In a new exhibition, longtime collaborators Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger created an immersive multimedia installation that explores intimacy, distance, and the fluctuations between. The above comic captures their reflections on making together and materials in play. Text from the comic is transcribed here to ease readability. Our collaboration developed organically. We were both ceramic […]
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The body in focus
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 new hobby. While trying to draw inspiration for her work, she incorporated her new vehicle for communication when all touch and connection were lost. Carré’s […]
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Out there, around here
Upcoming events and recommendations for the next seven days
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Western Exhibitions invites a Cincinnati art center to Chicago
“Visionaries + Voices” presents sincere and humble work from an Ohio-based nonprofit that supports artists with disabilities.
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Hedda Gabler: A Play With Live Music, Charlie and the Hashbrown Factory Chili Cook-Off, and more to do this weekend
Arts and culture happenings from Fri 2/28 to Sun 3/1.
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The radical nature of Faith Wilding’s fantastical watercolors
Western Exhibitions puts on a compressed retrospective of the Paraguayan-American artist.
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Western Exhibitions inaugurates a new space with an expansive show
The gallery’s biennial, “Underlying System Is Not Known,” is both a retrospective and an exciting glimpse of the venue’s future.
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Five must-dos at Expo Chicago
Ai Weiwei, Studio Gang Architects, and more Expo Chicago recommendations
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Reader’s Agenda Sat 8/9: Brain Frame finale, United Nations, and Medium Cool
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Saturday, August 9
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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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“Fractured Yet Rising,” “The Way of the Shovel,” and the rest of your weekend in visual arts
Your guide to visual arts in the city this weekend
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Cauleen Smith, John Parot, and other arty stuff to do this weekend
Arty stuff to do this weekend
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Morning Art: Brian Guidry
Part of New Art From New Orleans, on display at Western Exhibitions.
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“Suitable Video” / “The Power of Selection” at Western Exhibitions
Shows curated by Scott Wolniak and Ryan Christian open at Western Exhibitions.