Chicago Art Experience

“Destroy the Picture” exhibit turns Chicago gallery into a war zone

Cooper Education Company — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:52:02 +0000

CHICAGO — Social history paints the 1950s as a time of comforting and stultifying convention. Men exchanged their military uniforms for gray flannel suits, women moved from the factory to the kitchen, and the consumer jets were on high speed in pursuit of the American Dream.

Where To See the Freshest New Art in Chicago This Spring

Cooper Education Company — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:20:44 +0000

Art school is like an experimental science lab. Spring is MFA exhibition season in Chicago, and a chance to see some of the freshest, most inquisitive art in the city. Some of it is probably still wet.

The best times to go are the opening receptions, where you can meet the excitable, newly liberated artists. (Just don’t mention the mountain of tuition debt they’ll soon be facing.) Here are a few strong picks for this spring:

Source: http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/C-Notes/April-2013/Where-to-see-the-newest-art-in-Chicago/

University Of Chicago Washington Park Arts Incubator Opens

Cooper Education Company — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 23:11:55 +0000

WASHINGTON PARK — The University of Chicago celebrated the opening of its new Arts Incubator Friday morning in Washington Park, giving new life to a neglected building and new hope that Washington Park will help fulfill the potential of young people interested in art.

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/09/university-of-chicago-was_n_2843965.html

Should Your Art Be Insured?

Cooper Education Company — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:39:31 +0000

Straus pointed out that underinsurance was also a big problem, because plenty of people amass pretty large collections of art, antiques, jewelry or other collectibles, but relatively few have a firm grasp of what those collections are actually worth. Because people build collections out of love, she said, they often do not consider them with the same financial rigor that they would apply to other assets, and often just insure items for the price they paid for them.

Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kathryntully/2012/10/31/should-your-art-be-insured/

Violence, Chicago and its storytellers

Cooper Education Company — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 19:49:36 +0000

A decade or so ago, executive and philanthropist John H. Bryan Jr., the former CEO of Sara Lee Corp., raised a broad swath of the roughly $475 million needed for Millennium Park, the biggest and most successful cultural project in Chicago since the Columbian Exposition. He did so by putting together a coalition of donors, many of whom lived and worked in the suburbs.

Source: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-02-25/entertainment/ct-ae-0224-jones-20130222_1_gun-violence-millennium-park-chicago-problem#sthash.HgZgwHRj.dpuf

A Michigan Avenue Institution

Cooper Education Company — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 19:27:31 +0000

By JOEL HENNING

‘I can remember the first time that a work of art knocked my socks off. It was Van Gogh’s ‘Peach Trees in Blossom,’” recalled Douglas Druick, the wiry, diminutive president and director of the Art Institute of Chicago. The 67-year-old, now in his second year on the job, was promoted from within after 26 years in the Art Institute’s curatorial ranks, most recently as chairman of both the department of prints and drawings and the department of medieval to modern European painting and sculpture. We are talking in his office hard by one of his old haunts—the department of prints and drawings.

Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324445904578284371035194786.html?mod=rss_Arts_and_Entertainment

Can Chicago Become America’s Next Great City for Artists?

Cooper Education Company — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 19:13:25 +0000

Chicago is losing its artists, to New York City and Los Angeles and San Francisco. This is admitted, from various members–with varying statures–of the art community, either begrudgingly or with ease, but in the end, is always admitted.

“It’s difficult for me to generalize this, because people move for different reasons,” explains Jason Foumberg, contributing art editor at Newcity (where I’ve freelanced in the past) andChicago magazine’s art critic. “The art market here is smaller, so people tend to follow the money if they want to have an art career.”

Source: http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2013/02/can-chicago-become-americas-next-great-city-artists/4711/

Ruin Porn or Realism? Why Chicago’s Artists Are Obsessed with Detroit

Cooper Education Company — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 02:44:30 +0000

In the last half-decade, no less than five “exchange exhibitions,” several fact-finding missions and study trips, and a graduate seminar that positioned the entire city of “Detroit as material,” have contributed to a mushrooming local interest—let’s call it our Motor City crush—among artists, curators, and arts educators.

But why has Detroit, a city 300 miles east and better known as a modern wasteland—burned-out, crime-ridden, and dilapidated—stirred the minds of Chicago’s artists? The aftermath of Detroit’s severe economic depression turned out ripe materials for the artistic imagination: cheap, gigantic spaces; detritus loaded with readymade values; neighborhoods begging for transformation. In many ways Detroit has offered not a blank slate but a case study in experimental urban rejuvenation, calling adventurists and venture capitalists alike.

Source: http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/C-Notes/January-2013/Ruin-Porn-or-Realism-Why-Chicagos-Artists-Are-Obsessed-with-Detroit/

David Lee Csicsko White House Holiday Display Decks The Obama’s Halls With Chicago Style

Cooper Education Company — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 02:22:02 +0000

There’s an extra Chicago touch in the White House this holiday season, but it’s not from Obama. David Lee Csicsko was among several local artists and designers who helped created this year’s White House Christmas theme, “Joy to All.”

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/30/david-lee-csicsko-white-h_n_2220036.html

Fifty years of art in Chicago

Cooper Education Company — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 02:11:48 +0000

Art in Chicago 1945-1995 is 312 pages, and it depicts 50 years of Chicago art. This hardcover book consists of text and photos. Lynne Warren organized this book.

Source: http://www.examiner.com/review/fifty-years-of-art-chicago?cid=rss