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Critic's Choice It’s anyone’s guess what exploring “the domestic traumas of tradition in regression” might mean, though I imagine some kind of cannibalistic Thanksgiving. But the press-release anthropologyspeak might be appropriate for “John DiCosmo and the Faces of Dinner,” the quirky mixed-media drawings and collages of New Jersey-based artist DiCosmo and his edible meat-free re-creations of them, which viewers are invited to share. DiCosmo and show organizer J. Patrick Walsh III will perform “psychic ballads” (with occasional guest artist Jory Replay) at the opening Friday and at selected times Saturday and Sunday. The space, Old Gold, is a lovely new apartment gallery—the wood-paneled basement of Kathryn Scanlan and Caleb Lyons, complete with built-in bar and ancient graffiti—that deserves a visit. Like ArtLedge, the tiny space with which Scanlan and Lyons were previously associated, the unmodified Old Gold bears no resemblance to the usual white cube. Maybe I just have a soft spot for art designed to go in a bathroom or closet or on a dresser, but this interactive show—which recalls the food-related performances of Meret Oppenheim, Joseph Beuys, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Karen Finley—fits right in with the rec-room ambience. Opens Fri 6/15, 6-9 PM. Sat-Sun 6/16-6/17, noon-5 PM, Old Gold, 2022 N. Humboldt, basement, 773-653-9956. —Bert Stabler

Hans and Anton Le Mair, Highland Lakes, NJ, photo by Hrvoje Slovenc (note the Beanie Baby on the chair back), part of “Relative Closeness,” a group show featuring photos of family and friends, with a tour of the show guided by curator Karen Irvine, Wed 6/20, noon, at the Museum of Contemporary Photography | Columbia College, 600 S. Michigan | 312-663-5554

2 Minutes Over Upper Black Eddy, PA, oil on canvas by William Staples, at 65Grand | 1378 W. Grand | 312-719-4325

Magic Hedge 1.3 (October 10, 2006, 7:02pm), 57-inch-long digital print by Michael McGuire, whose work, along with that of Michelle Peterson-Albandoz, shows at Las Manos | 5220 N. Clark | 773-728-8910

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