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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Morning Art: Tacita Dean

Posted by Julia Thiel on Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:40 AM

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Section Cinema (Homage to Marcel Broodthaers), by Tacita Dean, part of Production Site: The Artist’s Studio Inside-Out, a group show on display through 5/30 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago, 312-280-2660.

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Monday, February 8, 2010

Morning Art: Anatole Kolomayets

Posted by Julia Thiel on Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:28 AM

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Nerve Center, a painting by Anatole Kolomayets, part of a show of his work on display through 3/28 at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, 2320 W. Chicago, 773-227-5522.

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Friday, February 5, 2010

Today in "Finally"

Posted by Miles Raymer on Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 6:21 PM

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Music freaks have known for years about Mingering Mike, a stranger-than-fiction outsider artist who hand-painted cover art for fictional soul and funk records on cardboard album sleeves with hand-painted cardboard "records" inside. His "catalog" of made-up LPs consisted of "soundtracks to imaginary films, instrumental albums, a benefit album for sickle cell anemia, a tribute to Bruce Lee, a triple-record work titled 'Life in Paris,' songs protesting the Vietnam War and promoting racial unity, and records of Christmas, Easter and American bicentennial music," according to a New York Times piece on his discovery by crate diggers.

That article ran in early 2004. And only today did I get a press release saying that a band had finally hired Mingering Mike to produce art for one of its records. How did that not happen sooner? Seriously, everybody, the next time someone discovers an absolutely brilliant artist making obsessive, mind-blowing fake LPs, let's try to get a record cover out of him in less than six years.

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Morning Art: Roksolana Tymiak-Lonchyna

Posted by Julia Thiel on Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 8:31 AM

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A photo by Roksolana Tymiak-Lonchyna, part of To Ukraine With Love, a show of her work opening Sat 2/6, 7 PM, at the Ukrainian National Museum, 2249 W. Superior, 312-421-8020.

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Thursday, February 4, 2010

Morning Art: Brian Mock

Posted by Julia Thiel on Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:05 AM

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Dead Head, a sculpture by Brian Mock, part of Metal v. Wood, a show with Matthew Hoffman opening Fri 2/5, 7-9 PM, at 360See Gallery, 1924 N. Damen, 773-698-6340.

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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Broadway at Last

Posted by Albert Williams on Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:58 AM

Former Chicago playwright John Logan will have his first play on Broadway this spring, when Red opens at the Golden Theatre on April 1, according to a report in Playbill.com. The play, currently running at London's Donmar Warehouse, stars Alfred Molina as abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko. Previews begin March 11.

Logan, a Northwestern University alum, began his playwriting career in Chicago in the mid-1980s, when the now-defunct Stormfield Theatre presented Never the Sinner, his drama about the Leopold-Loeb murder case. (It was revived last summer by Project 891 Theatre Company.)

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Morning Art: Nazafarin Lotfi and Shirin Mozaffari

Posted by Julia Thiel on Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:01 AM

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Untitled work by Nazafarin Lotfi and Shirin Mozaffari, part of Cut In Cut Out, a show of their collaborative work opening Thu 2/4 at the School of the Art Institute LG Space, 37 S. Wabash, 312-899-5131.

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Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Morning Art: Cheri Charlton

Posted by Julia Thiel on Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:30 AM

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An untitled painting by Cheri Charlton, part of a show of her work on display through 2/28 at Dovetail Chicago, 1452 W. Chicago, 312-243-3100.

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Monday, February 1, 2010

You Shoot: Fire at Costa's

Posted by Whet Moser on Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:16 PM

photoalvin has some remarkable captures of the scene at Halsted and Van Buren. I'm particularly saddened by this, as my rehearsal dinner was there not very long ago.

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Morning Art: Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba

Posted by Julia Thiel on Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:25 AM

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Breathing is Free: 12,756.3, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, a photo from Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba's ongoing project, on display through 3/26 at the School of the Art Institute's Betty Rymer Gallery, 280 S. Columbus, 312-443-3703.

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