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, Jun 21, 2012
"Kink," regular and super
Two artists interpret sexual idiosyncasy at Design Cloud Gallery
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"The Sound, the Soul, the Syncopation" considers public housing as artistic training ground
A National Public Housing Museum exhibit about the stars who came out of places like Cabrini-Green
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Getting Into Face
. . . after face after face
A new book and exhibit show JoJo Baby and Sal-E playing advanced dress-up
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Wounded in Action
features art by soldiers, doctors, and family members who know war injuries far too well.
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A beautiful underbelly
"Turnin' the Tip" plays with the carny aesthetic
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A duality so big they had to put it in two galleries
LUMA and Intuit's "Heaven + Hell"
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A waste of life
Environmental and urban violence equate in
Red, Black, and Green: a Blues
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Allen Ruppersberg's back pages
"No Time Left to Start Again" gives a chaotic history of rock 'n'roll
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Amanda Greive and Erik Peterson meet in "The Middle"
Two artists, solo and together, at Chicago Artists' Coalition
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Artists overwrite the self in 'Program/Suffer/Abstain/Deprogram'
A group show with a Stoic heart
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Beaver anal sacs and you
Rebecca Beachy's 'Ground' explores the connection
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Border town
Photographer Yto Barrada's one-woman show documents uneasy Tangier
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Charles James's gowns, inside and out
The Chicago History Museum exhibits work by America's first high-fashion designer
by Sam Worley
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Children under glass: Caleb Weintraub's insular, precarious worlds
Don't take the kids to "Snowglobe, a Plastic Dream in a Clear and Present Danger"—they're already in it
by Sam Worley
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China present and China past in "China Revisited"
Current Chinese photographers and painters at Schneider Gallery
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Chunks of dismembered wife found in whale
Amber Hawk Swanson recycles her art-project spouse in "All That Is Left of You / Everything You Are Now"
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, Dec 29, 2011
Color, coded
In "Tell Tale Signs," Chicago painter Art Green uses images that not even he always knows how to parse
by Sam Worley
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Cut, Bit, and Curious: an intimate collage show at Spudnik Press
by Lauri Apple
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Documenting Pizza Huts and cerebral palsy
'Stranger Than Family' offers a case study in, well, the strangeness of family
by Sam Worley
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, Mar 27, 2012
Doing the cha-cha in Bamako
Malick Sidibé pictures Mali’s pop culture revolution
by Sam Worley
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