.We visited him on a return trip to the city 70 years after he honed his craft here.Marc Vitali, WTTV<a href="https://news.wttw.com/2019/06/06/photographer-marvin-e-newman-chicago-exhibition">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417823/mjee7hfracorjrwt5p92.gif"></figure>Édouard Manet spent his final days in excruciating pain — and creating his most thrilling artÉdouard Manet was succumbing to the ordeal of late-stage syphilis when he painted some of the freshest, most affecting flower paintings in the history of art. Against dark backgrounds, brushstrokes by turns delicate, dimpled and confidently supple coalesce to describe modest bouquets of moss roses, lilacs and plump peonies. Occasionally, a cut stem, cropped by the frame, lies fallen beside the glass vase, reinforcing what the wet-in-wet paint is already telling you: These flowers have just arrived. They’re a gift. Enjoy them. Nothing lasts.Last seen together in a 2017 exhibition at the Phillips Collection, the asparagus paintings are reunited again in “Manet and Modern Beauty,” a gorgeous exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago.Sebastian Smee, Washington Post<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/edouard-manet-spent-his-final-days-in-excruciating-pain--and-creating-his-most-thrilling-art/2019/06/05/0b1d8d2e-86f0-11e9-a870-b9c411dc4312_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.64936bf81dfa">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417824/viplm4qemuoxmybrh0f2.gif"></figure>Summer Preview: The Most Promising Museum Shows and Biennials Around the&nbsp;WorldSummer is travel season for many, and museums around the world are rising to the occasion, hosting a bevy of must-see shows. The Minneapolis Institute of Art promises to break new ground with its exhibition of Native women artists, and the Museu de Arte de São Paulo is staging what could be a radical revision of art history that incorporates proto-feminist perspectives. On the retrospective front, there are major shows for Dora Maar, Mrinalini Mukherjee, Virgil Abloh, Natalia Goncharova, Image Bank, and many others. Below, a look at the season’s most promising shows.The Editors of ARTnews<a href="http://www.artnews.com/2019/06/05/summer-preview/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: June 11, 2019

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417701/dcjwroyvozxxe6e6yzoa.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;By GINNY VAN ALYEAWhen compared to the international gatherings that draw art collectors, dealers and curators to Chicago for a few days each September and November, laser-focusing the art world's attention on the state of the market, the city's local summer art festivals can seem like an alternate art universe. We're not one to say if one is better than the other, but they're certainly distinct from one in another in important ways. While there is a social attraction to both kinds of fairs, the juried events that attract hundreds of artists to set up a tent and display their own work – usually outside in a park or neighborhood – are geared towards celebrating independent artists by making affordable art accessible and tempting enough for just about anyone to take home. Often these fairs are where a buyer's very first art purchase is made.&nbsp;The next two weekends are ideal chances to experience some of the city's oldest, and in fact most popular, local art fairs. The fairs coming up can each boast more than 60 years of history, testaments to how loved and how successful they have been in their communities.&nbsp;More fairs and markets take place through June and into July. With warm weather to draw out the crowds, many casual as well as avid art fans and families will be spending a Saturday or Sunday in the presence of original art, hopefully appreciating all that this new, welcome season has to offer.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417701/hos4xlgckwo4sbtwlzdc.jpg"></figure><h3>The 72nd 57th Street Art Fair</h3>When: June 1-2, 2019&nbsp;Where: Hyde Park, Chicago (on 56th, 57th and Kimbark Streets between Kenwood and Woodlawn Avenues (vicinity of William H. Ray Elementary School at 5631 S. Kimbark Chicago, IL 60637).What: The event is the oldest juried art fair in the country and offers art lovers a fantastic opportunity to meet more than 175 artists, hear the about their process and shop high quality, original and handmade works including glass, jewelry, leather,&nbsp;photography, printmaking, painting, sculpture, wood, ceramics and fiber art.&nbsp;In addition to shopping one-of-a-kind art, the Fair offers around the clock music by Buddy Guy’s Legends, a Community Arts &amp; Activities area for kids of all ages, delicious food, plus much more!&nbsp;Details: <a href="https://www.57thstreetartfair.org">www.57thstreetartfair.org</a> &nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417702/yi9txupwbf5ljh0ozm91.jpg"></figure><h3>62nd Annual Gold Coast Art Fair</h3>When: June 1-2, 2019&nbsp;Where: Downtown, Chicago. In Grant Park's Butler Field. Corner of Monroe and Lake Shore DriveWhat: The award-winning Art Fair welcomes more than 200 juried artists from across the country to create an exceptional, shoppable weekend. Festival attendees will find artwork in all mediums and at all price points, as well as artist demonstrations, interactive art projects, and activities just for kids. Fest-goers can also relax in one of three Food, Live-Music, and Beer Oases.&nbsp;In addition, the 2019 Chicago Ale Fest – Summer Edition will join the Fair in Grant Park, on Saturday, June 1, with 200 craft beers, live music and some of Chicago’s favorite food trucks. Sunday’s Art Fair features a beer garden with craft beers available for purchase by the glass.&nbsp;Details: <a href="https://amdurproductions.com/event/gold-coast-art-fair-2019/">amdurproductions.com/event/gold-coast-art-fair-2019/</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417703/xjo1er1v61o0ax7tclce.jpg"></figure><h3>70th Old Town Art Fair</h3>When: June 8-9, 2019&nbsp;Where: Chicago. The heart of the Old Town Triangle Historic District. Main entrance gate is at Lincoln and Wisconsin.What: The Old Town Art Fair takes features 250 nationally acclaimed artists and welcomes approximately 30,000 art lovers. There will also be a Garden Walk, Live Music, Food Court and Children’s Corner.&nbsp;Gates open Saturday 10:00 am to 7:00 pm and Sunday 10:00 am to 6:00 pm, rain or shine.Details: <a href="http://www.oldtownartfair.org">www.oldtownartfair.org</a><h3>&nbsp;</h3><figure class="image" data-storehaus-transformation="{&quot;crop&quot;:{&quot;x&quot;:&quot;3.5257425742574044&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;w&quot;:&quot;457.4742574257427&quot;,&quot;h&quot;:&quot;299.7029702970297&quot;}}"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417704/xpzmmcied1tivl5smebk.jpg"></figure><h3>The Art Center Festival of Fine Arts</h3>When: June 22-23, 2019&nbsp;Where: downtown streets of Highland Park, IL&nbsp;What: The Art Center Festival of Fine Arts showcases the work of over 100 juried artists from around the world in a variety of mediums, including ceramics, fiber, glass, jewelry, painting, sculpture and more. In addition to the artwork available for purchase, attendees will be able to interact with artists through demonstrations and booth chats. Live music, kid-friendly activities, will be available for visitors to enjoy.Details: <a href="https://theartcenterhp.org/tac-festival-fine-art">theartcenterhp.org/tac-festival-fine-art</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417704/eabrl4q1hfstdhbxd6fy.gif"></figure><h3>Randolph Street Market</h3>When: June 29-30, 2019&nbsp;Where: West Loop, Chicago. 1350 Block of West RandolphWhat: Randolph Street Market Festival continues the Outdoor+Indoor Summer Season in June (and every month!). Experience 300 vendors with the best of unique vintage, antique &amp; repurposed furniture, art, decor, ephemera, vintage fashion for men/women, fancy foods, global goods and much, much more. Enjoy the market bars, cabana and shade shack for lounging and our live band line up each day to make for a fun day of shopping in the heart of the West Loop. Free West Loop/Fulton Market delivery area. Kids under 12 always FREEDetails: <a href="https://www.randolphstreetmarket.com">www.randolphstreetmarket.com</a><h3>&nbsp;</h3><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417706/oqcsuzcuhs29pilumbzz.jpg"></figure><h3>Midsummer Festival of the Arts</h3>When: July 20-21, 2019&nbsp;Where: Sheboygan, WI (on 56th, 57th and Kimbark Streets between Kenwood and Woodlawn Avenues (vicinity of William H. Ray Elementary School at 5631 S. Kimbark Chicago, IL 60637).What: Set amidst the gardens of the major innovative grassroots John Michael Kohler Art Center, this is the largest multi-arts event in East-Central Wisconsin. This family-friendly festival attracts tens of thousands of visitors who shop the 135 artists' booths and enjoy live music, art-making activities, free admission to the Arts Center, delicious local cuisine and food trucks, and more. In booths set up along the tree-lined streets, festival-goers can choose from an astounding variety of paintings, photographs, jewelry, sculpture, ceramics, art glass, fiber art.Details: <a href="https://www.jmkac.org">www.jmkac.org</a><h3>&nbsp;</h3><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417706/uaxbjwr6w9bbfpkz5ybh.png"></figure><h3>Art &amp; Chalk Fest 2019</h3>When: July 27-28, 2019&nbsp;Where: The Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend, WI, northwest of Milwaukee&nbsp;What: This free, annual outdoor, fine arts festival features 65+ fine artists selling their work and 15+ chalk artists from across the nation creating ephemeral masterpieces before your eyes.Art activities for all ages are offered throughout the weekend along with live entertainment and music, food vendors, a beer garden, an art raffle, and free admission for the weekend to the Museum of Wisconsin Art.Details: <a href="https://www.57thstreetartfair.org">www.57thstreetartfair.org</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Summer Art Fair Season Begins June 1

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417574/x83fdwm4xdju0mpxbspz.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;By GINNY VAN ALYEA&nbsp;If you've made it outside today, you may finally believe that summer is coming, and with it is the new season of art. This Friday night, May 31 and Saturday, June 1, new solo shows open around Chicago – in West Town and the West Loop – plus several in Evanston for the annual Evanston Made, as well as a handful in Wisconsin if you're looking for a weekend trip.&nbsp;A handful of local art fairs are also happening this weekend and next.&nbsp;The highlights are listed below, and our full calendar may be viewed&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?filter=openings">here</a>.&nbsp;Have a plastic glass of wine on us, and pick up a copy of the summer issue of CGN in galleries now.&nbsp;Happy (finally!) summer!&nbsp;&nbsp;<h3>• Chicago Openings</h3>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417575/b7fixlnpzcpo3r7d1dsf.jpg"></figure><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h3>Derrick Adams – The Ins and Outs: Figures in the Urban Landscape</h3>Opening: Friday, May 31, 2019 5–7:30&nbsp;pm (West Town)<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-ins-and-outs-new-figures-in-the-urban-landscape">Rhona Hoffman Gallery</a>The gallery’s third solo exhibition with Brooklyn-based artist Derrick Adams speaks to a legacy of perseverance in the Black community. Adams’ new paintings unfold the twists and turns, joys and struggles of navigating life in an urban context. A continuation of Adams’Deconstruction Worker series (2010–), the constructed portraits depict the everyday with a style drawn from Modernism and the idealized and exaggerated forms of traditional African sculpture, also taking inspiration from contemporary pop culture and vernacular scenes from the artist’s life. Rendered in a cubist style, the subjects are framed by abstracted city streets on which miniature model automobiles break free of the two-dimensional plane. The city grid speaks to the paradox of movement and progress—both individual and collective—within the confines of existing paths. Whether posed or caught in motion, the subjects are surrounded by an environment that adjusts to accommodate each individual. For Adams, the works suggest that “we are who we are because our presence is strong enough to also inform the spaces we occupy.” &nbsp;<h3>&nbsp;</h3><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417576/df1eihji9s84cvhrfzf4.gif"></figure><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h3>Aerosol Kingdom</h3>Opening: Saturday, Jun 1, 2019 6 – 10&nbsp;pm (West Town)<a href="/organizations/chicago-truborn">Chicago Truborn</a>Internationally recognized muralist and animal enthusiast, Justin Suarez, returns to Chicago for his second solo show with Chicago Truborn. Aerosol Kingdom features 100 repurposed aerosol cans featuring extremely detailed hand cut stencil animal portraits. From birds of prey, to sea creatures, to the majestic beings of the African Sahara - animals of all shapes and sizes will be represented here. And, while the cans will be the main focus of the show, new hand painted canvas works available as well. The combination of stencil work and free handed brush painting has taken the level of detail in Justin's work far beyond what you’ve seen from him in the past. This show will range in size and price as to accommodate collectors of all levels.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417577/nnu6xevxbespfxdcklfg.jpg"></figure><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h3>Zach Schrey: What's Up Doc</h3>Opening: Saturday, June 1, 2019 6–9&nbsp;pm (West Town)<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/zach-schrey-what-s-up-doc">Line Dot Editions</a>Zach Schrey is a Chicago-based artist and printmaker/co-owner of Pop!nk Editions. Rooted in contemporary urban culture, Schrey creates an alternate world of characters and designs that remind us of the everyday, yet have an instant presence because of their bold, clean aesthetic. Influenced by the ubiquitous imagery of cartoons, comics, and corporate logos/brands, Schrey’s work collectively pokes fun at these cultural icons, heightening our awareness of their superficiality and constant presence in our lives. His paintings and prints have been shown throughout the US and abroad.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417578/e1ukljgbecpyzg8zpavu.jpg"></figure><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h3>Inka Essenhigh</h3>Opening: Saturday, June 1, 2019 4–6 pm (West Loop)<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/inka-essenhigh">Kavi Gupta Gallery</a>Inka Essenhigh (b. 1969, Pennsylvania, US) is&nbsp;renowned for her dreamlike paintings, which translate her encounters with, and intuitions about, contemporary society into haunting, playful, sometimes disturbing visual scenes. Essenhigh is part of a generation of artists that includes Rachel Feinstein, Lisa Yuskavage and Cecily Brown, that rose to prominence in 1990s New York as leaders in the contemporary return to figuration.Essenhigh employs a mix of automatism, imagination and “inner vision” to translate the visible world into arabesque enamel paintings that reveal the unseen worlds of energy, feeling, and mystery that lurk just beyond everyday life. The lush, mysterious images she creates arise from a diverse range of influences, including High Renaissance painting, 19th Century French cabaret, and the whimsy and instinct of childhood imagination.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417578/aaekkum8zafnpowchwz4.jpg"></figure><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h3>William Counter: Simple Spells</h3>Opening Friday, May 31, 2019 7–10&nbsp;pm (Bucktown)<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/william-counter">Firecat Projects</a>Firecat Projects presents Simple Spells, a one-person exhibition featuring the works of Kansas artist William Counter. Media theorist Dick Hebdige identifies an individual as a bricoleur when they ‘appropriate another range of commodities by placing them in a symbolic ensemble which serve to erase or subvert their original straight meanings.’ Simple Spells is a visual example of bricolage, where the artist has collected common objects – yardsticks and advertisement flyers – and utilized them to facilitate a vision based on ‘magical thinking’. This is Outsider art where the objects themselves are to be experienced through their talismanic value and numinous qualities.&nbsp;<h3>• Evanston Openings</h3>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417579/maw8zqjcsjxmr3zgrrhi.jpg"></figure><h3>Verna Todd: Consider the Lilies</h3>Opening&nbsp;Reception:&nbsp;Saturday, June 1, 5-7 pm<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/verna-todd-consider-the-lilies">Perspective Gallery</a>Choosing a lily as the subject for her series Consider the Lilies was tough for Verna Todd. She is forever on the artist’s quest to show people something they have never seen before. Something new. "A lily is just too common," she reasoned, "everyone has grown an amaryllis; or, at least seen boxes of them stacked in stores." Yet she relates that a crimson amaryllis given her by a friend insisted on being photographed. “Morning, noon and night, it shamed me for not getting out my camera.”&nbsp; Resentfully, she gave in. That’s when the lily took Todd to another place, a quiet place where she could simply enjoy its presence. She relates that her tussle with the amaryllis is like ones she encounters often – doing versus being.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417580/juctrdusedz89l2tv9ef.gif"></figure><h3>Evanston Made</h3>Opening&nbsp;Reception:&nbsp;Friday, June 31, 6-9 pm<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/evanston-made-2cd05646-9322-43f9-a442-1ca3a3bdcf02">Evanston Art Center</a>The Evanston Art Center will partner with Evanston Made, a month-long, annual celebration, in June, of the arts in Evanston designed to create opportunities for artists to engage with the community. The exhibition at EAC will feature works from local Evanston artists and celebrate the Evanston arts community. Throughout the month of June,&nbsp;studios, galleries, museums, workshops and businesses open their doors to showcase works (artistic, artisanal, etc.)&nbsp;and host events by Evanston creatives.Also happening at Evanston Art Center and produced by Anomaly Productions, a Pop-Up Gallery and Store at the art center is an "all-inclusive" event, located in the lobby May 31 - June 30.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417581/xlst8pu85o41dkg8jdk2.jpg"></figure><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h3>Janice Wgciechowski: Serene Watercolor Collection, and Meet the Artists Event for Evanston Made</h3>Saturday June 1st, 12-5pm and 5-7pm<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/evanston-made-s-annual-artist-studio-tour">Ice House Gallery</a>Meet the Gallery's Resident Artists: Ann Andrews,&nbsp;Valerie Kahan,&nbsp;Meredith Kopelman,&nbsp;Laurie Kwo, &amp; Dana Phillips. The gallery is participating in Evanston Made’s Annual Artist Studio Tour, a self-guided tour of studios in Evanston, June 1, 2019 from 12-5pm and in the fall on October 19, 2019.Janice Wgciechowski is this month's featured artist and a reception for her new show, Serene Watercolor Collection, opens the same evening from 5-7pm.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417582/pktpmnrjcg8fsddpqfnw.jpg"></figure><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h3>Passion and Process</h3>Friday, June 1, 2019 12–8&nbsp;pm<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/passion-and-process-space-900-core-member-exhibition">Space 900</a>Passion and Process, is an exhibition that showcases the unique processes and visions of Space 900's core members. Together, members will be creating a window installation that highlights artist's individual mediums and techniques, along with exhibiting &nbsp;art for Evanston Made. Show Participants:&nbsp;Todd Anderson, Ken Avick, Colleen Conley, Clark Ellithorpe, Judith Roston-Freilich, Jill King, Joanna Pinsky, Judy SolomonArtist Talk:&nbsp;11am, June 1, led by Joanna PinskyOpening, during Evanston Made:&nbsp;June 1st, 2019, 12 to 8pm&nbsp;<h3>• Wisconsin Openings</h3>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417582/tax7nusfvrq9oyrgiov1.jpg"></figure><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h3>Among the Wonders of the Dells: Photography, Place, Tourism</h3>Opening: Saturday, Jun 1, 2019 2–5&nbsp;pm (West Bend, WI)<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/among-the-wonders-of-the-dells-photography-place-tourism">Museum of Wisconsin Art (MOWA)</a>Among the Wonders of the Dells explores the emergence and transformation of the Wisconsin Dells into what is today the single-most important tourist destination in Wisconsin. The exhibition and its 192-page catalog will include photographs by LeRoy Gates, the first photographer of the Dells, H.H. Bennett, the great nineteenth-century photographer touted as “the man who made the Wisconsin Dells famous,” Oliver Reese, John A. Trumble, who documented the Dells’ postwar tourist boom in the twentieth century, Dennis Darmek, and three contemporary Wisconsin photographers commissioned by MOWA to spend a year photographing the Dells from their unique perspectives.&nbsp;<h3>&nbsp;</h3><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417583/hqsx300fje4tlwim5i8o.jpg"></figure><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h3>Leila Knapp: Juxtaposition</h3>Opening: Saturday, Jun 1, 2019 4:30 – 7:30&nbsp;pm (Mineral Point, WI)<a href="/organizations/sugar-row-gallery">Sugar Row Gallery</a>Images of Leila Knapp's work will be placed side by side for artistic consideration.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417584/ugw6bunag3ck62jajzax.jpg"></figure><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h3>Sandra Peterson, New Work</h3>Opening: Saturday, Jun 1, 2019 5-8pm (Mineral Point, WI)<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/sandra-peterson-new-work">Wantoot</a>New work will be on view by this artist who applies distinct, large brush strokes to her canvas. The gallery is a neighbor of Sugar Row, which is also having an opening the same evening. Both spaces are located in the idyllic artist colony of Mineral Point, Wisconsin, just north of Galena and southwest of Madison. Wantoot Gallery is the showroom of wantoot.com, which features a highly curated group of American modern fine art and fine craft from many nationally-recognized artists.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Early Summer Shows Offer Art in Chicago, Evanston and Wisconsin

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417542/od7btljp33rrbtqgwmio.jpg"><figcaption>Designer Ruthie Sommers created an entrance vignette to the 2018 CAADS that brought the art of nature inside the Merchandise Mart&nbsp;</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;By GINNY VAN ALYEABeginning this Thursday evening the seventh floor of the Merchandise Mart will offer an abundance of fine antiques and art from many of the world's top dealers, when the third edition of the Chicago Antiques + Art + Design Show kicks off.&nbsp;Chicago is attracting the global spotlight lately, in particular for being home to the best of what's new and contemporary in art, food, architecture and design. This weekend&nbsp;offers the chance to also view and appreciate antiques that are once again new and to consider the many ways that they can inform much of what we admire in current visual trends and practices.&nbsp;It was not long ago that Chicago was without a major antiques&nbsp;show on its cultural calendar,&nbsp;and since Dolphin Productions launched the fair in 2017 it has continued to mature and give Chicagoans a chance to once again host a splashy international gathering that features treasured art and antiques from the past alongside newer modern pieces that attract a younger, style savvy audience.&nbsp;Running through Sunday&nbsp;the show highlights fine antiques and artworks reflecting a variety of design periods from more&nbsp;than 75 national and international exhibitors. The show, the only one of its kind in the city all year, is not to be missed, largely because of the opportunities to learn and appreciate treasures that are not often on view but also for the chance to be among so much history as well as beauty.&nbsp;Proceeds from ticket purchases and sponsorship of Thursday's <a href="https://wbnorthwestern.org/event/artshow/">Opening Night Party</a> benefit programs and patient care initiatives supported by The Woman’s Board of Northwestern Memorial Hospital – including the Board’s most recent major commitment to fund the study of collaborative mental health care in Northwestern’s primary care clinics in Chicago and help improve access to mental health care in the community. The Woman's Board hosted the revamped opening night last year, bringing a committed, stylish crowd to the fair. This year tickets for the Opening Night Party are $250 with 5 pm VIP entry ($275 at the door) and $200 with 6 pm entry ($225 at the door).&nbsp;&nbsp;VIP Tickets also include a Cocktail Reception and Designer Lecture with <a href="https://amandalindroth.com/">Amanda Lindroth</a> and <a href="http://www.fernandowongold.com/">Fernando Wong</a> along with the opportunity to shop the show before it opens at 6 pm. Lindroth is known for a style that evokes 1960's and 70's Palm Beach. Wong is lauded in interior/outdoor and landscape design circles. He recently created an Art Basel Showhouse for Elle Decor. Both designers are contributing their vision for the opening night party and will be featured as part of the Designer Lecture.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417542/eosd7tky5tapvbf9zj4p.jpg"><figcaption>Fernando Wong's Elle Decor Art Basel Showhouse combines design with fine art</figcaption></figure><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417544/e29ufb1m5ybherf70w6j.jpg"><figcaption>Designer Amanda Lindroth is Florida, everywhere</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;The weekend offers plenty of design education programming on Friday, May 17 as well:• Hidden in Plain View: Chicago’s WPA Poster Designers11:00 am, taking place in the Pella Showroom on the Mart’s First Floor, Suite 100Featuring Neil Harris, Preston &amp; Sterling Morton Professor Emeritus of History and Art History, University of Chicago; contributing author, Art Deco Chicago: Designing Modern America (Chicago Art Deco Society, 2018)• Farnsworth House Revitalized: A New Look at the Mies Masterpiece12:30 pm, Scott Mehaffey, Executive Director, Farnsworth HousePrograms hosted by Pella Crafted Luxury, and organized by Zurich Esposito, AIA Chicago.&nbsp;RSVP to <a href="INFO@DOLPHINFAIRS.COM">INFO@DOLPHINFAIRS.COM</a><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417545/v8okiwreku2xt5x4vpce.png"><figcaption>Friday's programming has a local angle</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/chicago-antiques-art-design-show">The Chicago Antiques + Art + Design Show </a>runs May 16-19, 2019Some highlight's from this year's exhibitors are shown below.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417546/cxijqjlwcpqtfzluhkon.gif"><figcaption>CAADS 2019 exhibitor M.S. Rau Antiques of New Orleans showing Le Carnaval du Sage by Rene Magritte</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417547/nyevm7nw5ooakkc72ljo.gif"><figcaption>CAADS 2019 exhibitor Nicholas Wolfe of Chicago showing a pair of dressers by Paul Laszlo for Brown and Saltman circa 1950s</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417548/z3ewzomb5tk8zf4ybvm2.gif"><figcaption>CAADS 2019 exhibitor Jayne Thompson Antiques of Harrodsburg KY showing a leather screen painted with Chinoiserie scene English or Dutch circa 1740</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417552/mq1xs6mxx6aguowfze1t.gif"><figcaption>CAADS 2019 exhibitor Nally Jewels of New York showing a brooch by Van Cleef &amp; Arpels</figcaption></figure><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417553/gjwkundklt16ukcobyqp.gif"><figcaption>Les Enluminures will exhibit representative examples from their extensive collections, including medieval manuscripts such as Books of Hours, miniatures, and historic rings.</figcaption></figure><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417554/wc7rg8vqygbakcnp8xf4.jpg"><figcaption>CAADS 2019 exhibitor Converso of Chicago showing a Nakashima Long Chaise 1965</figcaption></figure></body></html>

Chicago Antiques + Art + Design Show is a Chance to Mingle Among History and Beauty

<html><head></head><body>By GINNY VAN ALYEA&nbsp;It's hard to believe but May is nearly here, meaning we are on the cusp of summer and a new season of art. This Friday night, May 3, several new solo shows open in Chicago, with the bulk of them taking place in River North. Openings are also happening in Ravenswood, as well as in West Town – notably, Catherine Edelman Gallery is hosting their first show in their new space at 1637 W Chicago Ave.The highlights are listed below, and our full calendar may be viewed&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?filter=openings">here</a>.&nbsp;Have a plastic glass of wine on us, and keep an eye out for our new summer issue of CGN that will be in galleries in the coming days as well.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417838/hacepvfs8yd3ttfojypw.jpg"><figcaption>Joel-Peter Witkin, Harvest, 1984</figcaption></figure><h3>Joel-Peter Witkin: From the Studio</h3>Opening: Friday, May 3, 2019 5–8&nbsp;pm<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/joel-peter-witkin-from-the-studio">Catherine Edelman Gallery</a>This will be Catherine Edelman's first show at their new, 4,200 sq. ft. West Town location at 1637 W. Chicago Ave.The gallery inaugurates the new space with Joel-Peter Witkin: From the Studio. The exhibition runs through July 3, 2019. Joel-Peter Witkin will be &nbsp;at the opening on May 3 from 5:00 - 8:00 pm with various family members.&nbsp;For more than 60 years, Joel-Peter Witkin has stayed true to his mission: to create photographs that show the beauty of marginalized people by placing them into art referential tableaus, often laced with Catholic overtones. His work features hermaphrodites, post and pre-op individuals, and people born with physical abnormalities. In his eyes, all people are beautiful, regardless of societal norms.&nbsp;<h3>&nbsp;</h3><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417838/ppr0otin3p43roj1g0wc.jpg"><figcaption>Art Shay, The Supremes at Hittsville USA, Detroit 1965, silver gelatin print, 16 x 20 inches</figcaption></figure><h3>Art Shay: A Lifetime of Photographs, 1922-2018</h3>Opening: Friday, May 3, 2019 5–8&nbsp;pm<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/art-shay-a-lifetime-of-photographs-1922-2018">Gallery Victor Armendariz</a>It's been a year since Art Shay died, and now Gallery Victor Armendariz is opening a show of the famed photographer's work, including many iconic images of people and moments that epitomized the times.&nbsp;Also opening on Friday will be <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/dystopian-utopia-christopher-klein">Christopher Klein: Dystopian Utopia.</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417839/szvwnml6lod8ti0ml9xe.gif"><figcaption>Molly McCracken Kumar, Ephemeral Germination, 2019, 42" x 50", acrylic and resin on canvas</figcaption></figure><h3>Molly McCracken Kumar, Celestial Vigor, New Paintings</h3><h3>Brooks Anderson, Illumina, Cloud Paintings</h3>Opening: Friday, May 3, 2019 5–8&nbsp;pm<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/addington-gallery">Addington Gallery</a>The gallery opens two shows on Friday night, both of which feature palettes bright enough to temporarily rebuff this week's gloomy weather. Molly McCracken Kumar's acrylic and resin paintings conjure the heavens, while Brooks Anderson's cloud paintings make you think of looking skyward on a summer day with grass beneath your head.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417840/rg4zdxrbg7thqxtsoqge.jpg"></figure><h3>Perfect Life</h3>Opening: Friday, May 3, 2019 5–8 pm<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/perfect-opening-reception">Rangefinder Gallery</a>Arina Dähnick lives and works in Berlin. She grew up in a creative family and was taught early on about fine art and photography.&nbsp;Her first professional photo exhibition was at school&nbsp;at the age of 17.&nbsp;Dähnick says, "My photography wants to invite people to rediscover reality with special awareness. I am truely fascinated with modern, with urban life. What is the actual meaning of “modern times”? The Project “Perfect Life”&nbsp;follows this question.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417841/wyfx0qqom7x07epmnm8h.jpg"></figure><h3>Kitsch'n Art</h3>Opening: Friday, May 3, 2019 5–8&nbsp;pm<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/curated-by-john-cain-executive-director-south-shore-arts-featuring-artwork-from-his-private-collection-july-august-2019-gallery-group-show-emily-ackerman-managing-editor-business-manager-chicago-gallery-news-858-n-clark-st-suite-204-chicago-il-60610-tel-312-649-0064-emily-chicagogallerynews-com-chicagogallerynews-com">Jean Albano Gallery</a>The gallery's newest show is curated by John Cain, Executive Director, South Shore Arts, featuring a funky title and artwork from his private collection.&nbsp; &nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417842/khgmikqfdge03ccghz7g.jpg"><figcaption>Daryls Ewoldt</figcaption></figure><h3>Midwestern Metal</h3>Opening: Friday, May 3, 2019 5–8&nbsp;pm<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/vale-craft-gallery">Vale Craft&nbsp;</a>This invitational show highlights metal objects, sculpture and jewelry by mostly Chicago artists.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417843/czfuyls14weqdmnafsgl.jpg"></figure><h3>Nasturtium: Jennifer Shanahan</h3>Opening: Friday, May 3, 2019 7-10pm<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/nasturtium-jennifer-shanahan">The Dime</a>With "Nasturtium" Jennifer Shanahan creates a meditation on the ephemeral notions of Beauty, Impermanence, Sensuality, and the passage of time. The Nasturtium, a flower long prized for its beauty as well as being an edible flower; has been an alluring subject for poets and Artists for centuries. Jennifer spent three years making Photographs that ruminate on this lovely if elusive, Flower. This is the artist's first one woman show.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417844/sliremdf0wt5dwvsipe3.gif"><figcaption>Susan Aurinko</figcaption></figure><h3>Europa Europa: Susan Aurinko</h3>Opening: Friday, May 3, 2019 5-8pm<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/europa-susan-aurinko">Hofheimer Gallery</a>Photography Susan Aurinko's opens a show of photographs from her travels in Europe. She will be at the opening on Friday in Ravenswood and will also give a talk on Saturday, May 18th from 2 to 4pm with guest curator Chuck Gniech.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417844/f7yk77vn6ub5swwxbhhm.jpg"><figcaption>Pooja Pittie</figcaption></figure><h3>New Work by Pooja Pittie</h3>Opening: Saturday, May 4, 2019 4-7pm<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/new-work-by-pooja-pittie">McCormick Gallery</a>These new, abstract paintings by Pooja Pittie use a range of materials and textures to create multiple layers and dimensions.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417845/uloc86hxe3bcouwfiyxw.jpg"><figcaption>Shannon Finley</figcaption></figure><h3>Shall we go, you and I while we can</h3>Opening: Saturday, May 4, 2019 5-8pm<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/shall-we-go-you-and-i-while-we-can">Carrie Secrist Gallery</a>Also opening in the West Loop at 835 W Washington is a vibrant show featuring the work of gallery artist Shannon Finley and others.&nbsp;</body></html>

May Openings Usher in Start of Summer Art

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418275/d1p5y9uao9q2edlpj7g3.gif"></figure><h2>Learn how public art shaped Chicago through walking tour series</h2>Lovers of all things Chicago have an exciting opportunity to learn about the city through a series of historical seminars at the Newberry Library. Offered June through August, the courses cover a variety of <a href="http://www.newberry.org/programs-and-events?field_event_category_tid=14&amp;field_event_date_value2%5Bvalue%5D%5Bdate%5D=04%2F30%2F2019&amp;field_event_date_value%5Bvalue%5D%5Bdate%5D=07%2F30%2F2019">Chicago-focused topics</a> ranging from art and landscape design to baseball and beer.By Jay Koziarz, Curbed Chicago<a href="https://chicago.curbed.com/2019/4/30/18524213/public-art-newberry-library-chicago-history-seminar">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418277/suky6fzxwpjvqgtkmrot.gif"></figure><h2>'Outsider' Art Is Going Mainstream. But In Chicago, It's Always Been In</h2>Outsider art is having an "in" moment.It's a label given to self-taught, unconventional and often uncelebrated artists, but in recent months exhibitions of outsider art have shown up at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Atlanta's High Museum of Art.While mainstream interest in the genre may be on the rise, it's always been in the spotlight at Intuit: The Center For Intuitive And Outsider Art, a small gallery founded in Chicago in 1991 that is one of the few museums in the world dedicated solely to outsider art.By Chris Bentley, WBUR<a href="https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/04/11/outsider-art-chicago">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: April 30, 2019

<html><head></head><body>By GINNY VAN ALYEA&nbsp;The&nbsp;first week of April was a busy start to 'spring' openings, but now that new shows, for the most part, no longer happen on just a single big busy night in the city – they're happening nearly every weekend in various neighborhoods – there are actually more opportunities to spend time visiting smaller groups of galleries at once, rather than making the mad dash to see 15 shows in one night or having to see some shows at the expense of others.&nbsp;Friday night, April 19, is a chance to visit the five spaces – at 1709–1711 W Chicago Ave – that cemented West Town as a new and <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2018/5/a-new-westward-migration-galleries-move-in-search-of-space-and-community">growing gallery destination</a> and to see the strong range of art that is being exhibited.&nbsp;This is the season after the first big openings of the year and before the summer group shows. There will be a lot to see and talk about Friday, and then more shows will continue to open, as they do now, through next week and into the first weekend of May.&nbsp;The highlights are listed below, and our full calendar may be viewed&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events">here</a>.&nbsp;Have a plastic glass of wine on us, as we pull all-nighters to get the summer issue of CGN off to the printer on Tuesday!&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418261/vyqnnf0uxbyfkg1o1jro.jpg"><figcaption>Laura Letinsky, To Want for Nothing 25, 2018, Archival pigment print. Edition of 7.</figcaption></figure><h3>Laura Letinsky: To Want for Nothing</h3>Opening: Friday, Apr 19, 2019 5–8&nbsp;pm<a href="/organizations/document">DOCUMENT</a>Letinsky is a Chicago-based photographer who is also a Professor in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Chicago. Known for her contemporary still lifes, the work in this show is also accompanied by poetry of Danielle Dutton.&nbsp;“When I was little I used to take a blade and cut the faces off models in my mother’s magazines. In the scene I was looking at, this book the narrator was reading, the one I thought I knew, was gone. In her hands was a blank white space in the shape of a book I’d read. But it was also, for a moment, like I’d been cut away—just a white shape on the sheets where I and my material needs had been.” —Danielle Dutton, 2019Document will also be exhibiting <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/greg-stimac-amulet">Greg Stimac: Amulet</a> in Gallery 2.&nbsp;<h3>&nbsp;</h3><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418262/yf6vwb7p6onomw7u80tl.gif"><figcaption>Binky &amp; Tony Forever, 2009, Pigmented inkjet print, 37 x 43.25 inches, print, 38 x 44.25 inches, framed, Edition 6 of 6.</figcaption></figure><h3>Deana Lawson &amp; Dru Donovan</h3>Opening: Friday, Apr 19, 2019 5–7:30&nbsp;pm <a href="/organizations/rhona-hoffman-gallery--2">Rhona Hoffman Gallery</a>Deana&nbsp;Lawson is a photo-based artist whose work examines the body’s ability to channel personal and social histories, addressing themes of familial legacy, community, romance, and spiritual aesthetics. Her practice borrows from simultaneous visual traditions, ranging from photographic and figurative portraiture, social documentary aesthetics, and vernacular family album photographs.&nbsp;Lawson&nbsp;is visually inspired by the materiality of black culture and its expression as seen through the body and in domestic environments.&nbsp;Dru Donovan (b. St. Paul, MN) received a&nbsp;BFA&nbsp;in photography from California College of the Arts in 2004 and an&nbsp;MFA&nbsp;in photography from Yale School of Art in 2009, where she was awarded the Richard Benson prize for excellence. In 2011&nbsp;TBW&nbsp;Books published her first book, Lifting Water. She has said, "I use photography to look, interact, escape, control and be invited in and I decided that reinvestigating these moments in a similar way would help me make visual sense of what had happened. The act of revisiting and looking at these different gestures and then making photographs of these directed moments helped me to work through the mourning process and the complexities of the situation." Donovan lives and works in Portland, OR.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418263/j4fazmnrlmc127w6lrpu.jpg"></figure><h3>Paul Nudd: Plastic Blastula</h3>Opening: Friday, Apr 19, 2019 5–8&nbsp;pm<a href="/organizations/western-exhibitions">Western Exhibitions</a>For his fourth solo show, Plastic Blastula, at Western Exhibitions, Paul Nudd presents a selection of large-scale paintings depicting an ambiguous and chaotic prenatal cosmic universe, densely populated by a series of many rapidly transforming and colliding embryonic cleavages. Collectively they can be seen as a forceful and monumental continuation of many of Nudd’s aesthetic and formal obsessions: bodies in distress, molecular anxiety, blobs and biomorphic abstraction, disease, malformation, mutation and uncontrollable biological forces.&nbsp;A blastula is a pre-embryonic cellular blob of matter that eventually morphs into a fetus. Plasticity similarly induces a development or transmutation of nature as plastic is created through a seemingly science-fiction derived embryonic mass production. Both blastulas and plastics can be deformed in any direction, but plastic differs from these pre-embryonic forms in that it is materially permanent and impenetrable. Plastic is unnatural and can be molded and stretched to fit in or around anything.&nbsp; If birth is rupture, plastic birth is rupture without rupture.In Nudd’s worldview, Plastic Blastula walks the line between cautionary apocalyptic tale and orgiastic revelry.Western Exhibitions is also opening the first show of work by <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/julia-schmitt-healy">Julia Schmitt Healy</a> featuring a selection of textile works from the early 1970s&nbsp;— a series of&nbsp;ballpoint on handkerchief drawings and a grouping of tufted watercolor on muslin pieces that exist somewhere between painting, pillows and soft sculpture.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418264/uynvmodkpajv9ewvsyoc.png"><figcaption>Thomas Leinberger</figcaption></figure><h3>Thomas Weinberger: Interior</h3>Opening: Friday, Apr 19, 2019 6–8&nbsp;pm<a href="/organizations/volume-gallery">Volume Gallery</a>Thomas Leinberger is a designer based in Chicago, IL. He designs furniture, objects and installations out of his studio in Garfield Park. INTERIOR gives the viewer a considerable insight into Leinberger’s conceptual exploration of the interior and the role of objects in space. Inspired in part by his great interest in early modernist interior design and the continuum of designed objects, the pieces in the exhibition were first imagined as interventions in historical interiors, considering how they would activate in these environments and in turn, the space transformed by their introduction. These objects are conceived to participate in everyday functions of support and furbishing, yet they also possess autonomy outside of their utility.&nbsp; Leinberger’s continued interest in the monolith is evident throughout the exhibition. Their single forms lack signifiers of “furniture” other than their distinctly domestic scale and implied function. Their existence is not substantiated by the functionality, like a readymade who changes in context, these objects lend themselves to all kinds of speculative use. Through this work, Leinberger continues to exemplify design that resists the strict functionalism that’s associated with object design, instead, his work quietly invites us to imagine how an object is capable inexhaustible ways of being.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418265/i4hvk78yb328aufsg9fx.png"><figcaption>Amadeo Morelos</figcaption></figure><h3>Amadeo Morelos &gt; Reps</h3>Opening: Friday, Apr 19, 2019 5–8&nbsp;pm<a href="/organizations/paris-london-hong-kong">Paris London Hong Kong</a>Amadeo Morelos’ recent paintings depict grotesque figures pleading for sympathy and acclaim. Using humor and absurdity, he re-configures autobiographical symbols and the visual language of bodybuilding culture and Greek mythology to suffuses the mundane with fantastical proportions. As canvas is substituted with fabric reminiscent of posing trunks, these paintings recall an incomplete body that is built through external expectation. Morelos received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016.&nbsp;</body></html>

Weekend Openings in West Town

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418229/jpznmf1wt3y7qqk6s5ab.gif"></figure>Theaster Gates presents art installations at Red Line’s 95th Street stationThe final <a href="https://chicago.curbed.com/2017/7/13/15964470/chicago-95th-street-cta-red-line-terminal-theaster-gates-art">two art installations</a> at the Red Line’s 95th Street station were unveiled Monday morning. The two pieces by artist <a href="https://www.theastergates.com/">Theaster Gates</a> are part of the <a href="https://chicago.curbed.com/2019/1/4/18168913/cta-95th-street-terminal-complete-south-side">massive terminal overhaul</a>which wrapped up in January.The final touches on the train and bus station are a pair of tapestries of decommissioned fire hoses and a radio station with a performance space. Gates is an internationally recognized artist who’s had commissions and exhibits across the world, but it’s clear he has a soft spot for Chicago.“These things don’t happen in a vacuum,” Gates said at the announcement. “It takes a lot of people who believe in art and culture.”By Sara Freund, Curbed Chicago<a href="https://chicago.curbed.com/2019/4/8/18300520/theaster-gates-95th-street-terminal-art-installation">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418230/vbuegaxuh7rvhfxhy8mf.gif"></figure>10 Must-See Artists at AIPAD’s Photography ShowThe 39th edition of The Photography Show, presented by AIPAD, features work from a roster of artists as diverse as the images they shoot.By Alina Cohen, Artsy<a href="https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-10-must-see-artists-aipads-photography-04-04-19">Read More</a> &nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418231/pfxqxtn7l7bh3b35y39z.gif"></figure>Disruptive Design Contest Announces FinalistsA group of <a href="https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/rahm-emanuel-interview-chicago-architecture-biennial">Chicago</a> organizations are on a mission to change the public’s perception of affordable housing and elevate design in the process. As part of this initiative, finalists were chosen in a <a href="https://www.disruptivedesign-chi.org/">Disruptive Design</a> competition, which challenged architects to envision “forward-thinking, viable solutions” for affordable housing in the city.By Rebecca Holland, Architectural Digest<a href="https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/disruptive-design-contest-announces-finalists">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: April 9, 2019

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418158/olbqfio31rmodnhhqduw.gif"></figure><h2>The Art Institute of Chicago postponed an exhibition of Native American pottery</h2>The <a href="https://www.artsy.net/artic">Art Institute of Chicago</a> (AIC) has postponed its forthcoming exhibition of Native American pottery from the Southwestern United States over concerns that indigenous people were not sufficiently represented in the exhibition.&nbsp;Via Artsy News<a href="https://www.artsy.net/news">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418159/qgwhvj2ynny39vftrblp.gif"></figure><h2>UIC draws up plan to help train high school art&nbsp;teachers</h2>The University of Illinois at Chicago is giving students who want to become high school art teachers some help.The school <a href="https://today.uic.edu/uic-offers-bfa-in-art-education">says in a news release</a> that for the first time since 2010 it is giving students pursuing an undergraduate degree in studio art the opportunity to obtain a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art Education — or BFAAE degree — along with a professional teaching license.By Associated Press, via Chicago Sun Times<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/uic-help-train-high-school-art-teachers-bachelor-fine-arts-education/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418160/cfqha4hzgfddhia59gah.gif"></figure><h2>Relax and immerse yourself... the art of experiencing museums slowly</h2>Where a protest against McDonald’s spawned the Slow Food movement, so the blockbuster exhibition has inspired a Slow Art&nbsp;resistance. Anyone who&nbsp;has visited a “once-in-a-lifetime” exhibition will be familiar with the exhausting routine: queueing at the entrance, jostling with crowds around the masterpieces, fighting falling energy&nbsp;levels and mounting frustration. If photography is permitted, throw selfie sticks and&nbsp;Instagram posers into the mix too.By Hannah McGivern, The Art Newspaper<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/feature/slow-down-relax-and-immerse-yourself">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: April 2, 2019

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418181/yh02zpszue129fjdmzt6.jpg"><figcaption>A show of new paintings by Karl Wirsum opens at Corbett vs Dempsey Friday, April 5</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;By GINNY VAN ALYEA&nbsp;The&nbsp;first week of April continues an active year in galleries that began at the start of 2019, nearly three months ago already.&nbsp;Beginning Thursday, April 4 and continuing through Friday night, several exhibitions and events take place that you don't want to miss, many featuring artists who are exploring significant issues of our time. Unlike during the fall in the Chicago, spring gallery shows aren't competing directly with the specter of art fairs and biennials. This time of year, as the body as well as the mind begins to wake up, seize the opportunity to emerge from hibernation and encounter shows featuring work by up-and-coming artists as well as art world stars. Now you may have the time to visit and contemplate the many images and messages that are being presented.&nbsp;April already heralds a lot of good and important things to come in these warmer months, and new art may be found throughout the city's neighborhoods and into the suburbs as well.Some highlights are listed below, and our full calendar may be viewed&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events">here</a>.&nbsp;Much is planned in the coming days and weeks, including the summer issue of CGN in early May, so forgive us if our news slows down for a little while as we get the next edition of the magazine off to the printer later this month.Enjoy the arrival of spring and all there is to see in the galleries!&nbsp;<h3>&nbsp;</h3><h2>Theaster Gates: Every Square Needs a Circle</h2><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418181/x8wsokwtjwd04pcwh4lx.gif"><figcaption>Theaster Gates (b. 1973), Progress Mill,&nbsp;2018, Neon, 38 1/2 x 38 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches, 97.8 x 97.8 x 12.1 cm</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;• April 4–June 29 at Richard Gray Gallery, <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/richard-gray-gallery-gray-warehouse">Gray Warehouse</a> – West Town (Opening April 4)Every Square Needs a Circle, a&nbsp;solo exhibition of new sculpture, film, installation, and neon work by Theaster Gates opens this Thursday night at Gray Warehouse with a reception for the artist from 6-8 PM.The exhibition marks a continuation of Gates’s long engagement with the work of American sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois, whose examination of genius and progress in Black America from Emancipation to the mid-20th century has been a source of inspiration for the artist. Placing his interest in poetics and the weighty history of objects, Gates debuts a multi-faceted installation that bridges the work of Du Bois with architectural excerpts from Chicago, expounding on the archives that hold and preserve records of Black intelligence.Relating moments from art history to stories of quotidian labor, Every Square Needs a Circle is a rumination on materials, time and repetition.&nbsp;&nbsp;<h2>Karl Wirsum: New Paintings</h2><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418182/dncmqysnojkqu49lxwo1.jpg"><figcaption>Karl Wirsum, Geezer Gazing Geyser, 40 x 18 inches (Geysey), 41 x 31 inches (Geezer)</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;• April 5–June 22 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/corbett-vs-dempsey">Corbett vs Dempsey</a> – West Town (Opening April 5)Karl Wirsum, an original member of the Hairy Who is a legendary figure in Chicago art. This is the first exhibition of Wirsum’s new work in six years and Corbett vs Dempsey's first show of new works by the artist.&nbsp;<h2>Genevieve Gaignard: Black White and Red All Over</h2><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418183/ncwxgvcm8fkcxf2dmwym.gif"></figure>&nbsp;• April 5–May 24 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/monique-meloche-gallery">Monique Meloche Gallery</a> – West Town (Opening April 5)Black White and Red All Over is Genevieve Gaignard’s first solo show with the gallery, and her first in Chicago. The exhibition will focus on the artist’s new body of mixed media works on panel and will include a new site-specific installation. Arising out of her well-known photographic and installation-based series, these new works convey a declaratively political angle through novel formal means.Gaignard explores issues of race, class, and femininity using an uncanny humor befitting these concepts’ duality as both weighty markers of identity and unfixed values traded fluidly in popular culture. As a biracial woman in America, Gaignard investigates the aesthetic and cultural divide between black and white, a chasm as palpable as it is “invisible.” As an artist interested in the varying incremental shades that exist between, and inadequately define, these markers, Gaignard’s practice hinges on composites: of identities, experiences, appearances, materials.<h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>Herman Aguirre</h2><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418184/j8n3h3kngbcgdwrnbnur.jpg"><figcaption>Herman Aguirre, Cenizas nada mas, 2018, oil and acrylic / acrylic skins on canvas, 72" x 48"</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;• April 5–May 4 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/zolla-lieberman-gallery">Zolla/Lieberman Gallery</a> – River North (Opening April 5)&nbsp; Painter Herman Aguirre uses representation and abstraction to bring texture to the depictive and affective aspects of an image. He uses various techniques and materials to investigate charged subjects in order to prompt the sense of fragility of human existence. Through the use of symbolism and metaphor, he depicts images that convey respect, love, and honor in commemoration for “those who are not with us but are around us”. Paintings are executed using references from an archival collection of images, including the images of victims of the Mexican drug war, as well as his own family photographs and souvenirs. The body of work reflects the psychological and physical trauma faced as an observer, creator, and family member. The objects, images, and events that build up the world that surrounds him become conduits for ideas. Constantly wrestling: his painting process becomes a confused, frustrated, and overwhelmed accumulation of impasto, which not only gives value to the image, but also allows for its proper burial. At last, reaching tranquility and peace.<h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>Frances Cox &amp; Michael Noland: A World Apart</h2><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418185/yqvbmanphvb4yy6qjty2.gif"><figcaption>Michael Noland, American Flood, Oil on linen</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;• April 5–25 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/hofheimer-gallery">Hofheimer Gallery</a> – Ravenswood (Opening April 5)&nbsp;Hofheimer Gallery presents a show featuring the work of Frances Cox and Michael Noland, two artists who feature color and pattern strongly in their work.Frances Cox keeps redefining landscape and still life in an invented and abstract vocabulary.&nbsp;Michael Noland’s work is influenced by Chicago Imagism and traditional American scenes. He creates portraits of flora and fauna, rendered exotic with vibrant hues and colors richly layered. In Michael’s paintings are a dynamic push and pull of forms often unexpected and inventive.<h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>A Month of Sundays</h2><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418186/iq7nrrcqtcmzpitcxlee.jpg"><figcaption>Patty Kirk</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;• Opening April 5 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/the-dime">The Dime</a> – Wicker Park (Opening April 5)&nbsp;Patty Kirk has been painting since childhood, and now at the age of 61 she is having her first one woman show. Kirk's paintings speak to her strong Catholic faith and spirituality and an adherence to the primacy of family. They also invoke thoughts of that which is unseen, a pursuit of the invisible, an invocation to the spirits which are a foundational element of her faith.&nbsp;<h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>This Stillness</h2><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418187/avn6xn85lwlcbiy1xhr5.jpg"><figcaption>Image: Vanessa German, A Love Powm to Nia Wilson #2 (detail), 2018</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;• April 4–May 5 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/intuit-the-center-for-intuitive-and-outsider-art">Intuit</a> – West Town (Opening April 4)A new exhibition opens at Intuit on Thursday evening. Curated by Jamillah HinsonThis Stillness is an exploration into the complexities of Black girlhood and womanhood and the quiet reflections of self that arise from these circumstances. The exhibition goes beyond the contemporary use of a traditional Black American art form—assemblage—and delves into themes of autonomy, self-reflection, and the dehumanization of Black women and girls. At the same time, the exhibition serves as an archive of personal, familial and cultural identity. This Stillness explores mediums often found in the practice of Black American female artists who are re-piecing histories, narratives and memories that were not allowed to flourish in the past.<h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>Abstractly Speaking</h2><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418188/qeu1f7jcaqpsj8ipmpgv.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;• April 5–27 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/woman-made-gallery--2">Woman Made Gallery</a> – Pilsen (Opening April 5)Woman Made Gallery (WMG) presents Abstractly Speaking, highlighting art which is non representational and unconcerned with literal depiction, instead relying&nbsp;on the visual language of form, color, line, texture, mark-making and process, as a means to an end. Artists include: Peggy Breidenbach, Marian Carow, Carolyn Cronin Hughes, Susan Dickman, Camillia Elci, Carol Estes, Nancy Ferro, Lisa Flowers Ross, Heather Gallegos-Rex, Darcy Gerbarg, Nina Ghanbarzadeh, Margie Glass Sula, Monica Goldsmith, Celia Greiner, Mille Guldbeck, Maki Hajikano, Julie Henry, Kelly Hensen, Jamie Kost, Ginny Krueger, Court Lurie, Robin Malpass, Elyse Martin, Joan McLane, Katherine Nemanich, Louise Pappageorge, Sonia Pratt, Olivia Rozdolsky, Sabine Senft, Kathie Shaw and Kathleen Waterloo. Juried by gallerist Melanee Cooper.&nbsp;&nbsp;<h2>6-Year Anniversary Group Show</h2><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418189/nflueb7pnsym6i2abp4i.jpg"><figcaption>Hebru Brantley</figcaption></figure>• April 6–27 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/6-year-anniversary-group-show">Vertical Gallery</a> – West Town/Ukrainian Village (Opening April 6)The gallery presents a special exhibition celebrating its 6-year anniversary. The show will feature over 40 artists - local, national &amp; international - from 14 different countries with artistic styles that have shaped the gallery’s programming over the years. Since opening its doors at 1016 N. Western Avenue in 2013, Vertical has presented ambitious exhibitions with work influenced by street art, urban environments, graffiti, pop culture, graphic design and illustration. With 10 to 12 group and solo shows per year, plus participation in major international art fairs, Vertical Gallery has featured over 300 different artists from around the world in its exhibitions.</body></html>

Color and Concepts Fill Galleries this April

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418190/gsexqjpi9tphulvnw1hu.gif"></figure><h2>Laurie Simmons’s Works at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago</h2>Over four decades, <a href="https://www.blouinartinfo.com/artists/laurie-simmons-169787">Laurie Simmons</a>’s accomplished series have wrestled with image culture, object fetishization, gender roles — and, more recently, non-binary identity. In the current survey of the artist’s work, “<a href="https://www.blouinartinfo.com/artists/laurie-simmons-169787">Laurie Simmons</a>: Big Camera/Little Camera” (on view until May 5), the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is presenting her photography alongside three films (one of which features vintage puppets, the actress Meryl Streep, and Alvin Ailey dancers) plus a sculptural installation.By Sarah Moroz, Blouin Art Info<a href="https://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/3599155/laurie-simmonss-works-at-museum-of-contemporary-art-chicago">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418191/orsq2le6olmbwiqaukx9.gif"></figure><h2>High school seniors awarded college scholarships for artwork</h2>Though their artistic talent was recently recognized in academic circles, the students have said their goals include a military career and entrepreneurship while not forsaking art.By Steve Sadin, Lincolnshire Review via Chicago Tribune<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lincolnshire/ct-lsr-students-arts-scholarships-tl-0328-story.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418193/xqpv94zomzkxvbcchhh0.gif"></figure><h2>Discovered After 70, Black Artists Find Success, Too, Has Its Price</h2>McArthur Binion had been creating art almost completely under the radar for four decades, handling his own occasional sales and raising two children in Chicago on a teaching salary.Now, Mr. Binion has been fully embraced by the mainstream art world — at the age of 72. His dealer is a prominent Chelsea gallery. Museums and international collectors are snapping up his large canvases, minimalist grids painted in oil stick over collages of personal documents.By Hilarie M. Sheets, The New York Times<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/arts/design/black-artists-older-success.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: March 26, 2019

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418168/iggwjm01cr6gcrim7zir.gif"></figure><h3>EXPO CHICAGO Expands Curatorial Exchange Program, Announces Details For 2019 Edition</h3>Expo Chicago, the city’s international exposition of contemporary and modern art, has partnered with Red Bull Arts Detroit to bring more international curators to the Detroit and Chicago area. The Red Bull Arts Detroit Global Curatorial Initiative, an expansion of Expo Chicago’s existing program, will offer mid-career and established curators the opportunity to participate in the eighth annual exposition, which will take place at the Navy Pier from September 19 to September 22, coinciding with the Chicago Architecture Biennial.Via ArtForum<a href="https://www.artforum.com/news/expo-chicago-expands-curatorial-exchange-program-announces-details-for-2019-edition-78831">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418170/ecricdx8jl2zjtkqcda1.gif"></figure><h3>Artist shares watercolor techniques at Elmhurst museum</h3>Joe Rizzo strives to evoke joy in his work. “I find that childlike, unrealistic, unbounded joy can be expressed through color alone,” Rizzo says in his Artist Statement. The suburban artist has found joy in the creation process through two techniques that he will share with his audience at a free demonstration of monoprinting and marbleizing paper at 7 p.m. on March 21 at the Elmhurst Art Museum. The event is sponsored by the Elmhurst Artists’ Guild.By Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/elmhurst/news/ct-fhj-ent-joe-rizzo-0314-story.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418171/drghzaohgv8gorfr9ock.gif"></figure><h3>Space p11 adds to Chicago’s underground art and architecture scene</h3>“The pedway is an exquisite corpse,” said Space p11 director Jonathan Solomon of the assembly of underground spaces that make up Chicago’s Pedway, the subterranean home of the new design and architecture-focused gallery. “We are looking to encourage the many institutions above to take ownership and make the pedway a space for culture.” That notion of ownership, or perceived lack thereof, along with substandard signage, uneven maintenance and concentration of urban odors causes many Chicagoans to shame the pedway.By Elizabeth Blasius, The Architects Newspaper<a href="https://archpaper.com/2019/02/p11-chicago-pedway/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<h3>The artistry behind protecting and repairing photographs</h3>Within the walls of the Art Institute of Chicago resides one of the nation's foremost collections of photography. Here, works by 20th century masters such as Alfred Stieglitz and Walker Evans share space with daguerreotypes from the earliest days of the medium. For a collection this size and quality to be fit for the viewing public, hours of painstaking work is required behind the scenes.By Jeffrey Brown, PBS News Hour<a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-artistry-behind-protecting-and-repairing-photographs">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: March 5, 2019

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418069/uzdftmot034b6wj6k7me.png"></figure><h2>In Chicago, Science and Industry Also Means Art and Creativity</h2>The Juried Art Exhibition has become the centerpiece of <a href="https://www.msichicago.org/blackcreativity">Black Creativity</a>, launched during the 1980s to accompany the Exhibition. A festival of sorts, Black Creativity has evolved into an annual umbrella of events centered on African American creativity, ingenuity and innovation hosted by the Museum of Science and Industry.By Audrey F. Henderson, New City<a href="https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/in-chicago-science-and-industry-also-means-art-and-creativity">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418071/slok8cwn3rqob5vqmfmd.jpg"></figure><h2>The Whitney Biennial: 75 Artists Are In, and One Dissenter Steps Out</h2>The biennial, no stranger to controversy, is an indicator of currents in the field as well as a career booster for the artists included. Past editions have sparked debates over identity and representation, but this year, before the list of participants was even released, a Chicago-based artist, <a href="http://www.michaelrakowitz.com/">Michael Rakowitz</a>, pulled out of the exhibition in a protest against a museum vice chairman, Warren Kanders. Mr. Kanders is the chief executive of a company that manufactures equipment, including body armor and tear gas, for law enforcement agencies and militaries. The New York Times received a copy of Mr. Rakowitz’s letter to the curators, dated Dec. 18, withdrawing from the show.By Jillian Steinhauer, The New York Times<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/arts/design/2019-whitney-biennial.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418072/zasa82fvsajaehvfzmj0.jpg"></figure><h2>Art on theMART Announces Program Aligning with City of Chicago's Year of Chicago Theatre</h2>theMART, with the City of Chicago, today announced the program alignment of Art on theMART, the largest permanent digital art projection in the world, with the 2019 Year of Chicago Theatre, a city-wide celebration of Chicago's theater community spearheaded by the City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) and the League of Chicago Theatres.Via Broadway World<a href="https://www.broadwayworld.com/chicago/article/Art-on-theMART-Announces-Program-Aligning-with-City-of-Chicagos-Year-of-Chicago-Theatre-20190221">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418073/lywwl2sgx62mz3huxfww.jpg"></figure><h2>‘Intimate Sense of Community’: New Forum Aims to Decentralize Art-Book Publishing</h2>Artist Publisher, a new online forum launched by the Chicago-based printing collective Temporary Services, aims to encourage online discussion of art books and to democratize knowledge of a precarious industry. In different threads, users can chat about such insider subjects as storage and what kinds of printers to use, as well as post book reviews and titles for trade. An in-progress list also attempts to track and chronologically organize every art book fair and zine fest—with more than 40 logged for 2019 so far.By Claire Voon, ARTnews<a href="http://www.artnews.com/2019/02/13/artist-publisher-temporary-services-book-forum/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: February 26, 2019

<html><head></head><body>By GINNY VAN ALYEA&nbsp;Friday, March 1&nbsp;begins a weekend of fresh openings in galleries around the city, as many spaces feature their first exhibitions since the year began. A host of artists have used our collective hope for renewal and warmth, as well as fresh air and light, as inspiration for their latest work.&nbsp;River North opens many new shows as part of its commitment to coordinating receptions on the first Friday of the odd months.&nbsp;Several spaces in West Town also open dynamic shows along Chicago Ave.&nbsp;Additionally, new art may be found on both ends of the city, the south as well as the north, and on both days of the weekend, Saturday, March&nbsp;2 and Sunday, March 3, making this an altogether Chicago and art-filled weekend.&nbsp;Some highlights are listed below, and our <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar">full calendar</a> may be viewed&nbsp;here.&nbsp;And of course the art doesn't stop after the openings are over. Much is planned in the coming days and weeks!&nbsp;Enjoy these bright signs of spring, and see you in the galleries!&nbsp;<h3>&nbsp;</h3><h2>Stan Shellabarger</h2><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418056/iovnaiyschdthxalmbek.jpg"><figcaption>Stan Shellabarger, 'Untitled (Winter Solstice 2017) 2017. Artist book: cyanotypes on paper, archival tape, arches covers. 7 x 5 inches closed, 7 x 50 inches open. Unique edition of 2 &nbsp;</figcaption></figure>March 1–April 13 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/western-exhibitions">Western Exhibitions</a> – West TownStan Shellabarger's new artist books and collages are made from cyanotypes produced during full moons, summer and winter solstices, autumnal and vernal equinoxes and a solar eclipse. Beginning in 1994 Shellabarger has executed over a dozen performances on solstices and equinoxes. Marking the longest and shortest days of the year, or those days with equal amounts of light and dark respectively, the duration of his art-making activities are often influenced, or even determined by, these celestial events. In Shellabarger’s new body of work, comprised of a series of cyanotypes— a camera-less photographic process where chemically coated paper is exposed to light— full moons, the solstices, equinoxes and a solar eclipse are also the work’s light source, in addition to the inspiration for its imagery.Also on view at the gallery is a companion show, My informal printmaking residency with Stan Shellabarger, that features work by Leslie Baum,&nbsp;Elijah Burgher,&nbsp;kg, Kelly Kaczynski,&nbsp;Rachel Niffenegger,&nbsp;Paul Nudd,&nbsp;Steve Reinke, and&nbsp;Jeremy Tinder. &nbsp;Both shows open Friday, March 1, 5-8pm.&nbsp;<h2>Thaddeus Wolfe: Crossing the River to Fetch Water</h2><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418057/zfiesgm0dt8imsrvawak.jpg"><figcaption>Thaddeus Wolfe, Assemblage / 2016, Blown glass, Unique, 20H x 8W x 6D</figcaption></figure>March 1–April 27 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/volume-gallery">Volume Gallery</a> - West TownThis exhibition gathers Thaddeus Wolfe’s new kiln-constructed objects and blown flat wall reliefs. Wolfe is known for his dedication to the laborious techniques of glassmaking and an inquisitive, bold vision that leads the medium into new terrains. Opening Friday, March 1, 5-8pm.&nbsp;<h2>Tetsuya Noda</h2><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418058/ki87i6nodangeikbsy0i.png"><figcaption>Tetsuya Noda,&nbsp;Diary; May 7th, '18, woodcut and screenprint, 2018.</figcaption></figure>March 1–31 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/andrew-bae-gallery">Andrew Bae Gallery</a> - River North&nbsp;This Japanese artist has been working for 50 years, during which he has single-handedly created a 'diary', which comprises over 500 works of art, which today continue and compliment Japan's great tradition of printmaking. Noda finishes each of his prints with his own thumbprint in red 'she ni ku' next to his signature. The artist will be present at the opening Friday, March 1, 5-8pm.&nbsp;<h2>Come As You Are: New Work by Amy Laskin</h2><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418059/rq3pcmebh7z33s4bnsxf.jpg"><figcaption>Amy Laskin, Floras Duppy</figcaption></figure>March 1–April 27 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/carl-hammer-gallery">Carl Hammer Gallery</a> – River NorthAmy Laskin's works speak to the dark beauty that can come with the first signs of spring. The sun and natural warmth we so crave have the power to make spectacular flowers bloom. In Laskin's work once the flowers are in bloom, they may be fully and formally constructed by humans, representing perhaps an ideal extension of ourselves in nature's own landscape. Opening Friday, March 1, 5-8pm.&nbsp;<h2>Soak. Stroke. Scratch.</h2><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418060/qj1tfuq0nbpzyisgmh6b.jpg"><figcaption>Michelle Wasson, Sun King, 96″ x 72", Acrylic on raw canvas</figcaption></figure>March 1–April 30 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/melanee-cooper-gallery">Melanee Cooper Gallery</a> – River NorthA three-person exhibition at this River North Gallery, which reopened in the district this past fall after the owner spent 9 years in California, features a vibrant array of sun-inspired work that conjures a variety of images and of and the feeling of being around water as well as the sun. One of the three artists, Michelle Wasson, exhibits work that relies on an ongoing exploration of materials and methods in order to traverse the history of painting. Opening Friday, March 1, 5-8pm.&nbsp;<h2>Parallel Points</h2><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418061/qzxzwnmqcnc44g1qz8qd.jpg"><figcaption>Oltre il Momento I, 30 x 30, oil and cold wax on panel</figcaption></figure>March 1–April 25 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/addington-gallery">Addington&nbsp;Gallery</a> – River NorthTwo shows featuring multiple artists open Friday at Addington Gallery, and one exhibits the cold-wax and oil paint works of Allison B. Cooke. The range of colors may reflect whatever your mood, and the weather, is this weekend. Opening Friday, March 1, 5-8pm.&nbsp;<h2>Remnants: Works on Paper&nbsp;</h2><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418062/rc3y99si0rmjicscy9up.jpg"><figcaption>Sue Fox, Verdant, 20” x 16” x 2”, Acrylic and collage on board</figcaption></figure>Thru March 30 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/studio-oh">Studio Oh!</a> – RavenswoodFeaturing Sue Fox, Vida Sacic, and Don Widmer. Opening reception Friday, March 1.&nbsp;Mixed media artist Sue Fox works in collage exploring color through movement, texture and light.&nbsp;&nbsp;<h2>Inside / Outside</h2><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418063/rykseywroh4prcgdd1yh.gif"><figcaption>Catherine Maize, Untitled, Oil on Board</figcaption></figure>March 1–28 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/hofheimer-gallery">Hofheimer Gallery</a> – Ravenswood&nbsp;Four artists share their examinations through painting of the dual worlds we all occupy, both inside and out of doors. This time of year outside scenes must be consolation as we wait a few more weeks before we can spend more time in the fresh air. Featuring Catherine Maize, Jacqueline Moses, Karen Perl and Gene Skala. Opening Friday night, March 1.&nbsp;<h2>Cornelia&nbsp;Spring Open Studios</h2><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418064/ovh4ciexopc0hwhrz6tw.jpg"></figure>March 1, 6-10pm at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/cornelia-arts-building-where-art-works">Cornelia Arts Building</a> – North SideThe studio building marks 30 years in 2019 as a working studio building. Cornelia Arts Building&nbsp;Open Studio nights happen four times a year.&nbsp;Join over 40 resident artists in their studios, hallway guest artist exhibitions, and food from a local food truck in the parking lot.&nbsp;&nbsp;Top of page image: Verdant, by Sue Fox, Studio Oh!&nbsp;</body></html>

The Art World's First Weekend of 'Spring'

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418083/mtss8li1vofrgwlpx6yf.gif"></figure><h2>If the Art Institute of Chicago is too much, head to this beautiful, less-trafficked gem</h2>If you have less time to spare but still want to immerse yourself in a local cultural experience, head just a few blocks north to the Chicago Cultural Center, located in the same Millennium Park campus as the Art Institute but often overlooked by visitors. The opulent 1897 building, designed by the same firm as the Art Institute, is known as “The People’s Palace.”By Jay Gentile, The Washington Post<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/if-the-art-institute-of-chicago-is-too-much-head-to-this-beautiful-less-trafficked-gem/2019/02/14/6c95db34-2b14-11e9-984d-9b8fba003e81_story.html?utm_term=.0f3b9bd8bde9">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418088/eb0u6zmhnccsynrjscop.jpg"></figure><h2>Mariane Ibrahim, Ascendant Dealer of African Art, Moves Gallery to Chicago</h2>After seven years in Seattle and a growing reputation garnered at art fairs around the globe, Mariane Ibrahim is closing her namesake gallery in the Pacific Northwest and planning a move to Chicago, where she hopes to be in operation by the end of 2019.By Andy Battaglia, ARTnews&nbsp;<a href="http://www.artnews.com/2019/02/15/mariane-ibrahim-gallery-moving-chicago/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418089/ljs1bp0ulvmiqnh3qfzq.png"></figure><h2>‘Bauhaus’ centennial exhibit shines art movement’s light on world,&nbsp;Chicago</h2>No institution had more impact on the development of 20th century art, design and architecture than the Bauhaus, a German art school with such famous teachers as Anni Albers, Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius and Wassily Kandinsky.This year marks the 100th anniversary of its establishment, a milestone that has sparked at least 600 exhibitions and other events worldwide, including an internationally touring show titled “The Whole World a Bauhaus.”By Kyle MacMillan, The Sun Times<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/bauhaus-centennial-exhibit-elmhurst-art-museum-chicago/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418090/orbmgcrrwqdtcy7jstme.jpg"></figure><h2>Instagram-friendly wndr museum moves from pop-up to permanent</h2>The goal is “becoming a cultural fixture here in the West Loop,” Vaile said. “We think we’ve found an area in the art world that hasn’t been truly explored.”Wndr, 1130 W. Monroe St., has billed itself as an art and science experience, and its initial set of 19 immersive, walk-through exhibits followed the theme of The Finite to the Infinite, with art pieces treating atoms and outer space.By Steve Johnson, Chicago Tribune<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-wndr-museum-permanent-0220-story.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: February 19, 2019

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418022/cgxsxslq20yvx5pkkwe5.webp"></figure><h2>Chicago Biennial announces theme for third edition</h2>After the city’s first two biennials, with titles like “The State of Art and Architecture,” and “Make New History,” this year Artistic Director Yesomi Umolu and her team have chosen a theme that makes an effort to showcase the less shiny history but all important stories of Chicago.By Sara Freund, Curbed Chicago<a href="https://chicago.curbed.com/2019/2/5/18212022/chicago-architecture-biennial-theme-2019">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418022/n4n5kfkzfsiluswbfbbf.png"></figure><h2>Chicago searches for the right design to expand O’Hare Airport and make passenger connections less stressful</h2>The five designs in competition—selected from a total of 12 submissions—share a number of similarities: sweeping roofs, vista-like open spaces that connect passengers more directly to the entire terminal and the airfield, straightforward navigation within the terminal, and—in three designs—green spaces that offer respite to harried travelers.“The O’Hare Global Terminal is a once-in-a-lifetime project that demands the best in aviation experience and an in-depth understanding, respect, and passion for Chicago’s global leadership in design and culture,” says Scott Duncan, Design Partner with Skidmore, Owings &amp; Merrill, which developed its design for O’Hare’s expansion in collaboration with ARUP and Ross Barney Architects.By John Caulfield, Building Design + Construction<a href="https://www.bdcnetwork.com/chicago-searches-right-design-expand-o%E2%80%99hare-airport-and-make-passenger-connections-less-stressful">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418024/wmeb0ickt2h6rum5s2mj.jpg"></figure><h2>After nixing painting sale, Emanuel finds another way to restore branch&nbsp;library</h2>Emanuel had originally planned to raise the entire $15 million needed for the regional library upgrade by selling off “Knowledge and Wonder,” a large painting by Marshall that hung on the second floor of the Legler branch.By Fran Spielman, Chicago Sun Times<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/mural-painting-knowledge-wonder-legler-library-kerry-james-marshall-west-garfield-park/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418025/srurwidqtzj51wduqqpt.jpg"></figure><h2>Ai Weiwei and Frank Gehry Talk Art, Legos and Being Cultural Renegades</h2>Two creative people in two different fields in one wide-ranging conversation. This time: the artist and the architect.By Jori Finkel, The New York Times<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/12/t-magazine/ai-weiwei-frank-gehry-conversation.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: February 12, 2019

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418027/pelrm49tuteiaksyct1i.gif"></figure><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>Smaller Museums And Galleries Shining In Chicago's Flourishing Arts Scene</h2>When you think Chicago, you think big. Big buildings, big pizza, big museums. <a href="https://www.artic.edu/">The Art Institute of Chicago</a> hosts the largest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artworks outside of France.Institutions of that scale cast a shadow. Existing within that shadow can be found a vibrant museum and gallery scene, two examples of which are hosting noteworthy shows this month.By Chadd Scott, Forbes<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/chaddscott/2019/02/02/smaller-museums-and-galleries-shining-in-chicagos-flourishing-arts-scene/#1ad649d18c28">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418030/payxyqtjlvtgyedoz3i7.jpg"></figure><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>Chicago Architecture Biennial promises to explore new stories about Chicago — and avoid 'Archi-babble'</h2>The third Chicago Architecture Biennial, the big exhibition of contemporary architecture and design that opens in September, promises something more provocative: A look at old Chicago stories that have been shoved out of the spotlight and new ones that will emerge through fresh comparisons with the cities of Sao Paulo, Johannesburg and Vancouver, British Columbia.By Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kamin/ct-biz-chicago-architecture-biennial-20190204-story.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image" data-storehaus-transformation="{&quot;crop&quot;:{&quot;x&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:&quot;96.32161458333334&quot;,&quot;w&quot;:&quot;2500&quot;,&quot;h&quot;:&quot;1820.7194010416667&quot;}}"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418030/pltmgtgph46ai0woqf2r.jpg"></figure><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>Finding my Filipino identity in Maia Cruz Palileo's art</h2>Document senior editor Ann Binlot writes on her search for representation of her Filipino heritage only to find it through the art of contemporary artist Maia Cruz Palileo.By Ann Binlot, Document Journal<a href="http://www.documentjournal.com/2019/02/finding-my-filipino-identity-in-maia-cruz-palileos-art/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418031/ivmt2vbkjdgbdvdxhdsk.png"></figure><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>“Eye Deal: Abstract Bodies of the Chicago Imagists” at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art</h2>Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA) is hosting an exhibition titled “Eye Deal: Abstract Bodies of the Chicago Imagists.” The exhibition is on view through June 9, 2019.“Eye Deal: Abstract Bodies of the Chicago Imagists” highlights the acclaimed holdings of art by Chicago Imagists that the museum boasts of. The Imagists were a group of figurative artists who emerged in Chicago in the mid-1960s.&nbsp;Via Blouin Artinfo<a href="https://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/3522021/eye-deal-abstract-bodies-of-the-chicago-imagists-at-the">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418032/xweoxpyzpfkowbxxryrk.jpg"></figure><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>MOCA Exhibit Celebrates Chicago's AFRICOBRA Black Artist Collective</h2>During the civil rights era of the 1960s and 70s, a group of black artists in Chicago created vibrant and provocative art as a powerful form of peaceful protest.&nbsp;AFRICOBRA, which stands for “The African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists," used the aesthetic of black art and imaging to fight the the media's perception&nbsp;of their own communities. Now, the collective's work is being displayed in Miami as part of North Miami's&nbsp;<a href="https://mocanomi.org/">Museum of Contemporary Art&nbsp;</a>Black History Month programming.By Alejandra Martinez<a href="http://www.wlrn.org/post/moca-exhibit-celebrates-chicagos-africobra-black-artist-collective">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: February 5, 2019

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418033/qdagn9k9lbmmnwayo3aa.gif"></figure><h2>Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago to Lower Admission Prices For Visitors Impacted by Gender Pay Gap</h2>The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago has announced that starting next month the institution will offer visitors who have been impacted by the gender pay gap reduced admission prices. The new pricing tier, which aims to raise awareness about pay disparity in the workplace, will roll out on February 24, following the opening of “<a href="https://www.artforum.com/search?search=Laurie%20Simmons">Laurie Simmons</a>: Big Camera/Little Camera,” the first major retrospective dedicated to the artist.Via ARTFORUM<a href="https://www.artforum.com/news/museum-of-contemporary-art-chicago-to-lower-admission-prices-for-visitors-impacted-by-gender-pay-gap-78498">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418034/aqdq8kck5jiicmcqsgdf.gif"></figure><h2>Chicago artist Matthew Hoffman to jury 'Love,' West Chicago's 2019 community art banner exhibit</h2>The stars are aligned for "Love," the 2019 community art banner exhibit, as Matthew Hoffman, the renowned Chicago-based artist and creator of the You Are Beautiful art phenomenon and West Chicago's most recent piece of public art, loveevenmore, has agreed to jury the submissions of area artists scrambling to get their artwork in by the Feb. 1 deadline.By Rosemary Mackey, Daily Herald<a href="https://www.dailyherald.com/submitted/20190125/chicago-artist-matthew-hoffman-to-jury-love-west-chicagos-2019-community-art-banner-exhibit">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418035/oz8umf07bmnvgahhvdfa.gif"></figure><h2>This Chicago Artist Is Making Delightful Murals Out Of Snow</h2>LOGAN SQUARE — <a href="https://evk.myportfolio.com/projects">Eduardo Vea Keating</a> is having some fun with all of the snow that has so many of us holed up in our homes.The 43-year-old artist is responsible for the skyline snow mural that popped up on the side of the corner store at Sawyer and Fullerton avenues on Sunday afternoon. He said it took him about an hour to make, and, unlike a painted mural, required zero tools.By Mina Bloom, Block Club Chicago<a href="https://blockclubchicago.org/2019/01/29/this-chicago-artist-is-making-delightful-murals-out-of-snow/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418036/nprzuhxqkgmhn8ybejzv.gif"></figure><h2>Venice Architecture Biennale's U.S. Pavilion Coming to Chicago</h2>Dimensions of Citizenship: Architecture and Belonging from the Body to the Cosmos, the official US entry at the recently-concluded 16th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, will be on view for the first time in the United States at Wrightwood 659, a new art space located at 659 W. Wrightwood Avenue in Chicago, from February 15 through April 27, 2019. Devoted to exploring the notion of citizenship today and the potential role of architecture and design in creating spaces for it, Dimensions of Citizenship comprises seven unique installations, each created by a transdisciplinary team of architects and designers.Via Arch Daily<a href="https://www.archdaily.com/910247/venice-architecture-biennales-us-pavilion-coming-to-chicago">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: January 29, 2019

<html><head></head><body>Long before many of us adapted to binge-watching TV, art fairs became the new normal for bingeing on art in one often dizzying and overwhelming weekend. Love them or hate them, Chicago is host to a range of art fairs during the year, and each fair is an invaluable asset to the cultural community it serves and the creatives it brings together for a few short (or long!) days. From neighborhood celebrations to international expositions, each offers something unique for those who come to see and buy art as well as for artists and professionals who come to network and exchange ideas.&nbsp;Following is a list of fairs taking place throughout the area in 2019.&nbsp;Wear comfortable shoes, if you want to – and please try to pause and look at the art for a moment before snapping that Insta-worthy pic. Talk to the dealers or artists hanging around their booth - they're each experts ready to talk and connect.&nbsp;Fairs below listed in order of when they take place during the year. This list will be updated periodically.&nbsp;– CGN Staff&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417884/tohrfagzihjvwuj9pb3g.gif"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/chicago-antiques-art-design-show">CHICAGO ANTIQUES + ART + DESIGN SHOW</a>May 16–19, 2019 • The Merchandise Mart – River North100 premier international exhibitors presenting fine antique furniture, decorative and fine arts displayed in gallery settings.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417885/t2djegjj2zye5aasgwnu.gif"></figure><a href="http://chicago.theotherartfair.com">THE OTHER ART FAIR</a>May 16–19, 2019 • Mana Contemporary – PilsenPresented by Saatchi Art, TOAF showcases work by 130 independent and emerging artists in a unique and immersive environment. Returning to Chicago for the second year.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417886/qsf1b1rrgdehe6sciatz.gif"></figure><a href="57thstreetartfair.org">57TH STREET ART FAIR</a>June 1 and 2, 2019 • Hyde ParkOne of the oldest fairs in the country, this outdoor celebration is adjacent to the University of Chicago&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417887/pyxmk7yotgoomjy2yuno.gif"></figure><a href="oldtowntriangle.com">OLD TOWN ART FAIR</a>June 8 and 9, 2019 • Old Town Triangle DistrictTaking place along the tree-lined streets of Old Town this fair, founded in 1950, features 250 nationally acclaimed artists and welcomes 30,000 art lovers.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417888/hxus6vfft9itoazeywj6.gif"></figure><a href="deerpathartleague.org">ART FAIR ON THE SQUARE</a>September 1 and 2, 2019 • Lake Forest, ILThe 65th Annual Art Fair on the Square is a juried art show, located in historic Lake Forest Market Square&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417890/czko8ulmikxeuznpxjb1.gif"></figure><a href="expochicago.com">EXPO CHICAGO</a>September 19–22, 2019 • Navy PierThe eighth edition of the International Exposition of Contemporary and Modern Art features international exhibitors alongside one of the highest quality platforms for global contemporary art and culture. Many special programs and alignments are planned throughout the year as well as in September.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417891/cv2mvakmzl4fhbgdmkd3.gif"></figure><a href="http://www.chicagoartistscoalition.org/annual-2018">THE ANNUAL&nbsp;</a>September 2019 • Chicago Artists Coalition – Kinzie CorridorThe ANNUAL is a&nbsp;yearly sales exhibition celebrating cutting-edge Chicago-based artists. Arranged by a guest curator, The ANNUAL creates an accessible forum for collectors to discover affordable new work and engage directly with its creators.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417892/of6kz0tdhgeb28nhnbqf.gif"></figure><a href="americancraftexpo.org">AMERICAN CRAFT EXPO</a>September 21–23, 2018 • Chicago Botanic Garden – Glencoe, IL&nbsp;One of the country’s premier fine craft shows, presented by The Auxiliary of NorthShore University HealthSystem (Northshore), featuring approximately 140 artists&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417893/ghw7awditwggdgcjnpo6.gif"></figure><a href="sofaexpo.com">SOFA CHICAGO</a>Oct 31–Nov 3, 2019 • Navy PierThe Sculpture Objects Functional Art and&nbsp;Design Fair began in 1994 and focuses on artworks&nbsp;that cross the boundaries of fine art, decorative art and design.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417894/hwkleb1kdpnjsx3sb5vv.gif"></figure><a href="amdurproductions.com">AMDUR PRODUCTIONS ART FESTS</a>Multiple dates and locations in the region: Gold Coast Art Fair; Botanic Garden Art Fest; Millennium Art Festival; Southport Art Festival; and others.&nbsp;</body></html>

All the World's a Fair: 2019 Art Fair Lineup

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418074/kd53hcxhqq2xoebptrc6.png"></figure>Here are the five finalist designs competing for O’Hare Airport’s massive $8.5B expansionOn Thursday, the city released minute-long videos previewing each design. Residents can get a closer look at the concepts by checking out physical models of each proposal on display at the <a href="https://chicago.curbed.com/2018/11/7/18072234/ohare-expansion-lead-architect-finalists">Chicago Architecture Center</a> for free now through January 31. Bid materials will also be posted inside O’Hare’s Terminal 2.By Jay Koziarz, Curbed Chicago<a href="https://chicago.curbed.com/2019/1/17/18185431/ohare-design-competition-global-terminal">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418075/v91jwzoizmy92x0b4ndt.png"></figure>Will a nine-story surrealist mural draw shoppers to Mag Mile?Passers-by on Michigan Avenue can now see a nine-story mural designed by Spanish artist Ignasi Monreal, who's also responsible for massive "art walls" commissioned by Gucci in New York, London, Milan, Hong Kong and Paris.By Brigid Sweeney, Crain's Chicago Business<a href="https://www.chicagobusiness.com/retail/will-nine-story-surrealist-mural-draw-shoppers-mag-mile">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418076/lse69oycylv4xoqqqelo.png"></figure>Big Fairs Dominate the Art World. Small Galleries Are Seeking Another Way.Contemporary art dealers, like pretty much everyone else involved in bricks and mortar retail, are struggling to attract customers through their doors. A collaborative event is one way of coaxing them back. It might not be the art world’s equivalent of Black Friday, but the Condo group exhibition, whose fourth London edition opened on Saturday, has given smaller dealerships a chance to see new faces in their galleries.By Scott Reyburn, The New York Times<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/15/arts/design/condo-london.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418077/knyclprzfarydqtwowx0.png"></figure>Legal fight over building the Obama Center in Jackson Park heats&nbsp;upThe battle over locating the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park heated up on Tuesday as opponents argued in federal court briefs that City Hall rigged the deal for what would be the first-ever complex of its kind allowed in a public park in Chicago.By Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun Times<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/legal-fight-over-building-obama-center-jackson-park-heats-up/">Read More</a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: January 22, 2019

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418026/oudvmbyigyd4are9ufeo.gif"><figcaption>Visitors to Hilton | Asmus in River North</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;Art walks have long been popular, since they are an inviting and manageable way to visit galleries and art spaces, usually in a single evening.&nbsp;In 2019 there are lots of local openings and open studio nights happening throughout the city and into the suburbs and beyond.&nbsp;Check out our list below and enjoy a night (or Saturday morning) out with art.&nbsp;Events are listed in order of when they occur (First Friday, 2nd Friday, 3rd Friday, Saturdays, Monthly, Quarterly and so on) and in Chicago, Suburbs and beyond.&nbsp;– CGN Staff&nbsp;CHICAGO&nbsp;• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?district=river-north&amp;filter=openings">River North First Fridays / Openings</a>5–8pm • FreeNew shows generally open Jan 11, Mar 1, May 3, July 12, Sept 6, Nov 1Near Franklin/Superior&nbsp;• <a href="Wickerparkbucktown.com">Flat Iron First Fridays</a>6–10pm • Free1579 N. Milwaukee &nbsp;• <a href="Chicagoartsdistrict.org">Chicago Arts District 2nd Fridays</a>6–10pm • FreeS. Halsted + 18th St. (Pilsen East)&nbsp;• <a href="Fineartsbuildingstudios.com">Fine Arts Building Open Studios</a>2nd Fridays, 5–9pm • Free410 S. Michigan&nbsp;• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/free-cgn-saturday-gallery-tours">River North Saturday Gallery Tours</a>11am–12:30pmDepart from Fabcakes (714 N. Wells)Tours run weekly except major holidays.312-649-0064&nbsp; &nbsp;• <a href="Bridgeportart.com">Bridgeport Art Center 3rd Fridays Open Studios</a>7–10pm Free1200 W. 35th St. &nbsp;• <a href="Bronzevillenights.com">Bronzeville Arts District Trolley Tour</a>3rd FridaysJune–September &nbsp;• <a href="Zhoubartcenter.com">Zhou B Art Center 3rd Fridays, Bridgeport Art Walk</a>7-10pm • Free1029 W. 35th St. • <a href="www.westtownartwalk.com">West Town Art Walk</a>September 27 and 28, 2019 &nbsp;• FreeF 5–8pm + after parties; Sa 12pm-6pmChicago Ave. b/t Milwaukee and Hoyne&nbsp;• <a href="Rivernorthdesigndistrict.com">River North Design District Walk</a>Friday, September 6Multiple receptions take place in select showrooms and galleries outside of the Merchandise Mart &nbsp;SUBURBS&nbsp;• <a href="http://oakparkartsdistrict.com/event-directory-2/">Oak Park Arts District</a> (OPAD)3rd Fridays6–10pm FreeOn Harrison St. &nbsp;• <a href="evanstonmade.org">Evanston Made</a>Visit <a href="evanstonmade.org">evanstonmade.org</a> for a list of event dates in 2019 featuring open studios, art walks and more in Evanston on Chicago’s North Shore. &nbsp;MILWAUKEE&nbsp;• <a href="Historicthirdward.org">Gallery Night and Day</a>Milwaukee, WI – Historic Third WardJan 18 and 19; April 26 and 27; July 19 and 20; Oct 18 and 19F 5–9 and Saturday 10–4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

2019 Art Walks

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418003/pcbqijckqslqwjyibd99.jpg"></figure><h1>Hindman LLC Acquires Leslie Hindman Auctioneers and Cowan's Auctions</h1>The new venture brings together two of America's defining auction firms, uniting a nationwide network of specialists and resources. Born to serve and grow the industry landscape through digital transformation and customer service, Hindman LLC reflects the shared vision of Leslie Hindman and Wes Cowan, the respective founders of each firm.Via PR Newswire<a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hindman-llc-acquires-leslie-hindman-auctioneers-and-cowans-auctions-300775073.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418004/qwuvldpelws77e6kkio6.jpg"></figure><h2>Here Are the Biggest, Splashiest, and Most Anticipated Art Biennials Around the World in 2019</h2>If you want to see the biggest art events around the globe this year, you better save up your frequent flyer miles. This year’s leading biennials, triennials, and other art festivals extend across four continents.By Caroline Goldstein, artnet news<a href="https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/biennials-and-beyond-2019-1430257">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418005/ehxsbpq18l7o4bimnew9.jpg"></figure><h2>James Turrell's Roden Crater project gets $40m funding boost—with a little help from Kanye West</h2>Hope springs eternal that Roden Crater, the extinct volcano in Arizona that <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jspq9twrRo">James Turrell has turned into an evolving masterwork of light</a> and Land Art since the 1970s, will one day be completed. Today (14 January) there were signs that fundraising could be turning a corner.By Nancy Kenney, The Art Newspaper<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/roden-crater-gets-a-boost-from-a-new-partnership-and-usd10m-from-kanye-west">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: January 15, 2019

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417831/bfjdgi8ljow8iignw0lr.png"></figure>&nbsp;My son turned three not long before this publication, also now in its third year, went to print. On a daily basis the unpredictabilty of motherhood, along with running a magazine, keeps me on my toes. I’m always feeling short on time and more than a little overwhelmed. But in both cases year three seems to be pretty great. With each year there are big challenges to meet as well as small accomplishments to savor. The balancing act is worth it – for the obvious joys where my son is concerned, but for CGN I also take a parental pride in being able to develop a valuable resource that encourages people to make art a part of their life and also supports the many creatives throughout our community.This is the third edition of our annual CGN Arts Guide, and as with everything, we strive to make each version better than the one before. In 2019 we welcome 19 galleries and art spaces to these pages – a sign that we are actually sharing more art with our readers than before, even in the middle of a tumultous art climate. We work together to support small and midsize galleries, arts nonprofits and museums, independent artists and many others. So far the hopeful bright spots dispel any shadows of uncertainty. Another thing we know for sure in our third year of publishing this Guide is that, despite the inevitable challenges that keep coming, in order to keep your head above water you must keep moving. Have you ever heard of a three year old who gives up? Three year olds do not sit still. Even as the world frustrates, it beckons.This year’s guide is 164 pages (bigger than the previous two years!) and we have made our maps more comprehensive. We also updated our design to match our new website (see below). Even though we never forget where we started, with so much to discover in our world, it’s great being three. And since my daughter turned five this fall, I know that each year can indeed get better – and maybe even a little easier. &nbsp;&nbsp;– Ginny Van Alyea, CGN Publisher&nbsp;2019 CGN Arts Guide cover artwork: Judy Ledgerwood, Trouble, 2010. Oil and raw pigment on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and Rhona Hoffman Gallery</body></html>

Publisher's Letter – 2019: 3rd Time's the Charm

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417825/htxsfgknhkwc4oxho1ph.jpg"><figcaption>Photo Credit: Museum of Contemporary Art Facebook</figcaption></figure><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>2019 Museum Free Days: The Complete List</h2>&nbsp;While Chicago begins to settle into a solid layer of frost for the winter, the museums are just getting warmed up. Big names and lesser-known galleries alike are opening their doors to the public for a much-needed change of pace. <a href="https://urbanmatter.com/chicago/museum-free-days/">Here’s the complete list of&nbsp;free museum days this winter.</a>By Arniecea Johnson, Urban Matter<a href="https://urbanmatter.com/chicago/museum-free-days/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417826/beeu27po63umuadrqbur.jpg"><figcaption>Installation view of “Martine Syms: Incense Sweaters &amp; Ice” at the Graham Foundation in Chicago, 2018. COURTESY THE ARTIST, BRIDGET DONAHUE, NEW YORK AND SADIE COLES HQ, LONDON/PHOTO: NATHAN KEAY</figcaption></figure><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>Order of Appearance: In Chicago Show, Martine Syms Examines How Blackness Is Performed, Absorbed, and Circulated</h2>&nbsp;Martine Syms, the Los Angeles–based artist and self-proclaimed “conceptual entrepreneur,” has mounted a solo show at the Graham Foundation in Chicago that solidifies her place at the forefront of critical explorations of Black femininity and the presence of Blackness in visual culture.By Amarie Gipson, ARTNEWS<a href="http://www.artnews.com/2019/01/08/order-appearance-chicago-show-martine-syms-examines-blackness-performed-absorbed-circulated/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417827/phwzkzvdb0kediteubv2.jpg"><figcaption>A macaron-making class at the Alliance Française de Chicago. (Bill Hogan / McClatchy-Tribune)</figcaption></figure><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>These 11 cultural centers in Chicago make learning fun</h2>&nbsp;If you’re looking for a fresh way to immerse yourself in the city’s diverse cultural landscape, hit up one of many centers showcasing the multitude of cultures from all over the world that make Chicago, Chicago. These organizations offer cooking workshops, language classes, performances, film screenings, art exhibits and more, allowing you to experience a new culture without having to shell out thousands of dollars for a plane ticket.Read on for 11 cultural centers that make learning fun — whether it’s your own heritage or not.By Aine Dougherty, RedEye via Chicago Tribune<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/redeye/culture/ct-redeye-chicago-international-cultural-centers-20181127-story.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417828/vg0q8msboudnu5x3hfib.jpg"><figcaption>Thomas Miller (1912–1920). 7-Up Cans, c. 1972. Private collection. James Prinz Photography, Chicago.</figcaption></figure><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>A Century of Black Designers Receive Belated Recognition in Chicago</h2>&nbsp;In Chicago, an exhibition is putting a new spotlight on black designers who have contributed to the city's artistic legacy for over a century. As part of Art Design Chicago—a yearlong arts initiative in the Windy City funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Richard H. Driehaus foundation—Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) has spent years amassing research on the city’s legacy of black designers.By Carly Olson, Architectural Digest<a href="https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/african-american-designers-in-chicago-art-design">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

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