The National Public Housing Museum presents “The Sound, the Soul, the Syncopation”
Category: Art Critic’s Choice
The Steve McQueen who didn’t make Bullitt
The Art Institute opens “Steve McQueen,” showing work by the British video artist
Sic transit gloria meat market
At Chicago Artists’ Coalition, “Locality” and “The Hall of Disappearing” are all about transformation
Hebru Brantley visits planet America
Paintings by Hebru Brantley in “Brothers of the Robbing Hood,” at Lacuna Artist Lofts
Allen Ruppersberg’s back pages
In “No Time Left to Start Again,” conceptual artist Allen Ruppersberg presents his own, chaotic history of rock.
Laura Letinsky withdraws to a further remove
Chicago photographer Laura Letinsky shows prints of collaged images in “Ill Form and Void Full”
Children under glass: Caleb Weintraub’s insular, precarious worlds
Don’t take the kids to Caleb Weintraub’s “Snowglobe, a Plastic Dream in a Clear and Present Danger”—they’re already in it
Getting Into Face . . . after face after face
Club kids JoJo Baby and Sal-E play advanced dress-up in Getting Into Face
Zeph Farmby’s eat-the-rich art
Zeph Farmby’s solo show, “Love, Lust & Desire,” opens at Elephant Room, Inc.
Chunks of dismembered wife found in whale
Amber Hawk Swanson’s “All That Is Left of You / Everything You Are Now” at the Chicago Artists Coalition
Seymour Rosofsky’s sinister whimsy
Seymour Rosofsky drawings exhibited at Corbett vs. Dempsey
Synchrodogs unleashed
Ukrainian photo duo Synchrodogs at Public Works Gallery
Landscape with really huge phalluses
The Museum of Contemporary Art presents “Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity”
“Kink,” regular and super
Design Cloud Gallery’s “Kink” exhibits work by Harry Sudman and JoJo Baby
Artists overwrite the self in ‘Program/Suffer/Abstain/Deprogram’
Reader contributor Bert Stabler curates “Program/Suffer/Abstain/Deprogram,”