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Review: Spectator Sports/Museum of Contemporary Photography

RECOMMENDED In the world of sports, spectators are fanatics. And fanatics can only grasp the seemingly unexplainable psychical prowess of professional athletes as artful renditions of otherworldly beings. The media, on the other hand, is complicit in the creation of these false idols. Their … Continue reading →
April 23, 2013 Leave a reply

Review: Rising Up: Hale Woodruff’s Murals at Talladega College/Chicago Cultural Center

RECOMMENDED Founded by former slaves in 1867, Talladega College, in Alabama, commissioned six murals for their new library in 1939. Three panels tell the story of Africans aboard the slave ship Amistad, their successful revolt and legal aftermath. The other three panels commemorate the … Continue reading →
April 16, 2013 Leave a reply

Portrait of the Artist: Shawn Decker

The brass rods shudder as the wind sweeps through the prairie. Steel grasshoppers click in the tall grass. A small mole cricket snaps its wings. And rain falls metallic on black soil. In the sound installation “Prairie,” currently on exhibit in the Yates Gallery at the Chicago Cultural … Continue reading →
April 9, 2013 Leave a reply

Review: They Seek a City: Chicago and the Art of Migration, 1910-1950/Art Institute of Chicago

RECOMMENDED The flight from oppression makes such a compelling, if predictable, story; it has been made the primary theme of this exhibition about the art of Chicago’s immigrants in the first half of the twentieth century. Since Jews have been fleeing oppressors ever since the time of … Continue reading →
April 2, 2013 Leave a reply

Review: Herbert Ferber/Valerie Carberry Gallery

You might not guess that Herbert Ferber (1906–1991) was a dentist by looking at his paintings and sculptures, yet it’s not hard to see the impact of one career upon the other. His metal sculptures have twisting sharp edges that slice through space, and his ominous paintings feature large saw … Continue reading →
March 20, 2013 Leave a reply

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