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Category: Art Review

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What Cézanne saw

by Dmitry Samarov June 23, 2022July 8, 2022

“Cézanne, he’s the greatest of us all.”—Claude Monet to Georges Clemenceau in conversation, cited in translation in The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné (trans. John Rewald, Abrams, 1996). […]

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Down the stairs and into “Dreams & Delusions”

by S. Nicole Lane June 2, 2022June 1, 2022

“Not touching but joined in astonishment as two cuts lie parallel in the same flesh,” writes Anne Carson in the 1998 novel, Autobiography of Red. Breathing new life, ripping parts […]

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No Robert Mitchum, but stay for the squirrels

by Dmitry Samarov April 26, 2022April 26, 2022

Heather McAdams needs no introduction for longtime Reader readers, but I’ll try anyway. McAdams contributed cartoons and illustrations to the Reader for over 20 years, self-published and distributed an annual […]

A still from Lilli Carré's video "Glazing" (a drawing of a nude woman with brown hair)
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The body in focus

by S. Nicole Lane April 18, 2022April 18, 2022

While living alone in the woods of northern California at the start of 2020, Lilli Carré started learning chess. Like many folks deep into the pandemic, she took up a […]

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A shooting star of a talent, gone too soon

by Dmitry Samarov April 14, 2022April 26, 2022

The 1960 oil painting Garden of Music—the magisterial centerpiece of a knockout survey of the art of Bob Thompson— shows Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, and a half dozen other jazz […]

an art piece with four polaroid photos of artist Tali Halpern dressed in a duck mask surrounded by psychedelic paint
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A genderqueer Bugs and a very sexy duck 

by Micco Caporale January 28, 2022January 28, 2022

Bugs Bunny has a luscious ass. We’ve all seen it—the way he goes from a stretch of fur to curvaceous provocateur with just a few outfit and attitude swaps. It’s […]

painting and collage by artist Ayanah Moor
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Open canvas

by Bridgette M. Redman January 24, 2022January 24, 2022

Painter Ayanah Moor is careful not to reveal spoilers about her work.  The Chicago artist incorporates highly focused intentions into her paintings in the “I Wish I Could Be You […]

Ray Johnson collage named Untitled (65 02 1513), created around 1965. A black and white photo of a blonde boy with drawn-on rose colored sunglasses, the words I didn't do it are written next to his head
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Communicating from beyond

by Dmitry Samarov January 20, 2022January 19, 2022

Have you ever felt like a thing was made especially for you at just the right time? This was my overwhelming impression as soon as I walked into the Art […]

LED light installation in black, white, and red from Barbara Kruger at the Art institute of Chicago
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Thinking of us

by Kaylen Ralph January 7, 2022January 7, 2022

Barbara Kruger, collagist, conceptual artist, and Futura Bold Oblique font savant, will turn 77 two days after her exhibition “THINKING OF YOU. I MEAN ME. I MEAN YOU.” closes at […]

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Are neon signs really enough?

by S. Nicole Lane December 13, 2021December 13, 2021

There’s a young person smiling, posing—hand on their hip—in front of a lit-up sign that reads: “EMPOWER WOMEN.” It intermittently flashes to include ED, making it “EMPOWERED.” The photo is […]

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Between the flesh and the machine

by S. Nicole Lane November 1, 2021October 29, 2021

Skin and stone, organic and sterile, hard and soft: juxtapositions aren’t new in art. This push-and-pull tactic has been done, and done again, but it’s not always executed well. New […]

an installation of rocks and letters at the Earthly Observatory exhibition
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Our earth bodies, ourselves

by Mána H. Taylor September 17, 2021September 18, 2021

“Humankind has always been very curious and driven to find out about life forms in outer space, but not so curious about life forms on the planet,” Giovanni Aloi remarked […]

A viewer takes in Michelangelo’s The Last Judgment.
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God: now at the mall

by Catey Sullivan August 9, 2021August 18, 2021

An immersive art exhibition in DuPage County brings the Sistine Chapel to the former site of the Sears store at Oakbrook Center.

A moment captured during the installation of Orders of Empire at 062 Gallery.
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When a statue is more than a statue

by Claire Voon July 15, 2021August 18, 2021

Artist Kelly Kristin Jones examines contested monuments and white supremacy with her art

Hyun Jung Jun, dotted moth, 2021, beeswax and hemp wick.
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Like a moth to a flame

by Claire Voon July 9, 2021August 18, 2021

A solo show by artist Hyun Jung Jun at Goldfinch Gallery in East Garfield Park.

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