Nigerian-born, London-based fashion designer Duro Olowu curates one of the MCA’s largest shows ever filled with local treasures.
Tag: Chicago Imagists
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Art in Chicago may not be able to distill 150 years of history into one volume, but it sure looks good trying
Anyone involved in that history may be distracted by the gaps and omissions.
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Looking back at the Hairy Who, the 1960s Chicago art world’s greatest branding exercise
On the eve of the collective’s Art Institute retrospective, Suellen Rocca tells all. (Well, some.)
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Lee Grantham can’t escape the long shadow of the Chicago Imagists
The Milwaukee-based artist’s show “Reverse Acrylic Paintings” is showing at the Jean Albano Gallery.
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Karl Wirsum, a film about one of the founding members of the Hairy Who and the Chicago Imagists, has been restored
The short by Suzanne Simpson offers a rare glimpse into the artist’s early creative process.
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Street View 222: Spectacular spectacles and the Chicago Imagists
Isa Giallorenzo’s Street View 222
Posted inFilm
The where and why of the Hairy Who
The Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists revisits the local artists who freaked out the world.
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Michael Russick and David Russick
Tucked away in the back rooms of Artemisia Gallery (which is capable of mounting five one-person shows at once) is a refreshing surprise. The drawings of Michael Russick and paintings by his brother David are entirely unfamiliar to me, yet both follow a familiar sensibility uneasily known as the “Chicago style” of art. Nevertheless, each […]