Home sweet home
Chunks of plaster melt and drip as they climb and curl their way into corners and onto the floor of the gallery
View ArticleThe CAA goes DIY
“I would like to encourage all of you to think about what you can build with others outside of this system ... so that we don’t have to compromise our integrity, beg for crumbs, kiss ass and slide...
View ArticleStudios on Display
The complex and poetic role of the studio in an artist’s life and work is explored in “Production Site: The Artist’s Studio Inside-Out,” which opened February 6 at the Museum of Contemporary Art
View ArticleDemocratic Camera
William Eggleston’s first retrospective in the United States is expansive, filling the Abbott Galleries and Carolyn S. and Matthew Bucksbaum Gallery in the Modern Wing.
View ArticleThe Dye-Transfer Process
The dye transfer process used by William Eggleston to produce prints achieves a richness of colors and control over the image unrivalled by other photographic methods.
View ArticleThe “Institutional Womb”
An interview with 2009 MFA Fellowship recipient Raquel Sarai Mendoza
View ArticleReturn of the Real
This spring, shows at Chicago galleries have been like cries for help, echoing an anxiety that is endemic to this contemporary world of recessions, wars, and catastrophic natural disasters.
View ArticleIntolerance
The problem of political, religious, and cultural intolerance is as bad as ever — if not worse. Jitish Kallat’s “Public Notice 3” debuted on Sept. 11, 2010 at the Art Institute of Chicago.
View ArticleYou are Reading an Article About Art
As the viewer reads this personal and inspiring letter written by a stranger to a stranger, her relationship to the artist and to the anonymous author becomes confused.
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Sex Ed
A giant plush vulva confronts gallery-goers entering “Everybody! Visual Resistance in Feminist Health Movements, 1969-2009” at I Space.
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20
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Betty Rymer Gallery at SAIC. The gallery has a long and varied history, exhibiting close to 120 shows in 20 years.
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