<html><head></head><body>By GINNY VAN ALYEAWe have just sent our fabulous 2019 CGN Arts Guide to the printer, and we have been thinking about the year ahead nonstop for weeks now. It's hard to believe that a new year is around the corner already, but as we plan for the wide-open calendar that is the month of January, we are really looking forward to a few key exhibitions and events happening in the coming months.&nbsp;A few highlights are included for you here.&nbsp;Happy planning, and happy new year!&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417815/jd6osqnkwsmfnaui9xc5.jpg"><figcaption>Courtesy Snarkitecture</figcaption></figure>The Beach at Navy PierCreated by New York–based designers, Snarkitecture, The Beach Chicago is an EXPO CHICAGO 2019 program, presented by Navy Pier. Snarkitecture’s work focuses on the reinterpretation of everyday materials within a conceptual approach to create unexpected engagements with our surroundings — centered on the importance of experience, this premise extends to The Beach, an all-white ocean of over one million recyclable, antimicrobial plastic balls in a large, open room along with deck chairs, lifeguard chairs, umbrellas and signage that mimic a day at the beach. This immersive art installation along is surely a creative way to escape the bitter cold Chicago weather this winter.&nbsp;January 19–February 3, 2019&nbsp;Navy Pier, Aon Grand Ballroom&nbsp;Also: January 17 – Snarkitecture free panel discussion before the opening at the <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/panel-discussion-with-snarkitecture">Graham Foundation</a> to discuss The Beach<a href="navypier.org">navypier.org</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417817/r7lyzdv0kia2o4oilznl.gif"><figcaption>Dawoud Bey. Untitled #1 (Picket Fence and Farmhouse), from the series Night Coming Tenderly, Black, 2017. Rennie Collection, Vancouver. © Dawoud Bey. &nbsp;</figcaption></figure>Dawoud Bey: Night Coming Tenderly, BlackAfter Dawoud Bey turned 60, already renowned as a portraitist, he turned his camera on architecture and landscapes; accustomed to urban scenes, he decided to photograph thickets, a picket fence, and Lake Erie. Through these choices Bey wanted to make a greater shift: from pictures of the here and now to the vast, historical subject of the Underground Railroad.&nbsp;Jan 11–Apr 14, 2019 &nbsp;&nbsp;Art Institute of Chicago<a href="artic.edu">artic.edu</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417818/stqnetlyvahz3btlcud6.gif"><figcaption>Laurie Simmons, Walking House, 1989. Pigment print; 84 × 48 in. Photo courtesy of the artist and Salon 94, © Laurie Simmons.</figcaption></figure>Laurie Simmons: Big Camera / Little CameraThe Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago’s major retrospective of works by Laurie Simmons celebrates an artist recognized as a pioneer of new directions in photography. Known for using dolls and props as proxies for people and places, Simmons has long explored archetypal gender roles.Feb 23–May 5, 2019Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA)<a href="mcachicago.org">mcachicago.org</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417818/yvv3swss33v7u6irtwgi.gif"><figcaption>A work by Theaster Gates from 2016's solo show, Heavy Sketches, with Richard Gray Gallery</figcaption></figure>Theaster Gates at Gray WarehouseWe don't have the details yet, but we are excited! Stay tuned.&nbsp;Spring 2019Gray Warehouse<a href="richardgraygallery.com">richardgraygallery.com</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417819/m0zmj7vuxi0sbw3ypxpt.gif"><figcaption>A 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial installation at the Chicago Cultural Center. Photo by: Steve Hall</figcaption></figure>Chicago Architecture Biennial ReturnsThe Chicago Architecture Biennial returns for a 3rd edition in 2019. CAB’s second iteration, in 2017, was the largest architecture and design exhibition in North America, featuring over 140 practitioners from more than 20 countries, and it drew more than 554,000 visitors city–wide.The Biennial will once again coincide with EXPO Chicago, making Chicago the place to be in September.September 19, 2019–January 5, 2020Multiple locations.<a href="chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org">chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417821/cjiegne7y67ezn3b3b3d.gif"><figcaption>Kiki Smith, Seer (Alice II)&nbsp; 2005, Courtesythe artist and Pace Gallery, New York. Part of Sculpture Milwaukee 2018.</figcaption></figure>Sculpture Milwaukee&nbsp;Sculpture Milwaukee has become an annual beacon that attracts spectators and art lovers to the city center for several months each year, taking a world-class art gallery experience and turning it inside out. 2018’s edition showcased 21 works created by 22 artists from around the world.The 2019 version returns this summer throughout downtown Milwaukee. Many works are also for sale, if you have a big enough back yard...Multiple locations.Summer 2019<a href="sculpturemilwaukee.com">sculpturemilwaukee.com</a></body></html>

2019: Not-to-Miss Culture List

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417694/zsckmgrsu0qjjci63v6b.jpg"></figure>Public art grant goes to US city affected by school shootingA $1m grant has been awarded to the Florida city of Coral Springs for public art projects promoting “collective healing and reflection” after last February’s deadly high school shooting in neighbouring Parkland, Bloomberg Philanthropies announced on 20 November.The money, disbursed as part of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ 2018 Public Art Challenge, will go toward workshops and artists’ talks at the Coral Springs Museum of Art as well as five temporary art installations to be placed throughout the two cities.By Nancy Kenney, The Art Newspaper<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/public-art-grant-goes-to-us-cities-affected-by-school-shooting">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417695/qexk5qxbfni1x92uv1kg.jpg"></figure>An Art-Covered Stretch of the Berlin Wall Gains Protection From Encroaching Real Estate DevelopersIt’s probably the brightest wall in Berlin, but it marks a dark past. An art-covered stretch of the Berlin Wall has just gained protected status after real estate developers threatened to close in on the historic monument.Popular with tourists, the colorful three-quarters of a mile section of the wall&nbsp;that divided the German capital from 1961 to 1989 is known as the East Side Gallery.&nbsp;This month, the Berlin Wall Foundation, which runs other memorials to the wall throughout the city, took control of the site, bringing a halt to further real estate development around it.By Kate Brown, Artnet<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/berlin-wall-foundation-east-side-gallery-1401991">Read More</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417696/i4enlcgyr6f04whw6ser.jpg"></figure>The Four Social Classes of the Art WorldChristopher Hitchens used to tell a joke that had an Oxford don asking an American student what he’s studying. “My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United States.” “Oh, really? That’s interesting—one didn’t think there was a class system in the United States.” “Nobody does. That’s how it survives.”The subtlety of class in America has always made it a touchy subject. The topic spurs anxiety, mingling delicate issues of wealth and taste. Because America lacks inherited titles, ranks, and peerages, we instead tend to manufacture class hierarchies within our various subcultures. One subculture where the class hierarchy is on subtle display is in our status-conscious art world…at the ubiquitous art party.By Evan Beard, Artsy<a href="https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-four-social-classes-art">Read More</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417696/ihgcmhe9gukbpykzjw0u.jpg"></figure>Excited for Amazon’s Arrival in Long Island City? The Results for New York’s Art Community Won’t Be PrettyIt <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-chooses-new-york-city-and-northern-virginia-for-additional-headquarters-1542075336?mod=e2tw">appears to be official</a>: Amazon will split its second headquarters between Crystal City, Virginia, and Long Island City, New York. The news, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/05/technology/amazon-second-headquarters-split.html">rumored since last week</a>, has dropped like a concussion grenade.Anyone who sells high-end decor is probably excited by all these moneyed new condo owners. Though they might read <a href="https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/how-artists-can-fight-back-against-cities-that-are-taking-advantage-of-them/Content?oid=20655350">a Jen Graves piece from the Stranger</a>, which had one Seattle art and real estate maven theorizing, “the common Amazonian wants a flat-screen TV”—not art.Alongside all this salivating, though,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/09/tech/amazon-hq2-progressive-backlash/index.html">a chorus</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/09/opinion/amazon-new-york-business.html">of dismay</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-hq2-long-island-city-queens-opinion-2018-11"> and alarm</a> <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/11/9/18067908/amazon-hq-2-new-york-virginia-dc-lic-crystal-city">has already</a> been heard.By Ben Davis Artnet<a href="https://news.artnet.com/opinion/amazon-long-island-city-art-1393072">Read More</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417697/jdyu5nqksbwkzhtlcxip.jpg"></figure>Chicago’s Framing Master Celebrates 40 YearsWhen Jay Goltz decided to start a picture framing business right out of college, his family and friends thought he was wasting his degree. “In 1978, if you called someone an entrepreneur, it was an insult, like a hustler,” Goltz says. In hindsight, he thinks the disdain prepared him for the challenges that lay ahead.Forty years later, Artists Frame Service is the largest framing store in the country and one of a few keeping the art of framing alive. Clybourn Avenue, where Artists Frame Service is headquartered, has even been named Honorary Jay Goltz Way by the city of Chicago.By Amber Gibson, Architectural Digest<a href="https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/artists-frame-services-jay-goltz-chicago-40-years">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417698/nmuek59bwscrba4b9yqv.jpg"><figcaption>Gladys Nilsson</figcaption></figure>Elmhurst College symposium explores Chicago Imagist artistsBold, graphic, irreverent and inspired by pop culture, the work of Chicago Imagist artists includes highly original, personal expressions of the human form. On Dec. 16, Elmhurst College will host The Figure, Humor and the Chicago Imagists, a full-day symposium that explores works by Chicago Imagist artists and highlights the college's extraordinary collection of Imagist art.By Desiree Chen, Daily Herald<a href="https://www.dailyherald.com/submitted/20181120/elmhurst-college-symposium-explores-chicago-imagist-artists">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417699/mhxe8ciujoztkdojjo2g.jpg"></figure>Art authentication is not an exact scienceThe process of art attribution has recently come under attack from all sides. Forgery scandals seem to be rampant... This past January, a Modigliani exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa was forced to close early when it was revealed that nearly all the works were fakes. At the same time, fear of litigation has caused foundations representing Jean-Michel Basquiat, Alexander Calder, Keith Haring, Lee Krasner, Roy Lichtenstein, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol to dissolve their authentication boards. Just when we need them most, art experts find themselves increasingly on the defensive.By Jane Kallir, The Art Newspaper<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/comment/art-authentication-is-not-an-exact-science">Read More</a></body></html>

News From Around the Art World: November 26, 2018

<html><head></head><body><h2>David Hockney Is Now the World’s Most Expensive Living Artist</h2>David Hockney became the most expensive living artist Thursday night when Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) (1972) sold at Christie’s for $80 million at the hammer, or $90.3 million with fees. The work sold for exactly its on-request low estimate after nine minutes of bidding.By Nate Freeman, Artsy Editorial<a href="https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-david-hockney-worlds-expensive-living-artist">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417707/fhpsxgmazwvnclojwkuf.jpg"></figure><h2>At Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, new show looks at artists who moved&nbsp;West</h2>Art history is often presented as a tidy continuum — one movement flowing neatly into the next. But the reality is often much more knotty, as artists switch locales, follow teachers and chase whims. “West By Midwest,” running this weekend through Jan. 27 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, offers a case study in this “complex, even messier alternative,” according to co-organizer Charlotte Ickes.By Kyle MacMillan, Chicago Sun Times<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/west-by-midwest-artists-museum-contemporary-art-chicago-ed-ruscha-sterling-ruby-mike-kelley-exhibitions-visual-arts/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417708/oqazqrsq6geh1mzbwgq6.jpg"></figure><h2>A Picasso Stolen in a Major Heist Six Years Ago Was Found Buried in a Romanian Forest. But It Was All Part of a Prank</h2>A painting by Pablo Picasso stolen in a dramatic heist six years ago has been found buried in a Rotterdam forest. Or, at least, it seemed that way at first. But what appeared to be a cinematic recovery has now been revealed to be a hoax. Two Belgian film directors planted a forged version of the painting—recovered 10 days ago by an expert on the theft—as an elaborate prank.By Kate Brown, artnet news<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/picasso-prank-netherlands-1398631">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417709/vdzp4xjwi2odsixyfvyf.jpg"></figure><h2>Exhibitors see steady sales at the second edition of Puerto Rico's MECA art fair</h2>With hurricane recovery well underway despite many delays, twenty-nine exhibitors—down from just over 30 in 2017—presented at this year's edition of the fair. These included returning New York-based galleries White Columns, 47 Canal and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, as well as newcomers yours mine &amp; ours and Bridget Donahue; Embajada from Puerto Rico; and Casa Quien from the Dominican Republic. “It’s important to support Puerto Rico and there are a lot of artist-run spaces and interesting artists here trying to make change after Maria,” says Patton Hindle, co-founder of yours mine &amp; ours.By Ann Binlot, The Art Newspaper<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/exhibitors-see-steady-sales-puerto-rico-second-edition-of-meca">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: November 20, 2018

By GINNY VAN ALYEA&nbsp;Friday, November 2, 2018 will be a big opening night around the city, as many galleries open major shows that will be their final exhibitions of the year.&nbsp;The busy night also coincides with the 25th edition of SOFA, which takes place on Navy Pier all weekend. Following the end of the fair's show on Friday, art lovers are encouraged to go out into the city's dozens of art spaces to see what is new in area galleries.Per history, it's a big opening night in&nbsp;River North, and more openings are also happening in other city arts districts like West Town&nbsp;neighborhoods. On Saturday, more openings take place in West Town and Ukrainian Village, while several also are planned in Evanston.&nbsp;Our short list of highlights is listed below, and our full calendar may be <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar">viewed&nbsp;here</a>.Note that there are several tours, artist talks and auctions also happening through the weekend, so plan ahead and enjoy these early days of November!&nbsp;Don't forget that CGN has a booth at SOFA too, so stop by and say hi!&nbsp;See you in the galleries!&nbsp;<h3>&nbsp;</h3><h2>FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2</h2>Michael Rakowitz: The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist (Room Z, Northwest Palace of Nimrud)November 2–December at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/michael-rakowitz-the-invisible-enemy-should-not-exist-room-z-northwest-palace-of-nimrud">Rhona Hoffman Gallery</a>Based in Chicago, Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz makes work that explores recent contested social, political, and cultural histories. Drawing on personal experiences and research on these subjects, as well as history and popular culture, Rakowitz creates illustrated objects, installations, and performances that invite viewers to contemplate their complicit relationship to the political world around them, recognizing that hospitality and hostility are interlinked.For this exhibition, the&nbsp;gallery’s architecture has been transformed into the layout of&nbsp;Room Zin King Ashurnasirpal II’s 9th century BC palace&nbsp;(near present-day Mosul in northern Iraq), which stood uncovered as a powerful testament to the Assyrian Golden Age from its 1854 excavation by British archaeologists until its tragic destruction in 2015. Working with a team of assistants, Michael Rakowitz has reconstructed the monumental limestone reliefs that once lined the palace walls with depictions of&nbsp;apkallu&nbsp;or winged guardians with human heads, who hold offerings of pollen and young date fronds, beneath cuneiform extolling the King’s greatness.&nbsp;Room Z&nbsp;appears as it stood at the time of its untimely demise with only seven of thirteen panels present.<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3192/original/mr.gif" alt=""></figure><h3>&nbsp;</h3> &nbsp;Michael Koerner: My DNANovember 2–December 22&nbsp;at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/michael-koerner-my-dna">Catherine Edelman&nbsp;Gallery</a>On August 9, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the town of Nagasaki, a short distance from the home of artist Michael Koerner's mother. The chemical fallout from the bomb instantly killed tens of thousands of people, and left many more reeling from its effects for the rest of their lives. Koerner's family is just one example of the devastation that chemical warfare had during WWII. Koerner&nbsp;(b. Okinawa, Japan, 1963) is the oldest of five brothers. Due to&nbsp;genetic deformities resulting from cancer, he is the only remaining living sibling. His brothers' fates (and potentially his own one day) can be linked to their mother, who was eleven years old on&nbsp;that ill-fated August day and lived in Sasebo, Japan, 45&nbsp;miles away&nbsp;from the blast. With a family history of various cancers, it is no wonder Koerner became an organic chemist, currently teaching at the University of Illinois at&nbsp;Urbana-Champaign.Koerner's 6 x 8" tintypes seduce the viewer with glistening deep blacks, metallic silvers, and odd green, yellow and blue hues, to talk about disease. By blowing through a straw, or dripping chemicals from an eyedropper onto tin plates, Koerner manipulates collodian to create sunbursts, explosions, amorphous shapes, and double helixes, all of which reference his family history.<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3193/original/coronae-9870-2017.gif" alt=""></figure> &nbsp;David Lozano,&nbsp;Madera Picado,Blake Aaseby,&nbsp;Gather RoundJohn Fraser,&nbsp;Found in the MakingNovember 2–December 28&nbsp;at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/david-lozano-blake-aaseby-and-john-fraser">Zolla/Lieberman&nbsp;Gallery</a>The work of three artists will be on view at Zolla/Lieberman in River North, and each artist is focused on materials.&nbsp;Papel Picado is a Mexican Folk Art of cutting decorative paper into cut designs that are then displayed as brightly colored banners. Inspired by this historic practice, David Lozano fashions his Madera (wood) Picado series.Within layers of condensed mapping, Blake Aaseby balances a push and pull of painted planes, documented line-work, and recalled shapes in order to form convoluted re-tellings of past events. His work aims at creating maps to a landscape he finds is both fading and forming, one that rests between the past and present.&nbsp;John Fraser's&nbsp;acrylic/wax on carved wood constructions make for playful material illusions that draw the viewer close, out of a desire to know how something was done, and then make the viewer also step back to behold a new artistic object created from a natural resource.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3194/original/johnfraserpromo-orig.gif" alt=""></figure> &nbsp;Shade Garden: Jessica LabatteNovember 2–December 22 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/shade-garden-jessica-labatte">Western Exhibitions</a>Shade Garden, Jessica Labatte’s second solo exhibition at Western Exhibitions, continues the artist’s explorations of paradoxes and illusions within photographic images.&nbsp;&nbsp;The works in&nbsp;Shade Garden&nbsp;champion beauty in the everyday as a radical political gesture in our contemporary moment. The images explore photographic notions of the visible and invisible, the present and withdrawn.&nbsp;Shade Garden&nbsp;will include two interrelated series of color photographs.The first series is a group of floral still lives. Small and medium sized prints will be installed in a salon fashion in the gallery alongside three monumentally scaled prints. The second series of photographs capture the experience of being in the garden, as color and dappled light are constantly in flux. In these seemingly abstract works, color, light, and shadow explore an imagined virtual space beyond traditional notions of photographic representation.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3195/original/labatte-bleeding-heart-small.jpg" alt=""></figure> &nbsp;Keysook Geum: Moving in ColorsOpening November 2 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/keysook-geum-moving-in-colors">Andrew Bae Gallery</a>Dr. Keysook Geum, known for her delicate and wearable creations,&nbsp;is an author and professor at Hongik University in Seoul, South Korea&nbsp;in the Textile and Fashion Design Department. She had the honor of designing the dresses and uniforms for the&nbsp;Pyeongchang Winter Olympic&nbsp;Games&nbsp;in 2018. Multiple new works will be on view at the gallery and the artist will be present at the opening on November 2.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3200/original/geum.gif" alt=""></figure><h3>&nbsp;</h3>KA-BAM! HOLY MOLY! 70's and 80's Chicago Art from the Lonn Frye CollectionNovember 2–December 29 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/ka-bam-holy-moly-70-s-and-80-s-chicago-art-from-the-lonn-frye-collection">Carl Hammer Gallery</a>A unique look at a host of Imagist works from a private collection will be on view at Carl Hammer in River North, and the opening takes place in conjunction with many other area galleries on November 2.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3196/original/brown-breadbasket-dustbowl.gif" alt=""></figure> &nbsp;On Guard, a group exhibition curated by Kasia KayNovember 2–December 2 at Matthew Rachman Gallery, curated by <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/on-guard-a-group-exhibition-curated-by-kasia-kay">Kasia Kay Art Projects</a>Kasia Kay had a gallery for several years in the Fulton Market district, and today she deals privately and curates pop-up exhibitions. On Guard, a group exhibition will open and be on view at Matthew Rachman Gallery in West Town. On Guard&nbsp;is meant to be a reminder of the courage within all of us and to empower viewers to fight for their rights on both personal and collective levels. The exhibition brings together a group of contemporary artists exploring the sport of boxing in relation to the nature of life that always keeps us on our feet and on guard. While&nbsp;On Guard&nbsp;centers on female-identifying artists, the multifaceted components of their identities and practice are to be present in the exhibition as well. With a multisensory experience that features multidisciplinary works, the show examines not only courage and fears, strength and vulnerability, but also notions of gender equality, safety and violence, as well as the sport’s poetic contradictions, all through traditional and non-traditional depictions of boxing-related imagery.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3197/original/2x1a8390-katya-and-michel-for-emails-.gif" alt=""></figure> &nbsp;<h2>Two ticketed special opening events take place also on Friday evening:&nbsp;</h2>Mansion - A SOFA SoireeNovember 2, 7–9pm&nbsp;at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/mansion-a-sofa-soiree">The Golden Triangle</a> with the River North Design District&nbsp;The&nbsp;Golden Triangle and The River North Design District (RNDD) have partnered&nbsp;with&nbsp;SOFA CHICAGO&nbsp;on Friday, November 2&nbsp;to&nbsp;host&nbsp;The Official SOFA After-Party&nbsp;for the&nbsp;art&nbsp;fair, celebrating its 25th&nbsp;anniversary this year. The private event features 20&nbsp;works from artist Adam Siegel who will debut his new show&nbsp;Archetype: Excavation and Expectation at The Golden Triangle.Guests will enjoy an evening in a private mansion full of art and ancient antiquities and experience global design in an intimate, glamorous, and comfortable setting.&nbsp;The evening is being bill as a secret night of culture, with&nbsp;dance, cool music, performance art, fashion, innovative food and artisanal beverages. Tickets are $35.<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3198/original/asgtnov.gif" alt=""></figure> &nbsp;Annual Fall Show of New Work in LakeviewNovember 2–30 at&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/annual-fall-show-of-new-work">Art De Triumph &amp; Artful Framer Studios</a>Artist Nancie King Mertz hosts a fall party at&nbsp;ArtDeTriumph &amp; Artful Framer Studios&nbsp;on Friday,&nbsp;Nov. 2nd, 5-8pm.Featuring&nbsp;Mertz's&nbsp;new paintings of 2018, complimentary wine and delicious appetizers from Gundis Kurdish Kitchen will be offered. If you book a spot for $25 per person, you will have&nbsp;$25 to spend on cards, coasters, gifts, prints, framing or originals.<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3202/original/mertzfall.gif" alt=""></figure><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h2>SATURDAY NOVEMBER 3</h2>Samira Yamin:&nbsp;Passing Obliquely From One Medium Into AnotherNovember 3–January&nbsp;18 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/samira-yamin-passing-obliquely-from-one-medium-into-another">PATRON</a>PATRON's&nbsp;first solo exhibition with Los Angeles based artist Samira Yamin&nbsp;opens on November 3rd. In a 2012&nbsp;interview with In the Make&nbsp;Yamin explained "On a very basic level, I’m drawn to images of the Middle East because I know they in some way represent me to myself, or at least they’re representations against which I’ve constructed my identity." Yamin's&nbsp;parents left Iran in 1982, not long after the Iranian Revolution, and just as the Iran-Iraq war was beginning. She also said, "I think of my work as an interrogation of photojournalism, so yes, absolutely. I want my work to create, or reveal, or emphasize tension at various points in the life of the image."<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3204/original/patrongallery-3778-1540877959.gif" alt=""></figure> &nbsp;Greg Gossel: Labor of LoveNovember 3–24 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/greg-gossel-labor-of-love">Vertical Gallery&nbsp;</a>Gossel has a background in design, and his work is an expressive interplay of many diverse words, images, and gestures. Gossel’s multi-layered work illustrates a visual history of change and process that simultaneously features and condemns popular culture. His work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and abroad, including Japan, London, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Copenhagen, and Chicago. His commercial clients include American Express, Levi’s, Burton Snowboards, Stussy, VICE Magazine, and Interscope Records.<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3201/original/greg-gossel-hello-and-goodbye-8-44x33-vertical-gallery-1024x1024.gif" alt=""></figure> &nbsp;Top of page image: Michael Koerner,&nbsp;Finger Prints #6191, 2018, from the&nbsp;Finger Prints&nbsp;series,&nbsp;6 x 8" collodion on tin, Unique

A summary of openings taking place in Chicago in early November 2018

November Openings Preview

By GINNY VAN ALYEAWhen I used to lead introductory&nbsp;tours of SOFA,&nbsp;there were some general points I always wanted to leave my group with as they headed out on their own to explore what can be an overwhelming and overstimulating art fair.&nbsp;There is so much to see and take in, that at some point your senses might not be able to handle it! Having a&nbsp;few key things in mind as you wander nearly 80 booths can help you manage the visual binge.While SOFA has made its name by&nbsp;being&nbsp;focused on the same part of the contemporary art market&nbsp;for two and a half decades, it has also evolved to welcome in new perspectives from the art world. Mostly SOFA is dedicated to Sculptural Objects and Functional Art - basically, sculpture and 3D works, but today&nbsp;there is more design on view than ever, which makes sense with SOFA's functional directive, and there is also more 2D work that shows up from time to time, offering, for example,&nbsp;a clever play on painting objects that may in fact by sculptural.&nbsp;This brief, and hopefully handy, overview of what's on view at SOFA this year in the gallery booths should help you see some of the show's hallmarks and come away with an understanding of what makes SOFA a different kind of contemporary art fair all together.Of course, once you go see it all for yourself, you can decide what makes SOFA unique.&nbsp;Complete information may be found at <a href="http://www.sofaexpo.com/">www.sofaexpo.com</a> &nbsp;GLASSGlass is what SOFA is most known for, even though it's not what dominates the fair. However, there's no denying that a visit to SOFA will offer an encounter with lions like Dale Chihuly as well as Lino Tagliapietra (after 16 years with CGN I can say that name four times fast!) &nbsp;The mezmerizing, traveling Hot Glass Show&nbsp;by Corning is also a not-to-be-missed chance&nbsp;to learn about the science and technology behind innovations in glass through live, narrated glassmaking demonstrations, offered all day at the fair.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3176/original/3.gif" alt=""></figure> &nbsp;<h3>&nbsp;</h3>CERAMICCeramic art at SOFA take so many forms. I'm always so taken in by porcelain because even though it's so delicate it can take on so many shapes.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3177/original/ceramic.gif" alt=""></figure> &nbsp;TEXTURE + TECHNIQUESo much of what's at SOFA is about contemporary art but it also references craft and decorative techniques from history, such as basket weaving and other functional arts.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3179/original/1.gif" alt=""></figure> &nbsp;MATERIALSSo much of an artist's challenge is working with various materials, and at SOFA this is always abundantly on view. Artists must figure out how to manipulate and work within a certain medium and then determine how a work can be displayed and enjoyed.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3180/original/6.gif" alt=""></figure>ILLUSIONThis is one of my favorite things about the art at SOFA - so much of it is created just to be visually appreciated and marvelled at. Visitors to the fair spend a lot of time trying to just figure out, 'How did they do that?'<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3182/original/larger-1.gif" alt=""></figure><figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3183/original/larger-2.gif" alt=""></figure> &nbsp;Top image: Kate Tremel,&nbsp;Lacey, 2018,&nbsp;Ceramic,&nbsp;19 × 20 × 20";&nbsp;unique,&nbsp;Steidel Contemporary

A SOFA Scavenger Hunt

By GINNY VAN ALYEA

At EXPO CHICAGO last weekend, I realized that it was a year ago that we started first hearing about Art Design Chicago&#39;s many plans for 2018. What began as a clever, interactive marketing campaign spearheaded by the smart-pants creatives at Leo Burnett, has grown into a smart and engaging lineup of collaborative&nbsp;public programming that has lasted all year long.

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Now that we find ourselves in October already, &nbsp;and we long-ago solved those marketing teases we first saw at EXPO in 2017,&nbsp;we can&#39;t overlook all there is still to do, thanks to ADC.&nbsp;This month alone there is a&nbsp;full slate to experience, as&nbsp;six&nbsp;new exhibitions&nbsp;open at cultural institutions across the city and beyond, exploring topics such as&nbsp;product design,&nbsp;mid-century art deco,&nbsp;Chicago bicycle culture, and much more.

Some upcoming exhibition and event highlights are listed below. Go check these amazing shows out soon. As indicated by the Smart Museum&#39;s current Art Design Chicago exhibition title, the time is now!&nbsp;

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<h4>October 13:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artdesignchicago.org/events/diasporal-rhythms-2018-collectors-home-tours">Diasporal Rhythms Home Tour</a></h4>

Take a peek inside the homes of collectors of artworks by members of the African Diaspora. Chicago-based artists include Juarez Hawkins, Marva Lee Pitchford Jolly, Faheem Majeed, Joyce Owens, Felicia Grant Preston, and more.&nbsp;

<h4><img alt="" data-caption="D.E. Simmons Collection. Photo by Isadore Howard." data-rich-file-id="3082" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3082/original/simmons-2.jpg" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; text-transform: none;" /></h4>

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<h4>October 17:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artdesignchicago.org/events/music-at-the-1893-world-s-fair?utm_source=Art+Design+Chicago+%28MASTER%29&amp;utm_campaign=78ed7af0b1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_14_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_9706030fea-78ed7af0b1-109297297">Music at the 1893 World&#39;s Fair</a></h4>

What role did music play at the World&rsquo;s Columbian Exposition of 1893? Stop by the Newberry Library (it just completed a major renovation!)&nbsp;for a special musical performance featuring original compositions written for and performed at the Fair in the late 19th century, then stroll through the accompanying exhibition&nbsp;Pictures from an Exposition: Visualizing the 1893 World&#39;s Fair.

<img alt="" data-caption="“Harmony Reigns at the World’s Fair,” from Puck Magazine, 1893" data-rich-file-id="3080" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3080/original/music.jpg" />

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<h4><a href="https://www.artdesignchicago.org/events/up-is-down-mid-century-experiments-in-advertising-and-film-at-the-goldsholl-studio">Block Cinema Film Series</a></h4>

The Block Museum of Art offers a film series showcasing the artistry of the Chicago design firm Goldsholl &amp; Associates, including screenings of mid-century film experiments and advertising campaigns, &aacute; la&nbsp;Mad Men.&nbsp;

In the 1950s, Chicago-based design firm Goldsholl Design Associates made a name for itself with innovative &quot;designs-in-film.&quot; Headed by Morton and Millie Goldsholl, the studio produced television spots, films, trademarks, corporate identities, and print advertisements for international corporations like Kimberly-Clark, Motorola, and 7-Up. Although they were compared to some of the most celebrated design firms of the day, the Goldsholls and their designers are relatively unknown today. Opening in September 2018, the Block Museum&rsquo;s exhibition&nbsp;Up is Down: Mid-Century Experimentation in Advertising and Film at the Goldsholl Studio&nbsp;reexamines the innovative work of Goldsholl and Associates and its national impact.

<img alt="" data-caption="Goldsholl Design Associates, Still from Kimberly-Clark Corporation Kleenex X-Periments: Sneeze, c. 1960. Chicago Film Archives." data-rich-file-id="3084" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3084/original/block.jpg" />

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<h4><a href="https://www.artdesignchicago.org/events/africobra-50?utm_source=Art+Design+Chicago+%28MASTER%29&amp;utm_campaign=78ed7af0b1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_14_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_9706030fea-78ed7af0b1-109297297">AfriCOBRA 50</a></h4>

At Kavi Gupta Gallery, through November 24 at the gallery&#39;s 219 N Elizabeth St. location.

AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists) is the influential black artist collective that defined the visual aesthetic of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 70s. In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of its founding in Chicago, this exhibition presents works by the five original members&mdash;Gerald Williams, Wadsworth Jarrell, Jae Jarrell, Jeff Donaldson, and Barbara Jones-Hogu&mdash;as well as a select group of their peers.

<img alt="" data-caption="Wadsworth Jarrell, Steel Square, 1995. Courtesy of the artist and Kavi Gupta." data-rich-file-id="3085" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3085/original/africobra.jpg" />

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<h4><a href="https://www.artdesignchicago.org/events/break-a-rule-ed-paschke-s-art-and-teaching?utm_source=Art+Design+Chicago+%28MASTER%29&amp;utm_campaign=78ed7af0b1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_14_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_9706030fea-78ed7af0b1-109297297">Break A Rule: Ed Paschke&rsquo;s Art and Teaching</a></h4>

Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University,&nbsp;now through December 9.

Ed Paschke is celebrated as one of the leading Chicago Imagists, a group of artists who emerged in the late 1960s with an expressive style of figurative painting rooted in Surrealism, outsider art, and popular culture. Less is known of his almost 30 years teaching art and artists at Northwestern University. This show celebrates his legacy as an educator with artworks by Paschke alongside his teaching material from the Northwestern University Archives and generous loans from Marc and Sharon Paschke. &nbsp;

<img alt="" data-caption="Ed Paschke, Ponderosa [detail], 1991, Color lithograph on paper, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, 1995.5" data-rich-file-id="3086" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3086/original/resize.jpg" />

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<h4><a href="https://www.artdesignchicago.org/events/yasuhiro-ishimoto-someday-chicago?utm_source=Art+Design+Chicago+%28MASTER%29&amp;utm_campaign=78ed7af0b1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_14_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_9706030fea-78ed7af0b1-109297297">Yasuhiro Ishimoto: SomedaY Chicago</a></h4>

At DePaul Art Museum,&nbsp;now through December 16

Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Someday, Chicago&nbsp;examines the work of American-born photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto (1921&ndash;2012) through the lens of Chicago, where Ishimoto lived for nearly a decade and where he would continue to return throughout his life. Celebrated by many as one of the most influential photographers of Japan in the 20th century, Ishimoto also maintained deep ties to his adopted home city where he arrived in 1945 after having been interned during World War II. It was in Chicago that he first developed his uniquely modernist vision&mdash;both at the historic Institute of Design (ID) in dialogue with L&aacute;szl&oacute; Moholy-Nagy, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and other teachers there; and in the city&rsquo;s streets, where he captured changes reflective of broader societal shifts happening across the United States.

<img alt="" data-caption="Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Untitled, Chicago (El Over River), c. 1950. Silver gelatin print. Image: 7 1/4 in x 10 in. Collection of DePaul Art Museum, Gift of Stephen Daiter." data-rich-file-id="3083" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3083/original/2012-57-original.jpg" />

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<h4><a href="https://www.artdesignchicago.org/events/hairy-who-1966-1969?utm_source=Art+Design+Chicago+%28MASTER%29&amp;utm_campaign=78ed7af0b1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_14_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_9706030fea-78ed7af0b1-109297297">Hairy Who? 1966&ndash;1969</a></h4>

Art Institute of Chicago, now through January 6

The Art Institute of Chicago presents the first major exhibition dedicated solely to the groundbreaking Hairy&nbsp;Who. This&nbsp;self-named, self-organized group of six artists&mdash;Jim Falconer, Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Suellen Rocca, and Karl&nbsp;Wirsum&mdash;all came of age in Chicago, graduated from the School of the Art Institute, and began exhibiting at the Hyde Park Art Center in&nbsp;the late 1960s. Presented on the 50th anniversary of their final Chicago show, The Art Institute&rsquo;s major survey exhibition and publication feature key works as&nbsp;well as archival ephemera contextualizing the group&rsquo;s creative process, working methods, and the social and political milieu in which they made their art.

<img alt="" data-caption="Karl Wirsum, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, 1968. The Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize Fund, 1969.248" data-rich-file-id="3089" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3089/original/sreamin-jay-hawkins.jpg" />

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<h4><a href="https://www.artdesignchicago.org/events/the-figure-and-the-chicago-imagists-selections-from-the-elmhurst-college-art-collection?utm_source=Art+Design+Chicago+%28MASTER%29&amp;utm_campaign=78ed7af0b1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_14_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_9706030fea-78ed7af0b1-109297297">The Figure and the Chicago Imagists: Selections from the Elmhurst College Art Collection</a></h4>

Elmhurst Art Museum, now through&nbsp;January 13, 2019

Over and over the Chicago Imagists cast the figure in numerous roles, distorting it and layering it with metaphor and personal meaning. Outrageous, irreverent, and humorous and inspired by popular culture, these works reflect highly original expressions of the human form.

This exhibition features the Elmhurst College Art Collection, focused on artists working in Chicago between about 1950 and the present. The exhibition is curated by Suellen Rocca, one of the original members of the prominent Imagist group known as the Hairy Who and Curator and Director of Exhibitions at Elmhurst College.

<img alt="" data-caption="Barbara Rossi, Shep Step II, 1973. Acrylic on Plexiglas, 29 x 23 inches. Elmhurst College Art Collection." data-rich-file-id="3087" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3087/original/rossi-shep-step-ii-web-version.jpg" />

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<h4><a href="https://www.artdesignchicago.org/events/the-time-is-now-art-worlds-of-chicago-s-south-side-1960-1980?utm_source=Art+Design+Chicago+%28MASTER%29&amp;utm_campaign=78ed7af0b1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_14_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_9706030fea-78ed7af0b1-109297297">The Time Is Now! Art Worlds of Chicago&rsquo;s South Side, 1960&ndash;1980</a></h4>

Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, now through December 30

During the 1960s and 1970s, Chicago was shaped by art and ideas produced and circulated on the South Side. Yet the history of the period&#39;s creative and social ferment has often remained segregated by the city&rsquo;s social, political, and geographic divides.

The Time Is Now!&nbsp;takes a nuanced look at the cultural history of Chicago&rsquo;s South Side during this momentous era of change and conflict, with a focus on artists of the Black Arts Movement. Through nearly 100 objects, the show upends dominant narratives of the period and unearths rich stories by examining watershed cultural moments from the Hairy Who to the&nbsp;Wall of Respect, from the Civil Rights movement to the AfriCOBRA, from vivid protest posters to visionary outsider art, and from the Free University movement to the radical jazz of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.

<img alt="" data-caption="Gerald Williams, Messages, 1970, Acrylic on canvas. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Purchase, The Paul and Miriam Kirkley Fund for Acquisitions, 2017.8." data-rich-file-id="3088" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3088/original/smart-williams-2017-0008p.jpg" />

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<h4><a href="https://www.artdesignchicago.org/events/living-architecture?utm_source=Art+Design+Chicago+%28MASTER%29&amp;utm_campaign=78ed7af0b1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_14_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_9706030fea-78ed7af0b1-109297297">Living Architecture</a></h4>

Thru&nbsp;December 23, 2018 at 6018North

Chicago has long served as a hub where creative people of different cultures, customs, and perspectives collide and converge.&nbsp;Living Architecture&nbsp;is a timely, large-scale multidisciplinary exhibition that showcases the work of over 50 Chicago contemporary immigrant artists. Located at 6018North, a historical home in the Edgewater community built and designed by immigrants, the exhibition draws from Chicago&rsquo;s rich heritage of immigrant artists&rsquo; work to highlight the continuous influence of immigrants in shaping visual culture locally and nationally.

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<h4><a href="https://www.artdesignchicago.org/events/between-the-buildings-art-from-chicago-1930s-1980s?utm_source=Art+Design+Chicago+%28MASTER%29&amp;utm_campaign=78ed7af0b1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_14_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_9706030fea-78ed7af0b1-109297297">Between the Buildings: Art from Chicago, 1930s&ndash;1980s</a></h4>

Krannert Art Museum,&nbsp;University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,&nbsp;thru&nbsp;March 23, 2019

Coined by art writers and critics in the mid- to late-twentieth century, the so-called Chicago School consisted of two groups of artists&mdash;the Monster Roster and the Imagists. These artists diverged from the broader mid-century trend toward abstraction and were largely ignored or dismissed by critics in New York, who were defining the canon of modernism. However, what happens when the categorization and labeling of a group of artists is unwanted or contested? This exhibition considers the problematic nature of art historical categories and explores what other stories are missed by perpetuating a single narrative. Between the Buildings&nbsp;also reflects Krannert Art Museum&rsquo;s strong collection of works by Chicago-based artists developed by former director Stephen Prokopoff (1983&ndash;1991).

<img alt="" data-caption="Allen Stringfellow, Street Smarts II, ca. 1990s. Collage and watercolor on paper. Krannert Art Museum. Gift of John and Dorothy Gardner." data-rich-file-id="3081" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/3081/original/kam-stringfellow-full.jpg" />

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Highlights of Art Design Chicago October 2018

Art Design Chicago's Busy October

<h2>What Sold at Expo Chicago</h2>

On most occasions, art fairs feel like their own little worlds&mdash;festive bubbles cocooned in the thick walls of climate-controlled convention centers, humming on coffee and champagne, impervious to natural light and whatever is happening in the real world.

By Anna Louie Sussman, Artsy

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<h2>Art on theMart kicks off with a really big-screen question: Is Chicago ready for video art?</h2>

Art on theMart, in the inaugural showing of what is being pitched as a three-decade, ongoing public art work, showed itself to be surreal, populist, inscrutable, obvious, confounding and engaging Saturday before a crowd that included city bigwigs down on the Riverwalk and thousands of Chicagoans up on the closed-off Wacker Drive.

By Steve Johnson, Chicago Tribune

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<h2>Art helps bring a divided Chicago neighborhood together</h2>

Their task was to learn about one another &mdash; and differences surfaced quickly. An African American boy from a public school pulled up a pant leg to show where a bullet had pierced his calf. His partner, a white boy who attends a private school and lives three blocks away, was shocked and saddened. The 40 or so kids who had gathered found common ground, too: a love of family, sports, animals and video games; a wish to succeed.

By&nbsp;Associated Press, via The Washington Post

<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/art-helps-bring-a-divided-chicago-neighborhood-together/2018/09/28/60f37ccc-c1b1-11e8-b338-a3289f6cb742_story.html?utm_term=.f6e8b3b9ea2b">Read More</a>

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<h2>When Auctioneers Don&rsquo;t Know or Can&rsquo;t See Their Buyers</h2>

Live online bidding came to some of the major fine art auction houses about a decade ago, but it was not until about five years ago that it became commonplace for auction sales. Today, it is a fundamental part of how auctions work, said Jussi Pylkkanen, global president of Christie&rsquo;s and an auctioneer.

By&nbsp;Nina Siegal, The New York Times

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News from Around the Art World: October 2nd, 2018

A summary of local Chicago highlights at EXPO CHICAGO 2018 

Spotlight on Chicago Galleries at EXPO

<h2>Art Gallery by Tadao Ando Set to Open October 12 in Chicago</h2>

A stunning new space for art will open in Chicago next month. Wrightwood 659 is Tadao Ando&rsquo;s second project in the city for the same client. The 35,000-square-foot gallery is located just a few doors down from the Pritzker laureate&rsquo;s first project, a house for media mogul and philanthropist Fred Eychaner&nbsp;completed twenty years ago in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. While the house was the Japanese architect&rsquo;s first free-standing building in the United States, Wrightwood 659 is a conversion of a four-story 1920&rsquo;s apartment building.

By Josephine Minutillo, Architectural Record

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<h2>Chicago resurrects its master craftsman</h2>

With their striking wealth of detail&mdash;stained-glass windows with frolicking animals, wood incised with geometric patterns, classical bas-reliefs, brick studded with tile&mdash;Edgar Miller&rsquo;s riotously decorated artists&rsquo; studios in Chicago have earned comparisons with landmarks such as Simon Rodia&rsquo;s Watts Towers in south Los Angeles or Antoni Gaud&iacute;&rsquo;s Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona. Yet Miller (1899-1993) has been largely overlooked in US architectural history.

By Nancy&nbsp;Kenney, The Art Newspaper

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<h2>&lsquo;3-D Doings: The Imagist Object in Chicago Art, 1964-1980&rsquo; Review: A Celebration of the Weird</h2>

&lsquo;Weird&rdquo; is a word&nbsp;that&rsquo;s lost a lot of currency over the past couple of decades. Things that used to mark a person as someone who played outside the lines&mdash;tattoos, facial piercings, and clothes that make wearers look as if they&rsquo;d just escaped a burning building&mdash;now wax normal. Even the official slogan of the Independent Business Alliance of Texas&rsquo; capital city is &ldquo;Keep Austin Weird.&rdquo;

By&nbsp;Peter Plagens, The Wall Street Journal

<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/3-d-doings-the-imagist-object-in-chicago-art-1964-1980-review-a-celebration-of-the-weird-1537302109">Read More</a>

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<h2>Want to Get Rich Buying Art? Invest in Women</h2>

Once, when asked about discrimination against female artists, the Abstract Expressionist Lee Krasner said the bias was as old as Judeo-Christian history. Brushing aside the weight of that realization, she added, &ldquo;There&rsquo;s nothing I can do about those 5,000 years.&rdquo;&nbsp;She painted anyway, as have women throughout the ages who have continued to create despite official disdain.&nbsp;Centuries and decades later, it seems their persistence may be finally paying off.

By&nbsp;Mary Gabriel, The New York Times

<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/opinion/want-to-get-rich-buying-art-invest-in-women.html">Read More</a>

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News from Around the Art World: September 25, 2018

By GINNY VAN ALYEA

Since EXPO CHICAGO is opening a little later in the month than usual this year, we have been looking forward to it a little bit longer. 

Built around&nbsp;rigorous and challenging programming,&nbsp;strategic international partnerships and&nbsp;strong institutional relationships with major local museums and organizations, the opening of EXPO CHICAGO launches the international fall art season, making Chicago&nbsp;the&nbsp;place to be in September. In addition to heralding the opening of the fair, EXPO ART WEEK&#39;s extensive programming, thanks in large part this year to the efforts and support of Art Design Chicago, is highly anticipated, and there are more shows to see and events to attend than there are hours in the week.&nbsp;

We recently plucked some <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2018/9/see-you-soon-expo-chicago">art highlights</a> to watch for from the fair, and here we share&nbsp;some key events to watch this week, as well as highlights from EXPO&#39;s special programs and a list of notable exhibitors.&nbsp;

From city-wide openings to a marathon interview session to notable book signings and art that&#39;s as big as the Merchandise Mart, there is a lot to take in.

Check out&nbsp;<a href="http://expochicago.com">expochicago.com</a>&nbsp;for the complete guide. 

Our&nbsp;CGN&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar">Arts Calendar</a>&nbsp;is also full of EXPO events, new gallery and museum exhibitions, and much more.&nbsp;Visit the CGN booth at the west end of the show floor to find out about more art events in the area all year long,&nbsp;as well as to&nbsp;say hi and&nbsp;pick up a copy of our CGN Arts Guide and our Fall 2018 magazine.

We look forward to EXPO all year. 

&ndash; See you in the galleries, and at the fair!

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<h3>EXPO CHICAGO FAIR HOURS + BASIC INFORMATION</h3>

VERNISSAGE&nbsp;-&nbsp;Purchase Tickets&nbsp;<a href="https://mcachicago.org/Calendar/2018/09/Vernissage#_ga=2.64153327.1303040742.1537506197-813855648.1537506197">Here</a> 
&bull;&nbsp;Thursday, Sept 27,&nbsp;5-9pm at Navy Pier 
A benefit for the Museum of&nbsp;Contemporary Art Chicago,&nbsp;presented by the MCA Women&#39;s Board.&nbsp;

GENERAL ADMISSION&nbsp;-&nbsp;Purchase Tickets&nbsp;<a href="https://www.expochicago.com/tickets">Here</a> 
&bull;&nbsp;Friday, Sept 28, 11a-7p 
&bull;&nbsp;Saturday, Sept 29, 11a-7p 
&bull;&nbsp;Sunday, Sept 30, 11a-6p

EXPO CHICAGO takes place&nbsp;at Chicago&#39;s historic&nbsp;Navy Pier in the Festival Hall:&nbsp;600 E Grand Ave,&nbsp;Chicago (60611)

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<h3>Notable Exhibitors in 2018</h3>

EXPO features a growing list of exhibiting galleries from around the world. Some participants to watch for from outside of Chicago include:

&bull; Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco 
&bull; DC Moore Gallery, New York 
&bull; GRIMM, Amsterdam, New York 
&bull; Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York 
&bull; Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, Z&uuml;rich 
&bull; Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York 
&bull; Anton Kern Gallery, New York 
&bull; L&eacute;vy Gorvy, New York 
&bull; Luhring Augustine, New York, Brooklyn 
&bull; Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles, New York 
&bull; Gallery Momo, Cape Town, Johannesburg 
&bull; Nahmad Projects, London 
&bull; Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco 
&bull; GALERIA KARLA OSORIO, Brasilia/DF 
&bull; Perrotin, New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo 
&bull; P.P.O.W, New York 
&bull; Galerie RX, Paris 
&bull; Eduardo Secci&nbsp;, Florence 
&bull; Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco 
&bull; Sims Reed Gallery, London 
&bull; Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, Singapore, Hong Kong 
&bull; Templon, Paris, Brussels 
&bull; Pavel Zoubok Fine Art, New York

To see the complete list of all galleries exhibiting at EXPO CHICAGO click&nbsp;<a href="https://www.expochicago.com/exhibitors">here</a>.

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<h3>Special Programming Highlights</h3>

In addition to seeing the world&#39;s top galleries under one room, EXPO offers opportunities to connect with the international art community through unique programming.&nbsp;

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<h3>&bull;&nbsp;/DIALOGUES</h3>

Presented in partnership with the&nbsp;School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), offers panel discussions, conversations and provocative artistic discourse with leading artists, curators, designers and arts professionals on the current issues that engage them. The 2018 program&nbsp;includes an onsite panel and performance at the&nbsp;U.S. Pavilion&nbsp;of the&nbsp;16th Architecture Biennale in Venice, and&nbsp;the third annual /Dialogues Symposium,&nbsp;Present Histories: Art &amp; Design in Chicago, tracing select art and design legacies produced in the city, taking place during EXPO CHICAGO in conjunction with the&nbsp;Terra Foundation for American Art&rsquo;s initiative&nbsp;Art Design Chicago.

SEPT 28, 4:00PM &ndash; ALTERITY AND THE EXHIBITION ENVIRONMENT: FEMINIST HISTORY OF ALTERNATIVE SPACES IN CHICAGO&nbsp;

Alternative spaces are often discussed within the canon of Chicago&rsquo;s exhibition history. Yet, these spaces also played a parallel role in the activities that defined feminist art and social practice in the city&rsquo;s scene. In her chapter for the newly launched book&nbsp;Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now,&nbsp;author Jenni Sorkin delivers a survey of communal alternative exhibition spaces from 1973 to 1993 as they built momentum in Chicago alongside the commercial gallery system and during the women&#39;s movement. The panel features Lynne Warren, Mary Patten,&nbsp;Kay Rosen, and Torkwase Dyson.&nbsp;This conversation will trace the histories and roles of feminism in Chicago&#39;s alternative spaces from the 1970s to the present.&nbsp;Torkwase Dyson, on view at Rhona Hoffman Gallery, will align with EXPO ART WEEK.

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SEPT 29, 2:00&ndash;3:00PM &ndash; DIMENSIONS OF CITIZENSHIP &mdash; US PAVILION&nbsp;

How do we visualize belonging? Tracing the responsibility of the architect and the artist to depict not only flows of data, but also manifestations of glitches or abstractions, this discussion will examine the role of representation as an agent to reveal truth. Moderated by Mimi Zeiger, Co-Curator of the US Pavilion, this panel will be hosted within the context of the exhibition at the Venice Biennale for Architecture, entitled Dimensions of Citizenship.&nbsp;Presented in partnership with CULTURED Magazine, and co-commissioners of the US Pavilion the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago.&nbsp;Followed by a book signing.

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<h3>&bull;&nbsp;IN/SITU</h3>

Installed within the expansive, vaulted architecture of Navy Pier&rsquo;s Festival Hall,&nbsp;IN/SITU&nbsp;features large-scale, suspended sculptures and site-specific works. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Curator at large, Latin America&nbsp;Pablo Le&oacute;n de la Barra&nbsp;curates a selection of works featuring artists from leading international exhibitors participating in the 2018&nbsp;exposition.&nbsp;

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Iv&aacute;n Navarro.&nbsp;Metal Electric Chair, 2017 &ndash;&nbsp;Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

Iv&aacute;n Navarro was born in 1972 in Santiago, Chile, to a family of artists. What Navarro remembers most about his childhood growing up under the regime of General Augusto Pinochet, was the fear of being &ldquo;disappeared,&rdquo; as many political dissidents were. In order to better understand this dark history, Navarro uses light &mdash; a symbol of hope and truth &mdash; as his medium. Navarro uses electric light as his primary medium, making politically charged sculptures and installations that address the violence inflicted by the Chilean state.&nbsp;With their ambient glow, the works are seductive, and yet with the live current coursing through them, they are admittedly unnerving.&nbsp;

Navarro&#39;s&nbsp;This Land is Your Land, (2014), Paul Kasmin Gallery is also on view at the top of the pier outdoors in Polk Bros. Park as part of IN/SITU OUTSIDE.

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Judy Chicago.&nbsp;Cartoon for The Fall from the Holocaust Project, 1987 &ndash;&nbsp;Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco and Salon 94, New York

The Fall is a visual narrative tracing artist Judy Chicago&rsquo;s discovery that the Holocaust grew out of the very &#39;fabric&#39; of Western Civilization, hence the use of tapestry for this work, is the full scale &#39;cartoon&#39; (based on the Italian word &#39;cartoni,&#39; a detailed painting for tapestry). The Fall introduces Chicago&rsquo;s longstanding and formative series the Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light (1985&ndash;93) through a narrative that traces the battle between the Amazons and the giants, based on the Pergammon Altar, through the rise of patriarchal religions and their imposition through force.&nbsp;

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<h3>&bull; Book Signings&nbsp;&ndash; Highlights:</h3>

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SEPT 28,&nbsp;5:00PM &ndash; BOOK LAUNCH:&nbsp;ART IN CHICAGO: A HISTORY FROM THE FIRE TO NOW

Edited by Maggie Taft and Robert Cozzolino,&nbsp;Art in Chicago&nbsp;is a magisterial account of the long history of Chicago art, from the rupture of the Great Fire in 1871 to the present. The first single-volume history of art and artists in Chicago, the book&mdash;in recognition of the complexity of the story it tells&mdash;presents an overlapping sequence of interrelated narratives that together tell a full and nuanced, yet wholly accessible history of visual art in the city.&nbsp;

Funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art, this newly launched book will be available for purchase and&nbsp;signing&nbsp;through the University of Chicago Press.&nbsp;Book price: $65. Location: /Dialogues Stage&nbsp;

SEPT 29,&nbsp;3:00PM &ndash; BOOK SIGNING,&nbsp;DIRK DENISON 10 HOUSES

Architect and educator Dirk Denison reflects on the diverse influences that have shaped his practice over 30 years in a volume featuring 10 remarkable houses designed in a broad range of modernist vocabularies&mdash;each finely tuned to its site and occupants. Taking the form of an in-depth conversation between architect and educator Dirk Denison and journalist Fred A. Bernstein, this volume chronicles Denison&rsquo;s childhood in Detroit, travels and early encounters with the arts and architecture, and his education at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. A perceptive interlocutor, Bernstein deftly draws upon Denison&rsquo;s own insights into how these experiences have influenced his aesthetic sensibilities, design philosophy, and working processes over 30 years of collaborative practice. For design professionals and students of architecture,&nbsp;Dirk Denison 10 Houses&nbsp;draws attention to the manifold ways in which life experiences at all scales nurture and shape a career in the field. More broadly, this book is an engaging read for anyone interested in the gratifying process of conceptualizing and building one&rsquo;s own home. Book price: $44.95. Location: /Dialogues Stage

SEPT 30,&nbsp;3:00PM &ndash;&nbsp;DAWOUD BEY: SEEING DEEPLY

With images ranging from Harlem in the 1970s and 2000s, to photographs that commemorate the 1963 Birmingham church bombing, this volume offers a forty-year career retrospective of the MacArthur &quot;Genius Grant&quot; award-winning photographer Dawoud Bey. An introduction by scholar and curator Sarah Lewis, and essays by noted art historians, scholars, and educators&mdash;including Hilton Als, Maurice Berger, Jacqueline Terrassa, David Travis, Leigh Raiford, and Deborah Willis&mdash;examines Bey&rsquo;s evolving practice. An illustrated Chronology documents Bey&rsquo;s diverse New York art community in the 1970s and 80s and places his work in the context of that community.&nbsp;Presented in partnership with the University of Texas Press and the Museum of Contemporary Art Store. Book price: $65. Location: /Dialogues Stage&nbsp;

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<h3>Highlights from EXPO ART WEEK</h3>

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<h3>&bull; The Time Is Now! &ndash; EXPO ART WEEK Party at the Smart Musuem of Art</h3>

SEPT 25, 8-10pm

Kick off&nbsp;EXPO CHICAGO&rsquo;s EXPO ART WEEK with an evening of overlapping receptions and programming on the South Side, ending at the Smart Museum of Art for a special celebration of&nbsp;The Time is Now! Art Worlds of Chicago&rsquo;s South Side, 1960&ndash;1980. 
 
The party features the live collaborative performance &ldquo;Cultural Confluence&rdquo; from&nbsp;Douglas R. Ewart&rsquo;s Nyahbingi Drum Choir&nbsp;and Tatsu Aoki&rsquo;s Miyumi Project that blends global traditions into a unique confluence of concepts and cultures that represent now and the future. Plus, food, drink, and after-hours access to the Smart Museum.&nbsp;FREE, open to all.

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<h3>&bull; HANS ULRICH&nbsp;OBRIST:&nbsp;CREATIVE CHICAGO&nbsp;&mdash; AN INTERVIEW MARATHON</h3>

SEPT 29, 1-6pm, Aon Grand Ballroom, Navy Pier

The&nbsp;Chicago Humanities Festival&nbsp;in partnership with EXPO CHICAGO and the Terra Foundation for American Art&#39;s Art Design Chicago initiative will present&nbsp;Creative Chicago: An Interview Marathon during the 2018 exposition at Navy Pier. The marathon will be led by&nbsp;Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London, and&nbsp;one of the world&#39;s leading curators, critics, and art historians.

Hosted on a stage commissioned and designed by artist&nbsp;Barbara Kasten, the five-hour interview marathon will be presented within Navy Pier&#39;s historic Aon Grand Ballroom on Saturday, September 29.&nbsp;Free and open to the public. Participants include, among many others: Louise Bernard, Museum Director,&nbsp;Obama Presidential Center Museum; Dawoud Bey, Photographer; Buritt Bulloch, Owner,&nbsp;Old Fashioned Donuts; Richard Hunt, Artist; Jeanne Gang, Architect; Theaster Gates, Artist; Joseph Grigely, Artist/Art Historian;&nbsp;Suellen Rocca, Artist; Tim Samuelson, Cultural Historian of the&nbsp;City of Chicago; Stanley Tigerman, Architect; Amanda Williams, Artist

The celebrated oral historian and iconic Chicagoan, author&nbsp;Studs Terkel, was a major influence and inspiration for Obrist&rsquo;s creative practice, making Chicago a fitting destination for the curator&rsquo;s first U.S. marathon. The two met in the 1990s during one of Obrist&rsquo;s visits to Chicago. Terkel&rsquo;s style of interviewing&mdash;intense, intimate and wide-ranging&mdash;and his subject choices (both major artistic figures and everyday citizens), inspired Obrist&rsquo;s marathon-style approach to interviewing, and is a central aspect of his current artistic and curatorial practice.

Obrist&rsquo;s first interview marathon in the United States, Creative Chicago will capture and chronicle individuals who have helped to define the city&rsquo;s creative landscape, as well as those who are shaping it in the twenty-first century.

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<h3>&bull;&nbsp;ART AFTER HOURS</h3>

SEPT&nbsp;28, 6-9pm

Art After Hours&nbsp;is a citywide open gallery night in more than 30 spaces, inviting EXPO CHICAGO visitors and the Chicago community to experience the city&#39;s vibrant art scene, including alternative exhibition venues and performance spaces,&nbsp;during extended hours. After the fair, head out into the various gallery centers around the city to see the season&#39;s best exhibitions on view. Some spaces are just staying open late, while others are offering tours, meet and greets, film screenings, and performances.&nbsp;

A list of participating galleries with extended hours and special events taking place on the evening of the 28th may be found <a href="https://www.expochicago.com/visit/expo-art-week/schedule-of-events-openings">here</a>.&nbsp;

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<h3>&bull; ART ontheMART</h3>

SEPT 29, 6:30pm &ndash;8:30pm

In the spirit of Chicago&rsquo;s great legacy of public art and culture,&nbsp;Art on theMART&nbsp;will be the longest-running and largest digital art projection in the world.&nbsp;The first-of-its-kind for Chicago, this curated series of digital artworks will be projected&nbsp;across 2.5 acres of theMART&rsquo;s exterior river-fa&ccedil;ade. Beginning at approximately 6:30 p.m., Wacker Dr. between N. Wells St. and N. Franklin St. will be closed off to traffic to enable public viewing of the projections. While viewing the inaugural program, the public will enjoy a live DJ, food trucks and a Lantern Procession presented by Light Up My Arts (LUMA8). The art&nbsp;unveiling&nbsp;will begin at 7:15 p.m. with a fireworks show at 8:00 p.m.

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Top image: Art ontheMART will feature artists such as Diana Thater, Jason Salavon, Jan Tichy and others.&nbsp;
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A summary of what to plan for during EXPO ART WEEK 2018

EXPO ART WEEK: Highlights and Key Events

By GINNY VAN ALYEA&nbsp;

Last weekend&#39;s crush of openings put gallery-goers in the mood to see new art, meet artists and to take stock of what&#39;s new and exciting in area galleries and museums.&nbsp;

The momentum continues this weekend, primarily on the south and west sides, when dozens more shows open, building anticipation as we head into the second half of September. There is a lot of important art being shown this month in&nbsp;Chicago by artists from around the country and around the world, giving gallery visitors a chance to travel to and consider matters around the globe without leaving home.

Obviously there is a lot of great art to see, and these&nbsp;are just a few&nbsp;highlights from this coming September weekend&nbsp;around the city.&nbsp;We will&nbsp;share more of the season&#39;s&nbsp;highlights and coverage as the fall goes on, and don&#39;t forget to view our <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar">full calendar of events</a>.&nbsp;

Enjoy the season of art, and see you in the galleries!&nbsp;

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<h2>Thursday, September 13</h2>

<img alt="" data-caption="David Hockney and Jonathan Wilkinson, Inside It Opens Up As Well, 2018. Photographic drawing printed on 7 sheets of paper, mounted on 7 sheets of Dibond. © David Hockney. Photo credit: Richard Schmidt" data-rich-file-id="2980" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2980/original/hockney.jpg" />

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/david-hockney-time-and-more-space-and-more">David Hockney: Time and More, Space and More...</a>&nbsp;at&nbsp;Richard Gray Gallery&nbsp;(the west side warehouse&nbsp;location) is an exhibition of new work by the artist (we spotted pictures of the octogenarian out on a Chicago Architecture Center River Cruise this week with gallery staff!) The show&nbsp;presents Hockney&rsquo;s recent video and camera-based works in tandem. Making its gallery debut&nbsp;at the center of the exhibition is Hockney&rsquo;s multi-part video installation&nbsp;The Four Seasons, Woldgate Woods, 2010-2011,&nbsp;which was exhibited in 2017 at&nbsp;Centre Georges Pompidou and Tate Britain. The work is composed of four 9-channel video walls and arranged within the space like the cardinal directions of a compass rose. Depicting the same view down a tree-lined country road in Yorkshire, each wall distinctively captures one of the four seasons.

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<h2>Friday, September 14</h2>

<img alt="" data-caption="Torkwase Dyson" data-rich-file-id="2988" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2988/original/tdyson-raymond-2018.jpg" />

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/torkwase-dyson-james-samuel-madison">Torkwase Dyson: James Samuel Madison</a>, a show of new work by this Brooklyn-based artist opens Friday at Rhona Hoffman Gallery.&nbsp;Dyson considers spatial relations an urgent question&nbsp;both historically and in the present day. Through abstract paintings, Dyson grapples with ways space is perceived and negotiated particularly by&nbsp;black and brown bodies. &nbsp;Explorations of how the&nbsp;body unifies, balances, and arranges itself to move through natural and built environments&nbsp;become&nbsp;both expressive and discursive structures within the&nbsp;work. &nbsp;

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<img alt="" data-caption="Edie Fake" data-rich-file-id="2987" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2987/original/fake1.jpg" />

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/gut-rehab-edie-fake">Gut Rehab: Edie Fake</a> at Western Exhibitions is one of several shows opening in West Town this Friday night. The show, featuring 12 elaborately patterned and intensely personal paintings make up the artist&#39;s&nbsp;second solo show at the gallery. Fake&rsquo;s paintings start as self-portraits, and from there, they make a break for it, referencing elements of the trans and non-binary body through pattern, color and architectural metaphor.&nbsp;

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<img alt="" data-caption="Candice Lin" data-rich-file-id="2985" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2985/original/bs-2017-candice-lin-07.jpg" />

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/candice-lin-a-hard-white-body-a-porous-slip">Candice Lin: A Hard White Body, a Porous Slip </a>at the Logan Center opens Friday night. A tour led by the artist takes place the same evening. Los Angeles-based artist Candice Lin creates sculptural environments that breathe, seep, ferment, and decay. Working with an arsenal of sculptural forms that include finely crafted objects, organisms such as plants, insects, and bacteria, and natural compounds, Lin interrogates the ways in which histories of power and marginality are inscribed into bodies and into the natural world.

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<h2>Saturday, September 15</h2>

<img alt="" data-caption="Gerald Williams, Messages (detail), 1970, Acrylic on canvas. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Purchase, The Paul and Miriam Kirkley Fund for Acquisitions, 2017.8." data-rich-file-id="2990" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2990/original/williams-ttin-header.jpg" />

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/the-time-is-now-art-worlds-of-chicago-s-south-sides-1960-1980">The Time is Now!&nbsp;</a>a major new exhibition at the Smart Musuem of Art in Hyde Park&nbsp;offers an immersive examination of the South Side, as told by the art and artists who shaped its contours&mdash; from the Chicago Imagists to the Black Arts Movement. The Time is Now! reassesses the story of postwar Chicago art through a nuanced look at the artists living, working, and exhibiting on the South Side. Presented as part of Art Design Chicago, a citywide exploration of Chicago&rsquo;s art and design legacy spearheaded by the Terra Foundation for American Art. While the show begins Thursday, an opening event,&nbsp;Celebrating South Side Stories, &nbsp;takes place September 15, 11am&ndash;6pm

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<img alt="" data-caption="Shadi Habib Allah" data-rich-file-id="2989" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2989/original/image001.jpg" />

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/shadi-habib-allah-put-to-rights">Shadi Habib Allah: Put to Rights </a>opens Saturday night at&nbsp;The Renaissance Society&nbsp;with an artist talk at 6pm. Habib&nbsp;Allah&nbsp;is a New York and Miami-based Palestinian artist who works across film, sculpture, and installation, often drawing on a process of deep research and on-the-ground engagement in specific locales. Richly varied in form and focus, his projects run the gamut from reimagining a ghost story from 1930s Jerusalem to traveling along illicit trade routes with Bedouin smugglers.

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Hyde Park Art Center has a mega-celebration on Saturday for <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/solid-gold-saturday">Solid Gold Saturday</a>.&nbsp;

&bull; The Art of Being Dangerous, Curated by Erin Toale.&nbsp;Public Critique,&nbsp;1&ndash;3pm and reception 3&ndash;5pm 
&bull; Open Studios, 2&ndash;5pm&nbsp;Welcome&nbsp;Jackman Goldwasser International Artist, Nadim Abbas who will be visiting from Hong Kong&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&bull; Free Family Art-Making Activites, 1&ndash;4pm. Be like the Hairy Who, or Ralph Arnold!&nbsp;

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<img alt="" data-caption="Liliana Porter" data-rich-file-id="2991" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2991/original/lp.jpg" />

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/liliana-porter">Liliana Porter&#39;s </a><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/liliana-porter">Memorabilia</a>, opening Saturday at Carrie Secrist Gallery,&nbsp;presents highlights from a celebrated and dedicated artistic career of giving voice to the Everyperson. Through the use of found inanimate objects, Porter posits the human condition as fragile and curious, yet full of wonder.&nbsp;Born in Argentina in 1941, Porter is a member of a pioneering wave of Latinx artists who have mined identity socio-politics using then-new strands of contemporary art making to forge engaging methods of aesthetic engagement.&nbsp;

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<img alt="" data-caption="Firelai Baez" data-rich-file-id="2984" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2984/original/baez.jpg" />

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/firelai-baez">Firelei B&aacute;ez&#39;s </a>work at Kavi Gupta Gallery&#39;s&nbsp;West Washington space employs&nbsp;humor, figuration, and fantasy to explore the narratives and myths that affect the creation and expression of personal identity and social mores. B&aacute;ez is interested in identity, culture, and the divisions humans create between each other. Born in a city on the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, the&nbsp;stark contrast between the poverty of Haiti and the abundance of the Dominica Republic is one element that permeates her work. When she was 10, her family moved to the United States. There, she encountered new racial and gender biases that challenged her to think about what identity means and how it separates some people and unifies others. Her work explores these themes in context with the narratives of the past and the many potential futures she perceives.

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<img alt="" data-caption="Bethany Collins" data-rich-file-id="2983" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2983/original/patron1.jpg" />

PATRON opens <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/bethany-collins-undersong">Bethany Collins, Undersong&nbsp;</a>on Saturday. Undersong&nbsp;makes use of three texts&mdash;translations of&nbsp;The Odyssey; classified ads placed by former slaves searching for family; and patriotic hymns. The first format of Homer&rsquo;s poem of nostos was passed down orally. &ldquo;Lost Friends&rdquo; ads were subsequently read aloud in church services to reach a broader audience. And patriotic hymns achieve national unity only through their collective voice. The vocalization of these texts becomes the undersong&mdash;the burden of the song; the chorus; the refrain&mdash;of an American landscape, one that feels intimately familiar, yet estranging.

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<a href="http://moniquemeloche.com/exhibitions/sanford-biggers/">Sanford Biggers</a> has a show of new work opening at Monique Meloche Saturday night.&nbsp;Biggers roots his practice in the excavation of histories to shed light on the present. Having recently spent a year in Rome as a 2017 American Academy Fellow in Visual Arts, Biggers has created a new body of marble sculptures which develop the artist&rsquo;s use of classical materials as a means of destabilizing and reconfiguring their historical evocations. In addition to these marble works, the exhibition will also comprise a new group of quilt paintings and wall reliefs that are demonstrative of Biggers&rsquo; eclectic, trans-historical practice.

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<h2>Sunday, September 16</h2>

<img alt="" data-caption="Sabina Ott" data-rich-file-id="2981" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2981/original/sabinatsa.jpg" />

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/sabina-ott-all-flowers-tell-me">Sabina Ott: All Flowers Tell Me</a> is a special exhibition collaboration between Tiger Strikes Asteroid, the artist run space where Ott was an active member, and her gallery Aspect/Ratio.&nbsp;All Flowers Tell Me&nbsp;celebrates the many facets of Ott&rsquo;s career by exhibiting works previously not shown in Chicago. On view is part of her&nbsp;Sub Rosa&nbsp;series consisting of rich encaustic paintings that celebrate the richness and generosity that represents Sabina Ott. An opening reception takes place Sunday from 12&ndash;4 at TSA&#39;s new space at Mana Contemporary.&nbsp;

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View our full art calendar at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar">chicagogallerynews.com/calendar</a> and sort by date and event type.

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A summary of fall opening highlights in chicago the 3rd weekend in September 

Fall Preview – Part II: West and South Side September Openings

By GINNY VAN ALYEA&nbsp;

Summer has somehow come and gone, and the energy of a new vibrant season is upon us. This coming weekend opens the start of the fall art season throughout the city, and these new shows are just the beginning.&nbsp;

A&nbsp;host of openings, clustered on the evening of Friday, September 7, mark the traditional start of the season, which happens largely in the city&#39;s first commercial artistic center in River North. There are dozens of new exhibitions opening, and many represent the highlight of the gallery&#39;s programming for the entire year.&nbsp;Gallery district lines and identities have evolved over the decades, since the heydey of the 1980s, but new life in today&#39;s River North comes in the form of an art and design collaboration between the nearly two dozen galleries still based near Superior and Franklin streets today and the dozens of design showrooms that have come to also call River North home, following a migration from the Merchandise Mart. The result of that collaboration is the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/4th-annual-river-north-gallery-walk-designer-windows">4th Annual River North Gallery Walk and Designer Windows</a>, which covers a lot of creative ground in one weekend, with gallery artists matched with designers and showrooms, as well as individual galleries opening their latest exhibitions. There are several special events to attend as well, including a Friday kickoff event with Jesse Chicago |&nbsp;Home Element,&nbsp;featuring&nbsp;a live art creation by <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/linc-thelen-gallery">Linc Thelen</a>, and an after party&nbsp;at the <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/archetype-excavation-and-expectation-by-adam-siegel">Golden Triangle</a>. Saturday, September 8 is also a new family day in the district. Complete details and a list of participants may be <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/4th-annual-river-north-gallery-walk-designer-windows">found here</a>.&nbsp;

After a very busy couple of weeks, we of course cannot wait for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/art-services/expo-chicago">EXPO CHICAGO</a> which&nbsp;opens at the end of the month on September 27 with its Vernissage, an opening benefit for the MCA. The art fair&#39;s slightly later than usual start, combined with some very notable programming thanks to Art Design Chicago,&nbsp;means that this September may be the busiest certainly in recent memory.&nbsp;

Obviously there is a lot of great art to see, and these&nbsp;are just a few&nbsp;highlights from this opening September weekend&nbsp;around the city.&nbsp;We will&nbsp;share more of the season&#39;s&nbsp;highlights and coverage as the fall goes on, and don&#39;t forget to view our full calendar of events. Stay tuned for&nbsp;Part II of our Fall Preview,&nbsp;featuring shows opening September 15&nbsp;and beyond, including many shows on the city&#39;s West Side.&nbsp;

Finally,&nbsp;I have to admit that I&nbsp;didn&#39;t see it until I&#39;d finished this wrap up, but all I could hear in my head was &quot;Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves...&quot; (Aretha Franklin on my mind!), as so many of this season&#39;s early highlights feature women!&nbsp;

Enjoy this start to fall, and see you in the galleries!&nbsp;

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<h3>Thursday, September 6</h3>

<img alt="" data-rich-file-id="2956" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2956/original/todros.jpg" />

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/todros-geller-strange-worlds">Todros Geller: Strange Worlds</a>, an exhibition opening at the Spertus&nbsp;Museum / Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies and in partnership with Art Design Chicago, is&nbsp;an exhibition featuring&nbsp;more than 30 works exploring the life and practice of a Chicago artist and educator central to the history of modern American and Jewish art. Geller, who immigrated to Chicago from Ukraine in 1918, was inspired by the blending of old world traditions and modern culture that characterized Chicago&mdash;what he termed the collision of &ldquo;strange worlds.&rdquo;&nbsp;

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<h3>Friday, September 7</h3>

River North, as mentioned above, offers the largest group of&nbsp;openings in the city on September 7.&nbsp;

Highlights include: 

<img alt="" data-caption="Medina Dugger; Alanna Airitam; Endia Beal " data-rich-file-id="2957" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2957/original/edelman.jpg" />

A&nbsp;show at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/how-do-you-see-me">Catherine Edelman Gallery</a>,&nbsp;How do you see me?,&nbsp;features&nbsp;three women who confront the way people of color&nbsp;are perceived in&nbsp;art, the work place, and through their physical appearance.&nbsp;

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<img alt="" data-caption="Bruno Surdo" data-rich-file-id="2958" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2958/original/bruno.jpg" />

Around the corner&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/bruno-surdo-liberation">Gallery Victor Armendariz</a>&nbsp;opens a show by artist Bruno Surdo, titled&nbsp;LIBERATION.&nbsp;The 17 paintings included in the show explore personal yearning for spiritual and individual independence using various motifs and subject matter.&nbsp;The artworks challenge the viewer to connect with images that correspond to their own yearning for personal freedom.&nbsp;

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<img alt="" data-caption="Mary Ann Papanek-Miller" data-rich-file-id="2959" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2959/original/albano.jpg" />

At <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/mary-ann-papanek-miller-preparing-for-winter">Jean Albano Gallery</a> a show focused on the season beyond fall is Mary Ann Papanek-Miller: Preparing for Winter.&nbsp;Papanek-Miller is known for using a layered collection of visual images, creating a narrative within each piece.&nbsp;Her work&nbsp;incorporates reflections from childhood stories, songs, and rhymes which reveal a deep concern for the environment.&nbsp;

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<img alt="" data-caption="Alicia LaChance" data-rich-file-id="2960" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2960/original/cooper.jpg" />

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/coming-full-circle-alicia-lachance-and-joanne-mattera">Melanee Cooper</a> closed her eponymous River North gallery 9 years ago, and now she&#39;s back in the exact same space (740 N Franklin) she left when she moved to California. &nbsp;Her first show celebrating her return is called Coming Full Circle and features the work of artists&nbsp;Alicia LaChance and Joanne Mattera. Artist Arno Elias will also be exhibiting at the gallery.&nbsp;

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<img alt="" data-caption="Vera Klement" data-rich-file-id="2961" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2961/original/klement.jpg" />

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/drawing-show-teacher-and-two-students-vera-klement-heather-accurso-elizabeth-carson-manley">At Printworks</a>,&nbsp;Drawing Show &ndash; Teacher and Two Students &ndash; Vera Klement, Heather Accurso &amp; Elizabeth Carson Manley​ features the work of three esteemed artists from the perspective of the student/master relationship.&nbsp;

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Artist Ren&eacute; Romero Schuler is turning 50 this year, and her latest body of work,&nbsp;In Search of Ground, taking up the entire space at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/rene-romero-schuler-in-search-of-ground">Zolla/Lieberman Gallery</a>, has emerged as a body of work that has given Rene solace through pain, strength through grief, and peace through turmoil. On view in addition to her paintings are also&nbsp;India ink drawings and&nbsp;steel wire sculptures.

Many other shows are opening in River North this evening. If you can&#39;t see them all in one night, come back on Saturday morning for the <a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/art-services/free-cgn-saturday-gallery-tours">first&nbsp;free gallery tour</a>&nbsp;of the season from 11am-12:30pm, as well as family day activities that are part of RNDD&#39;s Gallery Walk weekend.&nbsp;

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<img alt="" data-caption="Michiko Itatani " data-rich-file-id="2962" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2962/original/michiko.jpg" />

In the West Loop <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/michiko-itatani-and-paula-henderson">Linda Warren Projects</a> opens their final gallery show on Friday night, and it features the work of two artists:&nbsp;Michiko Itatani and Paula Henderson.&nbsp;While clearly distinct in both style and focus, each artist uses recurring motifs and imagery to explore their individual concerns for the forces that shape and define our human condition.

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Artist Patty Carroll has a Friday evening&nbsp;opening at&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/patty-carroll-anonymous-women--3">One After 909</a> in West Town. The solo exhibition, Anonymous Women is a&nbsp;continuation of a decade-long series.&nbsp;The first variations of the&nbsp;series fully explored the intricacies of homemaking and femininity, while the most current work depicts their twisted friction.&nbsp;Despite the leaps and bounds of progress the women&rsquo;s movement has made over the course of her lifetime, with this work Carroll recognizes how far we still have to go.&nbsp;

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<h3>Saturday, September 8</h3>

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The Figure and the Chicago Imagists: Selections from the Elmhurst College Art Collection&nbsp;opening at the <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/the-figure-and-the-chicago-imagists-selections-from-the-elmhurst-college-art-collection">Elmhurst Art Museum</a>&nbsp;features the Elmhurst College Art Collection, focused on artists working in Chicago between about 1950 and the present. The exhibition is curated by Suellen Rocca, one of the original members of the Hairy Who and Curator and Director of Exhibitions at Elmhurst College (Rocca is featured on the <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2018/8/artist-suellen-rocca-a-life-story-through-art">fall 2018 cover</a> of CGN). The exhibition features artists such as Ed Paschke, Barbara Rossi, Gladys Nilsson and others and is part of Art Design Chicago.

Note that other Imagist-related exhibitions this fall will take place at the <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/hairy-who-1966-1969">Art Institute of Chicago</a> and <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/break-a-rule-ed-paschke-s-art-and-teaching">The Block Museum of Art</a>.&nbsp;

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<img alt="" data-caption="George Peter Alexander Healy" data-rich-file-id="2966" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2966/original/portraits.jpg" />

Beauty&rsquo;s Legacy: Gilded Age Portraits&nbsp;in America at the <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/beauty-s-legacy-gilded-age-portraits-in-america">Richard H. Driehaus Museum</a>&nbsp;looks at the popular revival of portraiture in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries when both the established elite and the newly wealthy sought out artists who could highlight their social standing and personal affluence. Simultaneous exhibitions at the museum are&nbsp;Gilded Chicago: Portraits of an Era and&nbsp;Treasures from the White City: Chicago World&rsquo;s Fair of 1893.

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Top image: Barbara Rossi at Elmhurst Art Museum, Michiko Itatani at Linda Warren and&nbsp;Medina Dugger at Catherine Edelman Gallery.
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A summary of early September gallery and museum show highlights in Chicago.

Fall Preview – Part I: First September Openings

By APRIL LANE

To those who decry the merciless Chicago heat, the brisk cool isn&rsquo;t the only thing you can look forward to this fall. From large scale expositions to smaller gallery exhibitions, CGN has made a comprehensive list of great art events to come. I recently completed an internship at Chicago Gallery News this spring, and with all the information that comes through the office, I selected just a few special exhibitions coming up in area museums that I am looking forward to and that I hope you will enjoy as well.

(Editor&#39;s note: an additional fall round-up of gallery opening highlights will be published by CGN in early September)

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<h3>The Time is Now! Art Worlds of Chicago&#39;s South Side, 1960-1980&nbsp;</h3>

September 13&ndash;December 30

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/the-time-is-now-art-worlds-of-chicago-s-south-sides-1960-1980">Smart Museum of Art</a>

During the 1960s and 70s, Chicago was shaped by art and ideas produced and circulated on its South Side. Defined by the city&rsquo;s social, political, and geographic divides and by the energies of its multiple overlapping art scenes, it was a vibrant era of creative expression that produced a cultural legacy whose impact continues to unfold nationally and internationally.

The Time Is Now!&nbsp;examines this watershed cultural moment&mdash;brimming with change and conflict&mdash;and the figures who defined it. A companion book is being published with the DuSable Museum as well.&nbsp;

Also, on Saturday, September 15 from 11am-6pm&nbsp;in various south side locations, an <a href="https://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/events/1459/celebrating-south-side-stories/">all-day festival</a> of art, music, film, and food marks opening of&nbsp;The Time Is Now!&nbsp;and other Art Design Chicago projects across the South Side.&nbsp;

Top image: &nbsp;Carolyn Lawrence,&nbsp;Uphold Your Men, Unify Your Families (detail), 1971, Screenprint on wove paper. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Gift of David Lusenhop in honor of the artist, 2013.7. &copy; Carolyn Lawrence.

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<img alt="" data-caption="James Webb. Installation view of Prayer (Johannesburg), 2012. Photo by Anthea Pokroy. © James Webb. Courtesy of blank projects and Galerie Imane Farès." data-rich-file-id="2926" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2926/original/webb-prayer.jpg" />

<h3>James Webb: Prayer</h3>

Museum Admission $20+

Sept. 7&ndash;Dec. 31

<a href="http://www.artic.edu/exhibition/james-webb-prayer">The Art Institute of Chicago</a>

A project by South African visual artist and musician James Webb, this exhibit encompasses recordings of prayers from members of various faiths and spiritual affinites throughout the city of Chicago. The prayers are played on 12 speakers mounted onto a red carpet which visitors can walk up to and closely listen to the prayers being uttered. The work aims to showcase the humanity and solidarity that comes across in the vulnerable act of prayer. Webb&rsquo;s Chicago version of Prayer is his first in North America, having remade this project ten times in various cities since his first in Cape Town, South Africa in 2000 following the end of apartheid. &nbsp;

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<h3><img alt="" data-caption="Karl Wirsum, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, 1968. The Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize Fund, 1969.248" data-rich-file-id="2924" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2924/original/sreamin-jayhawkins.jpg" /></h3>

<h3>Hairy Who 1966-1969</h3>

Museum Admission from $20+

Sept. 27&ndash;Jan. 6, 2019

<a href="http://www.artic.edu/exhibition/hairy-who-1966-1969">The Art Institute of Chicago&nbsp;</a>

In collaboration with Art Design Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago presents Hairy Who 1966-1969, a collective of work made by Chicago-based School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) graduates &nbsp;Karl Wirsum, Jim Falconer, Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Suellen Rocca&nbsp;and Jim Nutt. Starting in the 1960s, the self-made group of artists showcased their vibrant, avant garde and graphic work, which commented on sexuality, gender and social norms, at the Hyde Park Art Center. The exhibition is presented on the 50th anniversary of their final Chicago show, featuring prints, drawings and&nbsp;paintings by the group.

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<h3><img alt="" data-caption="Ralph Arnold, Who You/Yeah Baby, c. 1968. DePaul Art Museum. Reproduced with permission from The Pauls Foundation." data-rich-file-id="2923" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2923/original/ralph-arnold-hats.jpg" /></h3>

<h3>The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold: Art, Identity, and Politics</h3>

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/the-many-hats-of-ralph-arnold-art-identity-and-politics">The Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP)</a>&nbsp;at Columbia College Chicago

October 11&ndash;December 21

The Museum of Contemporary Photography presents The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold: Art, Identity, and Politics. This exhibition showcases the artwork of American artist and teacher Ralph Arnold, who created a body of collages as a response to popular ideas and media depictions regarding gender, race, sexuality during the 1960s and 70s that continues to remain relevant in Chicago&rsquo;s art scene, even in 2018.

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<h3><img alt="" data-caption="Quilt Artwork (detail) by Jessica Skultety" data-rich-file-id="2927" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2927/original/wmg-quilts.jpg" /></h3>

<h3>Quilt + Resist: Art, Politics, Storytelling</h3>

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/quilt-resist-art-politics-storytelling">Woman Made Gallery</a>

Nov 9-Dec 1

Free and open to the public. Opening reception on Friday, November 9.

This event showcases roughly 40 female-identifying quilters who aim to tell stories with a variety of methods -- whether it be abstract or pictoral. &nbsp;Juried by artist and teacher Marcia Grubb and quilt maker, activist and psychologist Adelia Moore, the quilts exhibited aim to tell a variety of stories from different women artists, depicting how they view and interpret the world around them. &nbsp;

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<img alt="" data-rich-file-id="2947" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2947/original/saints-and-sinners.jpg" />

<h3>Saints &amp; Sinners Walking Tour: Chicago&#39;s Legacy of Virtue and Vice</h3>

Fridays through September

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/institutions/richard-h-driehaus-museum">Richard H. Driehaus Museum</a>

Tickets $30-$50. Ages&nbsp;21+

During this walking tour, which takes place weekly this fall, not only will attendees explore Chicago&rsquo;s Gold Coast neighborhood, but they&rsquo;ll learn all about Chicago&rsquo;s prohibition history and the key players in the Temperance movement between 1848&ndash;1871. They will also view numerous historic landmarks and pubs and sip spirits from renowned pubs along the way. &nbsp;

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CGN&#39;s complete calendar of exhibitions and openings may be found <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar">here</a>.&nbsp;
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A round up of fall 2018 art events by a former CGN intern

A Fall Museum Preview

<h2>Chicago&rsquo;s &lsquo;Art on theMART&rsquo; to debut world&rsquo;s largest video display in September</h2>

An ambitious plan to transform the facade of Chicago&rsquo;s iconic 1930&rsquo;s Merchandise Mart into a massive canvas for projected art is just weeks away from dazzling residents and tourists alike. Dubbed&nbsp;&ldquo;Art on theMART&rdquo;, the public installation will launch Saturday, September 29.

By&nbsp;Jay Koziarz, Curbed Chicago

<a href="https://chicago.curbed.com/2018/8/20/17728826/art-on-the-mart-september-opening">Read More</a>

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<h2>Michigan Avenue sculpture by famed Israeli artist is gone</h2>

A brightly colored work by Yaacov Agam had stood in front of a building at 150 N. Michigan Ave. since 1983. It&#39;s now in storage.

By&nbsp;ARI BENDERSKY, Crains Chicago Business

<a href="http://www.chicagobusiness.com/news/michigan-avenue-sculpture-famed-israeli-artist-gone">Read More</a>

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<h2>Chicago&#39;s Sector&nbsp;2337, Home to&nbsp;the Green Lantern Press, To Close</h2>

Beginning in 2019, the artist-run nonprofit organization&nbsp;Green Lantern Press&nbsp;(GLP) will close its Chicago-based headquarters&nbsp;Sector 2337&nbsp;and continue its publishing, curatorial, and public programming projects remotely.

Via Artforum

<a href="https://www.artforum.com/news/chicago-s-sector-2337-home-to-the-green-lantern-press-to-close-76294">Read More&nbsp;</a>

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<h2>Artists Explore a New Canvas: Tennis Courts</h2>

This project, &ldquo;Art Courts,&rdquo; was spearheaded by the United States Tennis Association as part of a 50th anniversary celebration of the U.S. Open. Organizers hope to inject a dash of enthusiasm and color into community tennis courts in underserved neighborhoods &mdash; as well as enliven a sport that, to some, possesses a reputation for stuffiness and adherence to rules.

By&nbsp;Andrew R. Chow, The New York Times

<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/arts/design/us-open-tennis-art-courts.html">Read More&nbsp;</a>

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<h2>Alex Katz&rsquo;s Life in Art</h2>

Alex Katz is on fire. He said so himself, when I visited his studio one day this spring. &ldquo;One thing after another is coming up,&rdquo; the ninety-year-old said, flashing a wide smile that transformed his usual expression of slight gloom. His proposal to place a series of cutout sculptures of his wife, Ada, on the median of New York&rsquo;s Park Avenue had been accepted by the city, and he had been commissioned to enhance the interior of a subway station. &ldquo;I told them a couple of little mosaics in the subway isn&rsquo;t going to change anything, what you need is an environment&mdash;and they went for it,&rdquo; he said.&nbsp;

By&nbsp;Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker

<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/08/27/alex-katzs-life-in-art">Read More</a>

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News from Around the Art World: August 21, 2018

<h2>Chicago&#39;s Lighthouses: Shedding light on artists with disabilities</h2>

Some street art in Chicago is shedding light on the challenges millions of us face every day. Let&#39;s take a stroll with Dean Reynolds:&nbsp;This summer in Chicago beacons of hope have sprouted on the sidewalk, dotting Michigan Avenue&#39;s &quot;Magnificent Mile&quot; with a message for the masses.

Story produced by Charlie Brooks, CBS News

<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chicagos-lighthouses-shedding-light-on-artists-with-disabilities/">Read More</a>

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<h2>Museum Tours for People Who Don&rsquo;t Like Museum Tours</h2>

On a recent Monday afternoon, Sarah Dunnavant, a 27-year-old actress and guide with the tour company&nbsp;Museum Hack, gathered her group of eight at the entrance of the&nbsp;Art Institute of Chicago, promising to reveal the &ldquo;salacious, sexy and scary&rdquo; parts of the museum in an animated two-hour &ldquo;un-highlights&rdquo; trip through the museum.

By Elaine Glusac, The New York Times

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<h2>Pop-up &#39;sensory&#39; exhibit in West Town features local artists, interactive rooms</h2>

For four days in July, Chicagoans can become part of an art installation, full of vivid colors that zig and zag. They can enter a room full of shredded paper, write down their thoughts, then shred said thoughts by hand via pasta-maker.

By Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune

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<h2>A stunning mirrored art installation debuts at Navy Pier this weekend</h2>

On Saturday, July 28, Chilean artist Iv&aacute;n Navarro&#39;s installation &quot;This Land is Your Land&quot; will make its Chicago&nbsp;appearance in Polk Bros Park. Made up of three structures that look like water towers, guests can situate themselves under each tower&#39;s eight-foot-tall support to reveal a mirrored interior outfitted with neon lights. One of the pieces depicts a neon ladder than appears to ascend endlessly upward, while another displays the words &quot;We&quot; and &quot;Me&quot; perpetually repeating.

By Zach Long, Timeout Chicago

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<h2>Will blockchain deliver a registry of all traded works of art?</h2>

Christie&rsquo;s summit weighs up pros and cons of the technology and how it might bring greater transparency to the art market

By Anny Shaw, The Art Newspaper

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News From Around the Art World: July 23rd, 2018

<h2>Is the state-owned art at Thompson Center in jeopardy?</h2>

Here today, gone tomorrow: Is that the fate of the 150 pieces of state-owned art residing at the James R. Thompson Center? The Thompson Center collection, which contains several valuable pieces by&nbsp;Chicago Imagists&mdash;a midcentury school of artists that includes Ed Paschke, Roger Brown, Ray Yoshida and Gladys Nilsson&mdash;is part of a state collection launched in 1978 with an initiative that dedicates half a percent of funds appropriated for state-funded public construction projects to art. The 600-piece collection appears in 25 sites around the state. The Thompson Center&#39;s artworks represent the biggest concentration, and its future is as uncertain as the fate of the building.

--Lisa Bertagnoli, Crain&#39;s Business Chicago

<a href="http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20180713/ISSUE01/180719956#utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=ccb-morning10&amp;utm_campaign=ccb-morning10-20180716">Read More</a>

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<h2>&lsquo;Chicago Calling&rsquo; offers an inside look at the city&rsquo;s outsider&nbsp;artists</h2>

Outside of a relatively small group of insiders and specialists, many people, including some in the broader international art world, probably don&rsquo;t realize that Chicago has long been one of the leading centers for outsider or non-mainstream art. Driving home that reality is the core mission of the largest and most ambitious exhibition ever mounted by Intuit:&nbsp;The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, a 27-year-old museum that has been at the forefront of displaying and promoting such work.

--Kyle MacMillan, Chicago Sun Times

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<h2>Exploring Nature and Humanity: Young-Il Ahn at Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago</h2>

A monographic exhibition of new paintings by Korean artist&nbsp;Young-Il Ahn&nbsp;will open on July 14 at Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago. The works on view explores the relationship the artist shares with beauty, nature, and music. &ldquo;His work is frequently associated with Dansaekhwa, an aesthetic position specific to Korea, which expresses natural processes through a mostly monochromatic palette,&rdquo; the gallery says. &ldquo;As a Korean-born painter working in the US, Ahn is unique among Dansaekhwa artists.&rdquo;

--Blouin Art Info

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<h2>How a Female-Led Art Restoration Movement in Florence Is Reshaping the Canon</h2>

Sometimes, all it takes is for someone to ask the right question.

That is exactly what&nbsp;Jane Fortune&nbsp;did on a visit to Florence 12 years ago. While touring the Renaissance city&rsquo;s exquisite museums and fresco-covered churches, the American philanthropist began to wonder, &ldquo;Where are the women?&rdquo; Her search for an answer set Fortune on a passionate quest to restore the lost legacies and artworks of Florence&rsquo;s forgotten female artists, digging into museums&rsquo; archives and dusty deposits with her organization,&nbsp;Advancing Women Artists&nbsp;(AWA).

--Kate Brown, Artnet News

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<h2>Programme of paid internships aims to make US museum staff more diverse</h2>

In response to the demographic disparity of staff in museums, the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) has launched a paid internship programme aimed at giving undergraduate students from under-represented backgrounds an opportunity to work in the arts.

--Gabriella&nbsp;Angeleti, The Art Newspaper

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News from Around the Art World: July 16, 2018

The summer art season is about to be in full swing, as many galleries open their latest exhibitions this coming weekend. The hottest&nbsp;months of the year inspire&nbsp;many&nbsp;galleries &nbsp;to welcome art collectors and visitors to the city to&nbsp;spend time in&nbsp;the districts and&nbsp;explore a unique part of area&nbsp;culture by viewing work created by living artists.&nbsp;

There is a lot to see Thursday through Sunday, with the bulk of the openings taking place in River North and West Town on Friday night. Openings continue on Saturday night in West Loop, West Town and Michigan Ave.&nbsp;

Many artist talks&nbsp;are also planned for Saturday and Sunday in both galleries and museums, with a handful of events taking place in the suburbs.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Our summary of the weekend&#39;s highlights is below. New events are being added daily.

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In River North, the traditional July happening that was a much loved fixture on the art calendar for many years&nbsp;is back,&nbsp;with the second annual <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/a-midsummer-art-walk">Midsummer Art Walk</a>. Resurrected and reimagined last year by a group of dealers who wanted to reinvent a familiar seasonal&nbsp;energy for a district long associated with art, the event is casual but promises to be a lively evening of mingling in the name of art discovery.

Throughout the city galleries have spent time planning their&nbsp;new shows, the final stop before the fall art frenzy opens in September and continues through EXPO Chicago.

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Galleries are&nbsp;dispelling&nbsp;old notions of lazy summer group shows by&nbsp;featuring new artists, for instance at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/dabin-ahn-2-3">Andrew Bae Gallery</a>, the artist Dabin Ahn is a recent SAIC grad who is the gallery&#39;s first-ever artist from Chicago and the only new one to be added to the roster in over 13 years.&nbsp;Opening&nbsp;Friday, July 13.

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<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/the-chicago-project-vii-selections-from-our-online-gallery">Catherine Edelman Gallery</a> celebrates 15 years of curating The Chicago Project VII: Selections from our Online Gallery&nbsp;a show created in 2003 as a biennial&nbsp;online-only gallery devoted to unrepresented photographers in the Chicagoland area.&nbsp;Opening&nbsp;Friday, July 13.

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<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/gallery-victor-armendariz">Gallery Victor Armendariz</a> opens two shows simultaneously, Kirill Polevoy: Sideshow and Oliver Hazard: Purple Dawn,&nbsp;highlighting the range of figuartive work on view in the space, which marked its first anniversary this past March.&nbsp;Opening&nbsp;Friday, July 13.

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<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/carl-hammer-gallery">Carl Hammer Gallery&#39;s</a> group show highlights the gallery&#39;s recent acquisitions from artists such as Mary Lou Zelazny, Jay Kelly, Amy Laskin and Marc Dennis.&nbsp;Opening&nbsp;Friday, July 13.

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A thought provoking exhibition at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/weight-of-a-world">Weinberg/Newton</a>, Weight of a World,&nbsp;presents artworks that elicit lessons to be learned &ndash; and to be taught &ndash; from global conflict, local lore, and cultural identity. Opening&nbsp;Friday, July 13.

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<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/friend-of-a-friend-elizabeth-atterbury-gordon-hall-huong-ngo-em-rooney">DOCUMENT</a>, one of a handful of West Town spaces opening on Friday, features its summer group show featuring artists&nbsp;Elizabeth Atterbury, Gordon Hall, Huong Ngo and&nbsp;Em Rooney. Opening Friday, July 13.

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The <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/you-will-be-the-archivist-of-your-desires">Chicago Artists Coalition</a>, which just moved to a new expansive space on West Fulton in West Town,&nbsp;is actually&nbsp;presenting an off-site exhibition in Pilsen at the Chicago Art Department (1932 S. Halsted).&nbsp;You will be the archivist of your desires,&nbsp;a&nbsp;HATCH Projects&nbsp;exhibition, features&nbsp;new works by&nbsp;Brittany Leeanne Williams,&nbsp;Frances Lightbound,&nbsp;Marissa Chris Zain Neuman,&nbsp;Meg Leary,&nbsp;Pooja Pittie, and&nbsp;Sydney Shavers.&nbsp;Opening Friday, July 13.&nbsp;And if you&#39;re in Pilsen, it&#39;s 2nd Friday!&nbsp;More than 20 galleries surrounding South Halsted and 18th Street showcase cutting edge art from Chicago and beyond.&nbsp;Pick up a map at&nbsp;1945 South Halsted in the the <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/2nd-friday-gallery-night--10">Chicago Arts District</a> meeting spot.&nbsp;

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Tony Fitzpatrick&#39;s <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/urban-menagerie-by-danny-torres">The Dime</a> on Western Ave. opens the first solo show by artist Danny Torres, Urban Menagerie. According to Fitzpatrick, artists like Torres are exactly why he opened The Dime.&nbsp;Opening Friday, July 13.

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<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/greg-breda-hei">PATRON</a> in West Town opens their&nbsp;first solo exhibition with Los Angeles based artist, Greg Breda,&nbsp;titled,&nbsp;Hei.&nbsp;Opening Saturday, July 14.

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<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/truth-claim">Carrie Secrist Gallery&#39;s</a>&nbsp;group show is as vibrant as the season and as hot as the political climate. TRUTH CLAIM features six artists and artistically explores the term&nbsp;&ldquo;Truth Claim&rdquo;, formally known as a proposition or statement that a particular person or belief system holds to be true.&nbsp;Opening Saturday, July 14.

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In the West Loop, <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/young-il-ahn">Kavi Gupta&#39;s</a> newest show at their 219 N. Elizabeth St.&nbsp;location features the intricate, large-scale paintings&nbsp;of Korean artist Young II Ahn, who recently had a large-scale solo exhibition at LACMA&mdash;the first time a Korean artist has received the honor. Opening Saturday, July 14.

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On South Michigan Ave. in <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/tom-burtonwood-three-points-make-a-plane">Bert Green&#39;s</a> high rise space,&nbsp;Tom Burtonwood&#39;s&nbsp;3D printed images are on display. Burtonwood&nbsp;reinterprets physical space through technological means using scanning, printing, and virtualization of positive and negative spaces to expose the inner workings and invisible structures of our environments. Opening Saturday, July 14.

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<h3>View the full CGN calendar <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar">here</a>.</h3>

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A summary of July gallery openings in Chicago

The Heat is On: July Art in Chicago

<h2>Theaster Gates salutes the spaces where Ebony and Jet&nbsp;happened</h2>

&ldquo;A Johnson Publishing Story,&rdquo; an exhibition that opened in Chicago last week, memorializes the iconic tastes of the late John and Eunice Johnson, pioneers in African-American publishing, fashion and cosmetics. Chicago artist/developer Theaster Gates has installed select furnishings from the Johnson Publishing Co. offices in the Ebony/Jet building that opened in 1972.

Besides a stylish desk, credenza and sofa, there&rsquo;s an IBM Selectric typewriter custom-clad in red alligator leather. Autographed copies of books by Richard Wright and Langston Hughes are on view too. Cards inform visitors: &ldquo;These objects are sacred, please be respectful.&rdquo;

By Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun Times

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<h2>This Artist&rsquo;s Radical Designs Made America Fall in Love with Alfred Hitchcock and Quaker Oats</h2>

They called him the&nbsp;Pablo Picasso&nbsp;of commercial artists. For over 50 years, beginning in the late 1940s,&nbsp;Saul Bass&nbsp;crafted quietly brilliant images for Hollywood and Madison Avenue, many of which still feel strikingly contemporary decades later. Much like Picasso, he reinvented himself again and again throughout his long life, excelling at wildly different genres of visual art&mdash;you can&rsquo;t talk about Bass without talking about posters, logos, feature films, documentary shorts, or title sequences.

By Jackson Arn, Artsy Editorial

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<h2>The site of the earliest known temple on earth continues to keep its secrets</h2>

One morning in May I stood in a dark room in southern Turkey, watching blue-skinned early humans domesticate wheat between bouts of interpretive dance. They were holograms, and they swayed across the walls to a doomy arrangement of bells, drums, and spectral voices: the soundtrack to the dawn of time. The display was a concession to drama in an otherwise austere complex of new museums &ndash; low, tan, elliptical structures tucked into a dip in the Harran plain &ndash; built to ease visits to G&ouml;bekli Tepe, a hilltop cluster of stone circles that is sometimes described as the earliest temple on earth. The museums take their shape from the limestone ruins a short walk up the rise, but for all the touch screens and soft-power gloss &ndash; this is the project of a large Turkish conglomerate &ndash; their&nbsp;raison d&rsquo;&ecirc;tre&nbsp;could hardly be more mysterious.

By Yasmine Seale, Apollo Magazine

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<h2>What colour is this dress? Guggenheim reveals Manet painting after three years of restoration</h2>

A freshly-cleaned fashion statement by &Eacute;douard Manet goes back on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York today (29 June) for the summer, after three years of research and restoration. The free and expressive brushstrokes and bright colours of Woman in Striped Dress (around 1877-80), a full-length portrait of an unidentified model&mdash;and of the dress itself&mdash;were hidden under two layers of discoloured varnish.

&ldquo;Especially towards the end of his life, [Manet] was really quite modern in the way that he approached the canvas and he would describe things with very few touches,&rdquo; says Lena Stringari, the deputy director and chief conservator of the Guggenheim Foundation, who led the project. &ldquo;As this very thick and unsightly varnish came off, you could see how just with a few little touches he could make something sing.&rdquo;

By Victoria Stapley-Brown, The Art Newspaper

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<h2>&lsquo;Art Is Almost Free&rsquo;: Iran Opens Its First-Ever Art Fair&mdash;Just as the Value of the Country&rsquo;s Currency Plummets</h2>

Imagine you are a gallerist preparing to attend an art fair. But almost overnight, the value of the works you plan to sell drops by half.

What is a bad dream for some dealers is a reality in Tehran, where 10 dealers gathered last week to participate in the country&rsquo;s first art fair. Teer Art opened&nbsp;against the backdrop of protests&nbsp;in the Iranian capital as the country&rsquo;s currency, the rial, hit a new low. Since the US withdrew from the Iranian nuclear deal in May, the rial has lost more than 40 percent of its value. Against all odds, however, the mood on the fair&rsquo;s opening day on June 24 was positive. There&rsquo;s a first time for everything, and for this first edition of an art fair in Tehran, just opening on time is an achievement.

By Tahereh Sariban, Artnet News

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News from Around the Art World: July 2, 2018

<h2>Barrels of Fun: Christo Erects a Brilliantly Colored Pyramid as Tall as Egypt&rsquo;s Sphinx in London&rsquo;s Hyde Park</h2>

The artist Christo is known for making the impossible possible. In 2016, he allowed hundreds of thousands of people to walk on water when he erected floating piers in the middle of Italy&rsquo;s Lake Iseo. In 1983, he and his wife Jeanne-Claude surrounded 11 islands in Miami&rsquo;s Biscayne Bay with floating fabric the color of Pepto Bismol.

By Naomi Rea, artnet News

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<h2>&lsquo;They Force You to Look Without Judgement&rsquo;: Watch Nick Cave Describe the Origins of His Trademark Soundsuits</h2>

If you visit the Park Avenue Armory in New York sometime this month, make sure to bring your dancing shoes. The artist&nbsp;Nick Cave&nbsp;has transformed the massive drill hall into a cavernous disco where New Yorkers are invited to boogie their anxieties away. On select evenings through July 1, the installation also hosts transporting performances during which a cast of dancers don &ldquo;Soundsuits,&rdquo; the ecstatic, wearable sculptures that have made Cave famous.

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<h2>From the community: Art Design Chicago: &lsquo;Sculpting a Chicago Artist&rsquo; comes to Oakton July 12</h2>

Oakton Community College&#39;s Koehnline Museum of Art will display the works of a world-renowned Chicago sculptor and the influences of his teachers as part of Art Design Chicago. &quot;Sculpting a Chicago Artist: Richard Hunt and his Teachers, Nelli Bar and Egon Weiner&quot; opens Thursday, July 12, and runs through Sept. 14 at the college&#39;s&nbsp;Des Plaines&nbsp;campus, 1600 E. Golf Road. The public is invited to a free opening night reception from 5 to 8 p.m.

By Community Contributor Oakton Community College, The Chicago Tribune

<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/evanston/community/chi-ugc-article-art-design-chicago-sculpting-a-chicago-arti-2018-06-20-story.html">Read More</a>

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<h2>Why Have There Been No Great Black Art Dealers?</h2>

IN 1966, TWO BROTHERS, Alonzo and Dale Davis, set out from Los Angeles on a road trip across the United States, seeking out other artists of color like them. They meant for the trip &ldquo;to broaden our limited art history experience,&rdquo;&nbsp;Alonzo&nbsp;says, since African-American artists had been conspicuously absent from his curriculum at Pepperdine University, or&nbsp;Dale&rsquo;s at the University of Southern California. &ldquo;We drove from L.A. to Mississippi, up through New York and Chicago, and somewhere between all those cornfields, we thought: it&rsquo;d be interesting to own a gallery.&rdquo;

By&nbsp;Janelle Zara, The New York Times Style Magazine

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<h2>&lsquo;Worker Cottage Parklet&rsquo; art installation honors Chicago&rsquo;s working class&nbsp;history</h2>

Chicago&rsquo;s past is right under our feet. Just below the trendy bars of Milwaukee Avenue, markers of the street&rsquo;s former life as a working-immigrant thoroughfare &mdash; hand-hewn granite cobblestones and streetcar ties &mdash; lie in their final resting place buried underneath the street&rsquo;s modern pavement.

Some of those granite cobblestones will be allowed to see the light of day again as part of Chicago artist Lynn Basa&rsquo;s newest public art installation, &ldquo;Worker Cottage Parklet,&rdquo; which will be installed July 18 on the corner of Milwaukee and Wood.&nbsp;Commissioned by Wicker Park Bucktown Special Service Area #33 for $80,000, this is the largest public art commission in the history of the Wicker Park and Bucktown neighborhoods.

By Jane Recker, Chicago Sun Times

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News from Around the Art World: June 25, 2018

<h2>The Brilliant Artist That Chicago, and the World, Nearly Forgot</h2>

Edgar Miller was a virtuoso in any medium he chose: painting, sculpture, stained glass, architecture, interior design, printmaking, metalwork, cutlery, graphic design. He put those prodigious skills toward building a creative community on Chicago&rsquo;s near-north side in the 1920s and beyond. Miller&rsquo;s handful of architecture projects (a series of live-work lofts) stretched the boundaries of the city&rsquo;s bohemian frontier, seeding a new hub for culture, art, and radical politics. This output never earned Miller a place in Chicago&rsquo;s pantheon of culture. But now a non-profit,&nbsp;Edgar Miller Legacy, is celebrating his legacy and offering new ways for people to connect through Miller&rsquo;s work.

By Zach Mortice, CityLab

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<h2>The Mysterious New Wndr Museum Will Give Chicago Its First Yayoi Kusama Infinity Room</h2>

A mysterious new institution calling itself the&nbsp;wndr museum&nbsp;has announced plans to bring a&nbsp;Yayoi Kusama&nbsp;Infinity Room to Chicago, the first to ever go on view in the Windy City. The pop-up museum promises to feature educational and experiential installations that merge art and science to appeal to visitors of all ages.

By Sarah Cascone, artnet news

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<h2>Historic Cook County Hospital restoration and redevelopment breaks ground in Chicago</h2>

Chicago&rsquo;s beleaguered&nbsp;Cook County Hospital&nbsp;is slated for redevelopment after sitting idle for 16 years.&nbsp;Skidmore, Owings &amp; Merrill&nbsp;will transform the Chicago landmark into a dual-branded Hyatt House/Hyatt Place hotel, accompanied by medical office space and retail. Leading the project is the Civic Health Development Group (CHDG) along with Chicago-based developer John T. Murphy. Walsh Construction is the general contractor with Koo Architecture as the interior designers. According to Cook County, the development plan is valued at over $1 billion dollars.

By Elizabeth Blasius, The Architects&nbsp;Newspaper

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<h2>The Neuroscientist in the Art Museum</h2>

&ldquo;The fact is, the culture is changing dramatically,&rdquo; says Monroe. &ldquo;When asked what people want out of cultural activities today, and this is across all age ranges, the number one priority people want is fun,&rdquo; he says, in reference to findings from the 2017&nbsp;Culture Track study, which listed fun as respondents&rsquo; &ldquo;single greatest motivation&rdquo; for attending cultural activities. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s not what we were all thinking about five or six or 10 years ago as the most important criterion for the success of a cultural event or activity, and what fun means is obviously an interesting question,&rdquo; he allows, &ldquo;but the whole definition of culture is changing, and the idea that cultural organizations are immune from the incredible changes that are occurring&mdash; at dramatically faster speed than ever before&mdash; would be incredibly dangerous and naive.&rdquo;

By Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian Magazine

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<h2>Linda Nochlin&rsquo;s Lifetime Insights Continue to Amaze</h2>

Published after her death, this succinct volume draws important art historical connections pointing to longstanding struggles with depictions of misery.

By Olivia McEwan, Hyperallergic

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News from Around the Art World: June 19, 2018

<h2>Shane Campbell Gallery Sues Frieze Art Fair, Alleging &lsquo;Substantial Financial Losses&rsquo; Resulting from Heat in New York</h2>

Chicago&rsquo;s Shane Campbell Gallery has filed suit against the Frieze art fair, alleging that Frieze &ldquo;was grossly negligent in preparing&rdquo; its recent New York edition for temperatures that exceeded 90 degrees Fahrenheit. The suit, which was filed this past Friday in New York&rsquo;s Southern District Court, notes that &ldquo;Frieze was aware of the problem but took no action to correct it.&rdquo;&nbsp;

By&nbsp;Alex Greenberger, ARTNEWS

<a href="http://www.artnews.com/2018/06/11/shane-campbell-gallery-sues-frieze-art-fair-alleging-substantial-financial-losses-resulting-heat-new-york/">Read More</a>

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<h2>Elmhurst Art Museum opens Mies van der Rohe exhibit</h2>

The Elmhurst Art Museum is hosting an unusual open house &mdash; one that will last most of the summer and involve a famous house that hasn&rsquo;t been lived in for decades. The house is the McCormick House, designed by renowned architect&nbsp;Mies van der Rohe, built in Elmhurst in the 1950s and for more than 20 years an integral part of the structure of the Elmhurst Art Museum building.

By Graydon Megan, Chicago Tribune

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<h2>Charles White&#39;s powerful portraits of black America &ndash; in pictures</h2>

The artist created what his gallerist, and later he, called &lsquo;images of dignity&rsquo; while portraying African American life in the US. He was part of Chicago&rsquo;s flourishing black artistic community in the 30s, believing that &lsquo;art must be an integral part of the struggle&rsquo;. His work is being celebrated in the centenary year of his birth at the&nbsp;Art Institute of Chicago&nbsp;and the&nbsp;Museum of Modern Art&nbsp;in New York.

Via The Guardian

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<h2>These Chicago projects won awards for eco-sensitive design</h2>

On Tuesday evening, Friends of the Chicago River doled out awards to a handful of Chicago projects with designs that were particularly mindful of their water impact. The 2018 Chicago River Blue Awards recognize the work of developers, architects and municipalities for projects that are sensitive to the Chicago River watershed. Studio Gang&rsquo;s Eleanor Street Boathouse in Bridgeport took home the organization&rsquo;s top prize.

By&nbsp;Sara Freund, Curbed Chicago

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News from Around the Art World: June 12, 2018

<h2>Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn pledges to return Parthenon sculptures to Greece</h2>

Comments come after Unesco calls for &ldquo;mutually acceptable&rdquo; solution to 200-year-old issue. The Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn says he will work to return the Parthenon sculptures to Greece if elected as British prime minster. Corbyn says the antiquities were &ldquo;made in and belong to Greece&rdquo; and that, on entering Downing Street, he would begin &ldquo;constructive talks&rdquo; with the Greek government to secure their repatriation.

By Anny Shaw, The Art Newspaper

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<h2>Art and antiques show preview party benefits Northwestern Memorial Hospital</h2>

Nearly 400 guests attended the opening-night party for the second annual Chicago Antiques + Art + Design Show on May 17 at the Chicago Merchandise Mart. The event, produced by Dolphin Promotions, was hosted by the Woman&#39;s Board of&nbsp;Northwestern Memorial Hospital&nbsp;and raised over $200,000 to benefit the programs and care initiatives supported by the board, including a recent commitment to fund a study of collaborative mental health care.

By Candace Jordan,&nbsp; Chicago Tribune

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<h2>Art Institute uses data to give visitors what they want</h2>

If you saw &ldquo;Degas: At the Track, on the Stage&rdquo; at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015 or early 2016, you were part of an experiment. The show, a microcosm of the impressionist artist&#39;s work, used a sophisticated attendance model to test the effect of smaller exhibits on attendance. Measuring Wi-Fi usage throughout the museum revealed that visitors spent more time in the room containing the Degas exhibit than they would have had that room not contained a special exhibit.

By&nbsp;Lisa&nbsp;Bertagnoli, Crain&#39;s Chicago Business

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<h2>&#39;Happy Place&#39; Art Exhibit Aims to Spread Positivity in Chicago</h2>

An art exhibition celebrating the joy of being happy is heading to Chicago after a successful run in Los Angeles.&nbsp;The exhibit, known as &ldquo;Happy Place,&rdquo; is a fully immersive space that features a slew of scenes designed to increase positivity and happiness. The world&rsquo;s largest confetti dome, and a pair of stiletto shoes made of candy are just two of the attractions that are being made available to Chicagoans beginning on June 28.&nbsp;

By&nbsp;James Neveau, NBC Chicago

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<h2>C&eacute;zanne:&nbsp;An old-school approach to the famed artist&rsquo;s portraiture.</h2>

C&eacute;zanne Portraits, at the National Gallery in Washington, is indeed, as the curators claim proudly, &ldquo;the first major museum exhibition&rdquo; devoted to the portraits of Paul C&eacute;zanne, an artist more famous for his shimmering landscapes, still lifes, and bathers. The genre was a modest but persistent presence in the French postimpressionist&rsquo;s career&mdash;fewer than two hundred of the thousand or so canvases he produced in a lifetime (about sixty of which are assembled here).&nbsp;

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<h2>Fire at London&rsquo;s Hayward Gallery as Rotting Fish Artwork Explodes</h2>

Majestic Splendor&nbsp;is composed of sequin-covered rotting fish. When it was shown in 1997 at New York&rsquo;s MoMA, it had to be removed as the smell made visitors feel sick. For the Hayward show, the fish were placed in potassium permanganate. Although it is not flammable, the chemical does increase the flammability of other combustible materials. On receiving advice, the gallery decided to withdraw the artwork, but it spontaneously combusted mid-removal.&nbsp;

Via Frieze Editorial

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News from Around the Art World: June 4, 2018

News from Around the Art World: May 29, 2018

Art events and spaces for children in Chicago this summer