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Blogs, Bleader Dec 6, 2017
Shambolic rocker Mac Blackout publishes the art book Madman’s Eye

My friend Mac Blackout has found a way to turn his chaotic and provocative personality into chaotic and provocative art, and he celebrates his first book Friday at Galerie F.
- By Brian Costello
- Tags: Books, Music, Visual Art, Mac Blackout, HoZac Books, Madman's Eye: The Art of Mac Blackout, Madman's Eye, Galerie F, painting, art, graffiti, flyers, posters, exhibition, Functional Blackouts, Mickey, Daily Void

Arts & Culture, Feature Oct 28, 2013
The art of making history

The Nazis' sophisticated propaganda machine, artists' reactions to the 2008 financial crisis: How your political history gets made, then and now.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Feature, Nazi Party, National Socialism, Germany, Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, Field Museum, propaganda, Nazi propaganda, Steven Luckert, United States Holocaust Museum, design, posters, film, radio, broadcasting, Leni Riefenstahl, Julius Streicher, Hans Fritzsche, 2008 financial crisis, Dread Scott, history, Lorelei Stewart, Gregory Sholette, Oliver Ressler, Austrian Cultural Forum, Julia Christensen, Spam Museum, big-box stores, video, Filippo Berta

City Life, Space Aug 16, 2013
Video
Nineteenth-century weirdness meets Hawaiian flair in Ukrainian Village

There's something old and something tropic in Laura Moeller and Todd Hembrook's eclectic apartment.
- By Andrea Bauer
- Tags: Space, history, art books, apartments, globes, Ukrainian Village, Chicago History Museum, Todd Hembrook, Deal's Gone Bad, art conservation, photography conservation, cats, thrift store finds, photo albums, vintage furniture, woodwork, collections, archways, model horses, Aloha shirts, Garrett McNamara, Guiness Book of World Records, surfing, Ouija boards, furniture, decor, circus relics, built-ins, Hawaiian fans, Hawaiian lanterns, hula dancer figurines, souvenirs, posters, Video

Film, Artist on Artist Mar 4, 2013
Artist on Artist: Brendan Canty of Deathfix talks to Jay Ryan of Dianogah

"The best part about doing something you've never done before is not feeling confident, honestly."
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Artist on Artist, Brendan Canty, Rich Morel, Bob Mould, Devin Ocampo, Mark Cisneros, Medications, Bird Machine, screen printing, posters, Whelms, Joe Lally, Steve Albini, Kevin Canty, Schubas, Jay Ryan, Schubas, videos, Burn to Shine, Discovery ChannelChristoph Green, Trixie Film, Garland of Hours, Q and Not U, Fugazi, Dianogah, Bob Weston, Touch and Go, MVD, Black Lips, Deerhunter, Mastodon, Brent Green, The Bitter Tears, Bird Machine, Deathfix, Mike Scalpone, Al Scalpone, Sam Green, Bill Siegel, Mike McGinley, Steve Albini, Joe Lally

Blogs, Bleader Aug 25, 2009
A Post About Posters
- By Miles Raymer
- Tags: Crickets, Music, Chicago Printers Guild, Gigposters, Gigposters.com, Delicious Design League, Jay Ryan, Chicago, posters, visual art, servicey

Blogs, Bleader Oct 2, 2006
Do it yourself

Homemade warning signs and posters, plus young lawyers using their own initiative.
- By Harold Henderson
- Tags: Law, Posters, Demotivational, Interviews, Warning, Generators

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