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A View from the Easel
CHICAGO — The 36th installment of a series in which artists send in a photo and a description of their workspace. Want to take part? Submit your studio — just check out the submission guidelines.
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A View from the Easel
CHICAGO — The 35th installment of a series in which artists send in a photo and a description of their workspace. This week, studios in Spain, Norway, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Vermont.
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Magical Realism
CHICAGO — Tricksters is a show of work by Columbia College Chicago photography students, but if you walked in off the street you would never guess that the work was produced by people who were still undergraduates.
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Online Resource for Chicago Artists Gets a Facelift
CHICAGO — If you’re an artist in New York City, you’re probably aware of not-for-profit or publicly-funded resources for artists, such as the New York Foundation for the Arts or the New York Art Resources Consortium, and several others that provide online information for artists about job and exhibi
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Picasso and Chicago
CHICAGO — Sometimes it almost seems that at any time of the year, at some place in the world, there is a show of Picasso’s work on display somewhere.
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A View from the Easel
CHICAGO — The 34th installment of a series in which artists send in a photo and a description of their workspace.
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A View from the Easel
CHICAGO — The 33rd installment of a series in which artists send in a photo and a description of their workspace.
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A View from the Easel
CHICAGO — In the 32nd installment of the series, artist studios in Delaware, Illlinois, Michigan, and Tennessee.
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Weaving History and Politics Together
CHICAGO — There are some situations in life where bigger really is better (readers can fill in the blank on their own), but art isn’t necessarily one of them. Much as I love German uber-expressionist Anselm Kiefer’s “Nigredo,” or the playful idiocy of Jeff Koons’ giant puppy, I wonder whether the ef
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A View from the Easel
CHICAGO — Back by popular demand … the 31st installment of a series [http://hyperallergic.com/tag/a-view-from-the-easel/] in which artists send in a photo and a description of their workspace. Want to take part? Submit your studio, just check out the submission guidelines [http://hyperallergic.com/4
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A Garden of Gay Male Desire (NSFW)
CHICAGO — Dutes Miller’s show at Western Exhibitions, one of Chicago’s premier avant-garde galleries, is called In the Garden. The main theme of the collages, paintings, and sculptures is an exploration of the male body as it manifests itself in gay desire, in its evident state of arousal, its protu
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Goodwill Hunting
CHICAGO — Have you ever wandered into a Goodwill store, browsed through the clothing (only slightly soiled), moved onto the box with the framed velvet pictures of Elvis, and picked out a print that cost you twelve dollars but turned out to be worth nine thousand? Me neither. But this is exactly what