Eye Exam: Fair Play
By Laura Fox In a day and a half in Bridgeport last weekend, connections both professional and personal formed between local art groups and artists. The catalyst was the new MDW Fair. The fair’s...
View ArticleEye Exam: Fair Enough
By Damien James “It’s the same old shit punctuated by happiness and tragedy,” read Ryan Duggan’s screenprint for Johalla Projects, a statement that aptly encapsulated 2011’s Artropolis. That happiness...
View Article411: The Coyote Howls Again
“It’s an eclectic good time,” says Charlie Rees, a member of the Flat Iron Artists’ Association (FIAA) and an organizer for this year’s Coyote Art Festival. In its second year, Coyote will bring more...
View ArticlePreview: GLI.TC/H Festival
RECOMMENDED Spinoza and Heidegger made similar points, illustrated with a hatchet and a hammer respectively, that a tool, subsumed in its utility, only truly becomes an object when broken—as do, by...
View ArticleOld Glory: EXPO Chicago Plans to Return Chicago to the Art Fair Majors
It’s been some time since Chicago was a major player on the international art fair scene. First the International Art Exposition and, later, Art Chicago, were standard-setters in the eighties and...
View ArticleEXPO Chicago Report: The Message from Vernissage
By Robin Dluzen “It feels like the old times,” former Chicago art dealer Melanee Cooper told me last night at EXPO’s Vernissage, “but it feels fresh at the same time”—a sentiment I heard echoed almost...
View ArticleEXPO Insider Photo Diary
By Pedro Velez During Artforum’s dinner party on Thursday night at The Publican, renowned dealer Christopher D’Amelio told me that for EXPO Chicago to succeed it must attract an army of unidentified...
View ArticleEXPO’s Critics and Collectors
By Robin Dluzen “Chicago is slow” was the mantra throughout the day on Thursday as hopeful EXPO staff, exhibitors and speakers repeatedly assured attendees that the sparsely populated aisles and...
View ArticleEXPO Chicago Report: The Final Day and Final Word
By Robin Dluzen “There’s going to be an EXPO Chicago next year, right?” Chicago dealer Linda Warren asked Tony Karman Sunday at Festival Hall, voicing the concern that all of us are harboring. We were...
View ArticleEye Exam: Second to None
By Jason Foumberg Did you know that the South Side MDW airport predates ORD? Whatever the metaphor, last weekend’s MDW Fair—the third iteration in two years—was the best it’s been yet and a very...
View ArticleEye Exam: Insider’s Guide to Expo Chicago
By Jason Foumberg Take it as a good sign that you won’t be able to see and do everything that the Expo Chicago art fair has to offer this weekend on Navy Pier. But how to parse the great from the good?...
View ArticleNews: Expo Chicago 2014 Announces Participating Galleries
Expo Chicago has just released the list of galleries participating in the 2014 edition of the art fair that will take place September 18-21, 2014 at Navy Pier. The fair continues to grow, climbing to...
View Article411: The Coyote Howls Again
“It’s an eclectic good time,” says Charlie Rees, a member of the Flat Iron Artists’ Association (FIAA) and an organizer for this year’s Coyote Art Festival. In its second year, Coyote will bring more...
View ArticlePreview: GLI.TC/H Festival
RECOMMENDED Spinoza and Heidegger made similar points, illustrated with a hatchet and a hammer respectively, that a tool, subsumed in its utility, only truly becomes an object when broken—as do, by...
View ArticleOld Glory: EXPO Chicago Plans to Return Chicago to the Art Fair Majors
It’s been some time since Chicago was a major player on the international art fair scene. First the International Art Exposition and, later, Art Chicago, were standard-setters in the eighties and...
View ArticleEXPO Chicago Report: The Message from Vernissage
By Robin Dluzen “It feels like the old times,” former Chicago art dealer Melanee Cooper told me last night at EXPO’s Vernissage, “but it feels fresh at the same time”—a sentiment I heard echoed almost...
View ArticleEXPO Insider Photo Diary
By Pedro Velez During Artforum’s dinner party on Thursday night at The Publican, renowned dealer Christopher D’Amelio told me that for EXPO Chicago to succeed it must attract an army of unidentified...
View ArticleEXPO’s Critics and Collectors
By Robin Dluzen “Chicago is slow” was the mantra throughout the day on Thursday as hopeful EXPO staff, exhibitors and speakers repeatedly assured attendees that the sparsely populated aisles and...
View ArticleEXPO Chicago Report: The Final Day and Final Word
By Robin Dluzen “There’s going to be an EXPO Chicago next year, right?” Chicago dealer Linda Warren asked Tony Karman Sunday at Festival Hall, voicing the concern that all of us are harboring. We were...
View ArticleNews: Shaquille O’Neal to Curate Booth at Expo Chicago 2014
Yesterday EXPO Chicago announced that Shaquille O’Neal will be curating a booth for the FLAG Art Foundation in this fall’s iteration of the art fair. Entitled “SHAQ LOVES PEOPLE,” the project will...
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