RECOMMENDED What are different ways in which one can listen? What is the relationship that develops between people and the subject they study? What meaning do different viewers give to the objects of their attention? “Looking and Listening in Nineteenth-Century France” causes visitors to consider such questions as they peruse the artwork. This small show presents the research efforts of a class of University of Chicago students and offers a wide variety of pieces from oil paintings to lithographs. While the quantity may be minor, the names are not—Degas, Pissarro, Vuillard, Daumier all have works featured in the exhibit. Each piece is accompanied by a great explanation, detailing not only the time period in which it was created but also relevant history regarding the subject matter. Additionally, there are three music stations, where visitors can listen to a selection of the music connected to the subject of the artwork. The pieces together create a statement about the ways that people respond to art, whether it is interest, fear or even boredom, in the context of nineteenth-century France. (Christa Reynolds) Through March 23 at Smart Museum, 5550 South Greenwood
For Us: A Review of "Something from Something" at Engage Projects Kushala Vora and Adia Sykes’ collaboration "Something from Something" tells us as viewers that knowledge, art, creation, inspiration, love—really anything you can think of—has a place of origin.
Women Behind the Lens: A Review of "From Her to Eternity" Courtney Love curates on the street. Just west of Wabash on the corner of Eighth Street, there is a wall of stellar rock star images that includes a special collection made by women photographers over the years.
Microcosm: A Review of “Dialogues” at Patron Through each artist-relationship, "Dialogues" offers the viewer a rare opportunity to witness the direct connections that flow through the electric nervous system that both infiltrates and generates Chicago's art world.
Looking Down: A Review of Bob Tanner at Perspective After the loss of his wife, Bob Tanner made two photography series, “At Ocean’s Edge” and “At Winter’s Edge,” that are shown in this meditative show filled with graceful visual poetry.
Other Forces: A Review of Maw at Apparatus Projects Ailes and Lopez’s installations, images and sculptures function as a cosmos of life—worlds where the viewer is placed in a disordered exercise of cognitive sense-making between rather than sense-making of.
