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Galleries & Museums, Art Review, Feb 16, 2012
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Will the 80s ever end?

The MCA's "This Will Have Been" suggests the answer is no
- by Sam Worley
- Tags: Art Review, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Helen Molesworth, Institute of Contemporary Art, AIDS, Ronald Reagan, Diane Arbus, Guggenheim, Nan Goldin, Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Douglas Crimp, Frank Stella, Sherrie Levine, Frazer Ward, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Gran Fury, Guerrilla Girls, The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist, Kissing Doesn’t Kill, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Slideshow

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Galleries & Museums, Art Review, Jan 5, 2012
Lightweight "Light Years"

The Art Institute's conceptual art survey is no more substantial than its subject
- by Bill Stamets
- Tags: Art Review, Art Institute of Chicago, Matthew Witkovsky, conceptual art, anti-art, Henry Flynt, Anne Rorimer, Marcel Duchamp, Bruce Nauman, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Ed Ruscha

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Galleries & Museums, Art Review, Dec 22, 2011
Jake Nickell, the entrepreneur

'I don't have a business degree. I think a lot of the time innovation comes from amateurs.'
- Tags: Art Review, People Issue 2011, Jake Nickell, Threadless, New Media Underground Festival, T-shirts, business management

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Galleries & Museums, Art Review, Aug 18, 2011
The Art Institute's "Windows on the War" looks at the Soviet battle for hearts and minds during World War II

An exhibit of wartime Soviet propaganda posters, at the Art Institute.
- by Bill Stamets
- Tags: Art Review, Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945, Art Institute of Chicago, Viktor Deni, Vladimir Mayakovski, Leonid Pasternak, TASS, Douglas W. Druick, Peter Kort Zegers, Jill Bugajski, Adam Jolles, Konstantin Akinsha, "The Red Army Broom Will Completely Sweep Away the Scum", "The Wonders of Fascist Photography"

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Galleries & Museums, Art Review, Aug 11, 2011
Matt Irie’s deceptive grid paintings, at Ebersmoore
- by Noah Berlatsky
- Tags: Art Review, Ebersmoore, Matt Irie

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Galleries & Museums, Art Review, Mar 31, 2011
Hot Air at Columbia College

In Cape Farewell's Unfold, artists' responses to global warming look an awful lot like the problem.
- by Noah Berlatsky
- Tags: Art Review, Columbia College, Ice Texts, David Buckland, Unfold: A Cultural Response to Climate Change, Museum of Contemporary Art, Robyn Hitchcock, KT Tunstall, Lemm Sissay, global warming, Leslie Feist, Heather Ackroyd, Dan Harvey, Daro Montag

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Galleries & Museums, Art Review, Mar 17, 2011
Hebru Brantley: Straight Out of Neverland

The Afro-Futurist painter talks about Kanye, Common, and living like a shark.
- by Elly Fishman
- Tags: Art Review, Hebru Brantley, Zhou B Art Center, Afro-Futurism, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kanye West, Common, Captain America

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Galleries & Museums, Art Review, Mar 4, 2010
The Disembodied Body

Four collectives reveal a virtual universe of form and movement.
- by Laura Molzahn
- Tags: Art Review, Columbia College, Dance Center of Columbia College, Digital Incarnate: The Body, Identity, and Interactive Media, Alycia Scott, Sara Slawnik, Merce Cunningham, Biped, Koosil-ja, Blocks of Continuality/Body, Image, and Algorithm, Science, Technology, and Dance, Digital Incarnate, Troika Ranch, Liquid Mirror, Mark Coniglio, Doppelganger, Luftwerk, Hedwig, Luftwerk and Hedwig Dances, Liquid Mirror, Ghostcatching, Bill T. Jones, OpenEnded Group, Synchronous Objects, William Forsythe, One Flat Thing, Reproduced, MotionVolumes, Bockenheimer Depot, Columbia College Arcade Gallery

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Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Jul 16, 2009
Michael Kupperman's High Hucksterism

Tales Designed to Thrizzle turns boob-tube tropes into art.
- by Noah Berlatsky
- Tags: Book Review, Michael Kupperman, Tales Designed to Thrizzle, Fantagraphics, comics, Monty Python's Flying Circus

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Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Jun 11, 2009
Antiques Road Show

Young fogey cartoonists Adrian Tomine and Seth discuss their own work and some neglected masters at Quimby's.
- by Ben Schwartz
- Tags: Book Review, Adrian Tomine, Seth, Shortcomings, George Sprott, Quimby's, R.Crumb, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Doug Wright, John Stanley, graphic novel, comics, cartoonist, Quimby's Bookstore

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Galleries & Museums, Art Review, Jun 11, 2009
Neat-o Is Not Enough

Olafur Eliasson's installations are eye-catching but ultimately empty.
- by Laura Molzahn
- Tags: Art Review, Take Your Time, Olafur Eliasson, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Art, museum

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Galleries & Museums, Art Review, Apr 23, 2009
Get Off the Assembly Line

"Pedagogical Factory" ponders more intimate, creative approaches to education.
- by Bert Stabler

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Galleries & Museums, Art Review, Sep 6, 2007
Art
- by Tamara Faulkner and Robert Cass

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Galleries & Museums, Art Review, Jul 26, 2007
Downwardly Mobile

The upper classes take a dive in Jana Gunstheimer's clever disaster scenario.
- by Bert Stabler

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Galleries & Museums, Art Review, Feb 22, 2007
Mix and Match
- by Fred Camper

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Galleries & Museums, Art Review, Feb 15, 2007
Computers and Chaos
- by Fred Camper

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Galleries & Museums, Art Review, Feb 1, 2007
A Political Rebirth
- by Fred Camper

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Galleries & Museums, Art Review, Feb 1, 2007
Art Without Ego
- by Fred Camper

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Galleries & Museums, Art Review, Jan 25, 2007
Reassembled Parts
- by Fred Camper

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Galleries & Museums, Art Review, Jan 25, 2007
Short Takes on Current Shows

All about prison, a collage of cats and babies, and a good 80s-inspired paint slinging
- by Bert Stabler

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The MCA's "This Will Have Been" suggests the answer is no

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'I don't have a business degree. I think a lot of the time innovation comes from amateurs.'

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An exhibit of wartime Soviet propaganda posters, at the Art Institute.

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In Cape Farewell's Unfold, artists' responses to global warming look an awful lot like the problem.

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The Afro-Futurist painter talks about Kanye, Common, and living like a shark.

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Four collectives reveal a virtual universe of form and movement.

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Tales Designed to Thrizzle turns boob-tube tropes into art.

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Young fogey cartoonists Adrian Tomine and Seth discuss their own work and some neglected masters at Quimby's.

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Olafur Eliasson's installations are eye-catching but ultimately empty.

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