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How often does a catalog overshadow the actual exhibition? In this case, it's a close call which is better. The Paper Sculpture Show, which originated at the Sculpture Center in New York, invites visitors to get invol...
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A survey of paintings by 32-year old artist Laura Owens, organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is currently showing at the Art Museum of Milwaukee about ninety miles north of Chicago. Laura Owe...
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"VAS: An Opera in Flatland" is an experimental novel by author Steve Tomasula and the Chicago-based graphic artist and typographer Stephen Farrell. The story attempts to imagine the future of a family' th...
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Chris Ware is my neighbor. I've never met him, but when I heard that the famous cartoonist recently moved from the city's North side out to our sylvanian, sub-urban borough, I was compelled to no longer put off a thor...
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Garry Winogrand, White Sands National Monument, 1964 © The Estate of Garry Winogrand In 1964, photographer Garry Winogrand documented, with some 185 photographs, a United States at a moment in time. Winogrand's p...
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John Currin's paintings, on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago through August 23rd, present an encyclopedia of formal elements from the stylebooks of Courbet, Manet, Boucher, Tiepolo, El Greco, and Cranac...
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In the 60s and 70s, the movement known as Conceptualism introduced an art which removed as much as possible the intermediary object from its underlying ideas. This art of ideas could appear in written form, diagrams, ...
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It was Francesco Bonami (currently a senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago) who, some ten years ago now, described painting as a nutritional building block for a healthy visual diet. Whether you ...
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Bridge Magazine is an independent journal covering just about everything - literature, visual art, music, even philosopher Charles Taylor's 'the end of mediational epistemology'. Published triannually, the quality of ...
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Founded in 1961 by architect Peter Cook, the experimental British architecture magazine and collective Archigram combined the distinctive visual style of the ‘60s with an interest in imaginative, playful and env...
