Outsider show “Heaven + Hell” runs at both LUMA and Intuit
Category: Art Critic’s Choice
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Excavating Pittsburgh’s Hill District
A show of images by Pittsburgh Courier photog Charles “Teenie” Harris
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Beaver anal sacs and you
In “Ground,” artist Rebecca Beachy exposes the human-animal connection
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Grim reapings
Richard Harris’s death-obsessed art collection at the Chicago Cultural Center
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A beautiful underbelly
Print show “Turnin’ the Tip: Simp Heisters, Flukum, and the Put ’n’ Take” plays with the carny aesthetic
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China present and China past in “China Revisited”
Headlong change is a focus of “China Revisited” at Schneider Gallery
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The Rorschach of the body
The Rorschach of the body: Marci Rubin’s images and sculpture
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Color, coded
Corbett Vs. Dempsey’s “Tell Tale Signs” shows paintings by Chicagoan Art Green
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Juxtaposition always makes me dizzy
Samantha Bittman’s show, “Perceptual Notions,” at Thomas Robertello Gallery
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Pristine paintings and a ‘boulder’ of trash
Jim Lutes’s ‘Dumb Country’ at the Valerie Carberry Gallery
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Text and art had a baby . . .
“Text and Drugs and Rock & Roll” at the Maxwell Colette Gallery
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Ten years in the big house
A show of prison photographs taken by Reader contributor Lloyd DeGrane over the course of a decade.
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Charles James’s gowns, inside and out
The Chicago History Museum exhibits work by America’s first high-fashion designer
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Cut, Bit, and Curious: an intimate collage show at Spudnik Press
Robyn Farrell says she’s admired the programming at West Loop printmaking co-op Spudnik Press for a long time. So when she had an idea for an exhibition focusing on collage, she called up Spudnik director Angee Lennard and asked if they’d be interested in hosting it. Turns out Lennard had been thinking about putting on […]
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The art of Murdertown
Christalena Hughmanick and Hope Esser share interests in fabric, fiber, and performance. They also have a common colleague in Jane Jerardi, who’s brought their work together for Retracing, the latest show at Murdertown, an alternative space housed in an apartment in Logan Square. Jerardi knows Hughmanick and Esser from the School of the Art Institute, […]