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Visual Art Mart kills Art Chicago

Posted by Deanna Isaacs on Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:03 PM

Is there a white flag waving over the Merchandise Mart? Yesterday the Mart abruptly and briefly posted an announcement that Art Chicago (or Next Art Chicago, as they were calling it), scheduled for April 27-29, has been canceled, forever.

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Flotsam and Jetsam / Lit & Lectures / Visual Art Saturday is Fluxus Day!

Posted by Sam Worley on Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:13 PM

Patrick Hoesly

What’s happening this weekend, and it may not be anything at all, is happening at the Chicago Cultural Center, which hosts a day of happenings inspired by Fluxus, the 1960s anti-art movement famous for its bizarre, anarchic “happenings.” George Maciunas coined the term, which is related to the Latin word for “to flow,” in 1961. In a review in the Reader in 1993, Fred Camper noted that Fluxus artists “worked in a wider variety of media than any other ‘movement’ I know of,” and to the extent that people still follow the movement, that’s true—in 2010 the Experimental Sound Studio hosted a Fluxus-inspired musical bike ride. In conjunction with its show "Write Now: Artists and Letterforms," that bastion of avante-gardism the Cultural Center presents Fluxus Day on Fri 2/11 from 11 AM to 5 PM. Some highlights lie beyond the jump.

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Visual Art Luftwerk has a date with the Bean

Posted by Deanna Isaacs on Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:24 PM

The last time I got to see Luftwerk's magic, it was the zippy video "score" they'd created for an equally zippy piece of contemporary music—"Shunt," by local composer Mischa Zupko. But another opportunity's coming up: on February 10, the Chicago-based multimedia team, consisting of SAIC graduates Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero, will switch on a site-specific light-and-sound installation at Cloud Gate in Millennium Park. "Luminous Field" will be on view from 6 PM to 9 PM, Sunday through Thursday; and 6 PM to 10 PM Friday and Saturday, through February 20. Check out what they did at Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater if you want to know why you should stroll by.

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