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When Comics Abandon Narrative and Venture into Abstraction
An exhibition at Printed Matter features 15 artists whose serial comics play with the conventions of narrative.
Edie Fake
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At the LA Art Book Fair, a Missed Opportunity to Address Race
LOS ANGELES — In the days leading up to the LA Art Book Fair (LAABF), and during Thursday's preview, members of the LA arts community criticized the organizers for their use of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) meme.
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A Bookmobile Becomes a Book
Remember the thrill of finding the library bookmobile as a kid? I do.
Art
10 Chicago Art Exhibitions to See This Winter
CHICAGO — There will be hundreds of exhibitions between now and the end of March, when the weather starts to warm up around these Middle West parts. Here's 10.
Art
Homage to a City's Queer History
CHICAGO — Edie Fake is a radical punk queer feminist activist. He is currently "at large" in Chicago. Before that, he was driving around the country in a yellow school bus doing the gay performance "Fingers." At the opening of his solo exhibition Memory Palaces at Thomas Robertello, he told me that