There’s conflict, grief, helplessness, loss, and also joy, camaraderie, and loyalty inhabiting artist Roman Villarreal’s south-side neighborhood and, consequently, the work he’s made there. All of this is on display in his first retrospective, “South Chicago Legacies,” at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art. Villarreal grew up in the Bush neighborhood on the […]
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The mix master
Nigerian-born, London-based fashion designer Duro Olowu curates one of the MCA’s largest shows ever filled with local treasures.
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At Intuit, only a glimpse of the immersive art environment Pasaquan
“Outsider” artist Eddie Owens Martin’s seven-acre utopia in Georgia must be seen to be solved.
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Intuit celebrates 25 years by going back to the beginning
“Post Black Folk Art in America 1930-1980-2016” revisits the exhibit that first inspired the gallery’s founders.
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Lee Godie, behind the photo-booth curtain
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outside Art highlights the self-portraits the street artist took at bus stations throughout the city.
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Jeff Phillips’s search for Harry and Edna
Photographer Jeff Phillips used Facebook to track down a couple who created a mysterious cache of Kodachrome slides.
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Reader’s Agenda Fri 4/11: Darger and the Detective, Easter egg hunts, and Dean Wareham
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Friday, April 11
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Reader’s Agenda Fri 10/11: Chicago International Film Festival, Elvis Fantasy Fest, and Sarah Jarosz
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Friday, October 11
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Eddie Harris at Intuit, alternative architecture magazines, and the rest of your weekend in visual arts
“Archizines,” “Wisconnessee,” and the rest of what’s happening in visual arts around town this weekend
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Reader’s Agenda Wed 7/17: VisionFest5: Johnny 5 Is Alive, a David Lynch dance tribute, and Future Bible Heroes
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Wednesday, July 17
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Reader’s Agenda Fri 4/12: Henry Darger, Oyez Review, and the Asphalt Orchestra
What’s on the Reader’s Agenda for Friday, April 12, 2013
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Reader’s Agenda Fri 1/11: C.T. McClusky, Pat Mahoney at Sound Bar, and John Heffron
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Friday, January 11, 2013
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Self-taught artists put it in writing in Intuit’s You Better Be Listening
Curator Matthew Arient says that text often takes on a “literal aspect” in the work of self-taught visual artists. They may have a specific religious, personal, or philosophical message to convey, and words are the simplest and surest way to get it across to viewers. Other untrained artists are more interested in the visual uses […]