<h2>Best architecture of 2017: Apple Store, Unity Temple and the Biennial in a remarkable year</h2>

With a new architecture biennial, a big Frank Lloyd Wright anniversary and a series of small gems, it was a very good year for Chicago architecture. Here are the highlights:

A Chicago double for L.A. architects:&nbsp;The&nbsp;second version&nbsp;of the Chicago Architecture Biennial built on the legacy of the first biennial with a show, titled &ldquo;Make New History,&rdquo; that explored how a new generation of architects is looking backward to move forward.&nbsp;

The curators of the exhibition, Los Angeles architects Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee, shaped an elegant, albeit esoteric, framework that showcased work by more than 140 designers from over 20 countries. And they demonstrated how their &ldquo;Make New History&rdquo; approach can work in a modestly scaled but exemplary renovation of the common spaces inside the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

--Via&nbsp;Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune

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<h2>With $750,000 Grant, Minneapolis Institute of Art Starts Up Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts</h2>

The Minneapolis Institute of Art has received a $750,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and will use the money toward starting what it is calling the Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts, or CEVA for short. Other so-called centers for empathy have been established by activist organizations and international affairs groups&mdash;among them People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), Stanford University&rsquo;s medical school, and the Center for Empathy in International Affairs, which has has worked with U.S. peace groups&mdash;yet no major art museum has created one before, making CEVA the first of its kind.

The launch of CEVA will include an initiative lasting nearly five years to convene philosophers, writers, artists, thought leaders, and others to research ways that the arts can make people more compassionate. This past October, the Minneapolis Institute began the initiative with a conference at the University of California, Berkeley. A second phase of research, in which the museum&rsquo;s curators will investigate how better to connect with visitors, will follow.

--Via&nbsp;Alex Greenberger, Artnews

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<h2>Why the Getty Center&rsquo;s Art Stayed Put as Fires Raged Nearby</h2>

Visitors come to the Getty Center in Los Angeles to see Vincent van Gogh&rsquo;s irises and other great works. What they don&rsquo;t see is the reason that these masterpieces could stay put while thousands in Southern California had to evacuate as multiple fires raged in recent days, one of which came within thousands of feet of the museum.

The Getty&rsquo;s architect, Richard Meier, built fire resistance into the billion-dollar complex, said Ron Hartwig, vice president of communications for the J. Paul Getty Trust. These hills are fire prone, but because of features like the 1.2 million square feet of thick travertine stone covering the outside walls, the crushed rock on the roofs and even the plants chosen for the brush-cleared grounds, &ldquo;The safest place for the artwork to be is right here in the Getty Center,&rdquo; he said.

--Via&nbsp;John&nbsp;Schwartz&nbsp;and&nbsp;Guilbert&nbsp;Gates, The New York Times

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News from Around the Art World: December 18, 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 Hannah Litvan,&nbsp; director of Ice House Gallery.

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Name: Hannah Litvan

Age: 24

Current Position:&nbsp;Gallery Owner and&nbsp;Director

Hometown: I grew up in Wilmette, but my home is Evanston!

Previous Occupation(s): My first job was at a Lou Malnati&rsquo;s Pizzeria all through high school. I was a Writer and Features Editor for my college paper the Albion Pleiad. While living in Jackson Michigan&nbsp;I was a historic guide and gallery attendant for the Ella Sharp Museum. I also helped with the start up for their Prison Museum Cell Block 7.

After graduation I took a job as&nbsp;a historic tour guide for the Richard H. Driehaus Museum&nbsp;and did some volunteering for the Field Museum as a bone picker for their Ornithology department. I briefly worked last holiday season at an Evanston chocolate shop, Belgian Chocolatier Piron, which was fun. Starting in high school, I&nbsp;would clean&nbsp;houses for extra cash. Once I decided to embark on opening the gallery, I quit the museums and went to cleaning as my main job as the scheduling was&nbsp;easy so I could work on the gallery and didn&rsquo;t have a daily job taking up my time.

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5 favorites from the past week&nbsp;

Restaurant: Kuni&rsquo;s, a great&nbsp;family-owned Japanese place in Evanston

Shop: This week my sister and I went to Not Just Thee Fish Bowl, which is a pet shop, they have the most wonderful little ferrets, bunnies and guniea pigs you can play with. It&rsquo;s always fun.

Read: I just started &ldquo;The Name of the Wind&rdquo; by Patrick Rothfuss and I dig it so far. I&rsquo;m a big fan of&nbsp;manga so this is the first all-words book I&rsquo;ve read in a while!

Neighborhood: Evanston always! Beautiful houses and an awesome coastline, with a cool view of the big city. My fianc&eacute;, Chris, and I go on walks all the time just to look around.

Music: Music is a tough one.&nbsp;I&rsquo;m really into RADWIMPS and Superfly right now, but Blink-182 and Breaking Benjamin are always favorites.

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Tell us about your background and how your work with Ice House Gallery came to be?

I&#39;ve had&nbsp;interest&nbsp;in making and appreciating art my whole life, but became&nbsp;serious about becoming&nbsp;an artist when I was around&nbsp;12 years old. My biggest inspiration&nbsp;definitely&nbsp;came from cartoons and anime&nbsp;I watched, and still watch, constantly. I attended Albion College where I had a double major in English Creative Writing and Art with a Sculpture focus. Growing up and even in early adulthood, I never quite&nbsp;knew what job I wanted.&nbsp;After graduation&nbsp;I cast a huge net over any loosely artistic job I was qualified for. Hundreds of applications and tediously-written cover letters were sent into the digital abyss to never return. I managed to get a part-timer to support my independence, but it was not fulfilling.

The decision&nbsp;to quit and pursue opening a gallery was difficult. Who was I to do something like that? No one will take me seriously right? Thoughts of &quot;it&rsquo;s too big a change&quot; and&nbsp;&quot;it won&rsquo;t come to fruition&quot; were frequent.&nbsp;So many excuses floated in my head. Ultimately my mom and I found a building that would be perfect, and signing onto the lease&nbsp;solidified moving forward. I held pitch meetings at Evanston Public Library to find local artists and hear their thoughts on my idea. I searched the Evanston art community with&nbsp;the opportunity to meet&nbsp;many strong artists, business owners and art supporters to pick their brains and build&nbsp;connections.

The build-out for the space was a retrospectively enjoyable nightmare. What was projected to be a three month build-out turned into 13 months! Old warehouses seem to have their way and not want to be changed. My building manager and I wanted to highlight the integrity of the building while bringing it up to code. I found&nbsp;the build-out itself was simple, but city codes are another animal. Ice House was supposed to open in March 2017, but it did not&nbsp;happen. It was then supposed to open in June 2017, but again,&nbsp;could not&nbsp;happen. We took part in Evanston Made in June, a city-wide event&nbsp;to promote locally made art and products. We put on a sidewalk sale because we thought we were going to be open, and didn&#39;t want all our ads and excitement to go to waste! It was a good day for us!

My friends and family helped tremendously when we eventually got to move into the space with setting up the studios, painting and hanging everything. We finally opened in October 2017, and it was a blast! Looking back, all the extra time&nbsp;caused by delays ended up allowing us to grow public&nbsp;interest in Ice House and learn more about who we were and who we want&nbsp;to be when it it was time to&nbsp;finally&nbsp;open our doors.

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Share a typical day in the life.

Just now I&#39;m settling into a routine as we&rsquo;ve&nbsp;been open for about a month. I work at the gallery most days, going through emails and posting on our social media. Often artists come in to chat and show me their work. I am always thinking of the next show, feature and performances so I look up and save local artists I think may be a good fit with Ice House. It&rsquo;s fun to get into a planning groove. We try to focus on marketing plans to get our&nbsp;new name out there as well. When everything is good-to-go, I will read or draw at the desk waiting for potential art buyers to make their way in. Basic business stuff I suppose, but it being&nbsp;my business makes&nbsp;it&nbsp;fun! A couple nights a week I still go clean an office building in Evanston, but I always come home to my fianc&eacute;, cat and friends for wine and videogames.

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Is there a particularly favorite memory in the process of opening the space?

While&nbsp;in the build-out process I was also still deciding on my public image for the gallery. I found art people in Evanston to talk to and they were amazing. They listened to me, supported my idea and told me about their ideas and experiences. Most of these strong, caring people were women so that was very inspiring to me. It was so cool to ask a stranger for input and advice, and have them open up to me. The Evanston art community is very uplifting for&nbsp;those wishing to join and expand it.

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Share some successes as well as challenges this year.

Opening was definitely our biggest success, not only because we actually opened, but because of the support from our&nbsp;community. So many people came through all day and asked about us and our vision. It was amazing to speak with&nbsp;everyone and see all&nbsp;our hard work pay off.

A challenge we faced was more&nbsp;a series of small hills. Yes construction was arduous, but envisioning a business is a lot more complicated than one may realize. There were things I knew I wanted and didn&rsquo;t want, but there were so many aspects&nbsp;I never even considered and making certain decisions was tough. I wrote a mission for us and made sure we stuck to it with every decision&nbsp;made.

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How do you see Chicago&rsquo;s art scene in comparison to other cities? What do you think makes it particularly unique?

The Chicago and outreaching art scene is unique because it has such a huge variety. You have local artists from all different backgrounds and walks of life producing and showing in many different forms&nbsp;like street art, formal galleries, fairs, and performances. Traditional as well as modern art thrive simultaneously here, creating a diverse art scene anyone can appreciate. I think art in its many forms (not just what you can hang on a wall) is important to the mood of the city and neighborhoods. We also have an international art influence mixing with the local which even further diversifies the artistic community in the Chicagoland area.

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How have you seen technology directly affect/alter the art world?

You can be the most traditional artist ever, but in this modern world your art almost always has to have an online presence.&nbsp;Therefore you have to be tech savvy when&nbsp;showing your work to galleries or submit a portfolio. Most galleries or shows I&rsquo;ve submitted to require a digital portfolio and when I meet with other artists we usually ask for a (well-designed) card with our artist&nbsp;website on it. So even artists who do not use digital mediums must have a digital profile.&nbsp;And typically more than just one to get your name out there.

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What do you want to tell a young person considering this business?

Speaking as a young person, I say.. do it now! Dreaming of that &ldquo;one day I will&hellip;&rdquo; is time wasted.&nbsp;Opening a business of any kind is not a quick nor&nbsp;easy process, so why waste time&nbsp;at a job you&nbsp;don&rsquo;t like&nbsp;wanting something more? Take action and never be apprehensive to ask your community for ideas, advice and help. It&rsquo;s surprising who will invite you to their home, make you coffee, and talk dreams for hours! Ultimately,&nbsp;plans and timelines will mostly fly out the window,&nbsp;you&rsquo;ll&nbsp;plan out way more than you initially realize, and you will have stumbles and hiccups. However&nbsp;it&rsquo;s all part of the process. There&nbsp;will be&nbsp;days where you are not&nbsp;open yet, and it all seems a mess,&nbsp;you will want to quit.&nbsp;But birthing your brain-baby is so worth it. So stick to it!

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One piece of advice you would send back to yourself when you started out?

Oh there is so much I would tell my year-ago-self. Patience and flexibility are&nbsp;the biggest lessons I have learned. I would tell myself to just breathe through the bad and&nbsp;the good is on its&nbsp;way.

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Favorite cultural pursuit outside of the art world?

I&rsquo;m a mega-lover of Japanese culture, modern and historical. I&rsquo;ve been learning Japanese for about seven years, have studied in Kyoto, and&nbsp;am an avid reader on history and current culture. I enjoy many sides of Japanese culture relating to art and history (and have for quite a long time). Chris and I are honeymooning there and I plan to be in&nbsp;and out of Japan throughout my life.

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Favorite work of public art in Chicago?

As a child I liked the Picasso because it&rsquo;s a huge, mysterious beast. I would imagine it walking around the city at night. Now I&rsquo;m not sure if I have a favorite lone-standing piece. I&rsquo;m a big fan of Chicago&rsquo;s architecture and history. I love stained glass and sculpted masonry, so I enjoy Chicago&rsquo;s Architecture Tour.

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Artists you admire most.

Hayao Miyazaki&rsquo;s work touches my heart and shaped my artist-self growing up. Many manga writers have inspired&nbsp;and influenced my style such as Akira Toriyama, Hiromu Arakawa, Misashi Kishimoto and Satoshi Kon to name a few. Recently I traveled to Prague and had&nbsp;the opportunity to see a ton of Alphonse Mucha&rsquo;s work and visit his grave. His work has also inspired&nbsp;and shaped my style for a long time.

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What&#39;s coming up next at the gallery?

So much! We are new, and&nbsp;are currently trying to develop a strong program for shows as well as performances. We post on our website and social media all the details.

Our first performance which was a music and art collaboration show Friday November 17th, which was so fun and unique. Our turn-out was better than I thought it would be, and the music sounded amazing in our space.

Each month, on the first Saturday of that month, we have an opening reception for our monthly featured artist (always a local of course!) December 2nd was Evanston artist Jim Park&rsquo;s &ldquo;Bloomz&rdquo; series opener and he will show through the end of the month.

Our December performance is a stage reading written and performed by two Evanston actors: Max Lusk and Meghan Bortle. Friday December 15th, at 7pm and Saturday December 16th at 2pm and 7pm

We try to be a part of Evanston&rsquo;s involved sense of community so we are a part of &ldquo;Small Business Saturday&rdquo; 11/25 from 10am to 6pm and the &ldquo;Warm Bevvy Walk&rdquo; 12/7 from 5pm to 8pm

Our second floor is a bit of a different entity with Private Studios as well as a Cooperative artist workspace. These can be rented monthly or longer as a space for artists to create. We are building out a photo room too so artists can take photos of their work, models, headshots or whatever they need to take photos of. It&rsquo;s such a neat space which has been popular so far. I hope it becomes a thriving little community, and I would love to have a studio show next year.

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Hannah Litvan is the owner and director&nbsp;of Ice House Gallery&nbsp;in Evanston. For more information about the&nbsp;gallery please visit:<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/ice-house-gallery">&nbsp;Ice House Gallery</a>

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<h2>Supreme Court hears arguments in claim against Iranian antiquities</h2>

Can a collection of Persian antiquities held at a Chicago museum be used to pay damages to the American victims of a terrorist bombing in Jerusalem? That was the question argued at the US Supreme Court on 4 December, in a claim brought by Jenny Rubin and others against Iran. But the justices who questioned the lawyers involved in the case seemed skeptical about allowing the artefacts to be seized.

Rubin and the other plaintiffs, who were the victims of a 1997 suicide bombing in a pedestrian mall, won a $71m judgment in US court against Iran in 2003. To get paid,&nbsp;they are claiming the 30,000 ancient Persian clay tablets&nbsp;and artifacts in the Persepolis Collection at the University of Chicago&#39;s Oriental Institute, which have been on loan from Iran since 1937.

--Via Martha Lufkin, The Art Newspaper

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<h2>National Museum of Gospel Music planned for Bronzeville site</h2>

If planners get their way, Chicago will have the nation&rsquo;s first major gospel music museum, on the site once occupied by Pilgrim Baptist Church, known as the birthplace of gospel.

The National Museum of Gospel Music will unveil its plans for the $37.2 million Bronzeville institution, targeting a 2020 opening, at a news conference Friday afternoon on the nearby campus of Illinois Institute of Technology.

--Via Steve Johnson, Chicago Tribune

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<h2>Bob Meyer infuses color into his long history of theatrical&nbsp;artwork</h2>

Something unusually magical happens to the work of visual artists who also are preoccupied with the theater. Think of Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Jean Cocteau, Alexander Calder, Salvador Dali, Robert Rauschenberg, David Hockney&nbsp;and William Kentridge, to name a few, and don&rsquo;t forget Leonardo da Vinci.

Bob Meyer, the Chicago-bred artist, actor, director and writer who now lives in a village outside Paris near Monet&rsquo;s Giverney gardens (and has installed his studio in an actual cave across the street from his home), is another ideal example of this cross-pollination of image with story, character and dialogue. His haunting pencil drawings and prints became a prized feature of the Chicago theater scene in the 1980s and &rsquo;90s, when he founded the Gare St. Lazare Players, a company that has since established itself in France and been seen throughout Europe, and under whose banner Meyer has been responsible for 60 productions of self-penned work, as well as plays by Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Sam Shepard, Wallace Shawn, Dario Fo and many others.

--Via&nbsp;Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun Times

<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/bob-meyer-infuses-color-into-his-long-history-of-theatrical-artwork/">Read More</a>

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<h2>Do Women Dealers Represent More Women Artists?</h2>

What would the world look like if more women were in charge?

An Artsy analysis comparing the artist rosters of the 199 female-run and male-run galleries showing at the 16th edition of&nbsp;Art Basel in Miami Beachprovides one clue. Dealers who are women are 28% more likely to show artists who are women. The gender breakdown of artists listed on the websites of the 126 male-run galleries showing at Art Basel in Miami Beach is 75% male artists to 25% female artists, a ratio of three to one.

--Via&nbsp;Anna Louie Sussman and Kim Hart, Artsy

<a href="https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-women-dealers-represent-women-artists-crunched-numbers">Read More</a>

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<h2>It&#39;s past time to save the Uptown Theatre</h2>

Even before it went dark nearly four decades ago, the Uptown Theatre was in decline&mdash;the North Side&#39;s own architectural Miss Havisham, outfitted in its decaying Jazz Age finery. Once a dazzling movie theater that represented the outer limits of extravagant Roaring &#39;20s design, the 4,500-seat colossus by the 1970s had faded, playing host to Grateful Dead concerts and closed-circuit boxing matches. Then, in 1981, the doors shut&mdash;and since then, a generation of community activists has worked against the odds to see that those doors don&#39;t remain shut for good.

As Crain&#39;s contributor Mark Guarino&nbsp;reports in this week&#39;s issue,&nbsp;time is not on the preservationists&#39; side. &quot;If this isn&#39;t resolved soon, this building will continue to deteriorate,&quot; says Ward Miller, executive director of Preservation Chicago.

--Via Crain&#39;s Editorial Board, Crain&#39;s Chicago Business

<a href="http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20171208/ISSUE07/171209892/chicago-needs-public-money-to-restore-uptown-theater">Read More</a>

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News from Around the Art World: December 11, 2017

CGN has tracked down a list of holiday events which now require&nbsp;your&nbsp;attention. From around the city, no matter where you are, there is something for everyone. Inspiration for holiday shopping seems to allude you this year? Look no further, we have a number of local solutions to ease your gifting woes.

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North Shore

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Enjoy the local shops in Evanston with a warm beverage in hand. Free and open to the public with all ages invited.&nbsp; The shops will be open until 8pm with holiday gift ideas&nbsp;for all.

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North Side

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Stop in for sips and snacks on&nbsp;Friday evening, December 8th. This gallery hosts&nbsp;a wide array of genres with&nbsp;gift cards availible, it&nbsp;could well be the time to begin a family member or friend on their collecting journey!

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West Side

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A well known fact is that everyone should attend&nbsp;a show during the holiday season. Many of the classics we now have memorized and then some.&nbsp;Without straying too far from&nbsp;the holiday path, here is the timeless story of Hansel and Gretel&nbsp;with fresh take on the story.&nbsp;&nbsp;Hosted by Intuit, the show will be a family event with children&#39;s admission free (under 18 years of age).

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South Side

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Coinciding with&nbsp;Bridgeport Art Center&#39;s third Thursday Open Studio Night. The evening will include complimentary beverages, time to view the artists studios and shopping opportunities from artists resident at the BAC as well as the greater Chicagoland area.&nbsp;

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Randolph Street Holiday Market

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Bringing it indoors for the cold winter months, Randolph Street Market will carry&nbsp;on into the holidays with a wide variety of antique shopping, crafts, and snacks. Price ranges and gifts ideas suitable for all. The perfect gift giving experience for all ages.

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Holiday mania can prove a challenge, particularly the gifting process. With any luck, the events above could very well be where a&nbsp;perfect local shopping&nbsp;opportunity awaits you. From a local artist to your loved one&rsquo;s home, perhaps these markets hold the key to your gifting success (and an evening of enjoyment for yourself)!

There are holiday events&nbsp;in every part of the city, get to know&nbsp;the arts happening around you! Happy Holidays!

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Holiday Happenings: Where to Go, Shop, and See Local Arts This Holiday Season

By RILEY YAXLEY

On Monday, The City of Chicago unveiled an impressive 100-foot mural painted on the western side of the Chicago&nbsp;Cultural Center. The mural, titled&nbsp;Rushmore,&nbsp;was commissioned for $1 dollar and created by&nbsp;Chicago&rsquo;s own contemporary art icon, artist&nbsp;Kerry James Marshall. The mural was a part of Chicago&rsquo;s Year of Public Art, a year-long initiative&nbsp;that spearheaded multiple commissions for new public art in each of the City&rsquo;s 50 wards. &nbsp; &nbsp;

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Kerry James Marshall currently lives and works in Chicago&rsquo;s Bronzeville neighborhood. His contributions to Chicago&rsquo;s cultural landscape were awarded with a Fifth Star Honor Award from the city on August 28, 2017.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel described the mural as &ldquo;a tremendous gift for the city,&rdquo; from &ldquo;one of the most renowned artists in the world today.&rdquo; The artist is internationally renowned, with his work fetching ever higher prices in the global art market. Here at home,&nbsp;&nbsp;Marshall&#39;s&nbsp;Still Life with Wedding Portrait&nbsp;sold for $5.04 Million during the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago&rsquo;s Benefit Art Auction last month. The painting depicted abolitionist Harriet Tubman at her wedding.

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Marshall described the $1 commision fee for the mural as an act of &ldquo;civic obligation&rdquo; (the mural was funded by Murals of Acceptance, a not-for-profit whose goal is to bring art to all peoples in a free, public setting.) He also reminisced that the project is a very personal&nbsp;return to his roots, because his first exhibition was held at the Chicago Cultural Center.

Rushmore&nbsp;depicts 20 women who have shaped the cultural landscape of Chicago. Included are literary icon&nbsp;Gwendolyn Brooks,&nbsp;Oprah Winfrey,&nbsp;Harriet Monroe, the founder of the Poetry Foundation,&nbsp;famed dancer&nbsp;Ruth Page,&nbsp;the&nbsp;City of Chicago&#39;s&nbsp;longest serving First Lady and cultural ambassador&nbsp;Maggie Daley, and many others.

The mural was started in September and took nine weeks to complete. Jeff Zimmerman, a Chicago mural artist, helped to execute Marshall&rsquo;s vision and design.

This is yet another milestone in Marshall&rsquo;s illustrious career. In 2016, his mid-career retrospective,&nbsp;Mastry,&nbsp;debuted at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and received rapturous praise. His work has also been featured in countless prestigious international exhibitions, such as the 1997 Whitney Biennial, the 2003 Venice Biennial, the 2009 Gwanju Biennial, and the 1999 Carnegie International.

As the Year of Public Art comes to a close, the unveiling of this mural feels like a culmination of the year&rsquo;s rich art programs. Rushmore will stand as another cultural landmark for a city that is already the envy of the world&nbsp;for it&rsquo;s extensive collection of public art, which includes works&nbsp;like Anish Kapoor&rsquo;s Cloud Gate, Jaume Plensa&rsquo;s Crown Fountain, and the Picasso Sculpture in Daley Plaza, which celebrated its 50th anniversary this year.

Marshall&rsquo;s&nbsp;Rushmore&nbsp;is a timely reminder of the women who have been underrepresented for their contributions to culture and gifts the city with a work that continues to redefine and shape the way that we think about public art.

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Watch the dedication of Rushmore&nbsp;and a timelapse below:

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For more information, and to read news&nbsp;about the mural&nbsp;written from the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tonight, and the official project statement from the City of Chicago see the links below:

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<a href="https://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2017/12/04/kerry-james-marshall-unveils-monumental-mural-loop">Chicago Tonight WTTW</a>&nbsp;

<a href="https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/kjm_mural.html">City of Chicago&nbsp;</a>
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Kerry James Marshall Mural unveiled on Cultural Center

Chicago gets its own ‘Rushmore’ with new Kerry James Marshall Mural

&shy;&shy;Each week CGN interviews a local art world professional to discuss the ins and outs of running a gallery in the city of Chicago. This week we caught up with Lelde Kalmite of Bridgeport Art Center.

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Age: Don&rsquo;t ask, don&rsquo;t tell

Current Position: Curator

Hometown: Wurzach, Germany

Previous Occupation: Non-profit arts administrator &amp; University instructor of, art history, studio art, and humanities.

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Favorites from this week:

Restaurant: Antique Taco on 35th street

Shop: National Museum of Mexican Art gift shop

Read: I read The New Yorker every week

Neighborhood: Still learning about Bridgeport, which has a fascinating history

Music: I love classical music (especially chamber music)

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Chicago Gallery News: Tell us about your background and how you came to connect with the Bridgeport Art Center?

Lelde Kalmite:&nbsp;After about a dozen years working as a non-profit arts administrator, in 2009 I took an early retirement and rented a studio at Bridgeport Art Center in order to get back to making art full time. I soon came to realize that BAC had the potential to become an important art venue on the South Side. I was given the opportunity to further develop the 4th floor gallery and begin a program of curated art exhibits. Since then, I have designed and installed over 50 exhibitions in three galleries at the BAC. This is the most dynamic and exciting place I have ever worked.&nbsp; I have a lovely studio and regular interaction with so many Chicago-area artists, curators, collectors and art lovers.

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CGN:&nbsp;Share a typical day in the life.

LK: I start early and work on my own art for several hours each morning (4-5 hours per day).&nbsp;Afternoons are usually dedicated to curatorial work. This includes visiting the artist studios, preparing PR materials, communicating with each artist selected for a given show and helping them prepare for the exhibit.

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CGN:&nbsp;Which part of bringing together an exhibition proves most challenging?

LK:&nbsp; Creating an exhibit from a diverse collection of artworks is, as most curators know, akin to creating a new work of art.&nbsp; It is a pleasurable challenge, because it allows me to share my love of art.&nbsp; My educational background and work in non-profit administration have strongly influenced my work as a curator.&nbsp;

The exhibits do not necessarily reflect personal preferences but represent themes that can teach people about some important aspect of contemporary art or group of artists (geometric abstraction, the art of encaustic, male artists of color reflecting on social issues, paper arts, and so on). Many mundane administrative details (consignment agreements, announcement cards, receipt of artworks, etc.) go into preparing each show. However the actual installation of an exhibit is very satisfying and often exhilarating.&nbsp;

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CGN: How do you see Chicago&rsquo;s art scene in comparison to other cities? What do you think makes it particularly unique?

LK:&nbsp;Every major city has its own history and traditions in art.&nbsp; In Chicago, there has historically been a contrast between a tradition related to European modernism/abstraction, versus one that grows out of Midwestern Regionalism, na&iuml;ve art and popular culture. Today there seems to be no dominant tradition in which artists can situate themselves (either for or against).

In addition, there has been a steady reduction or even elimination of art in the school curriculum, so younger visitors who come to view art exhibits are often not very familiar with the long history of art &ndash; neither Western art, nor the art of other cultures.&nbsp; I believe that is what makes a place like BAC so important in the art community of Chicago.&nbsp; It educates visitors while engaging them with a very entertaining experience in a building full of art and artists.

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CGN: How have you seen technology directly affect/alter the way Bridgeport Art Center views it programs or connects with the surrounding community?

LK: The internet and social media have grown the audience for art exhibits at Bridgeport Art Center. Information about the programs is readily available on the website and disseminated to a growing e-mail list of visitors. There is a vital interaction among visitors interested in the different programs &ndash; dance studio, ceramic center (with its own beautiful gallery curated by Jay Strommen), fitness center, fashion shows, Maritime Museum, and more.&nbsp; People can come for a terrific evening of immersion in culture, free of charge for both entry and parking.&nbsp; The Internet has spread the word about Bridgeport Art Center throughout the world. Recently one night, at a River North gallery opening, a&nbsp;group of European visitors walked into the gallery and asked, &quot;How do we get to the Bridgeport Art Center?&quot;

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CGN:&nbsp;One piece of advice you would send back to yourself when you started out?

LK: I would advise myself to rent a studio at a place like Bridgeport Art Center directly after graduating from the University so that I could be part of a larger artistic community and start to live the life of commitment and hard work that is required to excel in the field of art.

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CGN: Favorite cultural pursuit outside of the art world?

LK:&nbsp;I enjoy playing the piano, especially with other instrumentalists, and am looking for some other competent amateurs who might like to form a chamber group (just for fun).

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CGN:&nbsp;Favorite work of public art in Chicago?

LK:&nbsp;Virginio Ferrari&rsquo;s Super Strength at the University of Illinois Chicago Engineering Research Facility.

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CGN: What&#39;s coming up next at Bridgeport Art Center?&nbsp;

LK:&nbsp;A full schedule of exhibitions for 2018 is in place for the 4th floor gallery.&nbsp; This&nbsp;includes art by architects and designers. The&nbsp;6th annual art competition and&nbsp;a show called Loved Ones will explore depictions of people with whom artists have meaningful relationships, to name a few. There will be a show about patterns found in nature as well as several others.&nbsp;The 3rd floor rental gallery is also completely booked for the coming year, with shows by the Colored Pencil Society of America, student and art teacher shows organized by the Illinois Art Education Association, the non-profit group CAVA, among others.&nbsp; It is a tribute to the hard work of the staff at Bridgeport that we now have so many exhibits and other events to offer not only residents of the South Side, but visitors from the entire city and beyond.

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Lelde Kalmite is a Curator at Bridgeport Art Center in Chicago. For more information about the organization please visit:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/institutions/bridgeport-art-center">Bridgeport Art Center</a>.
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Interview with Lelde Kalmite of Bridgeport Art Center

<h2>Giant mural by Kerry James Marshall honors Chicago women of culture</h2>

Giving Chicago its own Mount Rushmore was Kerry James Marshall&rsquo;s idea for his biggest work ever, a mural that will be officially dedicated Monday morning at a gathering of city luminaries.

&ldquo;RUSH MORE&rdquo; is an homage to women who have shaped arts and culture in Chicago &mdash; including Gwendolyn Brooks, Oprah Winfrey, Sandra Cisneros and Maggie Daley &mdash; and it occupies a wall nearly half the size of a football field on the west facade of the Cultural Center.

<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-kerry-james-marshall-mural-unveiled-chicago-1204-story.html">Read More</a>

--Via&nbsp;Steve Johnson,&nbsp;Chicago Tribune

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<h2>Kehinde Wiley on Painting the Powerless. And a President.</h2>

LONDON &mdash; Early next year, a portrait of Barack Obama will go up on the walls of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, produced by an artist who was chosen by Mr. Obama himself in the closing months of his presidency.

The artist, Kehinde Wiley, is known for picturing young black people in stylized portraits that are deliberate throwbacks to earlier traditions of painting. His &ldquo;Napoleon Leading the Army Over the Alps&rdquo; (2005) shows a young man in hiking boots and camouflage riding a rearing stallion the way the French emperor does in an early-1800s&nbsp;painting by&nbsp;Jacques-Louis David. In the 2010 &ldquo;Equestrian Portrait of King Philip II (Michael Jackson),&rdquo; the pop superstar Jackson, in a cape and elaborate armor, mimics the monarch in&nbsp;the Rubens work it references.

<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/27/arts/design/kehinde-wiley-obama-portrait-london-exhibition.html?smid=tw-share&amp;_r=0">Read More</a>

--Via&nbsp;Farah&nbsp;Nayeri,&nbsp;The New York Times

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<h2>A New Study Shows That Most Artists Make Very Little Money, With Women Faring the Worst</h2>

The struggle is real.&nbsp;A just-released survey of international artists yields some dismal findings: In the US, a full three quarters of artists made $10,000 or less per year from their art.&nbsp;Close to half (48.7 percent) made no more than $5,000. The report, titled&nbsp;The Artfinder Independent Art Market Report: 2017,&nbsp;was commissioned by&nbsp;Artfinder, and doubles as a pitch&nbsp;for that company&rsquo;s online marketplace for independent artists.&nbsp;It was&nbsp;conducted by&nbsp;a-n, an artist information company which did a similar study specific to UK artists in 2013.

Based on data from 1,533 self-identified working artists in the US and the UK surveyed over the first three weeks of this month, the Artfinder report claims to be the &ldquo;biggest ever independent artist income survey.&rdquo; (UK income data is broken out separately, given the different currencies, but appears to represent roughly the same hard realities.)

<a href="https://news.artnet.com/market/artists-make-less-10k-year-1162295#.WiAdJvGkoFM.twitter">Read More</a>

--Via&nbsp;Eileen Kinsella,&nbsp;Artnet

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<h2>Chicago Became an Outdoor Art Museum This Year</h2>

Local artists made our streets the city&rsquo;s most exciting exhibition space.

Last fall, Mayor Emanuel declared 2017 the Year of Public Art, promising a $1.5 million investment and new outdoor murals, sculptures, and performances in all 50 wards. As a result, Chicago&rsquo;s streets have been transformed into the city&rsquo;s most impressive permanent showcase of local and global talent. Here, five standouts from the artwork that emerged this year.

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--Via Chicago Magazine, Text by&nbsp;Jason Foumberg

News from Around the Art World: December 4, 2017

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417657/j2njykvga27uuejxbnpt.jpg"></figure>By GINNY VAN ALYEACatherine Edelman celebrated her eponymous gallery's 30th anniversary on Thursday evening (the official opening date was December 1, 1987). Though Edelman hosted the party, it was her many friends, collectors, artists, past staff members and art world colleagues&nbsp;who came, from near and far,&nbsp;to toast Edelman and the significant&nbsp;role the gallery has played in Chicago and beyond in raising the profile of photography in the art world. Photographer Terry Evans applauded Edelman for having earned the reputation as fair and honest in all areas of her business, particularly when it comes to paying her artists immediately upon any sale through the gallery.&nbsp;Edelman opened the gallery at the end of&nbsp;1987 more or less by accident – first she was a metalsmith major, and then she wanted to be a museum curator once she switched her major to photography –&nbsp;and was soon noted as a top Midwestern gallery devoted to exclusively showing photography.&nbsp;Today the gallery continues its founding mission of exhibiting art by both emerging and veteran&nbsp;artists. Edelman's first show in 1987 was&nbsp;the&nbsp;Ballad of Sexual Dependency&nbsp;by Nan Goldin. The gallery's website notes that 'CEG has shown everything from street photography (Susan Meiselas, Sebastiao Salgado, James Nachtwey) to fashion photography (Annie Leibovitz, Herb Ritts, Matthew Rolston) to traditional landscape images (Michael Kenna, Lynn Geesaman) to social-conscious work (Richard Misrach, Jeffrey Wolin, Terry Evans, Allen Ginsberg) to images created as a springboard for story-telling (Joel-Peter Witkin, Elizabeth Ernst, Dan Estabrook) etc. Recent shows at the gallery include the major exhibition, Sandro Miller: Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich - Homage to photographic masters. The exhibit debuted in Chicago in 2014 and traveled to Los Angeles, Poland, Australia, Germany, Wyoming, France, and Amsterdam.'Edelman said on Thurdsay night that she doesn't really&nbsp;like getting up in front of a crowd, but she took the occasion to&nbsp;give&nbsp;heartfelt credit to the many people who have supported her over the years,&nbsp;emphasizing&nbsp;the very personal, even familial,&nbsp;nature of the art business. It was&nbsp;clear that she&nbsp;has truly loved working with so many artists and collectors over the years, and that she is also eager to look ahead to the future of the gallery.Congratulations Cathy!&nbsp;&nbsp;Top image courtesy of the gallery: pictured, back row:&nbsp;Julie Blackmon, Elizabeth Ernst, Cathy Edelman,&nbsp;Terry Evans,&nbsp;Jess T. Dugan, Daniel Beltra,&nbsp;Clarissa M. Bonet,&nbsp;Sandro Miller; front row:&nbsp;Ysabel LeMay,&nbsp;Shana Parkeharrison, Douglas Prince</body></html>

Catherine Edelman Gallery's 30th Anniversary 

Catherine Edelman Gallery Marks 30 Years

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 Jean Leigh, owner of The Leigh Gallery.

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Age: 57

Current Position: Owner of The Leigh Gallery

Hometown: Chicago, IL

Previous Occupation: Bartender all over Chicago, Corporate overseeing 250 employees, Artist

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5 favorites from the past week:

1.&nbsp;Restaurant: Frontera Grill

2.&nbsp;Shop: Unabridged Bookstore

3.&nbsp;Read: &ldquo;The Reporter Who Knew Too Much&rdquo; by Mark Shaw

4.&nbsp;Neighborhood: I love exploring all of the amazing and unique neighborhoods in Chicago- too many favorites.

5.&nbsp;Music: Devo, Queens of the Stone Age, Foo Fighters, extremely varied -so many bands are important to me.

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Chicago Gallery News: Tell us about your background and how The Leigh Gallery came to fruition?

Jean Leigh:&nbsp;I decided to leave corporate and go back to creating my highly- detailed Pen &amp; Ink drawings. I worked the art fair circuit and did very well.&nbsp; I showed in numerous galleries.&nbsp;

Unfortunately, my eyes were getting very bad and I couldn&rsquo;t see the actual point of my 6x0/.13 Rapid-O-Graph technical pen (which was the only pen size I use).&nbsp; I knew I couldn&rsquo;t continue and I thought that if I can&rsquo;t create art, I might as well surround myself with it!&nbsp; I knew lots of artists from the galleries and fairs; I looked around my home at all the artwork I&rsquo;d collected over my lifetime, called them and asked that if I opened an art gallery in Chicago, would they like to join me and they all said &ldquo;yes&rdquo;!! Thirteen years later, we now have over 80 artists of my choosing, mostly local from Chicago and are thriving in the heart of Boystown!

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CGN:&nbsp;Share a typical day in the life.

JL: This gallery is a two-person operation so&hellip;I arrive, take care of all the business/ management aspects and open at 11:00am.&nbsp; Locals and people from surrounding suburbs purchase their artwork from us.&nbsp; About 50% of our business is from tourism.&nbsp; We get people from all over the world here,&nbsp;they come to Boystown and to visit Chicago.&nbsp; We cater to customers from all walks of life- my whole design/ plan has been to sell high-quality original artwork at reasonable and affordable prices.&nbsp; This plan has worked very well.&nbsp;

My assistant, Joe, has been with me for 12 years and takes care of hanging all of the artwork- we showcase the work salon-style.&nbsp; New work arrives just about daily so it is an on-going puzzle on how to get everyone&rsquo;s work seen and shared with our public.&nbsp; He also takes care of most of the social media.&nbsp; Lots of cleaning!&nbsp; It is very entertaining every day!&nbsp; The conversations and humor that occur in this area make each day enjoyable and so much fun!

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CGN:&nbsp;Best sale you ever had?

JL:&nbsp; The best sales are when the customers are leaving with their purchase, and I can hear them say how fun their experience was! That is always a thrill and it happens often!&nbsp; Also when they send pictures of their new artwork in its &ldquo;forever home&rdquo;!&nbsp;

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CGN: Share some successes as well as challenges this year.

JL:&nbsp;My customers are amazing- they have taught me so much and continue to do so.&nbsp; The art world is very alive and being taught from so many collectors and aficionados is pretty darned special

I&rsquo;ve had many customer and artist deaths this year.&nbsp; It is something I hadn&rsquo;t considered when I opened and it always (of course) throws me- hard.&nbsp;

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CGN: How do you see Chicago&rsquo;s art scene in comparison to other cities? What do you think makes it particularly unique?

JL: Chicago&rsquo;s art scene is very alive, vibrant, and in-the-now and know. It is assessable and not as intimidating as other cities.&nbsp; We see the value in education, experience and ownership of art. We work hard sharing our expertise letting everyone know its importance in life and the appreciation and fun in ownership.

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CGN:&nbsp;What do you want a young person to know who is considering this business?&nbsp;&nbsp;

JL: Keep/ treat it as a business. It is not a museum, bar, or big fun!&nbsp; It is a very important and responsible job.&nbsp; I have watched many galleries close because the owners thought it was an ongoing party.&nbsp;

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CGN: One piece of advice you would tell your younger self when starting out?

JL:&nbsp;Do not listen to the negative/ naysayers.&nbsp; Always be upbeat about your business.&nbsp; Do not tell of personal woes or issues with your business- If you portray success, you will, most likely, be successful.&nbsp; It still surprises me, to this day, when people ask if we actually sell.&nbsp; We couldn&rsquo;t be here if we didn&rsquo;t.&nbsp; Remain positive.&nbsp; Galleries are of such importance to our neighborhoods and culture.&nbsp;

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CGN:&nbsp;Favorite cultural pursuit outside of the art world?

JL:&nbsp;Reading and writing- I will write a novel in the next 5 years.

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CGN: Favorite work of public art in Chicago?

JL:&nbsp;Hebru Brantley&rsquo;s wall mural in Uptown always makes me smile.&nbsp; Also the whole sculpture park along the bike path on McCormick Avenue is a GREAT visual experience!

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CGN: Artists you admire most.

JL: I truly admire all of the artists I&rsquo;ve hand-picked to be in my gallery.&nbsp; All of their talents and the risks they have taken are inspiring.&nbsp; Jan Vermeer and Albrecht Durer are my favorites of old school.

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CGN: What&rsquo;s coming up next at the gallery?

1.&nbsp; &nbsp;JL: The Holiday Sweets Stroll (with LakeView East Chamber of Commerce) will take place on Saturday, December 2nd from&nbsp;Noon to 3pm.

2.&nbsp; &nbsp;The Leigh Gallery Holiday Party!!&nbsp; December 8th from 5:00pm &ndash; 9:00pm.

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Jean Leigh is the owner of the&nbsp;The Leigh Gallery in Boystown, Chicago. For more information about the&nbsp;gallery please visit:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/the-leigh-gallery">theleighgallery.com</a>

CGN interview with Chicago art dealer Jean leigh

An Interview with a Dealer: Jean Leigh

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Which charities are the big winners in the city budget?

At least four nonprofits will benefit from Mayor Rahm Emanuel&#39;s 2018 budget, which the City Council is expected to approve Nov. 21. The city of Chicago&#39;s 2018 budget earmarks $76.7 million for youth programs, up from $21 million in 2011, when Emanuel took office.&nbsp;

<a href="http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20171121/NEWS07/171129983/the-chicago-charities-that-win-in-2018-city-budget">Read More</a>

--Via Lisa Bertagnoli, Crain&#39;s Chicago Business

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<h2>A Museum for Art&rsquo;s Sake</h2>

Departing leaders are rarely f&ecirc;ted for what they didn&rsquo;t do. But we live in a time of cultural turmoil, so it&rsquo;s worth noting the tenure of National Gallery of Art Director Earl A. (Rusty) Powell III, who announced this month that he will retire in early 2019 after 25 years on the job.

On Mr. Powell&rsquo;s watch there have been no glitzy expansions, scandals or raids on the collection to raise money, no board dysfunction or dumbing down of exhibitions. In many respects his directorship was very low-key, with much of its focus on...

<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-museum-for-arts-sake-1511560656">Read&nbsp;More</a>

-- Via The Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal

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<h2>How the internet is transforming the art world</h2>

These days, selling your art online is easy. Online art galleries, freelance platforms, digital stores, and other websites help connect artists to potential buyers. From watercolor pictures of squirrels to geometric patterns of maple leaves, there is a growing demand for original artwork in the digital space. However, the commercialization and dilution of art online is leading to new debates about the meaning and future of fine art.

In 2016, online sales of art totaled&nbsp;$3.27 billion. This figure comes from an annual report compiled by&nbsp;TEFAF, but it only includes data from art sales databases, dealers, collectors, and auctioneers. So while the report shows significant growth in the art industry online, it&#39;s still missing key parts. For example, sales from personal websites, individual artists, and some online platforms such as Etsy are missing.

So, the demand is there. But the TEFAF report also revealed another interesting trend in online art sales: They tend to be on the lower end of the price scale, with each piece usually selling for less than $500. It&#39;s easy to see this trend when perusing Etsy, Creative Market, or another online platform. You can find original artwork for a couple of dollars.

<a href="http://theweek.com/articles/732974/how-internet-transforming-art-world">Read More</a>

--Via Lana Bandoim, The Week

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<h2>The Elite Professionals Who Assist Wealthy Art Collectors</h2>

Art buyers make global headlines when they pay record prices for a new addition to their collection, such as the recent sale of a da Vinci painting for over $450 million.

But behind every art collector, there is an entourage of buying consultants, gallerists, framers and lighting specialists to make sure they buy the right piece and display it just so.

<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-elite-professionals-who-assist-wealthy-art-collectors-1511365211">Read More</a>

--Via Ruth Bloomfield, The Wall Street Journal

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<h2>David Hockney&rsquo;s Life in Painting: Spare, Exuberant, Full</h2>

Give it up for David Hockney, one of painting&rsquo;s elder statesmen, and for his crystalline retrospective&nbsp;at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which proceeds in a string of perfectly curated mini-exhibitions. Check at the door the usual caveats and tsk-tsks regarding this wildly popular Anglo-Californian &mdash; that he&rsquo;s a lightweight; that his &ldquo;moment&rdquo; was the &rsquo;60s; that he&rsquo;s obvious. Suspend at least briefly the belief that a tragic vision, or abstraction, is essential for entry into art history&rsquo;s pantheon.

No, Mr. Hockney, at 80, is not Jasper Johns or Gerhard Richter. But he has his own greatness, which flows from openly following his own desires &mdash; including his attraction to other men &mdash; while rigorously exploring the ways art and life feed each other, visually and emotionally. Full disclosure, forthright joy and forward motion are the dynamos of his art, which in my book at least, gives him an edge over Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon.

<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/arts/design/david-hockney-art-review-metropolitan-museum-of-art.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=arts&amp;region=rank&amp;module=package&amp;version=highlights&amp;contentPlacement=5&amp;pgtype=sectionfront&amp;_r=0">Read More</a>

--Via Roberta Smith, The New York Times

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Top image:&nbsp;David Hockney&rsquo;s &ldquo;A Bigger Interior With Blue Terrace and Garden,&rdquo; from 2017. Credit Metropolitan Museum of Art

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News from Around the Art World: November 27, 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 Debra Kerr of Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art.

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Age: 59

Current Position: Executive Director

Hometown: Chicago for 32 years. Original hometown: Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Previous Occupations: Director of YouthMuse and Executive Vice President at Shedd Aquarium

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Favorites from this week:

Restaurant: Mart Anthony&rsquo;s on Hubbard is quintessential old-school Italian, and the food is amazing.

Shop: Can I say my favorite shopping is the store at Intuit? We have so many cool things right now, from painted Chinese parasols to funky jewelry to hand-made dolls to decorated boxes.

Read: The Devil and Webster by Jean Hanff Korelitz is a recent read. It&rsquo;s so timely as our society struggles with both student entitlement and instructor entitlement in the university environment.

Travel: Southwest Airlines is a favorite. It&rsquo;s so easy to make changes in my plans, since the tickets can be refunded to my account! I just hop on the orange line near my home in the south loop and I&rsquo;m at Midway in 20 minutes.

Music: I&rsquo;m digging the opportunities to hear Indonesian gamelan from the new Chicago Balinese Gamelan (performing Dec. 20 at Merit School of Music) and the Javanese ensemble that plays select Thursdays at Rickshaw Republic restaurant

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Chicago Gallery News: Tell us about your background and how you originally connected with Intuit?

Debra Kerr:&nbsp;My museum career started about 25 years ago at Shedd Aquarium, where I worked for 17 years. I&rsquo;m a total museum geek! My personal passion is about the role museums can and should be playing in social good and social justice. In 2010 I formed a project called YouthMuse, which engaged young people in creating online social change campaigns that aligned with the missions of the museums where the teens were participating. One of the museums that asked me to get involved was Intuit, and I fell in love. Outsider art is made oftentimes by artists who are disenfranchised in some way, and the stories of the artists allow us to have meaningful conversations about physical and mental disabilities, the impact of violence and abuse and incarceration, poverty, gender and cultural identity, homelessness, and loss&mdash;all topics of relevance in our society today. In 2014, the executive director position came open, and I jumped at the chance to help grow this small nonprofit into a museum with an important voice in the Chicago cultural scene.

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CGN:&nbsp;Share a typical day in the life.

DK: Ha! Every day is different, which is part of the fun. I might be plunging a clogged toilet in the morning and standing on a stage at the House of Blues in the evening. Most of my days are spent talking to donors and board members or strategizing with our small, yet amazing, staff on anything from memberships to education programs. Every day at Intuit involves meeting a museum guest and showing them something cool, like the recreation of Henry Darger&rsquo;s Room.

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CGN: Share some successes as well as challenges from this year.

DK:&nbsp;An amazing opportunity&mdash;one that we never expected&mdash;came to us earlier this year. Howard Tullman of 1871 is selling his loft space on the second floor of our building, and we are in the process of buying this space. It&rsquo;s very exciting, because it will double our size. That brings about the challenges of staffing additional space and refinancing our mortgage, but it also brings the opportunity to display our collection and give our guests a more in-depth experience of this amazing art genre. Currently, two or three special exhibitions are available at any given time, but now we&rsquo;ll be able to share some amazing pieces from our own collection in a permanent exhibition&mdash;and just in time for 2018&rsquo;s citywide initiative, Art Design Chicago, which will celebrate Chicago&rsquo;s national and international art influence.

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CGN: You were Executive Vice President at the John G. Shedd Aquarium for 11 years before joining Intuit. Are there any key lessons or values that you have learned from holding leadership roles in such public organizations?

DK: My leadership philosophy is to be both humble and self-confident. With self-confidence one doesn&rsquo;t need to boast about one&rsquo;s accomplishments, especially when what we do in the museum world is accomplished by a team. This perspective serves me well, coming from such a large institution to a small one. At Intuit, I wear many hats, such as CFO, HR director, development director, IT troubleshooter and store cashier, depending on the day. If I didn&rsquo;t already believe in a little humility, running a small museum certainly would instill that quality!

My Shedd background plus my many years teaching museum management in the museum studies program at Northwestern&rsquo;s School of Professional Studies has exposed me to many facets of museum operation. Thank goodness, because running a small nonprofit, with its inherent challenges of too few resources, means this is the hardest job I&rsquo;ve ever had. It&rsquo;s also the most fun, since Intuit has a great team of folks who every day turn on the creativity to get the most done with the fewest resources. My favorite new phrase&mdash;credit goes to Lisa Corrin of the Block Museum:&nbsp;&quot;Intuit punches far above its weight class.&quot;

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CGN:&nbsp;How do you see Chicago&rsquo;s art scene in comparison to other cities? What do you think makes it particularly unique?

DK: Most Chicagoans don&rsquo;t realize that Chicago is renowned as a center for outsider art. For its contribution to Art Design Chicago in 2018, Intuit will tell the stories of the outsider artists who lived and worked in Chicago, and the collectors and enthusiasts who sought them out, in a major new exhibit, Chicago Calling: Art Against the Flow. Early on, other cities didn&rsquo;t consider this genre along with the mainstream, Euro-centric art world. That&rsquo;s rapidly changing now, but Chicago can take pride in being a city that embraced edgy and unusual before it was fashionable. This aspect of Chicago&rsquo;s reputation is more well known elsewhere than here.&nbsp;Four European venues are excited to host our exhibit, where it will travel in 2019 and 2020.

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CGN: How have you seen technology directly affect/alter the art world?

DK:&nbsp;One of the coolest uses of technology is to discover what earlier works are under the paint or using science to analyze the work, such as the recent announcement by the Louvre of a Jaconde Nue, or nude Mona Lisa. My favorite use of technology, though, is to provide museum access to audiences around the world. By putting our exhibits and collections online, Intuit, despite its size, is a leading museum of self-taught art that is now accessible to international audiences.

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CGN:&nbsp;What do you want to tell a young person considering this business?

DK:&nbsp;Since I teach museum management, I&rsquo;m always coaching young people who are thinking of working in museums or galleries. You don&rsquo;t go into this field to make money. You do it because you can&rsquo;t imagine doing anything else. This is not work you do to live; this is a life of living to work. It&rsquo;s a passion, a great love. More realistically, I suggest volunteering first to get your foot in the door and discover if that experience ignites the passion. Most of Intuit&rsquo;s employees, including me, volunteered here first before being hired.

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CGN: One piece of advice you would send back to yourself when you started out?

DK:&nbsp;Ignore my father&rsquo;s well-meant advice to seek a career that would guarantee a salary. It took me 10 years to figure out I wanted to work in a museum. Follow your passion.

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CGN: Favorite cultural pursuit outside of the art world?

DK:&nbsp;Travel. But even that doesn&rsquo;t happen outside of art, because I visit museums around the world when I travel, and I pursue my own creativity in the form of travel photography.

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CGN: Favorite work of public art in Chicago?

DK:&nbsp; My favorite piece is completely mainstream: the statue of &quot;Ceres&quot; on top the Board of Trade Building, by John Storrs. I love that a female goddess sits atop a monument to a traditionally male-dominated field. Sometimes a maquette of the statue appears on exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago, where I can get a close-up view of her.

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CGN: What&#39;s coming up next at the Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art?

DK:&nbsp; Intuit is partnering with jorsTAP Chicago to present a family-friendly, transgender, tap-dancing version of Hansel and Gretel, Dec. 7-10. It&rsquo;s totally fun, and a great holiday-time outing. When I saw it, I had a giant smile pasted on my face throughout the performance. Children and teens are free on the Saturday and Sunday matinee performances on the 9th and 10th. Tap-dancing witches and cats with beautiful David Csicsko-designed props: You won&rsquo;t believe it until you see it!

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Debra Kerr is the Executive Director of Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in Chicago. For more information about the gallery please visit:<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/chicago-calling-art-against-the-flow--2"> Intuit.</a>

(Key Image, Photo Credit: Northwestern University)&nbsp;

An Interview with Debra Kerr, Executive Director of Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art

<h2>Leonardo da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3 Million, Shattering Auction Highs</h2>

After 19 minutes of dueling, with four bidders on the telephone and one in the room, Leonardo da Vinci&rsquo;s &ldquo;Salvator Mundi&rdquo; sold on Wednesday night for $450.3 million with fees, shattering the high for any work of art sold at auction. It far surpassed Picasso&rsquo;s &ldquo;Women of Algiers,&rdquo; which fetched $179.4 million at Christie&rsquo;s in May 2015. The buyer was not immediately disclosed.

There were gasps throughout the sale, as the bids climbed by tens of millions up to $225 million, by fives up to $260 million, and then by twos. As the bidding slowed, and a buyer pondered the next multi-million-dollar increment, Jussi Pylkkanen, the auctioneer, said, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s an historic moment; we&rsquo;ll wait.&rdquo;

-- Via Robin Pogrebin&nbsp;and&nbsp;Scott&nbsp;Reyburn, The New York Times

<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/15/arts/design/leonardo-da-vinci-salvator-mundi-christies-auction.html?smid=tw-share&amp;_r=0">Read More</a>

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<h2>Three U.S. Cities Reinventing the Modern Waterfront</h2>

Projects such as the High Line in New York City and Discovery Green in Houston have upped the ante for cities, showcasing landscape architecture as a powerful tool for urban change and raising public awareness of the multifaceted value of well-designed public spaces.

These projects&mdash;and many more like them&mdash;are a far cry from the pastoral, largely unprogrammed spaces championed in the last century by visionaries like Olmsted, Burnham, L&rsquo;Enfant, Kessler, and Cleveland. Today&rsquo;s urban parks, instead, face intense pressure to provide &ldquo;something to do&rdquo; for an increasingly wide array of users&mdash;and are often, by necessity, thrust into new management and operational structures (think: conservancy or public/private partnership models). For the first time in history, the&nbsp;majority of the world&rsquo;s population&nbsp;lives in urban areas. Since the average city apartment&rsquo;s footprint is significantly smaller than that found in suburbia, urban public spaces increasingly serve as an expansion of one&rsquo;s apartment. The city, in essence, becomes one giant shared frontyard.

--Via Gina Ford, Urban Land Magazine

<a href="https://urbanland.uli.org/planning-design/three-u-s-cities-reinventing-modern-waterfront/">Read More</a>

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<h2>The Art Market Moves East: How Gagosian, David Zwirner, and 14 Other Western Art Businesses Are Trying to Expand to Asia</h2>

In the past year alone, no fewer than six galleries have opened or announced plans to open an outpost or office somewhere in Asia.

Amid announcement after announcement, it may feel like Western art businesses have been working forever to tap into the Asian art market. But in fact, the push to set up outposts in China&mdash;as well as South Korea and Japan&mdash;began less than a decade ago. And much of the momentum has picked up only in the last several years.&nbsp;

--Via artnet News

<a href="https://news.artnet.com/market/asia-round-up-galleries-auction-houses-1135454">Read More</a>

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<h2>The Man Behind the Wall&nbsp;</h2>

It seems fitting that Bill Walker wants to meet on the corner of Woodlawn and Hyde Park Boulevard. The street has always been his workplace, and that&#39;s where you most easily picture him&mdash;the father of the community mural movement, capturing, as he once wrote, the &quot;human side of street life in the city.&quot;

Photographs and films of Walker from the 60s and 70s always show him on the street, on sidewalks and in parking lots, climbing scaffolds to fill brick walls and viaducts with spirited reflections on the urban black experience. In three decades of painting murals in Chicago&#39;s neighborhoods, he became an authority on the culture of poverty, racism, and the simple healing effects of goodwill. The street was both Walker&#39;s milieu and his canvas.

--Via&nbsp;Jeff Huebner, Chicago Reader

<a href="https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-man-behind-the-wall/Content?oid=894264">Read More</a>

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<h2>Dieter Roelstraete appointed curator of Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society</h2>

Dieter Roelstraete, an internationally renowned curator of contemporary art, has been named the next curator of the&nbsp;Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society.

In his new role, effective November 10, Roelstraete will oversee all aspects of the Neubauer Collegium Exhibitions Gallery, working with the University arts community as well as with arts organizations in the city of Chicago and around the world.

Roelstraete joins the Neubauer Collegium after serving on the curatorial team that organized documenta 14, the international art exhibition that ran this past spring and summer in Kassel, Germany, and Athens, Greece. Widely hailed as a significant statement about the relevance and aesthetic concerns of the contemporary art world, the show brought together work by 160 artists at more than 80 sites.

--Via Andrew Bauld, UChicagoNews

<a href="https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2017/11/09/dieter-roelstraete-appointed-curator-neubauer-collegium-culture-and-society">Read More</a>

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News from Around the Art World: November 20, 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 Peter Vale of Vale Craft Gallery.

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Age: 54

Current Position: Owner/Director of Vale Craft Gallery

Hometown: Chicago

Previous Occupation: Instructor in museum education programs

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Favorites from this week:

1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Restaurant: Tallboy Taco

2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Shop: Jeni&rsquo;s Ice Cream

3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Read: American Craft Magazine

4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Neighborhood: Old Town

5.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Music: WFMT

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Chicago Gallery News: Tell us about your background and how Vale Craft Gallery came to fruition?

Peter Vale:&nbsp;Since childhood, I have always enjoyed making art and looking at art. As a high school senior, I took two courses in Art History and Ceramic Sculpture (both with James Mespl&eacute;) that would influence my pursuits later in life. After earning a Bachelor&rsquo;s degree in History I worked for several museums in the Boston area, including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. I was an instructor in a community outreach program, which combined looking at art in the museum with hands-on art making projects.

I decided to pursue a Master&rsquo;s degree in Art History and chose a program at Boston University that&nbsp;included a Museum Studies diploma. I already had a strong interest in contemporary crafts and earned course credit while working on an exhibition of American craft. The exhibition addressed issues of social concern for the B.U. art gallery, as well as another project researching the history and future plans of the Society of Arts and Crafts, the oldest contemporary craft gallery in the country.&nbsp;

After receiving my Master&rsquo;s, I returned to Chicago and began to think about starting a gallery&nbsp;focusing&nbsp;on contemporary fine craft. I also returned to making ceramics by taking classes at Lillstreet Art Center, something I have continued to do ever since. My mother was an artist (as well as a great salesperson) making jewelry at the time. She gave me support and encouragement to pursue my interests. My aunt and cousin were also both in the gallery business.&nbsp;When I decided to open my gallery, my aunt gave me a copy of her gallery&rsquo;s consignment form and said that the first thing I should buy was a fax machine. This was new technology at the time.

I rented a small space in River North at 207 W. Superior (now occupied by Jet&rsquo;s Pizza) in the fall of 1992 and contacted artists I had seen at art fairs and craft shows. With no business background or sales experience, I learned by doing. After three years at the original location, I was fortunate to move the gallery into its current home on the lower level of 230 W. Superior, where we have great visibility on a corner location. It&rsquo;s hard to believe that Vale Craft Gallery&nbsp;is celebrating its 25th anniversary this&nbsp;November.

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CGN:&nbsp;Share a typical day in the life.

PV: I live in Old Town and usually start my day with a walk to the gallery. The best days are busy with customers, who&nbsp;are always priority. We have a diverse clientele that includes&nbsp;established collectors as well as first time art buyers and&nbsp;shoppers looking for gifts or&nbsp;decorating their home. We also see&nbsp;tourists exploring the gallery district looking for a unique souvenir of their Chicago visit.

We frequently receive new artwork, and I enjoy changing our displays on a regular basis to add new energy to the gallery. Many of our artists are from the Chicago area or nearby states, so they deliver their art in person and we enjoy visiting with them and learning about their work. When we are not busy with visitors, we are emailing with artists and customers, or we are researching artists on the Internet, packing and shipping work, updating the sales journal and sending artists their checks. At home, I spend a lot of time gardening and playing with my cat, Frankie.

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CGN:&nbsp;Best sale you ever had?

PV:&nbsp; The best sale was my first sale when I opened the gallery 25 years ago, because it gave me confidence in what I was doing.

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CGN: Share some successes as well as challenges from this year.

PV:&nbsp;We changed our July opening on short notice so that we could honor Steve Rebora, a beloved long-time gallery artist who passed away in June. Our July opening turned into a celebration of Steve Rebora&rsquo;s life and work, with many sales to the artist&rsquo;s family, friends, and collectors. An ongoing challenge had been to get River North galleries to coordinate their openings on a set schedule, but this year the galleries banded together to make it happen, starting with a fantastic mid-summer gallery night.

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CGN: How do you see Chicago&rsquo;s art scene in comparison to other cities? What do you think makes it unique?

PV: I think the Chicago art scene is more accessible and approachable than in other large cities. The diversity of Chicago&rsquo;s art scene, including the wide range of galleries in various neighborhoods, world class museums, architecture, a collection of public art, international fairs such as EXPO and SOFA&nbsp;and fantastic local artists, makes the city a unique destination for art lovers.

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CGN:&nbsp;How have you seen technology directly affect/alter the art world?

PV:&nbsp;Because people can now buy art on the Internet through galleries, auctions, and artists&rsquo; websites, there is increasing competition&nbsp;but also new opportunities&nbsp;in the online global marketplace. Although some people may choose to shop for art on websites, I feel that an image viewed on a computer does not offer the same experience as seeing (and touching) the actual object in person.

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CGN: What do you want to tell a young person considering this business?

PV:&nbsp;I would suggest starting with a pop-up gallery in a visible location near other galleries.

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CGN:&nbsp;One piece of advice you would send back to yourself when you started out?

PV:&nbsp;I would hire an assistant much earlier, rather than running the gallery by myself for the first five years.

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CGN: Favorite work of public art in Chicago?

PV:&nbsp;Anish Kapoor&#39;s&nbsp;Cloud Gate,&nbsp;also known as &ldquo;The Bean&rdquo;

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CGN: Artists you admire most.

PV:&nbsp;Michael Sherrill and Janet Kelman. I admire artists who continue to experiment with their work throughout their career, learning new techniques and exploring new ideas.

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CGN: What&#39;s coming up next at the gallery?

PV:&nbsp;We will be changing our display for the holiday season to focus on pieces that are popular for gift giving. We also plan to redo the gallery website and add e-commerce in the coming months.

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Peter Vale is the Owner and Director of Vale Craft Gallery in Chicago. For more information about the gallery please visit:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/vale-craft-gallery">Vale Craft Gallery.</a>

An interview with art dealer Peter Vale of Vale Craft Gallery

An Interview with a Dealer: Peter Vale, Vale Craft Gallery

<h2>Chicago&rsquo;s South Side Community Arts Center named a National Treasure</h2>

As the National Trust for Historic Preservation continues a push to oppose the&nbsp;elimination of the federal Historic Tax Credit program, the organization focused its attention on Chicago&rsquo;s Bronzeville community today to officially designate the South Side Community Arts Center as a National Treasure.

Situated at 3831 S. Michigan Avenue, the historic Georgian-Revival style building was originally built as a residence for grain merchant George A. Seaverns, Jr in 1892.

-- Via Jay Koziarz, Curbed Chicago

<a href="https://chicago.curbed.com/2017/11/7/16617884/bronzeville-community-arts-center-national-treasure">Read More</a>

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<h2>Here&rsquo;s the Artist List for the 2018 New Museum Triennial</h2>

The New Museum has revealed the list for its 2018 New Museum Triennial, which opens on February 13 and runs through May 27. Curated by New Museum curator Gary Carrion-Murayari and Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami deputy director and chief curator Alex Gartenfeld, the exhibition will be titled &ldquo;Songs for Sabotage,&rdquo; and will include more than 30 artists from 19 countries&mdash;a much smaller group than the last triennial, in 2015, which included 51 artists.

The exhibition, which is the triennial&rsquo;s fourth edition, will loosely focus on the relationship between art objects and the societies artists hail from, with meditations on the circulation of images and the legacies of colonialism and systemic racism interspersed throughout. &ldquo;The exhibition amounts to a call for action, an active engagement, and an interference in political and social structures urgently requiring them,&rdquo; a press release reads.

-- Via Alex Greenberger, ARTNEWS

<a href="http://www.artnews.com/2017/11/13/heres-artist-list-2018-new-museum-triennial/">Read More</a>

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<h2>In Chicago, graffiti comes into its own as public art precedes major building developments</h2>

Graffiti in Chicago is not always vandalism. Though tagging, the stylized signatures sometimes used as gang markings, still pervade alleys and the occasional blank&nbsp;wall, graffiti has come into its own as&nbsp;public art. Whether on &ldquo;permission walls&rdquo; or commissioned by businesses, many neighborhoods in Chicago are filled with large-scale artworks that, until recently, were relegated to train cars and out-of-the-way&nbsp;places. But in neighborhoods on the near northwest side and near south of the city, fewer and fewer commercial walls are left blank. Partially as an attempt to stem random tagging and partially as an attempt to connect with young locals who may be future customers, businesses and developers are commissioning, or at least allowing, 
massive works of graffiti on their property.

-- Via&nbsp;Matthew Messner, The Architects Newspaper

<a href="https://archpaper.com/2016/12/chicago-graffiti-public-art-developments/">Read More</a>

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<h2>Tracing the Education of Michelangelo</h2>

It&rsquo;s rare that a major museum gives drawings top billing. They are not seen as alluring enough to engage the public. But one thing they can do is lift the veil on the artistic process, even for such a secretive artist as Michelangelo (1475-1564). And the Met&rsquo;s new exhibition does this beautifully.

-Via Cammy Brothers, The Wall Street Journal&nbsp;

<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/tracing-the-education-of-michelangelo-1510401602">Read More</a>

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<h2>Why Richard Avedon&rsquo;s Work Has Never Been More Relevant</h2>

In 1964, Richard Avedon published &ldquo;Nothing Personal,&rdquo; a lavish coffee table book with gravure-printed portraits of individuals who do not fit into any single classification: Allen Ginsberg standing naked in a Buddhist pose opposite George Lincoln Rockwell, the founder of the American Nazi Party; the puffy-eyed&nbsp;Dorothy Parker, her bags containing a lifetime of tears, side by side with a sullen and deflated, if still-shimmering,&nbsp;Marilyn Monroe; a young and earnest&nbsp;Julian Bond&nbsp;among members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; and the grizzled&nbsp;William Casby,&nbsp;who had been born into slavery about 100 years earlier.

&ldquo;Nothing Personal&rdquo; was published only months after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, in the period of profound cultural soul-searching following President Kennedy&rsquo;s assassination. Despite Avedon&rsquo;s glamorous reputation, it was his social conscience &mdash; revealed in the range of photographs in this book &mdash; that may be the surprise that deepens his enduring legacy.

-- Via Philip Gefter, The New York Times

<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/arts/design/richard-avedon-nothing-personal-pace-macgill.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=arts&amp;region=rank&amp;module=package&amp;version=highlights&amp;contentPlacement=1&amp;pgtype=sectionfront&amp;_r=0">Read More</a>

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News from Around the Art World: November 13, 2017

An interview with Spanish artist Jaume Plensa, exhibiting at Richard Gray Gallery and Gray Warehouse September-November 2017

An Interview with Artist Jaume Plensa

Huge Mural Tackling Gentrification Coming To Logan Square Blue Line Lot

LOGAN SQUARE&nbsp;&mdash; A huge mural tackling&nbsp;gentrification&nbsp;is coming to a prominent location in Logan Square.

The mural will&nbsp;be on the wall facing the Logan Square Blue Line station&#39;s lot, where buses loop around. It will feature cultural landmarks, as well as neighborhood folks and scenes, that depict the neighborhood&#39;s once-predominant Latino community.

--&nbsp;Via&nbsp;Mina Bloom,&nbsp;DNAinfo

<a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20171018/logan-square/mural-logan-square-blue-line-parking-lot-jenny-q-sam-kirk-sandra-antongiorgi?utm_source=Logan+Square+%26+Humboldt+Park&amp;utm_campaign=a65960370c-Mailchimp-CHI&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_dfef6fa313-a65960370c-174900213">Read More</a>

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<h2>3Arts awards grants to more than 90 Chicago artists</h2>

More than 90 Chicago artists will receive grants Monday at the 10th annual 3Arts Awards, a yearly celebration held by the Chicago-based nonprofit organization that advocates for artists of color, artists with disabilities and women in the arts.

This year&rsquo;s unusually large group of awardees is a result of the new peer-to-peer &ldquo;Make a Wave&rdquo; giving initiative, which allowed 83 former 3Arts recipients to select 83 winners of $1000 grants.

-- Via Morgan Greene, Chicago Tribune

<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/news/ct-ent-3arts-grants-20171104-story.html">Read More</a>

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<h2>Wave of Cyber Crime Hits Art World</h2>

Hauser &amp; Wirth, London-based dealers Simon Lee, Thomas Dane, Rosenfeld Porcini, and Laura Bartlett, and Tony Karman, the president of Expo Chicago, have all been targeted by hackers or had money stolen from them in the midst of transactions over artworks, according to a report in the&nbsp;Art Newspaper. The most common form of fraud so far consists of criminals hacking into an art dealer&rsquo;s e-mail account and monitoring incoming and outgoing correspondence.

-- Via Artforum

<a href="https://www.artforum.com/news/id=71944">Read More</a>

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<h2>Buyer Beware: Looted Antiquities Flood Online Sites Like Amazon, Facebook</h2>

Earlier this year, Stephennie Mulder was in her office at the University of Texas at Austin when she received a Facebook message from Yemen with pictures of gold coins and an ancient tomb.

&ldquo;I found the treasure in my towns,&rdquo; read the message from Ahmed Bakil Al Marhabi, who was a stranger to Ms. Mulder.

--&nbsp;Via&nbsp;Georgi Kantchev, The Wall Street Journal

<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-online-bazaar-for-looted-antiquities-1509466087">Read More</a>

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<img alt="" data-caption=" Jacob Ochtervelt’s The Oyster Meal (around 1664-65) Commission for Looted Art in Europe" data-rich-file-id="2470" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2470/original/nazis.jpg" />

<h2>Lord Mayor of London returns Nazi-looted Dutch Old Master</h2>

The Lord Mayor of London is today (6 November) returning a Dutch Old Master that was looted from the Netherlands during the Second World War and has been on display at Mansion House, his official residence, for nearly 30 years.

The Oyster Meal by Jacob Ochtervelt (around 1664-65) was one of 14 paintings that J.H. Smidt van Gelder, the director of the children&rsquo;s hospital in Arnhem, stored in a bank vault for safekeeping during the Second World War.

The paintings were looted in January 1945, when the Nazis plundered the town after British troops were forced to retreat in the Battle of Arnhem. The Oyster Meal is one of six works the family were not able to track down after the war, despite extensive searches. It is to be handed over to Smidt van Gelder&rsquo;s 96-year-old daughter, Charlotte Bischoff van Heemskerck, at a ceremony at Mansion House today.

-- Via Catherine Hickley, The Art Newspaper

<a href="http://theartnewspaper.com/news/lord-mayor-of-london-returns-nazi-looted-dutch-old-master">Read More</a>

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News from Around the Art World: November 6, 2017

By GINNY VAN ALYEA

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As the first ever Year of Public Art wraps up in the coming weeks,&nbsp;Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) announced that they have designated 2018 as the &ldquo;Year of Creative Youth.&rdquo; The official naming means that&nbsp;the City has pledged&nbsp;$2 million to related programming and events and will be behind&nbsp;a Creative Youth Festival that will take place across the Millennium Park Campus on September 22, 2018, offering performance opportunities for teens at city festivals and partner events, as well as cultural grants and convenings for youth arts organizations. The event will showcase teen artists in dance, theatre, music, spoken word, the visual arts and more. Details will be announced next year.

DCASE will collaborate with Chicago Public Schools and Ingenuity, Chicago Park District, Chicago Public Library, the Department of Family and Support Services and other city departments to engage Chicago&rsquo;s youth and youth arts organizations. As part of the Year of Creative Youth, the city will work with After School Matters, Chicago Children&rsquo;s Theatre, Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras, Free Spirit Media, Marwen, SkyArt, Urban Gateways, Yollocalli Arts Reach-National Museum of Mexican Art and Young Chicago Authors and other organizations to inspire the next generation of artists.

Seeking to build up Chicago&#39;s reputation as an arts-centric city that attracts visitors from around the world, Mayor Emanuel said,&nbsp;&ldquo;The Year of Creative Youth provides an incredible opportunity to support the creativity and growth of artistic children across Chicago,&quot;

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The Year of Creative Youth annoucement follows the Mayor&#39;s the unveiling a few days prior&nbsp;of the City&#39;s first&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/dca/provdrs/public_art_program/news/2017/october/public_art_plan.html">Public Art Plan</a>, through which&nbsp;Mayor Emanuel wishes to establish&nbsp;continued investments for art and cultural affairs in the 2018 budget. Proposed amusement tax changes will close an existing loophole that benefited large live performance venues while cutting taxes for neighborhood theaters. The goal is to free up&nbsp;revenue to support expanded youth programming, as well as capital projects and cultural investments across the city.

&ldquo;Chicago should be very proud of its innovative youth arts organizations&mdash;and the many cultural institutions that are committed to unleashing the creative potential of our teens and young adults,&rdquo; said DCASE Commissioner Mark Kelly. &ldquo;We are pleased to announce IncentOvate grants for six of these amazing institutions.&rdquo;

A $1.8 million investment will support the new Creative Youth Festival, expanding of existing City of Chicago cultural programming that engages youth, performance stipends for teens at City of Chicago festivals and partner events, convenings for arts educators and young artists and a marketing campaign.

An additional $200,000, amounting to nearly half of the Cultural Grants Program-IncentOvate funds awarded by DCASE will be designated to support creative youth. IncentOvate grantees organizing creative youth-focused projects include:

Art Institute of Chicago &ndash; Teen Programs 
Chicago Children&rsquo;s Choir &ndash; Long Way Home 
Inner-City Muslim Action Network &ndash; Beloved Community Ceramic Arts Studio 
Lincoln Park Zoo &ndash; Wild Marshall Square Sculpture Project 
National Museum of Mexican Art &ndash; Year of Creative Youth Exhibition and Chill Set Series 
Old Town School of Folk Music &ndash; Music Moves: An Arts &amp; Community Wellness Initiative

The complete list of grantees will be announced in the coming months.

The Year of Creative Youth is part of the Mayor&rsquo;s citywide vision for raising up youth in Chicago, including the extensive One Summer Chicago jobs program, Mayor Emanuel&rsquo;s Mentoring Initiative, Chicago City of Learning, the Chicago Public Schools Arts Education Plan, Night Out In the Parks presented by the Chicago Park District, YOUmedia at select Chicago Public Library locations and more. For details&nbsp;visit&nbsp;<a href="http://cityofchicago.org/yocy">cityofchicago.org/youth</a>

The Year of Creative Youth is also aligned with &ldquo;Art Design Chicago,&rdquo; a citywide initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art&mdash;featuring over 25 exhibitions and hundreds of public programs in 2018. Arts education and youth engagement will be important components of the overall program, including art making workshops and field trips.

To read CGN&#39;s fall 2017 interview with DCASE Commissioner Mark Kelly on the Year of Public Art, please <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2017/8/commissioner-mark-kelly-chicago-s-out-of-the-box-culture-wizard-on-public-art">click here</a>.&nbsp;

Top image: Marwen students

City of Chicago designates 2018 Year of Creative Youth

2018 is City's Year of Creative Youth

By GINNY VAN ALYEA&nbsp;

Friday, November 3 will be a big opening night around the city, as many galleries open major shows that will be their final exhibitions of 2017. &nbsp;The busy night also coincides with the 24th edition of SOFA, which will be taking place on Navy Pier all weekend. Following the end of the fair&#39;s show on Friday, art lovers are encouraged to go out into the city&#39;s dozens of art spaces to see what is new in area galleries. Free shuttles take people between SOFA, the MCA and River North, but openings are happening in multiple neighborhoods. Some hightlights are listed below, and our full calendar may be viewed <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar">here</a>. Note that there are several tours and artist talks also happening on Saturday, November 4.&nbsp;

See you in the galleries!&nbsp;

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<h3>Traduttore, Traditore</h3>

On view at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/traduttore-traditore">Gallery 400</a> through December 16

Artists:&nbsp;Bani Abidi, Arturo Hern&aacute;ndez Alc&aacute;zar, Carlos Arias, Luis Camnitzer, Alejandro Cesarco, Bethany Collins, Brendan Fernandes, Dora Garc&iacute;a, Emily Jacir, Katia Kameli, Harold Mendez, Paulo Nazareth, Sherwin Ovid, Michael Rakowitz, Raqs Media Collective, Emilio Rojas, Thamotharampillai Shanaathanan, Edra Soto,and&nbsp;Stephanie Syjuco

Traduttore, Traditore&nbsp;brings together a group of artists from around the world who employ processes of translation to expose, question, and challenge global circuits of economic and cultural capital.

<img alt="" data-caption="Traduttore, Traditore at Gallery 400 showing works by Michael Rakowitz" data-rich-file-id="2454" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2454/original/400.jpg" />

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<h3>John Kiley and Dante Marioni&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;Collaborations, and John Kuhn &ndash; Astral</h3>

A unique collaboration between two masters, plus new work by a renowned glass artist.&nbsp;Exhibitions run&nbsp;through&nbsp;December 23 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/john-kiley-dante-marioni-collaborations-jon-kuhn-astral">Ken Saunders Gallery</a>

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<h3>Unison &amp; social distortion</h3>

Exhibition on view&nbsp;through&nbsp;November 23 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/unison-social-distortion">Chicago Artists Coalition</a> (CAC) in the West Loop.

The Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to presents Unison, a BOLT Residency exhibition featuring a&nbsp;new series of sculptural photographic work by&nbsp;Mayumi Lake. Unison, features the artist&#39;s&nbsp;interpretation of the mythic heavenly flowers or Housouge,&nbsp;bright and bold mythical flowers, believed to bloom through the afterlife.&nbsp;

CAC also presents social distortion, a HATCH Projects exhibition featuring new works by&nbsp;Rebecca Himelstein&nbsp;and&nbsp;Joseph Wilcox.&nbsp;The work presented&nbsp;considers data, systems of comprehension and context as one. Two artists inspired by theories, respectively manifest interpretations of their studies.

<img alt="" data-caption="Mayumi Lake at CAC" data-rich-file-id="2456" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2456/original/cac.jpg" />

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<h3>Leeah Joo: Knots and Loose Ends</h3>

Exhibition on view through&nbsp;December 16 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/leeah-joo-knots-and-loose-ends">Andrew Bae Gallery</a>

Kurosawa&rsquo;s film&nbsp;Dreams&nbsp;has a scene where a beautiful snow spirit drapes a fallen hiker with layer upon layer of shimmering fabric.&nbsp;Despite their warmth, these blankets of snow, and&nbsp;fatigue and slumber must be shaken off for the hiker to survive. Joo says that her&nbsp;recent paintings explore different connotations of drapery as a subject and she looks to this film as inspiration for many shapes and draped forms in her work.&nbsp;

<img alt="" data-caption="Leeah Joo at Andrew Bae" data-rich-file-id="2455" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2455/original/bae.jpg" />

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<h3>Tanya Agui&ntilde;iga &ndash; Reindigenizing the Self&nbsp;</h3>

On&nbsp;view through December 31

The works featured in Reindigenizing the Self at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/volume-gallery">VOLUME Gallery</a>&nbsp;are the result of Agui&ntilde;iga&rsquo;s own explorations into identity, driven by Latin and Mesoamerican Surrealism. Fully tapping into her Mexican heritage in both material and ideological explorations, Agui&ntilde;iga digs deep and ponders the resulting questions with a nod to Mexican surrealism and the sometimes absurdist explanations of the Popol-Vuh (the Mayan creation myth).

<img alt="" data-caption="Tanya Aguiñiga at VOLUME" data-rich-file-id="2460" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2460/original/volume.jpg" />

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<h3>Vale Craft Gallery &ndash; 25th Anniversary Exhibition</h3>

On view through December 30

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/vale-craft-gallery">Vale Craft Gallery</a> will mark its&nbsp;25th anniversary with a show celebrating gallery artists, and&nbsp;including&nbsp;jewelry, ceramics, glass, fiber, metal, wood and mixed media art by gallery favorites from the past 25 years.

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<h3>Neil Goodman - Twists and Turns: New Sculptures</h3>

On view through December 30 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/neil-goodman-twists-and-turns-new-sculptures">Carl Hammer Gallery</a>

This well known sculptor has a show of new work.

<img alt="" data-caption="Neil Goodman at Carl Hammer" data-rich-file-id="2457" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2457/original/hammer.jpg" />

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<h3>Concrete, Paper, and Plastic: 3 artists, 3 works</h3>

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/concrete-paper-and-plastic-3-artists-3-works">Aron Packer Projects</a> at Chicago Gallery News through December 22

Work by Anthony Adcock, Michael Dinges and&nbsp;Brian Dettmer.&nbsp;

<img alt="" data-caption="Brian Dettmer at Aron Packer" data-rich-file-id="2458" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2458/original/packer.jpg" />

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<h3>Faith Wilding: un-natural Parables&nbsp;</h3>

On view at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/faith-wilding-un-natural-parables">Western Exhibitions</a> until December 22

Aa two-part solo exhibition&nbsp;by pioneering feminist artist Faith Wilding. In Gallery 1, the gallery will present&nbsp;Natural Parables, a body of work last exhibited in 1985; large watercolor/drawing hybrids paired with oil-on-panel paintings shaped like pods. In Gallery 2 will be a new series of mixed-media watercolor paintings,&nbsp;Paraguay: Republica de la Soya, that reflect on the artist&rsquo;s recent on-the-ground research into her birth country&rsquo;s ongoing ecological crises.

<img alt="" data-caption="Faith Wilding at Western Exhibitions" data-rich-file-id="2462" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2462/original/faithwex.jpg" />

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<h3>David Kroll: Bouquets&nbsp;</h3>

On view at&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/david-kroll-bouquets">Zolla/Lieberman</a>&nbsp;until December 21

Kroll&#39;s hyper-realistic paintings are like modern Dutch still lifes that reveal internal memories realized, and they are of private memories trapped, as if in amber, within a time of glowing solitude.

<img alt="" data-caption="David Kroll at Zolla/Lieberman" data-rich-file-id="2463" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2463/original/zlkroll.jpg" />

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Top of page image: Tree of Life, Faith Wilding

A preview of exhibitions opening on November 3, 2017

November 3 Openings Highlights

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 Victor Armendariz of Gallery Victor Armendariz.

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Age: 47

Current Position: Owner/Director of Gallery Victor Armendariz

Hometown: Born, Chicago IL. Grew up on the central coast of California.

Previous Occupation: Assistant Director at Ann Nathan Gallery (1997-2017)

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Favorites from this week:

Restaurant: Daisy&rsquo;s Chicago, 2523 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647&mdash;a friend (and one of our young collectors) is a chef at Daisy&rsquo;s

Read: Currently listening to The Great Courses lecture on the Romantic Poets on Audible

Neighborhood: Lakeview

Music: Spotify playlist of Iron &amp; Wine, Folk, The Cure and Soft Moon, and Barbra Streisand on Fridays.

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Chicago Gallery News: Tell us about your background and how you started Gallery Victor Armendariz?

Victor Armendariz:&nbsp;I began working for the venerable Ann Nathan in 1997 after being introduced to her by her daughter <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2017/10/an-interview-with-a-dealer-betsy-nathan">Betsy Nathan (Pagoda Red)</a>.&nbsp; I was 27 and immediately fell in love with the gallery business.&nbsp; When Ann announced her retirement in mid 2016, I knew that opening my own gallery was the next step.&nbsp; My husband Christopher Clark and I opened Gallery Victor Armendariz in March of 2017.&nbsp; We have had five exhibitions in our new space.

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CGN:&nbsp;How do you sum up your program in one sentence?&nbsp;

VA: We present work in a variety of media and genres, with a strong emphasis on figurative paintings and sculpture and studio furniture. We strive to identify work that reflects a high degree of technical skill. We also believe that art should be exciting and accessible and we attempt to create exhibitions that reflect that belief.

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CGN:&nbsp;Share a typical day in the life.

VA:&nbsp; Unpredictability is typical. My days start early at home where I check emails, social media, and catch up on everything left over from the day before.&nbsp; But once I get into the office the day can go haywire&mdash;there is never a set script. When someone walks through the door, they become my priority.&nbsp;

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CGN: Share some successes as well as challenges from this year.

VA:&nbsp;I feel very grateful that we could get the gallery open in March of this year.&nbsp; Simply getting the business up and running was both our greatest success and biggest challenge.&nbsp; It would not have happened without a huge team effort on the part of my husband/business partner, my colleague Julie Danilek, the group of artists we represent who have placed so much trust in our new venture, an extremely supportive group of friends, family, collectors and members of the art community.&nbsp; We are extraordinarily proud to be part of the Chicago art community.

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CGN: What are some unique aspects about running this type of business, also more specifically, operating in Chicago?

VA: This is a business based on love and want, not need.&nbsp; It is our job to present works that provoke people&rsquo;s imaginations.&nbsp; Drawing the audience into the gallery is a challenge.&nbsp; People lead busy lives&mdash;we must work on capturing their attention.&nbsp; The next generation of collectors will require more and unique ways of getting their attention and we are excited about trying new ways to do that.

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CGN:&nbsp;Your gallery focuses on figurative works, can you touch on what draws you to this area of the market?

VA: I studied English Literature in college and have always been drawn to narrative.&nbsp; I like to look at a piece of artwork that speaks to me in ways that I don&rsquo;t necessarily understand at first.&nbsp; I like to create a narrative in my head&mdash;a narrative that sometimes changes over time as my appreciation for the artwork grows.&nbsp; When I look at an artist&rsquo;s work, this is what I search for &ndash; a compelling narrative.

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CGN: What is your thought process on appealing to young collectors? This said, any words of wisdom to those potential new collectors?

VA:&nbsp;Our gallery has an area called The Studio&mdash;which includes drawings, sketches, prints, and formative works from artists we represent and some new artists.&nbsp; Everything in the Studio is accessibly priced and it provides a way for younger collectors and new collectors to grow their collections.&nbsp; Most importantly, new collectors need to trust their own instincts.&nbsp; Collect work that speaks to you, excites you, and that you want to live with.

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CGN:&nbsp;Favorite cultural pursuit outside of the art world?

VA:&nbsp;My husband and I enjoy board game meet-ups from time to time.

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CGN: Favorite work of public art in Chicago?

VA:&nbsp;&ldquo;Cloud Gate&rdquo;&mdash; (The Bean by Anish Kapoor in Millennium Park), which is such an amazing ambassador for our city and the perfect representation of what public art should be.

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CGN: Artists you admire most.

VA:&nbsp;I have so much respect for living artists who are working hard to get their work out into the world.&nbsp; When an artist shows me their work, I try always to remember that they are showing me a piece of themselves and try to give them the full attention that it deserves.

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CGN: What&#39;s coming up next at the gallery?

VA:&nbsp;We will be participating in the SOFA Chicago 2017 Exhibition at Navy Pier and having a sculptural show called 3-D at the gallery&mdash;followed by a December show of The Studio in the gallery along with a mix of art and some fundraising to give back to the community at the holidays.

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Victor Armendariz is the Owner and Director of Gallery Victor Armendariz in Chicago. For more information about the gallery please visit: <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/gallery-victor-armendariz">Gallery Victor Armendariz.</a>

Photo credit:&nbsp;Carolyn Variano

An Interview with a Dealer: Victor Armendariz

<h2>Wright-designed cottage on market for first time since 1950s</h2>

A cottage in Glencoe that Frank Lloyd Wright designed as part of what was supposed to become a grand estate came on the market Oct. 13 for the first time in more than 60 years.

The asking price is $1 million for the one-story, three-bedroom house on a third of an acre on Franklin Road.

&quot;We&#39;re looking for an architect or Frank Lloyd Wright enthusiast who will restore this house,&quot; said the listing agent, James Tiernan of Re/Max Center. He is representing it for the relatives of its late owners, Meyer and Doris Rudoff, who bought the house in 1956. &nbsp; &nbsp;--Via&nbsp;Dennis Rodkin,&nbsp;Crain&#39;s Chicago Business

<a href="http://www.chicagobusiness.com/realestate/20171016/CRED0701/171019891/wright-designed-cottage-on-market-in-glencoe">Read More</a>

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<h2>Logan Center emerges as cultural magnet</h2>

In 2001, a report entitled &ldquo;The Future of the Arts at the University of Chicago&rdquo; documented the increased engagement of students, faculty, staff and the community with the arts on campus, and highlighted the need for new facilities to accommodate the growing demand.

&ldquo;The creative and performing arts should play an important role in the intellectual and cultural aspirations of the University,&rdquo;&nbsp;wrote members of UChicago&rsquo;s Arts Study Group. It recommended a site at 60th Street and Drexel Avenue for a new creative and performing arts center for the University. &nbsp; &nbsp;--Via&nbsp;Andrew Bauld, University of Chicago&nbsp;

<a href="http://www.uchicago.edu/features/logan_center_emerges_as_cultural_magnet/">Read More</a>

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<h2><img alt="" data-caption="Los Angeles artist Lindsey Nobel has traded as many as 75 of her abstract paintings for various services and discounts. Photo: Lindsey Nobel" data-rich-file-id="2440" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2440/original/barter.jpg" /></h2>

<h2>How Artists Barter to Pay the Bills</h2>

It&rsquo;s famously hard for artists to pay the bills with income from their work. But some have found a way to do it without having to sell a single piece.

These artists are finding that they can make ends meet by trading their creations for services or items they need, from medical treatments to rent. Meanwhile, the providers of goods and services willing to barter often see it as helping out a struggling acquaintance&mdash;with the promise of a windfall if the artist ends up becoming acclaimed.

But for both parties, there are delicate questions to consider before making any deals. &nbsp; &nbsp;--Via Daniel Grant,&nbsp;The New York Times

<a href="https://www.wsj.com/article_email/how-artists-barter-to-pay-the-bills-1508724240-lMyQjAxMTE3MDI4MzgyNTM1Wj/">Read More</a>

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<h2>New Mural To Be Unveiled In Woodlawn On Nov. 9</h2>

WOODLAWN &mdash; Woodlawn&rsquo;s latest mural will be unveiled Nov. 9 under the Metra tracks on 64th Street.

Arlene Turner-Crawford and Rahmaan &ldquo;Statik&rdquo; Barnes are currently working to finish the mural in time for the unveiling at 3 p.m. Nov. 9 under the viaduct.

The mural depicts artistic and cultural icons like muralists Bill Walker, Siddha Webber and Calvin Jones as well as pilot Bessie Coleman and former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama with their children. &nbsp; &nbsp;--&nbsp;Via Sam Cholke,&nbsp;dna info

<a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20171023/woodlawn/new-mural-arlene-turner-crawford-rahmaan-statik-barnes-64th-street-metra-tracks-viaduct">Read More</a>

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News from Around the Art World: October 23, 2017

By DENNIS CALLAHAN

With the advent of digital devices and smartphones that capture and distribute video with the tap of a finger, the genre of electronic art&nbsp;has become ubiquitous, but it most likely first got its start decades ago.&nbsp;Jean Tinguely (Swiss, 1925-1991) &amp; Marcell Duchamp (French, 1887-1968) may have been the first artists to use electrical/kinetic elements in their sculptures, and then in the late 1960s artists such as Nam June Paik, Dan Flavin, Bruce Nauman and Andy Warhol began to expand the presence of&nbsp;electronic components in their art. By&nbsp;the 1990&rsquo;s the practice became more widespread as&nbsp;artists began to frequently&nbsp;incorporate digital media into their work.&nbsp;

While the mediums are now&nbsp;omnipresent at contemporary art shows, they continue to inspire a degree of mistrust among some buyers, notes curator and journalist&nbsp;Judith Benhamou-Huet. A large part of that hesitation is acknowledging&nbsp;the&nbsp;maintenance and conservation these works&nbsp;require as well as what some perceive as a&nbsp;lack of expertise in this new field.

As old technology becomes unavailable or obsolete, keeping them operating becomes more difficult or even impossible. You have to anticipate problems with conservation. That is why files have to be updated every seven years or sometimes even at the same pace as the technology it utilizes. For example the fluorescent tubes which are the heart of Dan Flavin&#39;s sculptures are no longer being manufactured in the U.S. because of EPA restrictions. The glass tubes and coil amps as well as the CRT&rsquo;s used in the television sets of Nam June Paik are no longer available, and very few people know how to work with them. Transformers for high voltage neon tubes age out and the dangerous PCB&rsquo;s leak from them onto collectors&#39; home or&nbsp;museum floors, or worse. (See&nbsp;Figure 2.)

<img alt="" data-caption="Figure 2" data-rich-file-id="2406" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2406/original/figure-2.jpg" />

Digital drivers for computers controlling interactive LED and audio components wear out and are discontinued by their manufacturers. Recently for example, an expensive, no longer in-production Dell XPS Tower that was programmed with custom software designed by the artist more than ten years ago crashed. It was the beating heart of an interactive monumental sculpture in a large private collection open to the public with millions of viewers every year. With 18 large monitors and a huge, multi-ton steel &amp; LED the art measures over 30&rsquo; tall and 125&rsquo; long and 30&rsquo; wide. The components no longer functioned. After extensive on-site diagnostics, our firm, Callahan art &amp; associates,&nbsp;discovered that a single small capacitor on the motherboard had fried (Figure 3). We&nbsp;safely removed&nbsp;the motherboard, removed the bad capacitor, sourced&nbsp;a replacement for it, and soldered it back on the motherboard (see image at top of page). This saved the sculpture, which otherwise would have been de-accessioned and scrapped, as the operating program and software was too old and unique to operate on any other, let alone newer, machine.

<img alt="" data-caption="Figure 3" data-rich-file-id="2408" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2408/original/figure-3.jpg" />

Only a small number of universities&nbsp;offer training in time-based media conservation. At N.Y.U., Hannelore Roemich,&nbsp;professor of conservation science, and Christine Frohnert, of Bek and Frohnert conservation studio,&nbsp;are developing a graduate specialization that will be&nbsp;part of the 2018 curriculum; it&nbsp;will be the first of its kind in the nation. Compared with traditional art conservation, which deals with, say, restoring Impressionist masterworks or Renaissance sculpture, the preservation of these technologic and time-based media&nbsp;works can be even more demanding.

&ldquo;It becomes so much more difficult when it has a plug,&rdquo;&nbsp;is how Professor Frohnert put it. It is crucial, she said, for conservators to forge relationships with experts in related fields.

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Callahan art and associates has restored many electronic components in-house. When we approach a work, we think of it as a work of art that is in need of conservation, not as a piece of outdated technology. Electronic or computer technicians see these works as simply old machines; they&nbsp;lack the experience, creative problem solving or patience to restore them as works of art. Potentially dismissing the machines as totalled, they may not&nbsp;recognize the important social and&nbsp;cultural value of the artworks. They only see disposable or sometimes replaceable technology.

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About Dennis Callahan:&nbsp;

The principal of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/art-services/callahan-art-associates">Callahan art &amp; associates</a>, Dennis Callahan, studied electronic art and holography in the early 1980&rsquo;s at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Studying under Steve Waldek Callahan designed and built solid state circuits to control his kinetic sculptures. He also studied holography and&nbsp;created holograms in the then-cutting-edge lab at SAIC as well as&nbsp;worked making neon signs and sculptures and solid state controllers (before they were available commercially) at a neon shop in Chicago.

Callahan has been fortunate to segue into electronic conservation today, providing the experience and technical know-how to maintain analog and digital based artwork. He is also sharing his knowledge with conservators and students in order to keep such works alive in the future and shares his&nbsp;ability to understand the perspective of the artists, collectors &amp; museums.

<img alt="" data-caption="Dennis Callahan" data-rich-file-id="2405" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2405/original/figure-0.jpg" />

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Contemporary Conservation Challenges: Electronic Art

Each week CGN interviews a local art dealer or arts professional&nbsp;to discuss the ins and outs of running an art program today. 

This week we caught up with Alison Gass, Director of the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago.

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Age: 41

Current Position: Dana Feitler Director, Smart Museum at the University of Chicago

Hometown: Boston

Previous Occupation: Curator of Contemporary Art

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Favorites from this week:

Restaurant: Mott St

Shop: Farfetch.com

Read: Alan Alda &ndash; I&rsquo;ve been reading UChicago Professor Darby English&rsquo;s newish book 1971: A Year in the Life of Color

Neighborhood: My husband and I are buying a major architectural renovation project in Printer&rsquo;s Row and we&rsquo;re very excited to move in there&hellip;hopefully a year from now!

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Chicago Gallery News: Tell us about your art background and how you started with the Smart Museum of Art.

Alison Gass:&nbsp;I have been a curator of Contemporary art since 2005, working with many artists at several institutions. I became really hooked on university museums, and over the last few years I have taken on more administrative/leadership roles, leaving pure curatorial practice somewhat behind.

I was thrilled at the prospect of becoming the director of a great university museum in the city of Chicago. The University of Chicago has demonstrated such unparalleled commitment to the arts, and the City is seen globally as a thriving artistic hub. This felt like an incredibly exciting opportunity to help take the Smart into the next phase of its life and ensure it is an impactful, relevant and welcoming museum within the constellation of great museums in this city.

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CGN:&nbsp;How do you sum up the museum&rsquo;s mission in one sentence?

AG: The Smart Museum is a place for everyone to examine the world through the lens of art objects and artistic practice from all geographic regions and across all temporal moments.

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CGN:&nbsp;Share a typical day in the life.

AG:&nbsp; My typical day is an exercise in work/life balance! My family -- husband Alec Hathaway and our two kids, Millie (8) and Gus (6) -- moved to Chicago this summer. We are still figuring out our new routines. Usually there is a crush of a morning routine getting everyone out of the house, so I feel like I&rsquo;ve had a whole day before even getting to my office around 8:30am.

At the museum, I am working with an incredibly energetic staff to examine everything from how visitors are welcomed into the lobby of the Smart to how we install our museum collection and what kinds of exhibitions we want to put on the calendar in the coming years. We are really thinking about how to create a balance in the exhibitions program so that we are reflecting the interests and identities of the diverse publics who visit the Smart, from both the University community and the broader communities in Chicago. We consider the balance of historic vs. contemporary projects, with projects that reflect the specific academic life of the students and faculty and the projects that reflect the most critical global issues present in our daily lives.

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CGN: What&#39;s the most&nbsp;exciting acquisition you have ever had?

AG:&nbsp;Part of my philosophy as a curator of contemporary art working in encyclopedic museums is that the best art of today often roots itself in art of the past, helping visitors to see through lines of artistic interest across time.

At Stanford University&rsquo;s Cantor Arts Center I acquired a terrific Trevor Paglen photograph series of a motion study he did of a drone landing&mdash;an homage to [Eadweard] Muybridge. The Cantor has one of the largest collections of Muybridge, and Paglen continues the examination of vision mediated by technology in his photographic practice. He also deals with issues of privacy, one of the most pressing issues facing our technologically advancing world today. For me this represents the sweetest of sweet spots in an acquisition: an artist whose work asks us to think critically about our current moment, but also helps us look backwards across the history of art.

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CGN: Any recent travel adventures?

AG: I had a great time trekking my kids through Germany to do the art pilgrimage from Documenta to the Munster Sculpture project this past summer, with a few stops for my architect husband to find remote buildings along the German countryside. We sweetened the deal for the kids with a stopover in London to see the Harry Potter Play&mdash;all in all, a good familial mix of cultural interests!

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CGN:&nbsp;What do you want a young person to know who is considering becoming a curator or arts administrator? &nbsp;

AG: This is a passion career! I feel lucky everyday to be doing something that I think is important: sharing ideas through art. However&nbsp;jobs in curatorial practice or museum jobs in general can be few and far between,&nbsp;and I have been really lucky. I always advise people to do internships (paid!) and be willing to start in administrative roles. Stretch yourself continuously to do things &ldquo;outside of your job description&rdquo; for experience.

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CGN: One piece of advice you would tell your younger self when starting out?

AG:&nbsp;Don&rsquo;t worry so much about what&rsquo;s next&mdash;live in the moment!

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CGN:&nbsp;Favorite cultural pursuit outside of the art world?

AG:&nbsp;Restaurant research!

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CGN: Favorite work of public art in Chicago?

AG:&nbsp;That&rsquo;s easy! Christine Mehring, Chair of the Art History department at the University of Chicago, has brought Wolf Vostell&rsquo;s Concrete Traffic to life for myself and countless others. This is a perfect example of the way art historians or curators can share their own knowledge in a way that makes your perspective shift on an object that at first glance may seem tough to understand. Everyone should come visit. It&rsquo;s parked at the edge of the Ellis Garage on the University of Chicago Campus.

CGN: Check out CGN&#39;s feature on <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2016/8/concrete-traffic-gets-moving-again">Concrete Traffic</a> from summer 2016.

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CGN: What are you working on next for the museum?

AG:&nbsp;I&rsquo;m working on a major reinstallation of the museum&rsquo;s permanent collection that will help us examine where we want to go with an eventual collections campaign. We are going to reinstall many of the museum&rsquo;s galleries with works from our collection, along with loans of significant art from collectors connected to the University of Chicago and Chicago in general that will allow us to tell new stories with beloved objects. We&rsquo;re thinking about how the addition of even a single work of art to a collection can offer new platforms for thinking and seeing differently.

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CGN:&nbsp;What&#39;s the last&nbsp;Chicago restaurant you visited?

AG:&nbsp; Promontory, in Hyde Park&mdash;it&rsquo;s my go-to when I have art world friends and colleagues from out of town come to visit the museum!

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Alison Gass is the Director of the&nbsp;Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago. For more information about the&nbsp;museum please visit:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/institutions/smart-museum-of-art">Smart Museum of Art</a>.

An interview with Smart Museum of Art Director Alison Gass

An Interview with Smart Museum Director Alison Gass

<h2>The U.S. Is Withdrawing from UNESCO&mdash;What Happens Now?</h2>

In a short statement that spoke volumes about American engagement with the international community, the United States announced on Thursday that it will withdraw from United Nations cultural organization UNESCO at the end of the year. The Trump administration has justified the withdrawal in part due to what it claims is UNESCO&rsquo;s &ldquo;anti-Israel bias.&rdquo; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Trump&rsquo;s move and followed suit. Cultural policy experts have been left shaking their heads.

What does the withdrawal actually mean for UNESCO? Is the &ldquo;anti-Israel bias&rdquo; the administration&rsquo;s main reason for pulling out? And can the organization survive without the United States?

What does UNESCO do?

--Via Isaac Kaplan, Artsy Editorial

<a href="https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-withdrawing-unesco-now">Read More</a>

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<h2>Basquiat&rsquo;s &lsquo;Red Skull,&rsquo; Sold at Christie&rsquo;s in London for $21.5 M, Will Fund New Charter Schools in New Jersey and Miami</h2>

There was one bit of good news to come out of the last week&rsquo;s auctions in London: the anonymous consignor of Jean-Michel Basquiat&rsquo;s&nbsp;Red Skull&nbsp;(1982), which sold for $21.5 million at&nbsp;Christie&rsquo;s contemporary evening sale Friday night, announced that he or she would donate all the proceeds after taxes to the the New Jersey chapter of the Knowledge Is Power Program, a nonprofit that helps open new public charter schools.

Today, KIPP New Jersey announced how it was planning to spend the funds, which after seller&rsquo;s fees and taxes amount to somewhere between $7 million and $9 million.

--Via&nbsp;Nate Freeman, ARTNEWS

<a href="http://www.artnews.com/2017/10/12/basquiats-red-skull-sold-at-christies-in-london-for-21-5-m-will-fund-new-charter-schools-in-new-jersey-and-miami/">Read More</a>

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<h2>Anish Kapoor, &lsquo;Cloud Gate&rsquo; artist: &lsquo;I call it &ldquo;The Bean,&rdquo;&nbsp;too&rsquo;</h2>

Anish Kapoor, the artist who dreamed up &ldquo;Cloud Gate&rdquo; &mdash; the sculpture phenomenon in Millennium Park better known as &ldquo;The Bean&rdquo; &mdash; hasn&rsquo;t seen his internationally recognized work in person since it was dedicated in 2006.

But he&rsquo;ll get another look Tuesday when he&rsquo;s back in Chicago, flying in from his home in London, to be honored at the Grant Park Music Festival&rsquo;s Advocate for the Arts Awards benefit.

--Via&nbsp;Hedy Weiss,&nbsp;Chicago Sun Times

<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-politics/anish-kapoor-cloud-gate-artist-i-call-it-the-bean-too/">Read More</a>

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<img alt="" data-caption="Untitled by Jess, one of many artist inspired by Blake. IMAGE: COURTESY OF NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY BLOCK MUSEUM OF ART" data-rich-file-id="2412" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2412/original/cg20171004-qa-stephen-eisenman-untitled-jess.jpg" />

Art History Professor Stephen Eisenman on His New William Blake Exhibition

The Northwestern faculty member and curator of&nbsp;William Blake and the Age of Aquariusdiscusses William Blake, 1960s artists, and more.

--Via&nbsp;Christian Belanger,&nbsp;Chicago Magazine

<a href="http://www.chicagomag.com/arts-culture/October-2017/Stephen-Eisenman/">Read Here</a>

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<img alt="" data-caption="Members of the Chicago Public Art Youth Corps work on a mural called &quot;Mother Nature,&quot; the second art piece the group has worked on this summer. (Alyssa Pointer / Chicago Tribune)" data-rich-file-id="2402" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2402/original/50-public.jpg" />

<h2>50 artists and 50 wards: New public art brings new life, reflection to city</h2>

The city of Chicago continues to make good on its declaration that 2017 would be the&nbsp;Year of Public Art. Fifty new murals, paintings, sculptures and other art forms, one for every ward of Chicago, are being rolled out through Nov. 1.

The final installations of 50x50, a public art project announced in June, will come with the help of the Department of Family and Support Services, the&nbsp;CTA, One Summer Chicago, DCASE and the Chicago Park District, along with other businesses and venues.

--Via&nbsp;Erin Ben-Moche,&nbsp;Chicago Tribune

<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-50-x-50-public-art-update-1009-story.html">Read More</a>

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Are those pants or sculpture? Chicago auction house takes couture beyond the runway

One morning last week, a man roughly the size of an NFL linebacker shoved me aside so he could exit a crowded subway car first. As we rode the narrow escalator to the street, his broad, meaty back rising like a wall in front of me, I thought, &ldquo;I bet that wouldn&rsquo;t have happened if I were wearing the pants.&rdquo;

The pants I had in mind were a pair I had seen a fewlesldays before: blood-red trousers designed by Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garcons. One might best describe them as overalls, because they hang from shoulder straps.

--Via&nbsp;Cindy Dampier,&nbsp;Chicago Tribune

<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/style/sc-fashion-1016-pants-or-sculpture-auction-20170927-story.html">Read More</a>

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News from Around the Art World: October 16, 2017

By GINNY VAN ALYEA

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The Museum of Contemporary Art opened its doors at 237 East Ontario in October 1967, and a great deal of things have changed both inside and outside of the museum.&nbsp;This weekend on October 21 and 22, 2017&nbsp;the museum will once again be opening its doors to the public to invite everyone in to a major celebration&nbsp;to see and participate in the art that has been at the heart of the MCA&#39;s contemporary programming for five decades. The museum aims to share the role of the contemporary museum in today&#39;s community and to celebrate Chicago itself by highlighting history and fostering new creative connections all weekend long. Visitors can enjoy free admission and join Chicago artists and creatives in a range of mediums and fields to commemorate 50 years, celebrate the present and look to the future.&nbsp;

This weekend&#39;s events also inagurate the MCA&#39;s recent renovation, and visitors are invited to dine in the&nbsp;new restaurant, Marisol. The anniversary weekend also launches the&nbsp;museum&#39;s&nbsp;new&nbsp;community space, the Commons. Of course, there will also be a lot of art on view, particularly notable is&nbsp;a museum-wide exhibition, <a href="https://mcachicago.org/Exhibitions/2017/We-Are-Here">We Are Here</a>, a&nbsp;three-part exhibition drawn from the MCA&rsquo;s significant collection of twentieth-&nbsp;and twenty-first-century art,&nbsp;organized by three of the museum&rsquo;s visual arts curators,&nbsp;that highlights the museum&#39;s permanent collection of art from 1945 to today.&nbsp;

The museum also opens a collaborative exhibition of&nbsp;two of the most important artists in the museum&rsquo;s history, as well as icons of the last 100 years.&nbsp;<a href="https://mcachicago.org/Exhibitions/2017/Heaven-And-Earth-Alexander-Calder-And-Jeff-Koons">Heaven and Earth: Alexander Calder and Jeff Koons</a>&nbsp;finds common ground between these seemingly disparate artists, with Alexander Calder&rsquo;s weightless sculptures nominally representing &ldquo;heaven&rdquo; and Jeff Koons&rsquo;s celebrations of the mundane and concrete as &ldquo;earth.&rdquo; This pairing highlights both artists&rsquo; interest in playing with balance and gravity to make compelling sculptural statements, while reveling in the contrasts between high art aspirations and mundane material choices.

At the end of the day, the birthday celebration is just that &ndash; a party. The events planned promise to be festive and high-energy, and they will take place from morning until late-night. On&nbsp;Saturday evening, October 21, the key program samples the city&#39;s broad range of musical offerings, kicking off with DJ Calixta of CumbiaSazo!, and including showcase sets with theMIND and Kaycee Ortiz as well as a rare live performance by Lupe Fiasco. The evening concludes with Legacy in the Living, an immersive dance party with Kiara Lanier and Dj Duane Powell. that recounts Chicago&#39;s musical history. Visitors are encouraged to come in their best art-inspired dress and to immortalize the occasion with photography by GlitterGuts.&nbsp;

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Free reservations for the atrium concert featuring DJ Calixta, theMIND, Kaycee Ortiz, and Lupe Fiasco are available October 18 at noon. Museum galleries and artist projects remain open to all throughout the evening event and the atrium reopens at 9:30 pm for the museum-wide dance party.

A lineup of the anniversary weekend&#39;s events is shown below.*&nbsp;Read the list closely... There are going to be very special birthday cakes served,&nbsp;designed by Emily Nejad of Bon Vivant Cakes, in collaboration with Chicago artists Mari Eastman, Magalie Guerin, Paul Heyer, William J. O&rsquo;Brien, and Amanda Williams.

Here&#39;s to 50 MCA!

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Note: events marked as&nbsp;*Atrium mean that&nbsp;access is by pre-reserved free ticket for these performances. Ticket holders enter Atrium through Plaza steps. Tickets can be reserved starting Wednesday, October 18 at noon. Atrium reopens to the public at 9:30pm for the Dance Party.

MCA Hearts Chicago is co-organized by MCA Chicago and No Small Plans Productions.&nbsp;

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SATURDAY (10 am&ndash;11 pm)

&bull; 10 am&nbsp;Lykanthea&nbsp;(PLAZA) 
&bull;&nbsp;11 am Opening Ceremony, with the&nbsp;Chicago Children&#39;s Choir (PLAZA) 
&bull;&nbsp;Noon&ndash;2 pm&nbsp;Lou Mallozzi with Fred Schmalz,&nbsp;Tracking Shots (PERIMETER OF BUILDING) 
&bull;&nbsp;12:15 pm&nbsp;Liz McCarthy,&nbsp;Whistle Hang Out&nbsp;(ATRIUM and STAIRS) 
&bull;&nbsp;1&ndash;3 pm&nbsp;&nbsp;Family Nook and Story Time with Drag Queens&nbsp;featuring Muffy Fishbasket (TERRACE) 
&bull;&nbsp;2 pm&nbsp;&nbsp;Participatory Music Coalition&nbsp;(ATRIUM) 
&bull;&nbsp;3 pm&nbsp;&nbsp;South Shore Drill Team&nbsp;(PLAZA &mdash;&gt; ATRIUM &mdash;&gt; TERRACE) 
&bull;&nbsp;3:30 pm&nbsp;&nbsp;Cake is served!&nbsp;Artist-designed cakes created by Bon Vivant Cakes (TERRACE) 
&bull;&nbsp;5 pm&nbsp;&nbsp;avery r. young and de deacon board perform&nbsp;protest pretty, followed by&nbsp;Jamila Woods in conversation with avery r. young and Tasha Viets-VanLear&nbsp;(THEATER)&nbsp;

After Hours in the Atrium&nbsp;(ticket required)* 
6 pm&nbsp;&nbsp;DJ caliXta of CumbioSazo! 
7 pm&nbsp;&nbsp;theMIND 
7:20 pm&nbsp;&nbsp;Kaycee Ortiz 
7:50 pm&nbsp;&nbsp;DJ caliXta 
8:20 pm&nbsp;Lupe Fiasco&nbsp;with DJ Double L&nbsp;

9:30 pm&nbsp;Legacy in The Living 
Recount Chicago&#39;s musical history in an immersive dance party with Kiara Lanier and Dj Duane Powell.

SUNDAY (10 am&ndash;5 pm)

&bull;&nbsp;9 am&nbsp;&nbsp;Christa Donner,&nbsp;Guided, reservation required (ATRIUM)&nbsp;RSVP with names of attendees 
&bull;&nbsp;11 am&nbsp;&nbsp;Screening: Nobody&#39;s Here but Me&nbsp;(THEATER) 
&bull;&nbsp;11:30 am&nbsp;&nbsp;Young Chicago Authors Pop-Up&nbsp;(GALLERIES) 
&bull;&nbsp;Noon&nbsp;Michael Rakowitz,&nbsp;Enemy Kitchen&nbsp;(PLAZA) 
&bull;&nbsp;Noon&ndash;4 pm&nbsp;Teen Creative Agency: MCA 100&nbsp;(LAKE VIEW ROOM) 
&bull;&nbsp;12:30 pm&nbsp;&nbsp;Behind &quot;the Stage&quot; Tour with Yolanda Cesta Cursach, Curator of Performance&nbsp;(4TH-FLOOR LOBBY and BACKSTAGE) 
&bull;&nbsp;12:30, 2, and 3:30 pm&nbsp;&nbsp;Brendan Fernandes,&nbsp;Art by Snapchat 
&bull;&nbsp;1 pm&nbsp;&nbsp;Aaron Hughes,&nbsp;Tea Performance&nbsp;(PLAZA) 
&bull;&nbsp;1 pm&nbsp;&nbsp;Screening: Burden&nbsp;(THEATER) 
&bull;&nbsp;1:30 pm&nbsp;&nbsp;Young Chicago Authors Pop-Up&nbsp;(GALLERIES) 
&bull;&nbsp;2:30 pm&nbsp;&nbsp;Behind &quot;the Stage&quot; Tour with Tara Aisha Willis, Associate Curator of Performance&nbsp;(4TH-FLOOR LOBBY and BACKSTAGE) 
&bull;&nbsp;3 pm&nbsp;&nbsp;Screening: Hairy Who &amp; the Chicago Imagists&nbsp;(THEATER) 
&bull;&nbsp;3:30 pm&nbsp;&nbsp;Young Chicago Authors Pop-Up&nbsp;(GALLERIES)

All details may be found on <a href="https://mcachicago.org/Calendar/2017/10/MCA-Hearts-Chicago">mcachicago.org</a>

Top image:&nbsp;MCA Prime Time: Off Rack September 23, 2017 Photo: Nathan Keay, &copy; MCA Chicago

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The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago celebrates 50 years Oct 21-22, 2017