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Category: Art Critic’s Choice

Dancing at Regina Cooper's family Easter get together in Cabrini-Green, ca. 1988/89
Posted inArts & Culture

“The Sound, the Soul, the Syncopation” considers public housing as artistic training ground

by Sam Worley November 20, 2012August 19, 2021

The National Public Housing Museum presents “The Sound, the Soul, the Syncopation”

Tricky spitting into the mic in Girls, Tricky.
Posted inArts & Culture

The Steve McQueen who didn’t make Bullitt

by Sam Worley November 5, 2012August 19, 2021

The Art Institute opens “Steve McQueen,” showing work by the British video artist

Theriantropy
Posted inArts & Culture

Sic transit gloria meat market

by Sam Worley October 17, 2012August 19, 2021

At Chicago Artists’ Coalition, “Locality” and “The Hall of Disappearing” are all about transformation

Captain, O' My Captain
Posted inArts & Culture

Hebru Brantley visits planet America

by Sam Worley October 9, 2012August 19, 2021

Paintings by Hebru Brantley in “Brothers of the Robbing Hood,” at Lacuna Artist Lofts

Posted inArts & Culture

Allen Ruppersberg’s back pages

by Sam Worley October 2, 2012August 19, 2021

In “No Time Left to Start Again,” conceptual artist Allen Ruppersberg presents his own, chaotic history of rock.

Untitled #8 by Laura Letinsky
Posted inArts & Culture

Laura Letinsky withdraws to a further remove

by Sam Worley September 25, 2012August 19, 2021

Chicago photographer Laura Letinsky shows prints of collaged images in “Ill Form and Void Full”

Snowglobe by Caleb Weintraub
Posted inArts & Culture

Children under glass: Caleb Weintraub’s insular, precarious worlds

by Sam Worley September 11, 2012August 19, 2021

Don’t take the kids to Caleb Weintraub’s “Snowglobe, a Plastic Dream in a Clear and Present Danger”—they’re already in it

Butterflies, Getting Into Face
Posted inArts & Culture

Getting Into Face . . . after face after face

by Sam Worley September 4, 2012August 19, 2021

Club kids JoJo Baby and Sal-E play advanced dress-up in Getting Into Face

Eat the Rich by Zeph Farmby
Posted inArts & Culture

Zeph Farmby’s eat-the-rich art

by Sam Worley August 27, 2012August 19, 2021

Zeph Farmby’s solo show, “Love, Lust & Desire,” opens at Elephant Room, Inc.

All That Is Left of You: Shoulder Flesh by Amber Hawk Swanson
Posted inArts & Culture

Chunks of dismembered wife found in whale

by Sam Worley August 14, 2012October 24, 2021

Amber Hawk Swanson’s “All That Is Left of You / Everything You Are Now” at the Chicago Artists Coalition

Woman at Table, Children Underneath, by Seymour Rosofsky
Posted inArts & Culture

Seymour Rosofsky’s sinister whimsy

by Sam Worley July 23, 2012August 19, 2021

Seymour Rosofsky drawings exhibited at Corbett vs. Dempsey

Posted inArts & Culture

Synchrodogs unleashed

by Sam Worley July 18, 2012March 24, 2022

Ukrainian photo duo Synchrodogs at Public Works Gallery

Abelardo Morell's camera obscura image of the Empire State Building in bedroom
Posted inArts & Culture

Landscape with really huge phalluses

by Sam Worley July 10, 2012August 19, 2021

The Museum of Contemporary Art presents “Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity”

Part of Harry Sudman's Kink painting series
Posted inArts & Culture

“Kink,” regular and super

by Sam Worley June 21, 2012August 19, 2021

Design Cloud Gallery’s “Kink” exhibits work by Harry Sudman and JoJo Baby

A still from Agency Headquarters: Agency Pattern Recognition Cards by Franklin Pollard
Posted inArts & Culture

Artists overwrite the self in ‘Program/Suffer/Abstain/Deprogram’

by Sam Worley June 12, 2012August 19, 2021

Reader contributor Bert Stabler curates “Program/Suffer/Abstain/Deprogram,”

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