Unlike a regular scar, a keloid grows far beyond the original wound. Through the buildup of collagen, the body slips under its own cover and piles up, over, and around a loss—a powerful metaphor for Katherine Simóne Reynolds, whose solo exhibition at the Graham Foundation, “A different kind of tender and the practice of overhealing,” […]
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Catherine Lamb and Rebecca Lane explore liminal musical experiences with precision
A secondary rainbow is a faint visual echo that appears outside a rainbow when light bends twice while passing through raindrops. Composer, violist, and occasional vocalist Catherine Lamb uses careful calculation and subtle dynamics to evoke correspondingly liminal sonic experiences. Born in Olympia, Washington, and based in Berlin, she’s developed a musical approach that combines […]
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‘Kjell Theøry’ brings together Alan Turing, the prophet Tiresias, and 40,049 newborn babies
Local collective ATOM-R host one more performance at the Graham Foundation in conjunction with an interactive exhibit at the International Museum of Surgical Science.
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The Halloween Gathering Festival, Mutt Strutt, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend
Portrait of Myself as My Father, Chicago Moth StorySlam, and more happenings from October 21-23.
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Moholy-Nagy isn’t the only major modernist in town right now
Over at the Graham Foundation, a retrospective of the work of Iraqi architect Rifat Chadirji is an unlikely and unintentional companion piece to the Art Institute’s “Moholy-Nagy: Future Present.”
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The ten best bets for fall visual arts
Expo Chicago, “Tattoo” at the Field Museum, and more
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‘Barbara Kasten: Stages’ celebrates the artist’s five decades of work with light and architectural forms
It also drew an enormous crowd to the Architecture Biennial’s opening weekend.
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Barbara Kasten gets a long-overdue career survey with ‘Stages’ at the Graham Foundation
Over the course of her five-decade career, Chicago-based artist Barbara Kasten has experimented with some pretty complex processes. To create her photographic series from the late 1970s and ’80s, she carefully positioned props—often large geometric objects made from wood or plaster—among fiberglass screens, wires, mesh, mirrors, et cetera, then shot these abstract installations with a […]
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A bigger, better Medium Cool returns
Chicago’s own art book fair and objects shop is back for a second year.
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Meet the city’s new arts initiatives—and add your two cents’ worth
But our mayor is in a category of his own.
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Reader’s Agenda Sat 5/17: For No Good Reason, Hot Karl, and Nate Wooley
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Saturday, May 17
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Chicago incubates a new generation of architects
The Graham Foundation announces its 2012 individual grantees
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Portland modular-synth dynamo Matt Carlson makes his Chicago debut
Matt Carlson (Golden Retriever, ex-Parenthetical Girls) makes his local solo debut at Lampo’s spring season opener.