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

CGN Interview Series: Aron Gent, DOCUMENT

<h2>The National Gallery of Art Cancels a Chuck Close Show After Misconduct Accusations</h2>

The National Gallery of Art in Washington has canceled a Chuck Close exhibition, planned for May, because of accusations of sexual misconduct that have engulfed the artist in controversy.

Anabeth Guthrie, a spokeswoman for the National Gallery said that museum officials made the decision to cancel the show this month because of &ldquo;allegations of misconduct&rdquo; made against Mr. Close. In December, The New York Times published a report that Mr. Close had asked women who visited his studio to undress and made unwelcome explicit comments.

&ldquo;We have never made a decision to cancel a show because of allegations of this kind before,&rdquo; Ms. Guthrie said.

--By&nbsp;Colin&nbsp;Moynihan&nbsp;and&nbsp;Robin&nbsp;Pogrebin, The New York Times

<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/arts/design/national-gallery-of-art-cancels-chuck-close-thomas-roma-sexual-misconduct.html">Read More</a>

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<h2>Foundations shaking things up</h2>

For the last four decades, Chicago-based Terra Foundation has quietly gone about its business of supporting American art locally and globally. This year, it&#39;s making a bigger splash.

Terra is spending $6.5 million on Art Design Chicago, a yearlong celebration of American art and design taking place at 60 cultural organizations around the city. Art Design Chicago took five years to pull together and has a total cost of about $8 million. It has connected Terra with about 15 new organizations, among them the&nbsp;South Side Community Art Center,&nbsp;which received a $50,000 grant from Terra for &quot;Change the Canvas, Change the World: A Landscape of Cultural Discovery,&quot; opening at the Bronzeville center Nov. 3. Masequa Myers, executive director, calls the grant &quot;big money&quot; for the center and adds that the collaboration with Terra carries considerable marketing potential. &quot;It really raises the bar for us,&quot; she says.

--By&nbsp;Lisa&nbsp;Bertagnoli, Crain&#39;s Chicago Business

<a href="https://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20180126/ISSUE01/180129904/foundations-sharpen-focus-collaborate-to-increase-impact">Read More</a>

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<h2>Algorithmic Installation Transforms Neighbourhood Scenes Into Impressionist Abstractions</h2>

Tasked with creating a new experience in the vast, gallery-like lobby of 515 North State St, Chicago, ESI design played on the typical old-school approach of installing an abstract painting and instead created a unique 14-foot-wide-by-23-foot-tall digital art&nbsp;installation&nbsp;that constantly &lsquo;paints&rsquo; new color compositions.&nbsp;titled &lsquo;canvas,&rsquo; the site-specific work deconstructs original video footage of life in chicago&rsquo;s vibrant river north neighborhood into a piece of art that is always evolving.

--By&nbsp;Ed Purver, designboom

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<h2>Can Digital Technology Open Up the Art World?</h2>

LONDON &mdash; Regardless of whether you&rsquo;re a multibillion-dollar investment banker, or someone who wants to spend just a few hundred on something nice to hang on the wall, it&rsquo;s difficult not to be intimidated by the art market.

But surely the digital revolution has brought some much-needed transparency to this most opaque of luxury businesses? Presumably, by now, paintings and drawings are being bought online as routinely as music and books?

--By Scott Reyburn, The New York Times

<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/arts/design/art-market-apps-magnus-artsy.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=design&amp;region=stream&amp;module=stream_unit&amp;version=latest&amp;contentPlacement=7&amp;pgtype=sectionfront">Read More</a>

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<h2>The Four Tribes of Art Collectors</h2>

The most enjoyable part of leading the art division of a private bank is working with the great characters of the art market. In my experience, serious collectors tend to fall into one of four &ldquo;tribes,&rdquo; each with their own behaviors, insecurities, strengths, and motivations for seeking, acquiring, and appreciating art.&nbsp;

--By&nbsp;Evan Beard, Artsy Editorial

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News from Around the Art World: January 29, 2018

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

Chicago Artists Coalition is moving to Kinzie Corridor

Chicago Artists Coalition Moving West Spring 2018

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

The Evolving Zen of Artist Adam Siegel

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

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

Art Design Chicago opens a year of artistic collaborations

Art Design Chicago Kicks of a Year of Collaboration

Each week CGN interviews a local art dealer to discuss the ins and outs of running a gallery in the city of Chicago. This week we caught up with Deborah Maris Lader, owner and director of Chicago Printmakers Collaborative.

Age: 56

Current Position:&nbsp;Director of Chicago Printmakers Collaborative

Hometown:&nbsp;Cleveland, Ohio

Previous&nbsp;Occupations:&nbsp;Professor of Printmaking at Indiana University/Fort Wayne, Printmaking teacher&nbsp;at Cornell University, High School Art Teacher, plus lots of the usual waitress gigs before that.

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5 favorites from the past week

Restaurant: Kitsune - Iliana Regan is a culinary genius.

Shop: I regularly spend time at Costco buying ginormous mountains of paper towels and nitrile gloves for the printshop. Not my favorite place but a necessary evil.

Read: Just finished &ldquo;Paris in the Present Tense&rdquo; by Mark Helprin &ndash; very good.

Neighborhood: Lincoln Square! I just love this neighborhood. My print workshop and home are here, plus it&rsquo;s where I raised my kids, where I shop, go to movies, work out, and everything else.

Music: I&rsquo;m in a folk band called Sons of the Never Wrong. Despite the genre that defines my own music, I love all kinds of stuff &ndash; classical, rock, alternative, gospel, blues, jazz, Americana and world. If I put my music on shuffle, I&rsquo;ll hear Andrew Bird, Talking Heads, Erwin Helfer, Beyonce, Anais Mitchell, the B-52&rsquo;s, The Decemberists, Luis Fonsi, and Ella Fitzgerald all within the hour.

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CGN: Tell us about your background and the process of starting Chicago Printmakers Collaborative?

DL: Making stuff has been my passion since&nbsp;day one. As an undergraduate sculpture major, welding giant pieces of metal, carving wood and grinding stone, I loved the materials but missed the act of drawing. I took a class in printmaking, which involves incising imagery onto etched metal plates, drawing onto lithography stones and carving wood relief blocks, I&nbsp;was immediately hooked. Printmakers tend to be socially comfortable creatures because of the need to share equipment and resources, and they tend to cluster around whoever has a press. Because teaching has also always been an important part of my career, nurturing others to pursue their artistic goals, it was only a matter of time before I opened my own print shop. Creating community around the medium of fine, handmade printmaking has been my focus for over 28 years.

I was a professor of printmaking at Indiana University/Fort Wayne before moving to Chicago in 1989 and initially sought a teaching position. At that same moment in time, the stars aligned and an old defunct print shop became available for sale. I jumped on it and sunk all my cash into birthing the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative. I didn&rsquo;t know anyone in Chicago besides my architect husband (a good sport if ever there was one)&nbsp;and wondered if this crazy thing I was pouring my heart and sweat into would actually happen and if anyone would ever walk through the door of a 2nd story walkup warehouse in Ukrainian Village where the only retail in the neighborhood was a Cut-Rate Liquor and a Wendy&rsquo;s (along with the occasional late afternoon chorus of gunshots).

It was my version of &ldquo;build it and they will come&rdquo;&hellip; and in fact they did. The printmakers who first walked through the CPC&rsquo;s doors have been the lifeblood of the studio ever since.

In the spring of 1999, the CPC moved from its original location to an expansive, rented studio space in Chicago&rsquo;s Lincoln Square neighborhood. In 2015, I bought a decrepit old building where the roof was caving in and the pipes had all burst and I renovated it to comply with my fantasy printshop dreams. And so it was that the shop moved to its new, custom built, permanent location just 4 blocks north of the old. If I ever leave here it&rsquo;ll be feet first.

CPC&rsquo;s member artists hail from all over the world, but most live in the Chicago area. The workshop is home to 7 Resident Artists, hundreds of students, and scores of professional printmakers who work on the presses 24/7 with keyed access. The CPC gallery features works on paper by over 60 international artists.

My role as a curator and dealer has expanded in the past 5 years, especially as our new bright storefront and gallery walls have attracted buyers who are more and more interested in our international reach and are thrilled with the general affordability of prints, many of which can be produced as limited-edition multiples. When folks happen in during our open hours, they may catch an artist pulling an etched image off the press or drawing on a stone, as the gallery shares space with the active workshop. Sometimes visitors actually applaud when an artist &ldquo;reveals&rdquo; a finished print before their very eyes &ndash; it&rsquo;s an education and performance all in one, and it demystifies the print medium in the best way (they also see how much hard work is involved).

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CGN: Give us a day in the life!

DL: Every day is so different! Some days I may be picking up supplies, reclaiming silk screens, fixing a broken glass litho slab and doing PR via social media. The next day I may be drawing on an etching plate, printing, hanging a gallery show, making labels and creating Instagram videos (we have 26.6K followers as of this week, plus I have 3 Instagram and FB accounts &ndash; one for my art, one for CPC, and one for my band). The day after that I may have a band rehearsal, a demo for a tour group at CPC, and an evening gig.

There are some days where we have community events and I delegate tasks for our 5 CPC interns while working alongside them to maintain the studio, answer emails, organize classes, and clean. All while greeting visitors and selling prints. Most every day I try to work out in the morning, then hit the studio or streets for the types of things mentioned above, and then I go home to assure my husband that I still exist. I sometimes like to cook, and&nbsp;always make time early in the day for a matcha green tea latte with almond milk. I&rsquo;m usually up until around 1:30 AM&nbsp;doing administrative, social media, email and other work from my home computer. Then I read a little before I collapse. It&rsquo;s important (to me) to be creative in some way everyday, whether it means drawing on a plate or sketchbook, curating an installation, or simply composing what I&rsquo;m going to wear.

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CGN: How would you sum up your experience running CPC?&nbsp;

DL: I&rsquo;ve learned that being creative comes in many forms, and that artistic output doesn&rsquo;t always hang nicely on a wall or sit on a pedestal. Creating community, or building a printmaking workshop, taxes similar artistic muscles and can satisfy the itch to make something from nothing. I used to beat myself up if my artistic output suffered while performing CPC administrative tasks, but now I just see it all as the same thing, and it has oddly resulted in my being more productive with the stuff that hangs on walls! Go figure.

I love printmaking and its array of stones and plates and tools and presses, but what makes the CPC special are all of the printmakers and interns and&nbsp;students and art collectors and visitors who walk through the CPC door every day. The artists draw,&nbsp;etch,&nbsp;carve,&nbsp;print and haul enormously heavy objects around the studio. The work is physically demanding and exacting, and requires a great amount of technical skill. The work that has come out of the CPC print shop during the past 28 years is astonishing. It&rsquo;s hugely satisfying to see these artists make their marks in printmaking studios, University print shops and in exhibitions all over the world. It&rsquo;s also rewarding to sell their work, which supports them financially. The CPC was set up to foster dialogue, collaboration and community among Chicago&rsquo;s printmakers, as well as to educate and share the beauty of the medium with the broader public. Working alongside these artists has been an honor and an inspiration. The city and community has been tremendously supportive, gallery visitors can see us at work, as the printed image comes off the press.

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CGN: Most exciting sale you ever had?

DL: Every sale is exciting. I love these artists and their work and it&rsquo;s important to me to have a variety of price points and imagery so that there is something in the gallery that ANY person can afford. A first-time buyer&rsquo;s thrill is as exciting as a seasoned collector&rsquo;s purchase. I do have this regular collector from Baltimore who comes once a year to snap up a nice haul of gorgeous things, so of course that&rsquo;s always big fun, especially since he has such exquisite taste!

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CGN: Share some successes as well as challenges this year.

DL: After last year brought us the new-guy-in-chief, I made a conscious effort to make 2017 the year of furthering the CPC&rsquo;s global reach, while championing the role of the arts in transcending the muck of divisive politics. CPC held a series of free, drop-in POP (Print Organize Protest) events where folks could screen print posters and tees, and write letters to our elected officials. In the gallery, CPC showed a gorgeous exhibition of Iranian Printmakers while simultaneously touring a collaborative exhibit of CPC and Iranian printmakers throughout Iran, Italy and Norway. We followed that with the summer ON PAPER International Printmaking Competition.

We then exhibited the gorgeous work of young Thai artists from Chiang Mai, followed by our current International Small Print Show. So &ndash; lots of work but some wonderful collaborations amongst artists from all over the globe. The work from Iran had to basically be &ldquo;smuggled&rdquo; into this country. It was both scary and thrilling to make all that happen, and when Chicago&rsquo;s Iranian community came to the CPC to celebrate Nowruz (Persian New Year) with us, it was fantastic, and we met so many cool new people!&nbsp;

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CGN: One piece of advice you would send back to your 20-year-old self?

DL: As an artist/musician: Trust that your work will tell you where it wants to go. The process is&nbsp;most important, not the end result.

As a mom: &ldquo;No&quot; is a love word.

As a community print shop owner: Start small and don&rsquo;t get too far ahead of yourself. Roll with the setbacks, because they will always be part of it. No sense in stressing too much about the inevitable pitfalls. Reassess and move forward.

As a person: When people look at your 20-yr-old self and think your plan to open a print workshop is batshit crazy, just imagine that in 28 years they&rsquo;ll be asking you for advice.

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CGN: What do you look for in an artwork? When searching for a piece for yourself, what speaks to you?

DL: I want it to be both beautifully crafted and moving in some deep way. Obviously, I love the way prints look, so I gravitate towards the intimacy of an etching or wood engraving or lithograph or drawing, but I can just as easily be moved by the texture and layers of an encaustic painting or sculptural object.

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CGN: Favorite cultural pursuit outside of the art world?&nbsp;

DL: Music&nbsp;of course! Writing, singing, playing and arranging songs with Sons of the Never Wrong is pretty darned cool. I very much also enjoy dance, theatre, and film.

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CGN: What should we expect to see next from Chicago Printmakers Collaborative?

DL: We are in the early planning stages for our 2nd Steamroller event, which will take place sometime in mid-July. It&rsquo;s a basically a community-wide printmaking festival in which the feature attraction is a large 12-ton paving truck in our back driveway that rolls over and prints massive 8-foot artist-carved woodcuts onto fabric while amazed bystanders snap loads of photos with their smartphones. We usually have food trucks, relief printing demos and live music throughout the day, so it&rsquo;s quite the happening!

Other than that, CPC will offer its usual schedule of Printmaking classes, open houses, exhibitions, and membership activities, which can all be found on our website. CPC is also publishing a series of 4 and 5-color Tony Fitzpatrick etchings, printed by our master printer Catherine Winings.&nbsp;

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Deborah Maris Lader is owner and director&nbsp;of Chicago Printmakers Collaborative. For more information&nbsp;please visit:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/institutions/chicago-printmakers-collaborative--3">Chicago Printmakers Collaborative</a>

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CGN Interview Series: Deborah Maris Lader, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative

<h2>Obama Foundation takes the wraps off revised&mdash;and taller&mdash;design for Presidential Center</h2>

The Obama Foundation has released an updated plan for its Obama Presidential Center in Chicago&rsquo;s Jackson Park after listening to community concerns for the better part of eight months. The revisions&mdash;which include a taller, redesigned main tower&mdash;come just days after the center&rsquo;s controversial above-ground-parking structure on the neighboring Midway Plaisance was scrapped in favor of an entirely underground garage.

While members of the public were&nbsp;first shown&nbsp;early renderings in May and participated in numerous open and private meetings with the Obama Foundation since that time, Wednesday&rsquo;s announcement represents the first comprehensive redesign for the innovative combination museum and community center.

<a href="https://chicago.curbed.com/2018/1/10/16873740/obama-presidential-center-architecture-design">Read More</a>

By Jay Koziarz, Curbed Chicago

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<h2>Another Frank Lloyd Wright sells at a discount</h2>

A Glencoe house that is one of a cluster of seven designed by Frank Lloyd Wright sold for less than its seller paid for it a dozen years earlier. Built in 1914 as part of the Ravine Bluffs subdivision, the house on Meadow Road sold for $752,000 on Jan. 5. The seller bought the house in 2005 for $790,000.

Listing agent Elise Rinaldi of @properties said the lower price was &quot;no different than any other house in my market, the North Shore.&quot; In recent months, Crain&#39;s has reported on several homes in Lake Forest, Kenilworth and other North Shore towns that have sold for below prices from 15 years ago and more.

<a href="http://www.chicagobusiness.com/realestate/20180110/CRED0701/180119985/frank-lloyd-wright-home-in-glencoe-sells-for-752000">Read More</a>

By Dennis Rodkin, Crain&#39;s Chicago Business&nbsp;

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<h2>How to Teach Art to Kids, According to Mark Rothko</h2>

If you&rsquo;ve ever seen&nbsp;Mark Rothko&rsquo;s paintings&mdash;large canvases filled with fields of atmospheric color&mdash;and thought, &ldquo;a child could do this,&rdquo; you&rsquo;ve paid the&nbsp;Abstract Expressionist&nbsp;a compliment.

Rothko greatly admired children&rsquo;s art, praising the freshness, authenticity, and emotional intensity of their creations. And he knew children&rsquo;s art well, working as an art teacher for over 20 years at the Brooklyn Jewish Center. To his students&mdash;kindergarteners through 8th graders&mdash;Rothko wasn&rsquo;t an avant-garde visionary or burgeoning art star, he was &ldquo;Rothkie.&rdquo; &ldquo;A big bear of a man, the friendliest, nicest, warmest member of the entire school,&rdquo; his former student Martin Lukashok once&nbsp;recalled.

<a href="https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-teach-art-kids-mark-rothko">Read More</a>

By&nbsp;Sarah Gottesman, Artsy Editorial&nbsp;

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<h2>NADA Names 2018 Winners of International Gallery Prize</h2>

The New Art Dealers Alliance has given its International Gallery Prize to Parallel Oaxaca in Mexico and Stereo in Warsaw. The prize awards galleries from outside the United States space at NADA New York, where they receive sponsored booths.

<a href="http://www.artnews.com/2018/01/12/nada-names-2018-winners-international-gallery-prize/">Read More</a>

By&nbsp;Alex Greenberger, ARTnews

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<h2>The Authenticity of Modigliani Paintings Questioned Once Again</h2>

ROME &mdash; The tormented artist Amedeo Modigliani is beloved both by art aficionados and forgers. Now, an art expert has written a report, leaked by the Italian news media, for state prosecutors that says a third of the works in a popular Modigliani exhibition last year in Genoa, Italy, are fakes.

The expert, Isabella Quattrocchi, said that seven drawings and eight oil paintings by Modigliani, as well as six oil paintings attributed to his friend and sometime collaborator, Moise Kisling, were not authentic. The art works were lent by private collectors and museums in Italy, Switzerland, Israel, Argentina and the United States.

<a href="https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/arts/design/modigliani-paintings-authenticity-questioned-genoa.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&amp;smid=nytcore-ipad-share&amp;referer=https://t.co/aJyU8Dl6Tk?amp=1">Read More</a>

By&nbsp;Elisabetta Povoledo, The New York Times

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News from Around the Art World: January 15, 2018

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

The Year in Art: A 2018 Visual Snapshot

A summary of art exhibition highlights in Chicago January 2018

2018's First Gallery Openings Take Place This Weekend 

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

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

News from Around the Art World: December 26, 2017

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

An Interview with a Dealer: Doug VanTress

<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

<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-national-gospel-museum-chicago-plans-revealed-1208-story.html">Read More</a>

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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...

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-- 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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