The Ed Paschke Art Center
Ten years ago this Thanksgiving, Chicago’s most popular, if not most important painter passed away. This hardly registered a blip on the art world’s radar screen. The biggest reaction this event could generate was a paragraph at best in the important art rags. More…
In an art world that embraced an eccentric woman creating interesting works of art on the street and selling them cheaply to passersby, I always wondered why Chicago gave a cold shoulder to Wesley Willis. Here’s an artist whose mastery of the ballpoint and felt tip pens is peerless. More…
Courtesy of Studio Gang Architects
Now that Expo Chicago has come and gone, I have a few thoughts on this past weekend.
First of all it was really nice to see the latest incarnation of Chicago’s annual art fair back at Navy Pier, where it all started. However I have to admit that I miss the decrepit sheds. More…
New City has published their list of top 50 artists in Chicago. I haven’t read it yet, but as with lists of this type, I’ll probably agree with some of them, disagree with others and feel there are omissions. Rather than argue in the comment section over there, I’ll just post my own list here: More…
There are a few art sites on my regular reading list. The following is a list of those that I visit most often (besides NeotericArt). More…
Once again the Merchandise Mart became Artropolis for the last weekend in April — the collection of Chicago’s annual major art fairs. Although smaller than previous years, they were well-attended and the energy level was high. Unless you were looking for a lot of blue chip work, More…
There’s a lot of advice available to artists on how to have a successful career. At the core of most of this material there are a few things an artist needs to know. More…
Sometime in the late ’80s, Tony Fitzpatrick opened an exhibition space in Villa Park. A year or two later, he moved it to the then desolate South Loop and eventually to the other end of the block on 13th Street and Wabash. More…
