By GINNY VAN ALYEA&nbsp;

Friday, March 2&nbsp;will be a&nbsp;big opening night around the city, as many galleries open major shows that will begin the spring season.&nbsp;

After Friday&#39;s big night out,&nbsp;several daytime tours and artist talks are happening on Saturday, March&nbsp;3 and Sunday, March 4.&nbsp;Some hightlights are listed below, and our <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar">full calendar</a> may be viewed&nbsp;here.

See you in the galleries!&nbsp;

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<h2>Barbara Crane: The Polaroid Years</h2>

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March 2-April 28, <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/barbara-crane-the-polaroid-years">Catherine Edelman Gallery</a>&nbsp;&ndash; RIVER NORTH

In celebration of Barbara Crane&rsquo;s 90th birthday, CEG presents&nbsp;The Polaroid Years, a solo exhibition featuring some of Crane&#39;s best known Polaroid pieces from the late 1970s/80s, including recent work from 2012. The show is being held in collaboration with&nbsp;Stephen Daiter Gallery, who will also feature the artist in a one-person exhibition.&nbsp;

A concurrent exhibition by Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber, Empire, is also opening the same evening.

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<h2>Blood Sport</h2>

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March 2 - April&nbsp;27, <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/blood-sport">Gallery Victor Armendariz&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;&ndash; RIVER NORTH

The art of the physical is on view in this gallery known for figurative work. The gallery also marks its first anniversary this month.&nbsp;Blood Sport&nbsp;features works by Caleb O&#39;Connor, Art Shay, Dean Kugler, Patrick Burns.

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<h2>Lee Grantham: Reverse Acrylic Paintings</h2>

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Closing reception March 2 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/reception-with-lee-grantham-reverse-acrylic-paintings">Jean Albano Gallery</a>&nbsp;&ndash; RIVER NORTH

This show, which opened in January, has gotten a lot of press and attention for the unique&nbsp;works which feature bright colors, wild scenes and atypical everyday materials.&nbsp;

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<h2>VIVARIUM: New Work by Mary Lou Zelazny</h2>

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March 2 - April 28 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/vivarium-new-work-by-mary-lou-zelazny">Carl Hammer Gallery</a>&nbsp;&ndash; RIVER NORTH

Mary Lou Zelazny&#39;s works on canvas act as a viewer&rsquo;s transport to worlds and planes of dreamlike existence. &nbsp;The hybrid combination of the artist&rsquo;s gestural painting fluidity combines with the slickness of clipped collage images.&nbsp;

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<h2>Gun Ballet: the Aestheticization of Violence in Video Games</h2>

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March 2-June 3 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/gun-ballet-the-aestheticization-of-violence-in-video-games">Video Game Art Gallery</a> &ndash; WICKER PARK-ISH

Violence has a ubiquitous presence in video game history. This exhibition explores why this characteristic is so appealing among gaming demographics. It also examines the various styles of violence -- ranging from extremely graphic to the acrobatic and balletic -- that serve various expressive goals on the part of studios.

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<h2>Woman Made Midwest Open</h2>

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March 2-24 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/woman-made-midwest-open">Woman Made Gallery</a>&nbsp;&ndash; PILSEN

48&nbsp;artists from&nbsp;Midwestern States will be represented through a variety of subject matters, styles and techniques: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Awards will be announced during the opening reception, which takes place in WMG&#39;s new Lacuna Artist Lofts home in Pilsen. Juried by WMG&rsquo;s Executive Director, Deb Flagel, the exhibition includes paintings, sculptures, photography, mixed media, fiber, printmaking, and installation.

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<h2>Yellow is Mine (Not My Yellow)</h2>

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Mar 2-22 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/yellow-is-mine-not-my-yellow">Chicago Artists Coalition</a> &ndash; WEST LOOP&nbsp;

CAC presents its new BOLT Residency&nbsp;solo exhibition by&nbsp;Roni Packer.&nbsp;

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<h2>Art, Architecture and Design / New Works</h2>

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March 2 and 3 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/linc-thelen-gallery">Linc Thelen Studio</a> &ndash; WEST SIDE

See an artist&#39;s own studio and view works in progress&nbsp;at&nbsp;1620 W Carroll. View current paintings and see concepts from one of Thelen&#39;s&nbsp;new modern architectural projects

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<h2>Cornelia&nbsp;Open Studios</h2>

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March 2, 6-10pm at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/march-2018-open-studios">Cornelia Arts Building</a> &ndash; NORTH SIDE

Cornelia Arts Building&nbsp;Open Studio nights happen four times a year.&nbsp;Join over 40 resident artists in their studios, hallway guest artist exhibitions, and food from a local food truck in the parking lot.&nbsp;

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<h2>Lindsay Olson</h2>

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March 2-April 1 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/lindsay-olson">Evanston Art Center</a> &ndash; NORTH SUBURBS

Lindsay Olson, an artist with a science-based practice, is known for her unusual art projects. As Fermi National Accelerator&rsquo;s first artist in residence, Olson&rsquo;s work sheds light on the fascinating world of sub atomic particles. Her love of science and technology grew out of her work with Chicago&rsquo;s Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, the world&rsquo;s largest wastewater treatment facility.

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A summary of highlights from March 2 art openings in and around Chicago

March 2 Openings Kick Off Spring

Each week CGN interviews a local art dealer to discuss the ins and outs of running a gallery in the city of Chicago. This week we caught up with Dan Addington, owner of Addington Gallery.

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Age: 53 
Current Position:&nbsp;Gallery Owner 
Hometown:&nbsp;Denver, Colorado 
Previous&nbsp;Occupation:&nbsp;Graphic Designer and Illustrator

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5 favorites from the past week: 
Restaurant: Lady Gregory&#39;s 
Shop: Martha Mae: Art Supplies &amp; Beautiful Things, Andersonville 
Book: Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson 
Neighborhood: Andersonville 
Music: As a guitar player, Lindsay Buckingham is an artist I revere. Same with Richard Thompson. Aimee Mann&#39;s latest is currently on heavy rotation at the gallery.

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CGN: Tell us about your background and how Addington Gallery came to be?

DA: The story of Addington Gallery&nbsp;probably goes back to grad school, where the truth about my identity as an artist took shape, and where I also discovered the joy of going to art galleries. I largely learned the latter from Barry Blinderman, director of Illinois State University. I worked for him,&nbsp;and he would frequently bring his staff and students to Chicago to introduce us to the gallery world. Barry was bold and enthusiastic and always on the lookout for an experience.&nbsp;We were ushered into back rooms and heard professional stories that we would not otherwise have had access to.

Once I moved to Chicago, I found some of the galleries to be quite generous, giving their&nbsp;advice, offering me jobs&nbsp;and looking at slides of my paintings. The curator at Betsy Rosenfield Gallery recommended I show Gwenda Jay my work, and she gave me my first gallery show in Chicago. I met more gallery owners, and soon Eva Cohen offered me a job as director of her River North space. When she retired, I became the director at Gwenda Jay and later a partner at Gwenda Jay / Addington.

During this time I was fortunate&nbsp;to recieve&nbsp;support and advice from gallerists like Roy and Ann Boyd, Ann Nathan, Ken Saunders,&nbsp;Byron Roche, and&nbsp;many other gallery owners who have been very supportive since. I know that this&nbsp;encouragement helped give&nbsp;me the confidence to open Addington Gallery in 2007.

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CGN: Share a typical day in the life of the gallery.

DA: One thing I love about working in the gallery and also about being an artist is that no day is really typical. Yes, there is a lot of administrative work to do, but each artist&nbsp;and&nbsp;client I work with is unique. I&#39;m meeting new people all the time, and they each require sensitivity to their own&nbsp;situation. When I&#39;m in the studio, each painting can take me on a different journey, and the potential is there to learn something new each time. There&#39;s a lot of crossover between these two pursuits.

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CGN: Most exciting sale you ever had?

DA: That&#39;s a tough&nbsp;question, for many of the reasons I mentioned - each sale has its own story&nbsp;and unexpected things happen all the time. The best part of each sale is meeting the client, and teaming up with them. Some enter into the process as problem solvers, some enter into the process as explorers. In all those cases, I&#39;m a partner with them through that process. I watch some collectors fall in love with an artwork right before my eyes. It&#39;s a process most artists don&#39;t always get to see. It really does bring me joy!

Conversely, it&nbsp;almost breaks my heart when I see people fall in love with a piece, profess that love out loud, and then&nbsp;for whatever reason, walk away from it. Many of my clients recount stories to me about artwork they regret not getting. So, I&#39;m always&nbsp;happy when people follow their instincts. I haven&#39;t really answered your question though, have I? Well, I want to say that the last sale is always my favorite!&nbsp;I know that sounds like a cop-out, but it&#39;s totally true!

I loved placing a sculpture in the beautiful high rise apartment owned by the mother of a very well known Chicago filmmaker. Her stories were fantastic! I&#39;ve enjoyed selling work to professional athletes, newscasters, and politicians. All good experiences. OK, I know a story where the client confirmed that it was ok to talk about the sale publicly. It was a real treat to meet&nbsp;Juanita Jordan, Michael&nbsp;Jordan&#39;s mother,&nbsp;and help&nbsp;her pick out work and install it in her and Michael Jordan&#39;s Highland Park home &ndash; that was a championship experience.

So, huge, one-time sales are great, but I find the most important deals have been those that have lead to friendships as well as&nbsp;a real appreciation for, and even dedication to, the gallery, our vision, and the artists we represent. The collectors who stick with us&nbsp;and discover new artists with us &ndash; they aren&#39;t just buying art, they are letting us walk with them on a real journey. It&#39;s really about art over the long term, and that&#39;s the most gratifying part of this process.

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CGN: What are some successes as well as challenges you have faced this year?

DA: I&#39;ve noticed an interesting and increasing trend in the last year, maybe a little longer. Many people who&nbsp;bought artwork from the gallery years ago, whom I had not seen for awhile, or who just weren&#39;t steadily collecting, have returned to purchase new artwork.&nbsp;It&#39;s been great to see how some of the goodwill from those early encounters has brought people back in their own time.

This is true of artists too. In addition to clients, the real success of this gallery for me has been the artists I&#39;ve been able to meet and work with. I love talking about art - all aspects of it. It&#39;s one of my favorite things, and I get to do it with a great range of artists who are each dedicated to this pursuit, and who express that dedication in very individual ways. It has changed me and made my tastes much broader.

This year I had a number of opportunities to curate exhibitions outside of the gallery, and to participate with other institutions jurying shows and presenting new artists. I also spent time at a number of colleges, speaking both as a curator and as an artist, teaching workshops and participating in critiques. These &quot;extra curricular&quot; activities have become a very important aspect of my vocation for me.&nbsp;I love getting to contribute to these students&#39; experiences in the same way that visiting artists and&nbsp;curators did for me when I was in school.

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CGN: What do you want to tell a young person considering this business?

DA: Find good mentors. Learn as much as you can from them. Know art history! Especially post-war to the present. Yes, being successful in this business requires you to be a businessperson, but it really means you should have a curatorial vision. This is the difference between selling art like a commodity on-line, and curating a space that offers the viewer a unique and knowledgeable experience with the artwork. Of course, the challenge is to make those things work in tandem. You have to wear a lot of hats. There are a lot of good artists but not a lot of accessible galleries. If you have a vision, pursue it! You are needed in this culture.

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CGN: Favorite cultural pursuit outside of the art world?

DA: Of course, my favorite thing to do is spend time with my family. I love to travel, and I have a wife who is a great artist and teacher who also loves to travel and see new things. I love spending time and going places with my 10 year old boy. I love to play guitar. I have been&nbsp;in bands since I was a kid, and I play whenever I can with other musicians who challenge me, so I am always learning.

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CGN: What should we expect to see from Addington Gallery in 2018?

DA: I&#39;m thrilled about this year&#39;s schedule of exhibitions! We are going to see&nbsp;powerful new work from established artists, as well as&nbsp;exciting work from artists who are new to the gallery. I want this gallery to always be a place of welcome and renewal - new work, new ideas, and new visitors as we continue to advocate for our artists and present their ideas and vision to the community.

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Dan Addington&nbsp;is the owner&nbsp;of Addington Gallery&nbsp;in River North, Chicago. For more information about the gallery&nbsp;please visit: <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/addington-gallery">Addington Gallery</a>

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CGN Interview Series: Dan Addington of Addington Gallery

<h2>Please Enjoy This Video of Jerry Saltz Reviewing Art Made by Artificial Intelligence</h2>

Thanks to great advances in artificial intelligence, humans aren&rsquo;t the only ones making art anymore. As computers get in on the creative action, art critic Jerry Saltz has taken their efforts to task, offering some fairly savage reviews of works of art generated by various algorithms.

By Sarah Cascone, artnet

<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/jerry-saltz-ai-art-1227932?utm_content=buffer55463&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=socialmedia">Read More</a>

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<h2>Exhibit highlights work of Midwestern women</h2>

Deb Flagel started 2018 by asking a question: What kind of art is coming out of the Midwest?&nbsp;

As executive director of <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/woman-made-gallery--2">Woman Made Gallery</a>, 2150 S. Canalport Ave., Flagel curated an exhibition to help herself answer that question. From March 2&ndash;24, Woman Made will display its inaugural Midwest Open, featuring work from female artists from all 12 Midwestern states.&nbsp;

Flagel hopes the Midwest Open will explore several other questions as well, such as whether the immediacy of sharing art over the internet has made the concept of &ldquo;regional art&rdquo; disappear.&nbsp;

By Miranda Manier, The Colombia Chronicle

<a href="http://www.columbiachronicle.com/arts_and_culture/article_a6cfa838-18e2-11e8-be1e-2313932f1448.html">Read More</a>

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<h2>Beyond &lsquo;American Gothic&rsquo;: The Conflicted World of Grant Wood</h2>

Almost everyone knows Grant Wood&rsquo;s &ldquo;American Gothic,&rdquo; the hypnotic painting of a pitchfork-toting farmer and his daughter. But to many fans of the picture&mdash;and its many parodies&mdash;the rest of the artist&rsquo;s career has remained a mystery.

By&nbsp;Brenda Cronin, WSJ

<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/beyond-american-gothic-the-conflicted-world-of-grant-wood-1518707424">Read More</a>

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<h2>Elmhurst considers arts commission to promote, add to public art</h2>

From the sculpture next to city hall to several pieces outside the art museum, Elmhurst has a significant public art collection, local art enthusiasts say. But people might not be aware of it.

By Robert Sanchez, Daily Herald

<a href="http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180226/elmhurst-considers-arts-commission-to-promote-add-to-public-art-">Read More</a>

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News from Around the Art World: February 26, 2018

On a sun-filled late winter Sunday,&nbsp;Mayor Rahm Emanuel joined the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events and theMART (the building&nbsp;formerly known as The Merchandise Mart)&nbsp;to propose something that will put public art in an entirely new light.

The Mayor announced&nbsp;Art on theMart, a permanent large-scale lighting installation that will come to Chicago for the foreseeable future, starting this fall. The art will project across nearly three acres of the southern facing fa&ccedil;ade of theMART. The building, which includes more than four million square feet behind that facade, was once the biggest in the world.

&ldquo;Large, temporary projections have been done around the world, but the permanency and size of Art on theMART will provide a canvas for art to evolve and thrive,&rdquo; said Myron Maurer, Chief Operating Officer, theMART.&nbsp;Similar displays have been projected on&nbsp;the Sydney Opera House and at St. Peter&rsquo;s Basilica.

Following the popularity of Chicago&#39;s Riverwalk, as well as 2017&#39;s Year of Public Art, the Mayor said,&nbsp;&ldquo;Iconic art and cultural programming on the Riverwalk has always been&nbsp;inherent and integral in helping us embrace the river as the city&rsquo;s newest recreational frontier,&rdquo; said Mayor Emanuel. &ldquo;Art on theMart&nbsp;will be a visionary project that brings new energy to the Riverwalk, while strengthening Chicago&rsquo;s legacy of public art.&rdquo; One can imagine it will also make the river a vibrant destination beyond the summer months.&nbsp;The City and theMART will enter into a 30-year agreement to facilitate the project pending City Council approval.&nbsp; 
 
The installation project, privately funded by Vornado Realty Trust, is slated for a fall 2018 completion. The funding means that the projections will not be branded or feature sponsorships; they will totally feature art.

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In 2017, theMART, engaged creative studio Obscura Digital and the Chicago based architectural firm Valerio Dewalt Train, to develop a feasibility study for projecting art on the south, river-facing facade of theMART. Obscura Digital&nbsp;is the foremost design engineer of large projection installations with the technical and design skills capable of developing architectural images at this scale. 
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Said Myron Maurer, Chief Operating Officer of theMART,&nbsp;&ldquo;As one of Chicago&rsquo;s most prominent buildings, theMART has been part of the city&rsquo;s history since the 1930s.&nbsp;Art on theMART&nbsp;will further cement Chicago&rsquo;s reputation as a dedicated champion for iconic public art.&rdquo;

As the public face of the Mart changes, from a center of commerce and design trade to one much more closely linked with a digital and technology future. 
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Art on theMART&nbsp;marks the first time a projection of its size and scope will be completely dedicated to art projection with no branding, sponsorship credits, or messaging allowed.&nbsp;It will be a curated, ongoing series of ever-changing installations that will begin after dusk for pedestrians and residents to enjoy. The City and theMART will be working in partnership in the management and ongoing curation of the projected art work. 
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&ldquo;We&rsquo;re eager to welcome&nbsp;Art on theMART&nbsp;into the pantheon of iconic public artworks in Chicago,&rdquo; said Mark Kelly, Commissioner of the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. &ldquo;This installation is a result of Chicago&rsquo;s first Public Art Plan and has the potential to be as impactful as Cloud Gate and the Picasso, two public art works which have transformed how we see and experience our city.&rdquo; 
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In 2017, the City of Chicago celebrated the &quot;Year of Public Art&quot; which culminated with hundreds of new works of public art throughout the city and the creation of Chicago&rsquo;s first Public Art Plan. The new plan is a blueprint that will help shape the future of public art in Chicago and shift how we interact, talk about and support works of art that can be viewed by all. As part of the plan, the City of Chicago explored options for siting more public art throughout the city and&nbsp;Art on theMART&nbsp;is a result of those efforts.&nbsp;Art on theMART&nbsp;exemplifies the city&rsquo;s commitment to infusing arts and culture throughout its neighborhoods for all residents and visitors to enjoy, and is a key driver of the rising tourism numbers and last year&rsquo;s record-setting 55.2 million visitors from across the globe.&nbsp; 
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Art on theMART&nbsp;will be dedicated to public digital art, providing Chicago residents and visitors with an enhanced public art experience. theMART and the City of Chicago, through its Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, will establish a selective process for identifying local, national and international artists and their work to be included in immersive gallery shows, which will include both static and moving imagery. Additionally, partnerships with city museums and art institutions will showcase the best of Chicago and celebrate the incredible artistic culture of the city. 
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The&nbsp;Chicago Riverwalk&nbsp;is presented by the City of Chicago with programming produced by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events in collaboration with the Chicago Department of Fleet and Facility Management, Choose Chicago, the Chicago Park District and the vendors and boat tour operators along the Riverwalk.

theMART is interwoven into the fabric of Chicago as an innovator in culture, art, business, fashion, media and more. theMART is the world&rsquo;s largest commercial building, wholesale design center and one of Chicago&rsquo;s premier international business locations. Encompassing 4.2 million gross square feet, theMART spans two city blocks and rises 25 stories, and is visited by an average of 30,000 people each business day; in total, nearly 10 million people visit theMART each year.&nbsp;

Artist Tyrue Jones, who is from Chicago and based here,&nbsp;is among the first to be featured.

For more information about the Chicago Riverwalk and a complete schedule of events, visit&nbsp;<a href="http://chicagoriverwalk.us">chicagoriverwalk.us</a>&mdash;and join the conversation on social media using&nbsp;#ChiRiverwalk.

Public Art in Chicago is About to Get Really Big

On March 1, as we hopefully start to&nbsp;see more signs of spring everywhere, including in the art world, the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College (MoCP) will host its popular annual benefit auction.

This year <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/darkroom-benefit-auction">DARKROOM</a>, co-chaired by Lisa Bailey, Dawoud Bey, and Jackie Moss, will take place on Thursday, March 1, 2018 from 5:30-8:30 p.m. at Venue Six10 at 610 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago.

Photography enthusiasts will enjoy music, hors d&rsquo;oeuvres, drinks and good company while perusing auction items by celebrated contemporary artists, including work by Ai Weiwei, Dawoud Bey, and more. All proceeds raised at this event will support essential MoCP exhibition and education programs in 2018.&nbsp;

The centerpiece of the event is the&nbsp;auction. The list of artists who&nbsp;are part of the auction is noteworthy, and collectors and enthusiasts should be motivated to bid not only to support MoCP but to potentially take home a work of art by one of the following:&nbsp;Dawoud Bey,&nbsp;Paul D&#39;Amato,&nbsp;Laura Letinsky,&nbsp;Diana Matar,&nbsp;Paula McCartney,&nbsp;Sandro Miller,&nbsp;John Opera,&nbsp;Leonard Suryajaya,&nbsp;Jan Tichy and&nbsp;Jeff Wolin, among others. Viewers may preview and bid virtually on <a href="https://paddle8.com/auction/mocp/">Paddle8</a>.

Particularly noteworthy is a piece by Ai Weiwei&nbsp;(b. 1957, Beijing, China), a controversial social activist and artist who was&nbsp;secretly, and now famously,&nbsp;detained by the Chinese police in 2011 and interrogated for 81 days. Since then he has not been allowed to leave the courtyard of his home without permission from the police.&nbsp;Weiwei creates work that boldly confronts contemporary sociopolitical issues, both in China and abroad. In his series of snapshots titled Study of Perspective he flips his middle finger at monuments, landmarks, and institutions of cultural and political power. Traditionally, artists have done perspective studies as preparation for illusionistic drawings or paintings of three-dimensional space on a flat surface. Ai cannily uses the double entendre of &ldquo;perspective&rdquo; as he interjects his point-of-view into photographs of iconic landmarks in which his middle finger serves as both a universal symbol of protest and a device for evaluating the relationship of distant objects.&nbsp;His most recent addition to the series,&nbsp;Study of Perspective, Trump Tower, NYC, 2016 was shown for the first time in the exhibition #AiWeiwei at MoCP in 2017. This was also Ai&rsquo;s first solo presentation of work in Chicago. The bidding for&nbsp;Study of Perspective, Trump Tower, NYC, 2016 starts at <a href="https://paddle8.com/work/ai-weiwei/153873-study-of-perspective-trump-tower-nyc/">$50,000</a>.

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In addition to offering its stellar fine art photography auction, at DARKROOM&nbsp;MoCP will&nbsp;present the sixth annual Silver Camera Award to artist Deborah Willis. The Silver Camera Award honors those who have made significant contributions to the medium of photography. Deborah Willis is a celebrated photographer, historian, and curator of African American photography. She is the author of many notable books, including Out [o] Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty and Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present, which inspired a traveling exhibition. Her photographs and scholarship have centered on representations of blackness, womanhood, and beauty.&nbsp;

<img alt="" data-caption="Venue SIX10" data-rich-file-id="2615" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2615/original/venue610.jpg" />

This year&#39;s event takes place at&nbsp;Venue SIX10, located in a contemporary building&nbsp;right next door to the musuem itself, with&nbsp;panoramic views of downtown Chicago and Lake Michigan.

Tickets to DARKROOM start at $150 for individuals and $300 for VIP Tickets.

<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/darkroom-2018-tickets-41427193852">Visit&nbsp;mocp.org&nbsp;for more information.</a>

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Additional images from the auction:&nbsp;

<img alt="" data-caption="Allison Grant, Macintosh Forest, 2014 Archival inkjet print, Signed. Estimate $1,200" data-rich-file-id="2607" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2607/original/2.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Paul D'Amato, Gee Gee, 2012 Archival inkjet print, Framed AP from an edition of 12, Signed. Estimate $2,500" data-rich-file-id="2608" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2608/original/damato.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Sandro Miller, Robert Mapplethorpe/ Ken Moody &amp; Robert Sherman (1984), 2017 Archival inkjet print, Signed. Estimate $3,600" data-rich-file-id="2609" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2609/original/sandro.jpg" />

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DARKROOM is March 1 at 5:30pm&nbsp;at 610 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago

Top image:&nbsp;DAWOUD BEY,&nbsp;Hassan II, 1999,&nbsp;Polaroid prints,&nbsp;Unique,&nbsp;Courtesy of artist and Stephen Daiter Gallery,&nbsp;Signed.&nbsp;Estimate&nbsp;$25,000 
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MoCP's annual fundraiser is March 1 in chicago

A Party to Support MoCP: DARKROOM March 1

<h2>A Long-Lost Klimt Drawing Just Turned Up in a Former Museum Secretary&rsquo;s Cupboard</h2>

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A&nbsp;Gustav Klimt&nbsp;drawing that disappeared from an Austrian museum has turned up in the cupboard of a recently deceased former secretary of the institution. The woman, who reportedly took and hid the work years ago, left a will describing the drawing&rsquo;s location and asking for it to be returned upon her death.

via Artnet &ndash; <a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/lost-klimt-drawing-found-1223519">Read more here...</a>

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<h2>The Obama Portraits Drew a Strong Reaction. What Did They Mean to You?</h2>

Typically, an official presidential portrait unveiling at&nbsp;National Portrait Gallery&nbsp;might be a ho-hum affair, even with the traditional pomp and circumstance. Not so for former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama on Monday.

Via New York Times &ndash; <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/arts/design/obama-portraits-reaction-what-did-they-mean-to-you.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=arts&amp;region=rank&amp;module=package&amp;version=highlights&amp;contentPlacement=9&amp;pgtype=sectionfront">Read more here...</a>

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<h2>Investigation of documenta 14&rsquo;s Shaky Finances Widens to Include Possible Embezzlement of Public Funds</h2>

The German Attorney General G&ouml;tz Wied confirmed on Wednesday, February 14, that the criminal investigation into documenta&rsquo;s officials on the suspicion of embezzlement has expanded. The investigation comes in response to a report issued last November by an independent auditor that included substantial evidence that there were serious failures in how public funds were spent on the recent edition of the prestigious exhibition, which took place in Kassel in Germany as well as the Greek capital of Athens.&nbsp;

Via Artnet &ndash; <a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/prosecutors-expand-investigation-into-documenta14-officials-on-the-suspicion-of-embezzlement-1224827?utm_content=from_www.artnet.com&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=US%20newsletter%20for%202%2F16%2F18&amp;utm_term=New%20US%20Newsletter%20List">Read more here...</a>

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<h2>Hirshhorn to reschedule Krzysztof Wodiczko&rsquo;s monumental projection after Florida school shooting</h2>

The Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC, decided to postpone a monumental projection across its fa&ccedil;ade by the Polish artist Krzysztof Wodiczko that included an image of a gun after a school shooting in Florida killed at least 17 people on Wednesday (14 February).

Via The Art Newspaper &ndash;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/hirshhorn-cancels-kryzstof-wodiczko-s-monumental-projection-after-florida-school-shooting">Read more here...</a>

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<h2>Not just a Princess - a Curator!&nbsp;The Duchess of Cambridge to Curate a Show at the National Portrait Gallery</h2>

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Duchess Kate&#39;s&nbsp;impeccable sense of style&nbsp;could certainly be a credit to her art history degree from St. Andrews. But now, the royal has the opportunity to put her eye to use beyond her wardrobe. This spring, she will be assembling an exhibition of Victorian photography at London&rsquo;s National Portrait Gallery, where she is a patron.&nbsp;

Via Town &amp; Country &ndash; <a href="http://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a18212500/kate-middleton-art-show-national-portrait-gallery/">Read more here...</a>

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News from Around the Art World: February 19, 2018

Each week CGN interviews a local art dealer to discuss the ins and outs of running a gallery in the city of Chicago. This week we caught up with Thomas Masters, owner of Thomas Masters Gallery.

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Age: 63

Current Position: Artist/Owner of Thomas Masters Gallery

Hometown: Chicago

Previous Occupations: Musician &amp; Vocalist

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5 favorites from the past week

Restaurant:&nbsp;Alinea

Shop:&nbsp;Eataly

Read:&nbsp;Fire and Fury

Neighborhood:&nbsp;Uptown, West Loop and Fort Greene

Music:&nbsp;Soundtrack from the Series &quot;Sense8&quot;

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CGN: Tell us about your background and how Thomas Masters Gallery came to be?&nbsp; 

I was living in New York and, like so many Artists, struggling to make things work. I read an interview with David Byrne in Rolling Stone Magazine where Byrne was asked about the Taking Heads central message; &quot;take control of your life, your art&hellip;.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; It really struck me that I needed to do exactly that.&nbsp; So, after moving back to Chicago, I began to organize my life as an Artist and began the first steps towards opening TMG.&nbsp; It was 1993 when I opened.

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CGN:&nbsp;Give us a day in the life! 

I usually wake at six&nbsp;and read in Italian for an hour. At 9:00 AM,&nbsp;it&#39;s a 40 minute walk to the gallery and my studio.&nbsp; I usually paint and/or make music for about two hours and then open the gallery. Clients, collectors, designers and artists fill the rest of my day.

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CGN:&nbsp;Most exciting sale you ever had?&nbsp;&nbsp; 

Well, there have been quite a few great ones over the years. Most recently&nbsp;I was able sell, with the help of <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/zolla-lieberman-gallery">William Lieberman</a>, a Deborah Butterfield horse.

The whole process was really exciting; going to her studio and ranch in Montana, meeting a wonderful, world class Artist and a woman of amazing talent.&nbsp; Before that it was selling the sculpture of Magdalena Abakanowicz.

Once again, world class artist and an amazing woman.

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CGN:&nbsp;Share some successes as well as challenges this year.&nbsp; 

Each year is different.&nbsp; Last year we were challenged by a major re-construction of our building and the two buildings on either side of us.&nbsp; When the year ended, I realized we had one of our best years ever.&nbsp; Somehow the madness of it all focused us.&nbsp; Lemons and lemonade.

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CGN:&nbsp;What do you want to tell a young person considering this business? 

Go for it.&nbsp; Be smart.&nbsp; Follow your instinct. Listen to others in the business, but not too much.

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CGN:&nbsp;What do you look for in an artwork? What speaks to you? 

Something that moves me and at the same time I&nbsp;can imagine our collectors being moved too.

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CGN:&nbsp;Favorite cultural pursuit outside of the art world?&nbsp; 

I will answer this&nbsp;with the words of Ai Wei Wei;&nbsp; &quot;Everything is Art, everything is political.&quot;

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CGN:&nbsp;What should we expect to see from Thomas Masters Gallery in 2018?&nbsp; 

We have some great shows and some really fantastic mixed-media performances coming to the gallery.&nbsp; For the past few years we have expanded our gallery to include international consulting.&nbsp; This year we will be building relationships in Italy, France, Poland, Great Britan, Brazil, and Portugal.

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Thomas Masters is the owner&nbsp;of Thomas Masters Gallery in the Near North Side of&nbsp;Chicago. For more information about the gallery&nbsp;please visit: <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/thomas-masters-gallery">Thomas Masters&nbsp;Gallery</a>

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CGN Interview Series: Thomas Masters, Thomas Masters Gallery

We&#39;ve all been hibernating this winter, and especially the last several days,&nbsp;so now we are eager to get out and visit local galleries and museums to really warm up.&nbsp;This Valentine&#39;s Day there are a handful of thematic exhibitions taking place that you can enjoy with a loved-one. There are shows at Weinberg/Newton and LineDot taking place this week, as well as a concert at the Driehaus, exhibitions at the Art Institute and&nbsp;the Block Museum, and an early reminder about MoCP&#39;s photography benefit party on March 1.&nbsp;

We know everyone needs some (last-minute) gift ideas too, and the Art Institute, the Driehaus and&nbsp;the MCA all offer great art-themed gifts.&nbsp;

Love is in the air, and in the art...&nbsp;

Happy Valentine&#39;s Day!&nbsp;

XOXO

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<h2>Haiku Your Love at Weinberg/Newton</h2>

The best gifts are from the heart, right?&nbsp;Spread some love this Valentine&#39;s Day at &quot;Haiku Your Love&quot; at Weinberg/Newton Gallery on Tuesday, February 13.&nbsp;At this fundraiser for the American Heart Association, attendees&nbsp;will participate in making haikus from various love-themed words that will be prearranged from large stencils provided by the David L. Hoyt Foundation. The Poetry Center will make recommendations for words to include in each of the haikus and suggestions for different haiku formats. Participants and attendees will vote on their favorite haiku, which will be framed after the event and put on display at the CLA for extended viewing.&nbsp;Tickets are&nbsp;$3.50 on&nbsp;Eventbrite&nbsp;and $5 at the door. Proceeds will be donated to the American Heart Association. The event is open to the public. <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/haiku-your-love">Details here.</a>

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<h2>Anthony Lister Valentine&#39;s Release + Reception at LineDot Editions</h2>

Join LineDot on Valentine&#39;s night for the release of an exclusive collection of drawings by one of Australia&#39;s most renowned contemporary artists, Anthony Lister. Drinks will be served and the artist will be in attendance.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/anthony-lister-valentine-s-release-reception">Details here.</a>

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<h2>Baroque Concert at the Driehaus Museum + The Art of Seating</h2>

Love is In the Air with a&nbsp;Third Coast Baroque concert&nbsp;in the always-romantic-setting of the Driehaus. The concert is Wednesday, February 14, 6:30 &ndash; 7:30 p.m. and features &ldquo;Chicago&rsquo;s most accomplished period instrumentalists and singers,&rdquo; (Chicago Tribune) who will present classical music inspired by Cupid&rsquo;s favorite holiday. While you&#39;re there, catch the recently opened exhibition/love letter to The Art of Seating.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.driehausmuseum.org">Details here.&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;

The Driehaus also has a very nice gift shop... Consider some French poster <a href="https://shop.driehausmuseum.org/collections/for-him/products/cuff-links-mucha-wallpaper">art cufflinks</a> ($54), or a <a href="https://shop.driehausmuseum.org/collections/for-her/products/mayil-peacock-porcelain-diffuser">porcelain diffuser</a> ($62)

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<h2>Rodin, Sculptor and Storyteller at Art Institute</h2>

Even though it&#39;s Valentine&#39;s Day, go beyond Rodin&#39;s famous The Kiss at this exhibition.&nbsp;At the beginning of the 20th century, Auguste Rodin (1840&ndash;1917) was the most famous artist in the world. On the centenary of his death, the Art Institute joins museums around the world in celebrating the renowned artist&rsquo;s life and work. Presenting rarely seen sculptures and drawings from private collections, as well as from the museum&rsquo;s rich holdings, this exhibition is the first devoted to the sculptor at the Art Institute since 1923. Rodin was a master of visual communication. His powerfully expressive sculpted bodies speak to us directly through cleverly constructed gestures and poses and in the carefully rendered surfaces of his bronzes and marbles. <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/rodin-sculptor-and-storyteller">Details here.&nbsp;</a>

The Art Institute Gift shop features more gift ideas:&nbsp;

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A plate featuring Rodin&#39;s The Kiss (<a href="http://www.artinstituteshop.org/item.aspx?productId=7658">$108 for members</a>) and a sterling silver pin by SAIC alumnus Edward Gorey (<a href="http://www.artinstituteshop.org/item.aspx?productId=7265">on sale for $29.99</a>)

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<h2>Tickets to MoCP Darkroom, March 1</h2>

What&#39;s better than spending a night out together? We suggest buying two tickets to MoCP&#39;s annual benefit coming up on March 1 - go VIP and spend a fabulous evening enjoying photography and a grand party. You may also want to bid on one of the works of art up for auction. This one can be your ultimate last minute gift (buy tickets, print them out and seal with a kiss!)&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mocp.org/support/annual-benefit.php">Details and tickets&nbsp;here.&nbsp;</a>

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<h2>William Blake and the Age of Aquarius at the Block Museum</h2>

This is a thinking-person&#39;s romantic outing, for sure. In the summer of 1967, more than 100,000 young people streamed into the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco and the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, as well as Greenwich Village in New York and Old Town in Chicago, to celebrate peace, love, music, and mind-altering drugs. Many of the artists, poets and musicians associated with the &ldquo;Summer of Love&rdquo; embraced the work of British visionary poet and artist William Blake (1757&ndash;1827) and used it as a compass to drive their own political and personal evolutions. William Blake and the Age of Aquarius&nbsp;will consider parallels between Blake&rsquo;s time and mid-twentieth-century America, touching on such issues as political repression, social transformation, and struggles for civil rights. <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/william-blake-and-the-age-of-aquarius">Details here.&nbsp;</a>

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<h2>Shop the Museum of Contemporary Art</h2>

The MCA store is frequently the answer to our gift-giving needs, and some of these new and best-selling&nbsp;items in store may delight your art-lover.&nbsp;

<h3>For the hot man in your life ($18.95)</h3>

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<h3>Make your love pop-up ($14.95)</h3>

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<h3>Say it with a Jeff Koons kiss... Or two ($29.95/ea)</h3>

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<h3>Your love is surreal ($40)</h3>

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Love is in the Air and in the Art 

<h2>Photos: SUE the T. rex&rsquo;s big moving day at the Field Museum</h2>

SUE the T. rex has some pretty die-hard fans. When the Field Museum tweeted out that the beloved dinosaur would be moving to a new home within the museum&mdash;Alison Laurence immediately bought a plane ticket to Chicago.

She didn&rsquo;t want to miss the first day of SUE the T. rex&rsquo;s month-long moving process at the Field Museum on Monday afternoon. Alison, from Evanston but living in Cambridge, Mass., was excited to see researchers take apart SUE because it happens to be directly related to her field of study. She&rsquo;s working on her PhD at MIT focusing on how extinct animals are displayed in museums and institutions.

By Sara Freund, Curbed Chicago&nbsp;

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<h2>The Artist JR Will Plaster the Facade of This Year&rsquo;s Armory Show With the Faces of Immigrants</h2>

On the heels of JR&rsquo;s recent&nbsp;Oscar nomination&nbsp;for&nbsp;Faces Places, a documentary he co-directed with filmmaker Agnes Varda, the French street artist is already working on his next project: an ambitious public art installation for the Armory Show. For the work, titled&nbsp;SO CLOSE,&nbsp;JR is plastering the exterior of Pier 94 with photographs that meld archival images from Ellis Island with portraits of Syrian refugees.

The massive installation has been organized by art dealer Jeffrey Deitch and Artsy, and is a sequel of sorts to &ldquo;Unframed,&rdquo; the artist&rsquo;s&nbsp;2014 photo installation on Ellis Island. For that project, JR took over the former immigration facility&rsquo;s&nbsp;abandoned hospital complex, pasting enlarged&nbsp;photographs of patients onto the buildings&rsquo; crumbling walls and broken windows.

By Sarah Cascone, artnews

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<h2>Obamas&#39; portraits unveiled, include official flower of Chicago</h2>

Portraits of Barack and&nbsp;Michelle Obama&nbsp;were unveiled Monday at the National Portrait Gallery, showcasing works from the first African-Americans to create paintings for the gallery&rsquo;s collection of U.S. presidents and their wives.

The former president&rsquo;s portrait features flowers in the background: chrysanthemums referencing the official flower of Chicago, jasmine evoking his native Hawaii and African blue lilies in memory of his late father. The former first lady&rsquo;s shows her in a long flowing sleeveless black and white dress embellished with geometric shapes by designer Michelle Smith&rsquo;s label, Milly.

By Katherine Skiba, Chicago Tribune

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<h2>Beyond the Golden Toilet: How Does Art End Up in the White House, and What Does It Tell Us About Our Leaders?</h2>

It was the loan denial heard around the world. When the White House requested to borrow a painting by&nbsp;Vincent van Gogh&nbsp;from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in September, the museum&rsquo;s chief curator Nancy Spector kindly declined, but countered with a hum-dinger of a replacement: a golden toilet by&nbsp;Maurizio Cattelan.

After the&nbsp;Washington Post&nbsp;reported the exchange late last month, many applauded her snarkiness, while others&mdash;including a Fox Business host who called for&nbsp;the curator&rsquo;s resignation&mdash;viewed it as highly inappropriate.

Party-line divisions aside, the cause c&eacute;l&egrave;bre sheds light on a history of lesser-known art loans to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And it illustrates how the Trump Administration appears to be doing things a bit differently than its predecessors.

By Menachem Wecker, artnews

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News from Around the Art World: February 12, 2018

This past week, the&nbsp;Winter Olympic began in PyeongChang, South Korea. During the opening ceremony&nbsp;art&nbsp;by a Korean artist, who is represented by&nbsp;a local Chicago gallery, was on view for the world.&nbsp;

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Chicago dealer&nbsp;Andrew Bae announced that Andrew Bae Gallery&nbsp;artist&nbsp;Dr. Keysook Geum had the honor of designing the dresses and uniforms for the Pyeongchang Olympics opening ceremony. Geum&#39;s works are well-known to gallery patrons and passersby in River North, as her delicate, actually wearable&nbsp;creations are frequently hung in the gallery&#39;s street-side windows at the corner of Franklin and Superior Streets.&nbsp;

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Bae&nbsp;shared that he is&nbsp;truly excited for the artist and that, &quot;Indeed, my favorite part of being a gallery owner is showcasing and discussing art with visitors and patrons.&quot; Seeing these works in person is a delight - during past openings the works have been modeled and worn around the gallery. Seeing them worn on an international stage was something else.

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Bae came to America from Korea&nbsp;at the age&nbsp;23, and the&nbsp;gallery&#39;s program features a&nbsp;group of select artists from Korea and Japan. ABG has been representing Keysook Geum for 17 years. The artist&nbsp;was invited to give a lecture to the students of the School of the Art Institute&#39;s&nbsp;Fashion Department in 2015. Her next&nbsp;solo show at the gallery is scheduled for&nbsp;November 2018.&nbsp;

Click <a href="https://www.pyeongchang2018.com/en/news/lead-pyeongchang-2018-unveils-podiums-costumes-for-victory-ceremonies">here</a> to read&nbsp;more about the work of Dr. Keysook Geum and the 2018&nbsp;PyeongChang Winter Olympics.

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Artist Dr. Keysook Geum at Olympics Opening Ceremony

Each week CGN interviews a local art dealer to discuss the ins and outs of running a gallery in the city of Chicago. This week we caught up with Aron Gent, owner of DOCUMENT.

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Age:&nbsp;33

Current Position: Gallerist, Printmaker, Artist

Hometown: Wales, Wisconsin

Previous Occupations: Sandwich Maker, Paperboy, Tennis Racquet Stringer, Golf Cart Attendant

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5 favorites from the past week: 
Restaurant:&nbsp;Shiki (Japanese restaurant) 
Shop:&nbsp;Art Los Angeles Contemporary 
Read:&nbsp;People&#39;s&nbsp;mannerisms while standing in my booth at an art fair 
Neighborhood:&nbsp;Brentwood, Los Angeles, CA 
Music:&nbsp;The Sirius XM Classical channel in my rental car

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CGN: Tell us about your background and the process of opening DOCUMENT?

AG: My father is a commercial photographer in Milwaukee, and he was a big influence for me&nbsp;growing up. I ended up going&nbsp;to Columbia College&nbsp;and fell in love with the art side of photography. After graduating in 2007 I started printmaking at a digital inkjet studio. At the time I was working, curating shows at my friend Edmar&rsquo;s space (Co-Prosperity Sphere) and going to my studio at night to make my own work. I realized I was spending a lot of time traveling between those 3 things, so in 2011 I decided to merge them all together to create&nbsp;DOCUMENT.

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CGN: Give us a day in the life!

AG: I start my day walking to the gallery.&nbsp;I always start with a pot of coffee and a smoothie and then dive into work (open the gallery,&nbsp;answer&nbsp;emails, make&nbsp;prints, edit&nbsp;images, photograph&nbsp;things,&nbsp;do&nbsp;invoices, and&nbsp;resist the control freak in me and try not to micromanage my employees and interns.) Usually&nbsp;I wrap up around 6 or 7 at night&nbsp;and either go to the gym, or have a drink with friends. I also travel quite a bit. Last week I was in Los Angeles for one art fair. In two&nbsp;weeks we will be in Mexico City for another fair.

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CGN: How would you sum up your experience running DOCUMENT?&nbsp;&nbsp;

AG:&nbsp;All I really am is a problem solver. People come to me with their art related problems, and I solve them. I&rsquo;m grateful to have my own business, and I&rsquo;ve learned that a lot of patience, flexibility, and always making sure your client is happy and satisfied at the end of the day is key. &nbsp;

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CGN: Most exciting sale you ever had?

AG: We sold out an entire show for the first-time last year. It took a few months, and a lot of hard work, but&nbsp;it felt so satisfying. &nbsp;

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CGN: Share some successes as well as challenges this year.

AG: Last year we moved the gallery and studio from the West Loop to West Town. My girlfriend Betsy and I also moved into a new apartment at the same time, so that was an adjustment. The hardest part of running the gallery is keeping the exhibition program tight, focused and well curated. Juggling fairs, printing, photographing, out of town travel, studio visits and telling artists &quot;no&quot; on&nbsp;certain things can be&nbsp;difficult.

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CGN: What do you want to tell a young person considering this business?

AG: If you want to start a commercial gallery it will take 5 years to break even, and then 5 more years to make a living. You will always have to readjust&nbsp;yearly to stay relevant. You need to commit and really focus on the long game;&nbsp;patience is key,&nbsp;and you will be rewarded if you put in the time and do the work.

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CGN: What do you look for in an artwork? When searching for work yourself, what speaks to you personally?

AG: I specialize in photography, video and sculpture. I&rsquo;m drawn towards work that has a strong conceptual backing that is equally strong in its execution.

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CGN: Favorite cultural pursuit outside of the art world?

AG: I eat, sleep and breathe art. Outside of that I enjoy how great television is these days, and I just took up tennis again.

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CGN: What should we expect to see next from DOCUMENT?

AG: Now we have up a great 4-channel video and sound installation by Mary Helena Clark, who was in the last Whitney Biennial.

Next is a show of&nbsp;Howardena Pindell video drawings,&nbsp;which&nbsp;will open the same weekend as her MCA solo exhibition mid-February.

Then Paul Mpagi Sepuya will have an exhibition of new photos that will overlap with his inclusion in MoMA&rsquo;s Being: New Photography 2018&nbsp;show that opens in New York&nbsp;mid-March.

In June&nbsp;we will open a Sterling Lawrence show &ndash; we just exhibited his&nbsp;work in our booth&nbsp;at Art Los Angeles Contemporary fair and people freaked out over what we showed.

In July&nbsp;Sibylle Friche, our gallery director, is curating a summer group show.

We will kick off the fall 2018&nbsp;season with a Stan VanDerBeek show in September during EXPO CHICAGO.

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Aron Gent is the owner&nbsp;of DOCUMENT in West Town, Chicago. For more information about the gallery&nbsp;please visit: <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/document">DOCUMENT</a>

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CGN interview with dealer Aron Gent of DOCUMENT

CGN Interview Series: Aron Gent, DOCUMENT

<h2>The National Gallery of Art Cancels a Chuck Close Show After Misconduct Accusations</h2>

The National Gallery of Art in Washington has canceled a Chuck Close exhibition, planned for May, because of accusations of sexual misconduct that have engulfed the artist in controversy.

Anabeth Guthrie, a spokeswoman for the National Gallery said that museum officials made the decision to cancel the show this month because of &ldquo;allegations of misconduct&rdquo; made against Mr. Close. In December, The New York Times published a report that Mr. Close had asked women who visited his studio to undress and made unwelcome explicit comments.

&ldquo;We have never made a decision to cancel a show because of allegations of this kind before,&rdquo; Ms. Guthrie said.

--By&nbsp;Colin&nbsp;Moynihan&nbsp;and&nbsp;Robin&nbsp;Pogrebin, The New York Times

<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/arts/design/national-gallery-of-art-cancels-chuck-close-thomas-roma-sexual-misconduct.html">Read More</a>

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<h2>Foundations shaking things up</h2>

For the last four decades, Chicago-based Terra Foundation has quietly gone about its business of supporting American art locally and globally. This year, it&#39;s making a bigger splash.

Terra is spending $6.5 million on Art Design Chicago, a yearlong celebration of American art and design taking place at 60 cultural organizations around the city. Art Design Chicago took five years to pull together and has a total cost of about $8 million. It has connected Terra with about 15 new organizations, among them the&nbsp;South Side Community Art Center,&nbsp;which received a $50,000 grant from Terra for &quot;Change the Canvas, Change the World: A Landscape of Cultural Discovery,&quot; opening at the Bronzeville center Nov. 3. Masequa Myers, executive director, calls the grant &quot;big money&quot; for the center and adds that the collaboration with Terra carries considerable marketing potential. &quot;It really raises the bar for us,&quot; she says.

--By&nbsp;Lisa&nbsp;Bertagnoli, Crain&#39;s Chicago Business

<a href="https://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20180126/ISSUE01/180129904/foundations-sharpen-focus-collaborate-to-increase-impact">Read More</a>

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<h2>Algorithmic Installation Transforms Neighbourhood Scenes Into Impressionist Abstractions</h2>

Tasked with creating a new experience in the vast, gallery-like lobby of 515 North State St, Chicago, ESI design played on the typical old-school approach of installing an abstract painting and instead created a unique 14-foot-wide-by-23-foot-tall digital art&nbsp;installation&nbsp;that constantly &lsquo;paints&rsquo; new color compositions.&nbsp;titled &lsquo;canvas,&rsquo; the site-specific work deconstructs original video footage of life in chicago&rsquo;s vibrant river north neighborhood into a piece of art that is always evolving.

--By&nbsp;Ed Purver, designboom

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<h2>Can Digital Technology Open Up the Art World?</h2>

LONDON &mdash; Regardless of whether you&rsquo;re a multibillion-dollar investment banker, or someone who wants to spend just a few hundred on something nice to hang on the wall, it&rsquo;s difficult not to be intimidated by the art market.

But surely the digital revolution has brought some much-needed transparency to this most opaque of luxury businesses? Presumably, by now, paintings and drawings are being bought online as routinely as music and books?

--By Scott Reyburn, The New York Times

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<h2>The Four Tribes of Art Collectors</h2>

The most enjoyable part of leading the art division of a private bank is working with the great characters of the art market. In my experience, serious collectors tend to fall into one of four &ldquo;tribes,&rdquo; each with their own behaviors, insecurities, strengths, and motivations for seeking, acquiring, and appreciating art.&nbsp;

--By&nbsp;Evan Beard, Artsy Editorial

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News from Around the Art World: January 29, 2018

Each week CGN interviews a local art dealer to discuss the ins and outs of running a gallery in the city of Chicago. This week we caught up with Dan Tamarkin, owner of The Rangefinder Gallery at Tamarkin Camera.

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Age: 48

Current Position:&nbsp;Owner and Lead Curator, The Rangefinder Gallery at Tamarkin Camera

Hometown:&nbsp; New Haven, Connecticut

Previous&nbsp;Occupations:&nbsp;Writer, Teacher, Theatrical Lighting Designer &amp; Fabricator, Raconteur

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5 favorites from the past week:

Restaurant: Club Lago! 
Shop: Dovetail on Chicago Avenue &ndash; I love midcentury Modern and Deco, and owner Julie Ghatan curates a fabulous offering. 
Read: &ldquo;Slightly Out of Focus&rdquo; by Robert Capa, the renown war photographer and photojournalist 
Neighborhood: Avondale &ndash; I&rsquo;m just starting to explore my new neighborhood. 
Music: I&rsquo;ve been listening to a lot of Leon Russell lately, Lowell George, and Bonnie Raitt. One co-worker calls these &ldquo;The Grandpa Sessions&rdquo; whenever I&rsquo;m DJ du Jour, which I find hilarious.

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CGN: Tell us about your background and the beginning of Tamarkin Camera and Rangefinder Gallery?

DT: My father founded Tamarkin Camera in 1971 in the house I grew up in, and when he retired in 2010 I took over the family business and brought it here to Chicago is 2012. That same year we opened the Rangefinder Gallery, as a showcase for images from the iconic Leica camera. In the 1980s, Tamarkin Camera created the trend of the &ldquo;Leica Gallery,&rdquo; which is emulated by Leica Stores around the world today, so it seemed only natural that our new Chicago home would be here in River North.

I was trained as a theatrical lighting designer and writer (the latter here in Chicago at UIC &ldquo;Circle&rdquo; Campus). I tended bar, waited tables, built theater sets and designed lighting in&nbsp;Chicago theater for years, and eventually worked as a teaching artist and a technical writer before taking over the family business in 2010. A photographer since 1981, I have been interested in light and shadow my whole life, and theater and photography fit perfectly. I&rsquo;m a very fortunate person to be doing what I love and to love what I do &ndash; the convergence of my love of the historic Leica brand, of photography and the arts in general, of Chicago architecture, and of collecting things&nbsp;can all be experienced in our little showroom and gallery.

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CGN: Give us a day in the life!

DT:&nbsp;A day in the life of Danny T is not all that fun or exciting! Like many of us, it&rsquo;s a lot of time spent emailing, phone calls with clients and steering the ship. The fun and interesting part is meeting and talking to the people who visit the gallery and showroom, and sharing my knowledge of Leica and photography with collectors, shooters, and anyone else who wanders in. And, of course, the cameras! I spend a lot of time looking at images for the gallery, appraising cameras, and trying to find the collectibles squirreled away in closets and old camera bags. And if the day is a First Friday when we have our monthly reception in the gallery, I can show off these things we love &ndash; the images and the cameras that make them. That&rsquo;s one of my favorite parts of what I do.

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CGN: How do you sum up the gallery&#39;s program in one sentence?&nbsp;

DT:&nbsp;The Rangefinder Gallery is Chicago&rsquo;s gallery and hub for both emerging and established photographers to discover new work, display and share their own work, and to spark conversations and connections around photography and the arts.

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CGN: Most exciting sale you ever had?

DT:&nbsp;The most exciting sale I ever made was actually not a sale itself, but acquiring a group of images from pre- and post-Revolution Cuba made by Roberto Salas, a friend and fellow Leica photographer as well as&nbsp;a marvelous storyteller. Hearing his stories was a real thrill for me, and for gallery goers at the opening and the Artist Talk. Bringing an artist &ndash; and his work &ndash; from Cuba is no easy task in this political climate, but the outcome was both exciting and full of hope. Roberto&rsquo;s memories of adventures with Fidel Castro and &ldquo;Che&rdquo; Guevara are enlightening, dramatically poignant and also at times funny and deeply moving, and are rarely heard here in the Unites States. Showcasing and offering images &ndash; both the stories and the storytellers &ndash; that have both historic and artistic importance is a thrill beyond the ordinary for us.

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CGN: Share some successes as well as challenges this year.

DT:&nbsp;In the past year, we&rsquo;ve seen an increase in visitors to the showroom and gallery, which is a huge success regardless of any sales. We&rsquo;ve also seen increasingly exciting photography, very high-caliber work. Another success is in connections within the community &ndash; we&rsquo;re finding there&rsquo;s a genuine, strong and growing interest in photography within our community. More connections are being made more often here in the gallery and at our events. It feels really good to watch this happen.

One challenge I think all galleries share is bringing visitors in the door, whether or not they are actually shopping. We have galleries and encyclopedias in our pockets now and we are constantly plugged in, which for many people becomes a substitute for the experience of physically visiting a gallery or a library. Another challenge is like many other small business owners face: how to reach interested and potential customers, and how to retain them.

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CGN: What do you want to tell a young person considering this business?

DT:&nbsp;What I&rsquo;d tell anyone who is trying to do anything: in the words of Lenny Bruce, &ldquo;Remember: anybody who ever did it, never did it before.&rdquo; You just gotta jump. That and carpe diem, I suppose.

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CGN: Thumbs up or down on art fairs?

DT:&nbsp;Tough question. Thumbs Up for anything that gives&nbsp;exposure to more artists, and that gives more consumers&nbsp;access to&nbsp;art. It&rsquo;s kind of hard to find fault with the idea. However, as a gallery owner, it is likewise difficult for me to relish the idea of an art fair; I believe that in practice, art fairs mean that fewer of the artists and their consumers come to value the gallery and its experience. However, like in any field, we must at least acknowledge the trends and desires in our marketplace and we exclude them at our peril; like technology, it is not intrinsically good or bad &ndash; it is how we use it that matters.

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Favorite cultural pursuit outside of the art world?&nbsp;

DT:&nbsp;People and travel. I really enjoy meeting and talking to people wherever I go. These have been some of my most rewarding and interesting experiences, and mesh quite well to photography, which is my main artistic outlet.

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CGN: What should we expect to see from Rangefinder Gallery at Tamarkin Camera in 2018?

DT:&nbsp;More great images and First Friday receptions! We&rsquo;re excited to have more color photographs this year than we usually exhibit, from artists both local and international. We are also excited about all of our events this spring and summer; we&rsquo;re engaging in a wider variety of speakers and photographers for our free Artist Talks and for&nbsp;Spring and Summer Photo Walks, which have become increasingly popular. We want to bring more people out of hibernation, and to get together to experience photography from all points of view along the artistic process.&nbsp;

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Dan Tamarkin is the owner&nbsp;of Rangefinder Gallery and Tamarkin Camera&nbsp;in River North, Chicago. For more information about the gallery&nbsp;please visit: <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/the-rangefinder-gallery-at-tamarkin-camera">Rangefinder Gallery</a>

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CGN Interview Series: Dan Tamarkin, The Rangefinder Gallery at Tamarkin Camera

The Evolving Zen of Artist Adam Siegel

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417640/ry94zkhemjlizarltybc.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;CGN StaffChicago's westward&nbsp;art expansion continues. Yesterday the Chicago Artists Coalition formally announced that they are moving the CAC to&nbsp;a new location at 2130-40 West Fulton Street in the dynamic Kinzie Industrial Corridor in spring 2018. CAC will be neighbors with Gray Warehouse, which moved to 2044 W Carroll in April 2017. They will also be near Spudnik Press and Linc Thelen Gallery, as well as&nbsp;Filter Photo and other tenants at&nbsp;Hubbard Street Lofts, 1821 W Hubbard.&nbsp;The new location will occupy 6,286 sq. ft. of a 55,000 sq. ft. building, providing CAC with the option to grow its footprint over time.&nbsp; The <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2014/6/chicago-artists-coalition-takes-a-bite-out-of-40">44-year-old</a>, non-profit organization has been at its current West Loop/Fulton Market&nbsp;location at 217 North Carpenter for the past seven years.“We have truly appreciated the community support that we received at our current building in the Fulton Market District,” said CAC Executive Director, Caroline Older.&nbsp; “As we continue to grow, the new location just west of the District will provide benefits that will allow us to serve an even wider community and to be more easily accessed by those we serve.” CAC’s new space will be customized to create a unique arts center for both the artists that CAC serves and the public. Improvements include a single-floor layout that will be ADA accessible, a dedicated education space, and enhanced artist studios and galleries. The location also provides easy access from downtown and the highways, and is close to the new Damen Avenue CTA “L” stop slated to open in 2020. Partners on the&nbsp;project include Larry Serota of commercial real estate firm,&nbsp;Transwestern, architect&nbsp;Ware Malcomb, general contractor&nbsp;Braun Renovation Management, and building owner&nbsp;EverWest Real Estate Partners, LLC. The buildout of the space will begin in March 2018, with CAC moving in June 2018. One of the first looks at the space will take place on June 7, when CAC welcomes guests to its annual benefit gala,&nbsp;WORK IN PROGRESS, at the new location. CAC is grateful to the Arts &amp; Culture Loan Fund, a program of the&nbsp;John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, which provides small and medium-sized arts and culture organizations with loans to address cash flow needs. Qualifying for the program and loan enables CAC to plan for the move to its new location.Established in 1974, the Chicago Artists Coalition, is a non-profit organization that supports emerging Chicago artists through education, artist residencies, and exhibitions—providing them with the resources to live, work, and thrive in the city. CAC is committed to building a diverse community of artist leaders who define the place of art in our city’s culture and economy, and to cultivating a wide-reaching civic, philanthropic, and public support network that enhances the impact of contemporary artists in Chicago.More details on CAC and its current programming may be found <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/chicago-artists-coalition-cac">here</a>.&nbsp;​Image: 2130-40 W. Fulton St, with rendering by CAC artist, Erik Peterson, of his work,&nbsp;Seep.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Chicago Artists Coalition is moving to Kinzie Corridor

Chicago Artists Coalition Moving West Spring 2018

<h2>A Chicagoan in Paris: Tony Fitzpatrick takes it all in while filming &#39;Patriot&#39;</h2>

Back in Chicago during a bone-chilling week or so during the holidays, he was eager to hear about local politics but mostly he talked about what it has been like working in Paris on the second season of the Amazon Video series&nbsp;&ldquo;Patriot,&rdquo;&nbsp;written and directed by Chicago&rsquo;s Steve Conrad. &ldquo;I think I&rsquo;m the only guy who goes to Paris and loses 14 pounds,&rdquo; he says.

In the show, Fitzpatrick plays a character named Jack Birdbath, a mysterious and disgraced security guard. If you watched any episodes of the series&rsquo; first season (available still on Amazon) you might have missed him. His was a small role but one that Fitzpatrick believes might have helped save his life.

<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ae-tony-fitzpatrick-in-paris-kogan-sidewalks-0121-story.html">Read More</a>

By Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune

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<h2>Sale of Chicago outsider art collection spotlights city&#39;s pioneering role in the genre</h2>

Friday morning in New York, a sizable chunk of Chicago art history will go under the auction gavel.

The trove that Christie&rsquo;s is selling spotlights 52 works from the outsider art bought by Marjorie and Harvey Freed, longtime Lincoln Park residents who, like the city in which they live, were among the earliest to catch on to the aesthetic value of outsider &mdash; or &ldquo;naive,&rdquo; or &ldquo;self-taught&rdquo; &mdash; art.

<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-0119-freed-collection-chicago-outsider-art-sale-20180115-story.html">Read More</a>

By Steve Johnson, Chicago Tribune

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<h2>Google&#39;s face match feature doesn&#39;t work in Illinois and Texas</h2>

Google confirmed to CNN Tech that the face-matching tool is not available in Illinois and Texas. The company declined to comment on why.

However, experts believe the issue stems from laws in Illinois and Texas that put restrictions on how companies can use biometric data such as facial scans and fingerprints.&nbsp;The Chicago Tribune was first to&nbsp;report&nbsp;on the laws affecting the feature&#39;s availability.

<a href="http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/17/technology/google-arts-culture-not-working/index.html">Read More</a>

By&nbsp;Selena Larson, CNN Money

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<h2>Expo Chicago Announces 2018 Special Project Curators</h2>

Expo Chicago announced today the curators that have been selected for three of its programs&mdash;&ldquo;In/Situ,&rdquo; &ldquo;Expo Video,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Exposure.&rdquo; The seventh edition of the fair will run from September 27&ndash;30 at Chicago&rsquo;s Navy Pier and will feature over 135 galleries.

<a href="http://www.artnews.com/2018/01/22/expo-chicago-announces-2018-special-project-curators/">Read More</a>

By&nbsp;Grace Halio, ARTnews&nbsp;

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News from Around the Art World: January 22, 2018

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417600/agqewx3cn0j0giuotfns.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;By GINNY VAN ALYEA&nbsp;Following 2017's many cultural milestones in Chicago,&nbsp;a new initiative to highlight the city as an international&nbsp;hub and crossroads of visual culture manages to&nbsp;set the bar even higher&nbsp;in 2018. On Thursday, January 11 Art Design Chicago officially kicked off at the DePaul Art Museum to a packed house. Many art world figures,&nbsp;as well as representatives from the City of Chicago and the sponsoring Terra Foundation for American Art&nbsp;and The Richard H.&nbsp;Driehaus Foundation, were present to share why they think championing such an expansive and ambitious program is so critical to the future of not just culture in Chicago but the arts in general.&nbsp;The Terra provided $6 million in funding to the year-long event, in addition to a 1$ million donation from the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation and $1 million raised from smaller donors. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;A city-wide partnership of more than 40 cultural organizations,&nbsp;Art Design Chicago is&nbsp;intended to gather cultural powerhouses and mass creativity and collaboration under a very big virtual tent. ADC&nbsp;will explore Chicago’s art and design legacy through some 25 exhibitions and hundreds of public programs.&nbsp;Amy&nbsp;Zinck, Executive Vice President of the Terra Foundation, spoke about how&nbsp;a program like Art Design Chicago can elucidate Chicago’s rich art and design history for all.&nbsp;The Terra's goal in mounting and funding such an extensive&nbsp;program&nbsp;is to make ADC&nbsp;a cultural game changer by offering deep, impactful support to a range of organizations. Spurring various groups to combine their efforts and draw large crowds over the course of an entire year has the power to&nbsp;show that art can lead the way in changing lives in the city. As Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Mark Kelly proclaimed, "Art is an essential not tangential part of our lives." Despite Chicago’s thriving visual arts scene and those nearby who hold it in high regard, the city does not yet enjoy as high a cultural&nbsp;profile&nbsp;as&nbsp;the likes of New York, Los Angeles&nbsp;or San Francisco. Art Design Chicago hopes to change that for good,&nbsp;with ambitious and diverse programming that spans the calendar. &nbsp;The simultaneous&nbsp;opening of exhibitions at DePaul Art Museum – <a href="https://www.artdesignchicago.org/events/jose-guerrero-presente-a-memorial-print-portfolio">Jose Guerrero, Presente: A Memorial Print Portfolio</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artdesignchicago.org/events/barbara-jones-hogu-resist-relate-unite-1968-1975">Barbara Jones-Hogu: Resist, Relate, Unite 1968–1975</a>, both thru March 25&nbsp;–&nbsp;showed how&nbsp;printmaking in Chicago has been, and of course can continue to be, a meaningful&nbsp;vehicle for social change and experimentation, and it put on full view what a&nbsp;lasting impact artists can have on their personal as well as larger environments. The actual kickoff of the exhibitions on view was also bittersweet, as the artist Barbara Jones-Hogu passed away this past fall before she could see her own first solo exhibition. Jones-Hogu's family was in attendance at the opening, and DPAM Director Julie Rodrigues-Widholm said it was&nbsp;personally important to her to make sure that the&nbsp;exhibition would happen. Art Design Chicago was a crucial means for the dream to be realized.&nbsp;ADC also just announced a&nbsp;new partnership&nbsp;with Chicago Athletic Association Hotel's Live Storytelling Series,&nbsp;a monthly podcast taking place throughout 2018 in the hotel’s Drawing Room Library - a fitting combination of historic architecture meets new design and new media. For the podcast each live recording will feature an Art Design Chicago exhibition curator in conversation with a contemporary Chicago-based artist or designer to discuss the city’s art and design legacy, focusing on the ways in which contemporary creative practice is influenced by the generations of artists and designers that came before. Storytelling&nbsp;events are&nbsp;free and open and to the public. All sessions are recorded and made available for download and listening at&nbsp;<a href="http://ChicagoAthleticEvents.com">ChicagoAthleticEvents.com</a>&nbsp;and on&nbsp;iTunes.The first&nbsp;program takes place this Sunday, January 21 with&nbsp;Juarez Hawkins + Damon Reed from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Hawkins,&nbsp;curator of the exhibition&nbsp;Bill Walker: Urban Griot&nbsp;currently on view at the Hyde Park Art Center, will talk&nbsp;with artist Damon Reed about the legacy of Bill Walker and his influence on socially engaged art practice and street art of today.&nbsp;Looking ahead, in April, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago will present Picture Fictions: Kenneth Josephson and Contemporary Photography,&nbsp;a consideration of conceptual and contemporary photography from a iconic figure from the field.&nbsp;The Art Institute of Chicago will be hosting a retrospective of African-American painter Charles White in June, through a partnership with the Museum of Modern Art, and they&nbsp;have also organized a highly-anticipated September exhibition about the Hairy Who, the comical and absurd cousin of pop art that became popular during the 1960’s and 70’s.Additional exhibitions will be shown at the Dusable Museum of African American History, National Museum of Mexican Art, The Arts Club of Chicago, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, and more.Elizabeth Glassman, Terra Foundation’s President and Chief Executive, says of the event that, “I would like people to recognize that Chicago has always been important and I would like them to think this is the first word on the subject.”Uniquely drawing upon the cornerstones of Chicago’s visual history, Art Design Chicago will be the first word in a very long conversation of the city’s enduring and underrepresented arts culture.More information at <a href="https://www.artdesignchicago.org">artdesignchicago.org</a>&nbsp;Top image:&nbsp;Barbara Jones-Hogu,&nbsp;Unite, 1969. Courtesy of Lusenhop Fine Art.CGN intern Riley Yaxley contributed to this article.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Art Design Chicago opens a year of artistic collaborations

Art Design Chicago Kicks of a Year of Collaboration

Each week CGN interviews a local art dealer to discuss the ins and outs of running a gallery in the city of Chicago. This week we caught up with Deborah Maris Lader, owner and director of Chicago Printmakers Collaborative.

Age: 56

Current Position:&nbsp;Director of Chicago Printmakers Collaborative

Hometown:&nbsp;Cleveland, Ohio

Previous&nbsp;Occupations:&nbsp;Professor of Printmaking at Indiana University/Fort Wayne, Printmaking teacher&nbsp;at Cornell University, High School Art Teacher, plus lots of the usual waitress gigs before that.

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5 favorites from the past week

Restaurant: Kitsune - Iliana Regan is a culinary genius.

Shop: I regularly spend time at Costco buying ginormous mountains of paper towels and nitrile gloves for the printshop. Not my favorite place but a necessary evil.

Read: Just finished &ldquo;Paris in the Present Tense&rdquo; by Mark Helprin &ndash; very good.

Neighborhood: Lincoln Square! I just love this neighborhood. My print workshop and home are here, plus it&rsquo;s where I raised my kids, where I shop, go to movies, work out, and everything else.

Music: I&rsquo;m in a folk band called Sons of the Never Wrong. Despite the genre that defines my own music, I love all kinds of stuff &ndash; classical, rock, alternative, gospel, blues, jazz, Americana and world. If I put my music on shuffle, I&rsquo;ll hear Andrew Bird, Talking Heads, Erwin Helfer, Beyonce, Anais Mitchell, the B-52&rsquo;s, The Decemberists, Luis Fonsi, and Ella Fitzgerald all within the hour.

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CGN: Tell us about your background and the process of starting Chicago Printmakers Collaborative?

DL: Making stuff has been my passion since&nbsp;day one. As an undergraduate sculpture major, welding giant pieces of metal, carving wood and grinding stone, I loved the materials but missed the act of drawing. I took a class in printmaking, which involves incising imagery onto etched metal plates, drawing onto lithography stones and carving wood relief blocks, I&nbsp;was immediately hooked. Printmakers tend to be socially comfortable creatures because of the need to share equipment and resources, and they tend to cluster around whoever has a press. Because teaching has also always been an important part of my career, nurturing others to pursue their artistic goals, it was only a matter of time before I opened my own print shop. Creating community around the medium of fine, handmade printmaking has been my focus for over 28 years.

I was a professor of printmaking at Indiana University/Fort Wayne before moving to Chicago in 1989 and initially sought a teaching position. At that same moment in time, the stars aligned and an old defunct print shop became available for sale. I jumped on it and sunk all my cash into birthing the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative. I didn&rsquo;t know anyone in Chicago besides my architect husband (a good sport if ever there was one)&nbsp;and wondered if this crazy thing I was pouring my heart and sweat into would actually happen and if anyone would ever walk through the door of a 2nd story walkup warehouse in Ukrainian Village where the only retail in the neighborhood was a Cut-Rate Liquor and a Wendy&rsquo;s (along with the occasional late afternoon chorus of gunshots).

It was my version of &ldquo;build it and they will come&rdquo;&hellip; and in fact they did. The printmakers who first walked through the CPC&rsquo;s doors have been the lifeblood of the studio ever since.

In the spring of 1999, the CPC moved from its original location to an expansive, rented studio space in Chicago&rsquo;s Lincoln Square neighborhood. In 2015, I bought a decrepit old building where the roof was caving in and the pipes had all burst and I renovated it to comply with my fantasy printshop dreams. And so it was that the shop moved to its new, custom built, permanent location just 4 blocks north of the old. If I ever leave here it&rsquo;ll be feet first.

CPC&rsquo;s member artists hail from all over the world, but most live in the Chicago area. The workshop is home to 7 Resident Artists, hundreds of students, and scores of professional printmakers who work on the presses 24/7 with keyed access. The CPC gallery features works on paper by over 60 international artists.

My role as a curator and dealer has expanded in the past 5 years, especially as our new bright storefront and gallery walls have attracted buyers who are more and more interested in our international reach and are thrilled with the general affordability of prints, many of which can be produced as limited-edition multiples. When folks happen in during our open hours, they may catch an artist pulling an etched image off the press or drawing on a stone, as the gallery shares space with the active workshop. Sometimes visitors actually applaud when an artist &ldquo;reveals&rdquo; a finished print before their very eyes &ndash; it&rsquo;s an education and performance all in one, and it demystifies the print medium in the best way (they also see how much hard work is involved).

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CGN: Give us a day in the life!

DL: Every day is so different! Some days I may be picking up supplies, reclaiming silk screens, fixing a broken glass litho slab and doing PR via social media. The next day I may be drawing on an etching plate, printing, hanging a gallery show, making labels and creating Instagram videos (we have 26.6K followers as of this week, plus I have 3 Instagram and FB accounts &ndash; one for my art, one for CPC, and one for my band). The day after that I may have a band rehearsal, a demo for a tour group at CPC, and an evening gig.

There are some days where we have community events and I delegate tasks for our 5 CPC interns while working alongside them to maintain the studio, answer emails, organize classes, and clean. All while greeting visitors and selling prints. Most every day I try to work out in the morning, then hit the studio or streets for the types of things mentioned above, and then I go home to assure my husband that I still exist. I sometimes like to cook, and&nbsp;always make time early in the day for a matcha green tea latte with almond milk. I&rsquo;m usually up until around 1:30 AM&nbsp;doing administrative, social media, email and other work from my home computer. Then I read a little before I collapse. It&rsquo;s important (to me) to be creative in some way everyday, whether it means drawing on a plate or sketchbook, curating an installation, or simply composing what I&rsquo;m going to wear.

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CGN: How would you sum up your experience running CPC?&nbsp;

DL: I&rsquo;ve learned that being creative comes in many forms, and that artistic output doesn&rsquo;t always hang nicely on a wall or sit on a pedestal. Creating community, or building a printmaking workshop, taxes similar artistic muscles and can satisfy the itch to make something from nothing. I used to beat myself up if my artistic output suffered while performing CPC administrative tasks, but now I just see it all as the same thing, and it has oddly resulted in my being more productive with the stuff that hangs on walls! Go figure.

I love printmaking and its array of stones and plates and tools and presses, but what makes the CPC special are all of the printmakers and interns and&nbsp;students and art collectors and visitors who walk through the CPC door every day. The artists draw,&nbsp;etch,&nbsp;carve,&nbsp;print and haul enormously heavy objects around the studio. The work is physically demanding and exacting, and requires a great amount of technical skill. The work that has come out of the CPC print shop during the past 28 years is astonishing. It&rsquo;s hugely satisfying to see these artists make their marks in printmaking studios, University print shops and in exhibitions all over the world. It&rsquo;s also rewarding to sell their work, which supports them financially. The CPC was set up to foster dialogue, collaboration and community among Chicago&rsquo;s printmakers, as well as to educate and share the beauty of the medium with the broader public. Working alongside these artists has been an honor and an inspiration. The city and community has been tremendously supportive, gallery visitors can see us at work, as the printed image comes off the press.

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CGN: Most exciting sale you ever had?

DL: Every sale is exciting. I love these artists and their work and it&rsquo;s important to me to have a variety of price points and imagery so that there is something in the gallery that ANY person can afford. A first-time buyer&rsquo;s thrill is as exciting as a seasoned collector&rsquo;s purchase. I do have this regular collector from Baltimore who comes once a year to snap up a nice haul of gorgeous things, so of course that&rsquo;s always big fun, especially since he has such exquisite taste!

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CGN: Share some successes as well as challenges this year.

DL: After last year brought us the new-guy-in-chief, I made a conscious effort to make 2017 the year of furthering the CPC&rsquo;s global reach, while championing the role of the arts in transcending the muck of divisive politics. CPC held a series of free, drop-in POP (Print Organize Protest) events where folks could screen print posters and tees, and write letters to our elected officials. In the gallery, CPC showed a gorgeous exhibition of Iranian Printmakers while simultaneously touring a collaborative exhibit of CPC and Iranian printmakers throughout Iran, Italy and Norway. We followed that with the summer ON PAPER International Printmaking Competition.

We then exhibited the gorgeous work of young Thai artists from Chiang Mai, followed by our current International Small Print Show. So &ndash; lots of work but some wonderful collaborations amongst artists from all over the globe. The work from Iran had to basically be &ldquo;smuggled&rdquo; into this country. It was both scary and thrilling to make all that happen, and when Chicago&rsquo;s Iranian community came to the CPC to celebrate Nowruz (Persian New Year) with us, it was fantastic, and we met so many cool new people!&nbsp;

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CGN: One piece of advice you would send back to your 20-year-old self?

DL: As an artist/musician: Trust that your work will tell you where it wants to go. The process is&nbsp;most important, not the end result.

As a mom: &ldquo;No&quot; is a love word.

As a community print shop owner: Start small and don&rsquo;t get too far ahead of yourself. Roll with the setbacks, because they will always be part of it. No sense in stressing too much about the inevitable pitfalls. Reassess and move forward.

As a person: When people look at your 20-yr-old self and think your plan to open a print workshop is batshit crazy, just imagine that in 28 years they&rsquo;ll be asking you for advice.

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CGN: What do you look for in an artwork? When searching for a piece for yourself, what speaks to you?

DL: I want it to be both beautifully crafted and moving in some deep way. Obviously, I love the way prints look, so I gravitate towards the intimacy of an etching or wood engraving or lithograph or drawing, but I can just as easily be moved by the texture and layers of an encaustic painting or sculptural object.

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CGN: Favorite cultural pursuit outside of the art world?&nbsp;

DL: Music&nbsp;of course! Writing, singing, playing and arranging songs with Sons of the Never Wrong is pretty darned cool. I very much also enjoy dance, theatre, and film.

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CGN: What should we expect to see next from Chicago Printmakers Collaborative?

DL: We are in the early planning stages for our 2nd Steamroller event, which will take place sometime in mid-July. It&rsquo;s a basically a community-wide printmaking festival in which the feature attraction is a large 12-ton paving truck in our back driveway that rolls over and prints massive 8-foot artist-carved woodcuts onto fabric while amazed bystanders snap loads of photos with their smartphones. We usually have food trucks, relief printing demos and live music throughout the day, so it&rsquo;s quite the happening!

Other than that, CPC will offer its usual schedule of Printmaking classes, open houses, exhibitions, and membership activities, which can all be found on our website. CPC is also publishing a series of 4 and 5-color Tony Fitzpatrick etchings, printed by our master printer Catherine Winings.&nbsp;

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Deborah Maris Lader is owner and director&nbsp;of Chicago Printmakers Collaborative. For more information&nbsp;please visit:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/institutions/chicago-printmakers-collaborative--3">Chicago Printmakers Collaborative</a>

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<h2>Obama Foundation takes the wraps off revised&mdash;and taller&mdash;design for Presidential Center</h2>

The Obama Foundation has released an updated plan for its Obama Presidential Center in Chicago&rsquo;s Jackson Park after listening to community concerns for the better part of eight months. The revisions&mdash;which include a taller, redesigned main tower&mdash;come just days after the center&rsquo;s controversial above-ground-parking structure on the neighboring Midway Plaisance was scrapped in favor of an entirely underground garage.

While members of the public were&nbsp;first shown&nbsp;early renderings in May and participated in numerous open and private meetings with the Obama Foundation since that time, Wednesday&rsquo;s announcement represents the first comprehensive redesign for the innovative combination museum and community center.

<a href="https://chicago.curbed.com/2018/1/10/16873740/obama-presidential-center-architecture-design">Read More</a>

By Jay Koziarz, Curbed Chicago

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<h2>Another Frank Lloyd Wright sells at a discount</h2>

A Glencoe house that is one of a cluster of seven designed by Frank Lloyd Wright sold for less than its seller paid for it a dozen years earlier. Built in 1914 as part of the Ravine Bluffs subdivision, the house on Meadow Road sold for $752,000 on Jan. 5. The seller bought the house in 2005 for $790,000.

Listing agent Elise Rinaldi of @properties said the lower price was &quot;no different than any other house in my market, the North Shore.&quot; In recent months, Crain&#39;s has reported on several homes in Lake Forest, Kenilworth and other North Shore towns that have sold for below prices from 15 years ago and more.

<a href="http://www.chicagobusiness.com/realestate/20180110/CRED0701/180119985/frank-lloyd-wright-home-in-glencoe-sells-for-752000">Read More</a>

By Dennis Rodkin, Crain&#39;s Chicago Business&nbsp;

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<h2>How to Teach Art to Kids, According to Mark Rothko</h2>

If you&rsquo;ve ever seen&nbsp;Mark Rothko&rsquo;s paintings&mdash;large canvases filled with fields of atmospheric color&mdash;and thought, &ldquo;a child could do this,&rdquo; you&rsquo;ve paid the&nbsp;Abstract Expressionist&nbsp;a compliment.

Rothko greatly admired children&rsquo;s art, praising the freshness, authenticity, and emotional intensity of their creations. And he knew children&rsquo;s art well, working as an art teacher for over 20 years at the Brooklyn Jewish Center. To his students&mdash;kindergarteners through 8th graders&mdash;Rothko wasn&rsquo;t an avant-garde visionary or burgeoning art star, he was &ldquo;Rothkie.&rdquo; &ldquo;A big bear of a man, the friendliest, nicest, warmest member of the entire school,&rdquo; his former student Martin Lukashok once&nbsp;recalled.

<a href="https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-teach-art-kids-mark-rothko">Read More</a>

By&nbsp;Sarah Gottesman, Artsy Editorial&nbsp;

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<h2>NADA Names 2018 Winners of International Gallery Prize</h2>

The New Art Dealers Alliance has given its International Gallery Prize to Parallel Oaxaca in Mexico and Stereo in Warsaw. The prize awards galleries from outside the United States space at NADA New York, where they receive sponsored booths.

<a href="http://www.artnews.com/2018/01/12/nada-names-2018-winners-international-gallery-prize/">Read More</a>

By&nbsp;Alex Greenberger, ARTnews

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<h2>The Authenticity of Modigliani Paintings Questioned Once Again</h2>

ROME &mdash; The tormented artist Amedeo Modigliani is beloved both by art aficionados and forgers. Now, an art expert has written a report, leaked by the Italian news media, for state prosecutors that says a third of the works in a popular Modigliani exhibition last year in Genoa, Italy, are fakes.

The expert, Isabella Quattrocchi, said that seven drawings and eight oil paintings by Modigliani, as well as six oil paintings attributed to his friend and sometime collaborator, Moise Kisling, were not authentic. The art works were lent by private collectors and museums in Italy, Switzerland, Israel, Argentina and the United States.

<a href="https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/arts/design/modigliani-paintings-authenticity-questioned-genoa.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&amp;smid=nytcore-ipad-share&amp;referer=https://t.co/aJyU8Dl6Tk?amp=1">Read More</a>

By&nbsp;Elisabetta Povoledo, The New York Times

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News from Around the Art World: January 15, 2018

By GINNY VAN ALYEA

As we settle into a new year, we are looking&nbsp;forward to all that is quickly filling a busy and varied arts calendar. There are already many&nbsp;new events and exhibitions opening, and there are more&nbsp;celebrations to attend and&nbsp;galleries and museums to visit each week.&nbsp;&nbsp;We are especially grateful for the spotlight this year on artists connected to Chicago, as you will see in the list below, and we are eager to explore new areas of focus, such as design and&nbsp;new media. Other exhibitions of note celebrate the dynamism of the art world&nbsp;&ndash; the City&#39;s Year of Creative Youth aims to inspire and engage a whole new community and generation of artists. Art Design Chicago brings together 50 partner organizations to mount dozens of exhibitions and special programs.&nbsp;

We noted a few months ago that Chicago was having a major cultural moment, but now we see that the moment is not fleeting &ndash; it is continuing and building. CGN will cover each of these events more in depth as they open, but for now, we hope you are making your own art &#39;wish-lists&#39; like we are and that you look forward to a year filled with art and creativity. This list is just the beginning.

Happy new year!&nbsp;

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<h3>Art Design Chicago</h3>

Art Design Chicago is a&nbsp;spirited celebration of the unique and vital role Chicago plays as America&rsquo;s crossroads of creativity and commerce. Led by the Terra Foundation for American Art, this citywide partnership of cultural organizations explores Chicago&rsquo;s art and design legacy with more than 25 exhibitions and hundreds of events throughout 2018. The program even offers an interactive, user-friendly website&nbsp;with a search tool for&nbsp;easily matching your interests&nbsp;with Art Design Chicago exhibitions and events around the city and beyond. Explore the site to see the growing list of opportunities offered throughout 2018. Read CGN&#39;s summary of the January 2018 ADC kickoff <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2018/1/art-design-chicago-kicks-of-a-year-of-collaboration">here</a>.&nbsp;

<a href="http://artdesignchicago.org">artdesignchicago.org</a>

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<h3>Mies van der Rohe at Elmhurst Art Museum</h3>

Elmhurst Art Museum, the home of Mies van der Rohe&rsquo;s McCormick House (1952), is organizing Mies in Chicago, a new long-term exhibition that will be the first to focus exclusively on Mies&rsquo; career-making work in Chicago, where he completed 18 of his 24 US projects.&nbsp;

<a href="http://elmhurstartmuseum.org">elmhurstartmuseum.org</a>

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<h3>City of Chicago&#39;s&nbsp;Year of Creative Youth</h3>

Hot on the heels of the Year of Public Art, the focal point of the City of Chicago&rsquo;s Year of Creative Youth will be a Creative Youth Festival, held in Millennium Park on September 22 and showcasing teen artists in dance, theatre, music, spoken word, and the visual arts. The program offers teens performance opportunities at many Chicago festivals and partner events.&nbsp;

<a href="http://cityofchicago.org/yocy">cityofchicago.org/yocy</a>

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<h3>The Field Museum Turns 125</h3>

On October 26, 1893 Marshall Field donated $1 million for the establishment of a museum to house the Columbian Exposition. 125 years, and three name changes, later, the Field Museum of Natural History remains a premier natural history museum, attracting two million visitors a year. &nbsp;

The Field Museum is celebrating their 125th anniversary by revamping SUE the T. Rex and moving the cast up to the The Griffin Halls of Evolving Planet, the museum&rsquo;s most popular exhibit.&nbsp;

More info on 2018 events at&nbsp;<a href="http://fieldmuseum.org">fieldmuseum.org</a>

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<h3>Gertrude Abercrombie: Portrait of the Artist as a Landscape at Elmhurst Art Museum</h3>

Gertrude Abercrombie: Portrait of the Artist as a Landscape at Elmhurst Art Museum is organized by Jenny Gibbs and coordinated at the museum by Lal Bahcecioglu. Abercrombie (1909-1977) was a painter based in Chicago who created surreal and dream-like imagery. She developed her own unique style and color palette, and explained the images of her work with &ldquo;It is always myself that I paint.&rdquo; The exhibition will include 40 of the artist&rsquo;s enigmatic paintings of spare interiors and illusionary landscapes&mdash;which have been referred to as &ldquo;psychic self-portraits.&rdquo;

Idiosyncratic, charming and irascible, Gertrude was presciently contemporary. Referred to as &ldquo;the queen of the bohemian artists,&rdquo; Abercrombie entertained many jazz musicians at her home at parties on Saturday evenings and jam sessions on Sunday afternoons, including friends Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Rollins.

January 20 &ndash; March 4, 2018

More info <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/gertrude-abercrombie-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-landscape">here</a>

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<h3>Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush at the&nbsp;Chicago Cultural Center &nbsp; &nbsp;</h3>

Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush is the first solo exhibition in a museum for the Chicago-born artist. The exhibition is a 10-year survey of approximately 30 of the artist&rsquo;s paintings, watercolors and collages. Abney, born in 1982, is at the forefront of a generation of artists that is unapologetically revitalizing narrative figurative painting, and as a skillful storyteller, she visually articulates the complex social dynamics of contemporary urban life. The exhibition is organized by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts to the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.

February 10 &ndash; May 6

<a href="https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/royal_flush.html​">cityofchicago.org</a>

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<h3>Richard Hull at Western Exhibitions</h3>

School of the Art Institute Chicago graduate Richard Hull will exhibit new work at Western Exhibitions this spring. Hull calls his recent paintings and drawings &ldquo;stolen portraits.&rdquo; His crayon drawings, which respond to the paintings, in particular, are portraits in the form of hairdos, each one expressing a distinct visual personality rather than a representation of a particular individual. This quasi-figurative direction started with, of all things, drawing a horse&rsquo;s tail for an exquisite corpse in a performative collaboration with MacArthur award-winning saxophonist and composer Ken Vandermark and the illustrator and printmaker Dan Grzeca. In Hull&rsquo;s portraits, horsetails now resemble looping flower petal forms &ndash; building blocks for portrait-like structures. The bulbous loops are accentuated by minute, repetitive, often concentric curves within the large masses.

Apr 14 - May 26 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/richard-hull">Western Exhibitions</a>

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<h3>Hank Willis Thomas: Unbranded at the Block</h3>

Hank Willis Thomas (American, b. 1976) has consistently explored the representation of stereotypes within American popular culture, particularly as it relates to African-American subjects.&nbsp;Hank Willis Thomas: Unbranded, on view at the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University in Evanston,&nbsp;will consist of a tightly focused selection of approximately 40 photographs from two related bodies of works&mdash;the 2005-08 series&nbsp;Unbranded:&nbsp;Reflections in Black By Corporate America&nbsp;and the 2015 series&nbsp;Unbranded: A Century of White Women 1915-2015.

Apr 14 - Aug 12

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/hank-willis-thomas-unbranded">More info</a>

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<h3>Howard Finster: MAN OF VISIONS at Carl Hammer Gallery</h3>

The Reverend Howard Finster achieved &quot;super-star&quot; status for his exuberant paintings, or &quot;sermon art&quot;, and his impressive &quot;Paradise Garden&quot; environment was an ongoing expression of his religious conviction. &nbsp;Having been a frequent feature interview on the Johnny Carson &quot;Tonight Show&quot;, the artist achieved international recognition creating art from &quot;other people&#39;s junk&quot;. &nbsp;Sought after by museums and important collections, Finster became an Outsider art superstar and celebrity.&nbsp;

May 4 - Jun 30 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/howard-finster-man-of-visions">Carl Hammer&nbsp;</a>

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<h3>I Was Raised on the Internet at the&nbsp;Museum of Contemporary Art</h3>

Yes, this exhibition will make everyone over 30 feel really old. Future generations will not know life in&nbsp;a pre-digital world. This summer, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents the landmark exhibition I Was Raised on the Internet, an immersive and participatory show examining the impact of the internet and how it has changed the way we experience the world. With nearly 100 interactive artworks from 1998 to the present,&nbsp;I Was Raised on the Internet&nbsp;spans photography, painting, sculpture, film and video, as well as emerging technologies, interactive computer works, and virtual reality.&nbsp;I Was Raised on the Internet presents a global range of artists working in new media such as Oculus Rift and platforms like Facebook and Snapchat, looking at culture and &#39;trending&#39; content and how interacting with the world has shifted through constant exchange on the internet. Taking 1998 as a starting point, the exhibition decodes a generation of artists and viewers who have come to speak a unique vocabulary that has emerged with the new millennium. In addition to the idea of a millennial, the exhibition explores terms such as &#39;post-internet&#39; and &#39;post-digital,&#39; used by artists to imply a new, instant culture. Throughout the exhibition, the viewer becomes an active agent, engaging in new forms of technology and participating with the works both in the galleries and the digital works hosted online.

June 23 &ndash; October 14

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/i-was-raised-on-the-internet">More info</a>

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<h3>Hairy Who? At the Art Institute of Chicago</h3>

The Art Institute of Chicago presents the first major survey exhibition dedicated solely to the groundbreaking group of six Chicago-based artists &ndash; James Falconer, Art Green, Suellen Rocca, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt and Karl Wirsum &ndash; known as the Hairy Who.&nbsp;

Sept 1, 2018&ndash;Jan 6, 2019

<a href="http://artic.edu">artic.edu</a>

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<h3>A Marathon&nbsp;EXPO CHICAGO</h3>

We always look forward to EXPO CHICAGO in September, but a highlight that is already on our radar is&nbsp;Creative Chicago: An Interview Marathon&nbsp;featuring one of the world&#39;s leading curators, critics, and art historians Hans Ulrich Obrist.&nbsp;Alongside partners the Chicago Humanities Festival,&nbsp;Navy Pier, and the Terra Foundation for American Art, EXPO will&nbsp;present&nbsp;a four-hour interview marathon&nbsp;in&nbsp;the Aon Grand Ballroom on Saturday, September 29, as part of the Terra Foundation for American Art&#39;s Art Design Chicago initiative.

Obrist&rsquo;s marathons are part of his life-long&nbsp;Interview Project, for which he has logged thousands of hours in discussion with some of the leading thinkers of our time. These conversations examine notions of art and creativity, painting a verbal portrait of our ever-changing cultural moment. Artistic Director of the Serpentine Gallery in London, Obrist hosted his first interview marathon&mdash;a 24-hour conversational exploration of art, ideas and creativity in 2005. The marathon format has become a central part of his practice ever since.

September 27 &ndash; 30

<a href="http://expochicago.com">expochicago.com</a>

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Chicago New Media 1973-1992 at Video Game Art Gallery

Chicago New Media 1973&ndash;1992 seeks to illuminate the largely untold story of Chicago&#39;s role in the history of new media. Consisting of an exhibition, public program, and scholarly catalog, the project yields a new art historical understanding of the artists and organizations that contributed to digital art and technology in the latter half of the twentieth century. &nbsp;The exhibition is curated by Jon Cates, Associate Professor of Film, Video, New Media and Animation, Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and organized with curatorial assistance by Chaz Evans and Jonathan Kinkley.&nbsp; 
In partnership with Gallery 400.

Nov 1 - Dec 15

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/chicago-new-media-1973-1992">More info&nbsp;</a>

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Top image: Gertrude Abercrombie, from exhibition at Elmhurst Art Museum
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A summary of 2018 art exhibitions and highlights in Chicago 

The Year in Art: A 2018 Visual Snapshot

A summary of art exhibition highlights in Chicago January 2018

2018's First Gallery Openings Take Place This Weekend 

<h2>Madeleine Grynsztejn, Pritzker director of MCA Chicago, is not sitting still</h2>


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By Steve Johnson, Chicago Tribune 
 
The&nbsp;Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago&nbsp;is a very different-looking institution as 2018 begins than it was in 2017. There&rsquo;s a top-notch new first-floor restaurant, Marisol, plus cafe and plaza space that replace what was a drab hallway. And the exterior of the building, criticized as austere, has been softened and highlighted for nearby Michigan Avenue by bold yellow lighted &ldquo;MCA&rdquo; signs.

Those are just some of the changes spearheaded by Pritzker Director&nbsp;Madeleine Grynsztejn, whose decade at the MCA has helped make it more inviting to the public while at the same time establishing a laser focus on spotlighting the work of emerging artists in Chicago and worldwide.

<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ae-coty-art-grynsztejn-1231-story.html">Read full story...</a>

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<h2>10 Art Exhibits Worth Traveling for in 2018</h2>

Add Harry Potter, Yayoi Kusama and Michelangelo to your 2018 calendar, courtesy of The&nbsp;Travel Channel.

<a href="http://www.travelchannel.com/interests/arts-and-culture/photos/10-art-exhibits-worth-traveling-for-in-2018">See full list...</a>

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<h2>In Hollywood, Another Sign of Women Punching Back</h2>

On the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Sweetzer Avenue in front of&nbsp;The Standard in Hollywood&nbsp;beginning on Feb. 27, a monumental white neon outline of a uterus &mdash; with fiberglass boxing gloves in place of the ovaries &mdash; will slowly rotate at a height of 43 feet. Well-positioned to be adopted as the logo of the&nbsp;#MeToo movement, this declarative image of female empowerment is the first public art project by&nbsp;Zoe Buckman, a 32-year-old British artist based in New York. Titled &ldquo;Champ,&rdquo; the kinetic sculpture was commissioned by the&nbsp;Art Production Fund&nbsp;and will remain on view for a year.&nbsp;

<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/arts/design/hollywood-zoe-buckman-champ-women.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=arts&amp;region=stream&amp;module=stream_unit&amp;version=latest&amp;contentPlacement=5&amp;pgtype=sectionfront">Read full story...</a>

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<h2>Calling All Artists! You Can Now Apply to Work in These Secluded Canadian Cabins for Free</h2>

By&nbsp;Katie Avis-Riordan

If you&#39;re an&nbsp;artist&nbsp;struggling to find inspiration, getting bogged down by your daily surroundings, then perhaps a change of scenery is just what you need to ignite your creativity.

And what better place to work from than an idyllic island? A&nbsp;remote island&nbsp;off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, called Fogo Island, is offering just that, with free residencies for some lucky artists.&nbsp;

<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/a14517862/artist-residency-fogo-island-canada-cabins-free/">Read full story...</a>

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Top of page image:&nbsp;Madeleine Grynsztejn was appointed Pritzker Director of the MCA in 2008. (Maria Ponce / Museum of Contemporary Art)
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News from Around the Art World: January 2, 2018

<h2>The Clock Is Ticking:&nbsp;Reward for Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist on Dec 31: $10 million. On January 1: $5 million</h2>

As midnight approaches on New Year&rsquo;s Eve, when much of the country will be glued to the broadcasts from Times Square, Anthony Amore will be waiting for his phone to ring.

He is no lovelorn teen: Mr. Amore, director of security at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, is a detective of sorts on the trail of the world&rsquo;s largest unsolved art heist, in which thieves purloined 13 items, valued at half a billion dollars, from the museum in 1990. They stole works by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Degas and others.

The museum is offering a head-spinning reward of $10 million for information leading to their recovery, an amount it says is the largest private reward ever offered for stolen property. The offer expires on Jan. 1, when it reverts to $5 million.

--Via&nbsp;New York Times

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<h2>Architecture Sleuths Solve Mystery of World&#39;s Fair House in Wilmette</h2>

A Chicago architect has solved the mystery surrounding a Wilmette house&#39;s possible origin as a demonstration home built for the Century of Progress World&#39;s Fair in 1933.&nbsp;

Crain&#39;s reported this month&nbsp;that a family of homebuilders unwittingly purchased a lost landmark when it was marketed as vacant land. The Kruszewskis, a father and son who run MJK Homes, paid $915,000 for two-fifths of an acre on Chestnut Avenue, only later finding out from village officials that the squarish house might have been a model home from the fair and was moved up afterward from the Northerly Island fairgrounds.

--Via Dennis Rodkin, Crains&#39;s

<a href="http://www.chicagobusiness.com/realestate/20171219/CRED0701/171219874">Read More</a>

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<h2>An Interactive Selfie Museum is Opening in Los Angeles</h2>

Get your selfie sticks out because a museum dedicated to selfies is opening in Los Angeles in January.

The Selfie Museum will showcase selfie-inspired art and provide a number of spaces to take selfies for museum-goers. Many of the exhibits will play to staples of social media&nbsp;like&nbsp;food and bathroom mirror pictures,&nbsp;Mashable&nbsp;reported.

Lisa Marie Segarra, Travel + Leisure&nbsp;

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<h2>22 Photos That Capture Christmas In The US</h2>

For many Americans, Christmas is a time for joy and acts of kindness. For others, it&#39;s a time for intense, over-the-top Christmas displays, excessive holiday shopping, and fire hazards around every corner. For the last 7 years, photographer Jesse Rieser has focused his camera on aspects of the holiday season that might appear a bit odd to those unfamiliar with Christmas traditions in the US.

In a statement on the artist&#39;s website for his ongoing project&nbsp;Christmas in America: Happy Birthday, Jesus,&nbsp;Rieser describes his pictures not as poking fun at these traditions, but rather a sincere exploration of the things that make this holiday unique for so many Americans.

--Via&nbsp;Gabriel H. Sanchez, Buzzfeed

<a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/gabrielsanchez/this-is-how-americans-celebrate-christmas?utm_term=.ai9pxavpp#.bcO0L6A00">Read More</a>

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Top image:&nbsp;An empty frame marks the spot where Rembrandt&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Storm on the Sea of Galilee&rdquo; once hung in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Credit M. Scott Brauer for The New York Times &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

News from Around the Art World: December 26, 2017

Each week CGN interviews a local art dealer to discuss the ins and outs of running a gallery in the city of Chicago. This week we caught up with Doug VanTress, co-owner of <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/the-golden-triangle">The Golden Triangle</a>

Age: 55

Current Position:&nbsp;Co-Owner

Hometown:&nbsp;Flint, Michigan

Previous Occupation:&nbsp;Management Consultant (2 years at Arthur Andersen)

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5 favorites from the past week

Restaurant:&nbsp;Hai Yen on Argyle

Shop:&nbsp;Golden Triangle&rsquo;s new pop-up on State St.

Read:&nbsp;Joseph Roth&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Emperor&rsquo;s Tomb&rdquo;

Neighborhood:&nbsp;Ukrainian Village (where I used to make pizza)

Music:&nbsp;new Bob Sinclar (very upbeat)

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CGN: Tell us about your background and how you started the Golden Triangle?&nbsp;

DVT: I didn&rsquo;t like my job as a consultant and was unusually receptive to finding something else.&nbsp; My partner, Chauwarin felt the same way and we decided to go into business together.&nbsp; Our first venture was a bust but it led to opening a small shop selling gift items and later that shop morphed into an Asian antique store. Though we didn&rsquo;t know it at the time, that small shop was an incubator that produced many practical ideas (and cash flow).

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CGN: How do you sum up your experience running an antiques business?

DVT: It&rsquo;s an extremely satisfying line of work because we are surrounded by the best of the past and the people who are attracted to that are incredible.&nbsp; It matters very much who you interact with in your work.&nbsp; My customers are intelligent, creative and open-minded.&nbsp; I learn so much from them.&nbsp; I also learn from the objects and furnishings I sell &ndash;they were made lovingly and slowly, mostly by one person for another person.&nbsp; That matters.&nbsp; So I can enjoy the people side of my business for a few hours and then do a material deep-dive, restoring something, studying, tinkering.&nbsp; Or I can do research online.&nbsp; This&nbsp;job is perfect for me.

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CGN: Share a typical day in the life.

DVT: Get up at 7:30.&nbsp; Go to work, caiffenate.&nbsp; Check my art-world emails, map out how to deal with a crisis.&nbsp; Every day has one, at least a small one.&nbsp; Then a customer walks in and whatever my plan was, it is upended. We chat about everything. &nbsp;Eventually, I get back to the workshop to observe my team.&nbsp; Actually, I escape there sometimes.&nbsp; My job is to supply judgement &ndash;how to solve a problem in the most efficient way possible.&nbsp; Sometimes the problem is one of physics &ndash;how to bend a piece of wood, for example.&nbsp; Sometimes it involves aesthetics &ndash;how to improve the finish on a piece or bring out its best characteristics.&nbsp; I love this part.&nbsp; Then a lunch at my desk, checking my political news sites (I am interested in the world beyond furnishings!)&nbsp; Afternoons are busiest for customers, both for designers and retail.&nbsp; At some point, I do some paperwork.&nbsp;&nbsp; Maybe make an Instagram post. Then something interrupts&hellip;&nbsp;&nbsp; Home by 7, sometimes dinner out. Perhaps a movie or grazing the cable selections with phone in hand.&nbsp; Every night finishes with reading &ndash;and not on the phone.&nbsp; Liking the old stuff these days &ndash;Balzac, Tolstoy and all that.&nbsp; Fascinated by the French Revolution right now as we drift into our own&hellip;

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CGN: Most exciting sale you ever had?

DVT: Probably our restaurant construction work in China.&nbsp; Not one sale but a project for over a year.&nbsp; Many cities, wonderfully fast &amp; and a little bit crazy.&nbsp; Business, personal, wining and dining, designing on the fly with a team of eager assistants of every type.&nbsp; Working with a Chinese customer is a whirlwind of activity and forward motion.&nbsp; Things that take a year here, take two months there.&nbsp; And everything comes out just as good or better.&nbsp;

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CGN: Share some successes as well as challenges this year.

DVT: We are opening a new gallery complex in Chiang Mai, Thailand.&nbsp; That is my chief challenge.&nbsp; That and figuring out how to sell antiques to the millennials!

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CGN: You are a frequent traveler, any recent adventures you care to share?&nbsp;&nbsp;

DVT: Every trip includes some &ldquo;adventures&rdquo; or experiences that are unforgettable.&nbsp; I tend to be a visual person and I am fascinated by the effects of the light on old buildings and monuments.&nbsp; I like to ponder the past and bathe in melancholy.&nbsp; And then have a great dinner.

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CGN: One piece of advice you would tell your younger self when starting out?

DVT: Don&rsquo;t over-think, pick the right partner, jump in and do it.&nbsp; Live below your means for a long time.&nbsp; You will miss out on nothing.&nbsp;

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CGN: What do you look for in a piece? When shopping for an antique item yourself, what speaks to you?

DVT: I like to see age registered on the piece &ndash;plausible evidence of age.&nbsp; Not a complete ruin but old-looking.

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CGN: Favorite cultural pursuit outside of the art world?&nbsp;

DVT: Probably good movies or reading old novels.

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CGN: What should we expect to see next from the Golden Triangle?

DVT: More contrast &ndash;ancient &amp; modern mixed.&nbsp; This is our moment; having access to everything and trying to sort out how it all goes together into a coherent whole.&nbsp; Is coherence even possible now? Let&rsquo;s find out.

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Doug VanTress is co-owner of the&nbsp;The Golden Triangle&nbsp;in Chicago. For more information about the shop&nbsp;please visit: <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/the-golden-triangle">The Golden Triangle</a>

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An interview with Golden Triangle owner Doug VanTress

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