CHICAGO — The Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago, which opened in 2009, has reinstated its contemporary collection after giving over most of the space in 2015 to a much-lauded retrospective of the American sculptor Charles Ray.
Philip A Hartigan
Philip Hartigan is a UK-born artist and writer who now lives, works and teaches in Chicago. He also writes occasionally for Time Out-Chicago. Personal narratives (his own, other peoples', and invented) are the focus of his studio work, and of several public art projects undertaken in recent years.
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Artist studios in California, Michigan, New York, Rhode Island, and the US Virgin islands.
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A Tenderhearted and Satirical Journey into Online Fetish Culture
In Both Sides of the Mirror, a show of video pieces and photographs at C33 Gallery, Marlo Koch presents the results of exposing herself to the world of mainly-male desire in ways that are amused, satirical, and ultimately tenderhearted.
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The Female Body Concealed and Revealed with Minimal Marks
CHICAGO — In a show of works on paper at a new Chicago artist-run space, Cultivator, painter Anne Harris depicts the female body in a way that brings to mind writer Christine Alic’s phrase “the contested landscape of the female gaze.”
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Artist studios in Illinois, New York, Ontario, Tennessee, and Israel.
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Artist studios in Florida, Missouri, New York, Texas, and Australia.
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Seeing the Art for the Trees
CHICAGO — In the entire history of art, how many works depict a tree as their main subject?
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Artist studios in California, Indiana, Michigan, Washington, and the UK.
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Artist studios in Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, and Ohio.
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Fabrics Stained with Colonial Blues
CHICAGO — It is the duality of indigo’s beauty and its intimate connection with human degradation that artist Jovencio de la Paz explores in his current exhibition of batik works.
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Two Chicago Writers Respond to the Art of Archibald Motley
CHICAGO — An event at the Chicago Cultural Center brought together two strands of African-American culture in Chicago: the wide-ranging exhibition of paintings by Archibald Motley, and an hour of readings by two African-American Chicago writers, Latoyah Wolfe and Eric May.
