Visual Art
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Arts Visual Art Politics Steve Musgrave's portrait of Obama and friends
Posted by Deanna Isaacs on 01.16.13 at 09:23 AM
- Steve Musgrave
And here is the key to the crowd of friends and influencers behind him:
Gig Posters Arts Music Visual Art Gig poster of the week
Posted by Luca Cimarusti on 01.16.13 at 07:32 AM
SHOW: Neurosis, Bloodiest, and the Atlas Moth at Metro on 12/30
MORE INFO: shawnkknight.com
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Arts Music Visual Art Hardcore band Single Mothers sell their life on the road
Posted by Leor Galil on 01.15.13 at 05:06 PM
- Leor Galil
- Single Mothers' tour camera
It's also easy for a band to catch peoples' eyes with a unique piece of merchandise, which is just what Canadian hardcore act and recent Hot Charity signees Single Mothers did Saturday night. I caught the group when they opened for beloved melodic-hardcore band Quicksand at the Metro on Saturday, and they were selling one particular item that piqued my interest: a used Kodak disposable point-and-shoot camera. Single Mothers' tour manager Dylan Smith told me the guys decided to buy a bunch of these cameras and take them on their tour with Quicksand, using each one to document a 24-hour period of the trek and then sell it to whomever was interested. I quickly threw down five dollars for the camera, which captured their experiences in Detroit and Chicago, and got Smith's e-mail address to pass along the photos once I got them processed—he told me he had no idea what would come of any of the cameras, and I was more than happy to share the pictures and get the anecdotes behind all of them.
Arts Visual Art Artist Joel Fisher chooses to see the bright side
Posted by Sarah Nardi on 01.15.13 at 03:34 PM
- Joel Fisher
- "Together We're Fucked"
Take the statement "Together we're fucked." Place the emphasis where it feels natural, on the final word, and you have a fairly typical expression of modern malaise. Now shift the emphasis to the first word and you have a declaration of solidarity. Which feels more like an application of human will and which like a surrender in the face of fate?
Friday, January 11, 2013
Arts Architecture News Visual Art Judge: One month for another try at saving Goldberg's Prentice Hospital
Posted by Deanna Isaacs on 01.11.13 at 04:27 PM
If they don't, their case will be dismissed and Northwestern University will be free to take the unique building down in order to build a medical research center on its site.
Judge Cohen also threw coplaintiff Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois off the case.
Details to come . . .
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Gig Posters Arts Music Visual Art Gig poster of the week
Posted by Luca Cimarusti on 01.09.13 at 07:30 AM
ARTIST: Scott Williams
SHOW: Chairman Mao and the Soul Summit DJs at Double Door on 1/19
MORE INFO: scottwilliamsdesign.com
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Arts Visual Art Ragnar Kjartansson—and you thought Bjork was weird
Posted by Sarah Nardi on 01.08.13 at 12:36 PM
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Gig Posters Arts Music Visual Art Gig poster of the week
Posted by Luca Cimarusti on 01.02.13 at 07:35 AM
SHOW: The Faint, Trust, Icky Blossoms, and Dark Wave Disco DJs at Metro on 12/12
MORE INFO: glassybreaks.com
Monday, December 31, 2012
Arts Year in Review News Visual Art 2012 was the year of the Cultural Plan—remember that?
Posted by Deanna Isaacs on 12.31.12 at 09:00 AM
All year long there were proclamations, slogans, logos, buttons, banners, brochures, and programmed talk, talk, talk at expansive town-hall meetings and cozy neighborhood "cultural conversations."
The head of the National Endowment for the Arts even came to town to tell us how visionary and wonderful it was going to be.
And all that time, it was huffed and puffed and stuffed with so much hot air about strategies and stakeholders and innovations and priorities and recommendations and global aspirations and hundreds of initiatives until, like a great big stretched balloon, on the morning of October 15, at an elementary school in Pilsen, when it was finally done, in front of the Mayor and a teeny-tiny, invited audience, it—POPPED AND DISAPPEARED!
So far as I know, it hasn't been seen since.
But the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events says there will be an announcement about implementation in late January.
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Gig Posters Arts Music Visual Art Gig poster of the week
Posted by Luca Cimarusti on 12.26.12 at 07:33 AM
SHOW: Eternals Espiritu Zombi Group and Chandeliers at Hideout on 12/31
MORE INFO: sonnenzimmer.com
