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Please visit our new blog on art, culture, and fashion at http:www.blog.fluxcollection.com.And our new store at www.fluxcollection.com

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When was the last time you participated in art? I ate a piece of bittersweet hard-candy from the some 170 pounds of piled candy in the corner of gallery space in the contemporary art section of the new Modern Wing. I say bittersweet because the piece of candy was part of the work "Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.), 1991 made up of multicolored candies, individually wrapped in cellophane

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Everyday 300 million plastic shopping bags are thrown away. It takes 700-1000 years for a single shopping bag to break down into toxic bits. What can be done to replace the wasteful cancerous plastic bags? Now what? Now Art! Samuel Beckett is one of the most influential artist of our time (an one of the most important artist of the past century)Becketts work was in essence about cutting out all

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It’s here! The VERY FIRST magically-delicious volume of: Who Lied to YOU? Now, let me include a short disclaimer for any possibly unhappy ‘victims’:It is not my intention to hurt anyone’s inner-most, deeply guarded feelings, or downright insult any individual—I am simply here to lightheartedly comment on some down-right-WRONG fashion choices. As we know, there are times when we turn to the

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GIVENCHY? Riccardo Tisci, Creative Director of design for Givenchy, presents a sharp, sexy collection, touching softly on the Goth trend, offering a powerful array of dusky looks perfectly balanced aside creamy palettes and girly ruffles.The Givenchy woman loves a tailored fit, carries herself with confidence and she’s always damn sexy--even if covered from neck to shoe. -OR- CHLOE?

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A Porcelain Perspective:Please have a seat.Now read on.The rumors are true. The gossip is confirmed. Alexander McQueen will be collaborating with super-smart Target Stores to design a version of his collection McQ entitled: McQ Alexander McQueen for Target. Believe it, because I said it. (Oh and also WWD, aka: the Fashion Bible.)The new endeavor for Target, called Designer Collaborations,

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Last night I went to grant park in Chicago determined to get into the Obama Rally-- I could not as hard as I tried get a ticket. Tens of thousands of people came from all over the city-- familiar faces and beautiful strangers.I made it past the first check point by begging one of the guards, made it through the second check point by borrowing someone ticket, I made it through the third check

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Recently, I was sent an email from the ever-exploring Justin Polera concerning a subject matter that, at the time I found quite repulsive. After some friends and I had a gasp at the visuals included in the article, I thought it only right to let this concept sink in a bit deeper before deciding to erupt with opinion.I glanced back at the subject line to discover that Justin had named this email ‘

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My favorites last night include two men dressed as Obama's Aunties from Africa decked out in huge Afro's and Dashekee's. The best costume of the night was Palin with a deer hear and shot-gun rifle. A runner up was artist Ben Fain's incredible float with an old man in his bed scared by 100's of rats. Stunning!Oh yeah and a black man dressed at Aunt Jamima--

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It is clear that Mishara Canino and Bill Hussung set out to make a fair-minded account of the ex-gay movement, partly because we hear a voice assert this to subjects as they become qualmy or defensive under inquiry. But one has to wonder whether this is entirely possible or desirable with this set of pernicious kooks who profit from the societally-inflicted self-loathing of their “patients”.

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With The Glow of White Women Yunus Valley forcefully and riotously reverses the colonial gaze to comedically consider the erotic imagery and actual white women who have comprised his masturbatory fantasies and his libidinous relationships. Valley, a mixed race Indian/Black artist from South Africa, is an incendiary, unabashed director-subject who races through a confrontation of the sexual racism

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Yoga teaches that learning is a lifelong process. Doing the sameposes week in and week out, you learn them ever more deeply. There'salways more to learn, more to let go of, more to be aware of. At thesame time, as in any long process of work, it sometimes becomesroutine. I've gone through the ashtanga sequence a countless numberof times. I have to remind myself that each practice is a

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The Hypocrites' recently reprised their production of Thorton Wilder's"Our Town" at the Chopin Theater, which first ran last spring to ravereviews. Performances were once again sold out, and I hope theyremount again in the future. I haven't seen the play in years, thoughI'll never forget how it hit me in the gut the first time I saw it."Our Town" is often criticized as sentimental in its

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Watch from around minute 53 to minute 57:http://tinyurl.com/5d7mka

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Esteban is our new correspondent to hipness in all ways. Look forward to his videocasts and post comming soon. in the meantime, here are some killer previews of the man at work.While he wasn't looking!

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I've had a soft spot for Ping Pong ever since I came to Chicago,because it was one of the first restaurants I tried. At a time when Iwas still adjusting to big changes in my life, it was an island ofstability where I'd go with my friend Justin. Back then it was astart-up with four tables, the same white walls and small whitetables, mismatched plates and silverware, and awkward waitstaff

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Jenny Holzer is one the hottest artist today, she crosses the barriers of art, advertising and the everyday. She is an art superstar who anyone can talk with or appraoch. She is actively on mayspace and facebook and twitter-- so friend her and became an artist citizen. Holzer's work has paired playful and cunning language with a mindful placement of text which inescapably draw your attention

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Eco-friendly and green things are all the rage as of late. Since art does not exist in a vacuum, it should be no surprise that the green trend is also reflected in the art world. In Gallery 400 There recently opened an exhibition “Biological Agents” Artists Brandon Ballengee, Caitlin Berrigan, and Natalie Jeremijenko collaborated making geodesic viruses and biologically hazardous confections as

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Take a moment to answer these 10 quick questions :)Click Here to take survey

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Is it going to fail?Well, it might. The basic idea is that we can buy up all the bad mortgage debt and banks will lend again. It's the equivelant of killing the boogey-man that keeps rich Americans from sending money to Bank of America: boogey man might take away all of our money!Then add in $200 billion directly to the banks by buying stocks, which creates $2 trillion in new lending because

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Get Palinized.

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Joe the Plumber might be an artist at work too. Regardless, at least he is rich.

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On a recent blog post the photographer Zoe Strauss wrote an homage to William Eggleston one of her inspirations. She has created many photo in his honor and created creative copies of his work. Not least of all the beautiful photo she took of a red motel ceiling. Zoe Strauss writes:I don't work in a vacuum, no artist does, and I look to always pay homage to works that have had a significant

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The new exhibition “SERGIO VIEIRA DE MELLO: RALLY PARIS-DARFUR” by New Catalogue is a celebration and attack on free market capitalism. By turning the art gallery into a showroom for an brand new motorcycle we are at once taken by our desire for the beautiful object and also repelled. The team imagines a rally from Paris to Darfur a new take on the Paris to Dakar Rally.Through viewing the new

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Last night Roots and Culture hosted and incredible evening of Pizza Dog.

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Art is more than just a bunch of pretty pictures, paintings, sculptures or videos. Art is another language which dwells beyond words and still within. Art is another way of knowing. Art is conveying experiences particular to any given person/artist. Art is a dialogue of ideas and concepts which have been around, and inserting a new point of view into the discussion, or reinforcing an old point of

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I could not help but jump out of my seat and join everyone last night in a standing ovation for Caroline, or Change. There was a cascade of applause that moved through the audience with the lasting impact of Caroline’s last song. The musical is fantastic, one that is centered on loving and forgiving—two of life’s most important principles. The story begins with an older Black maid named Caroline

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Staring Dasha Polyakova and Jess Wood. Jess is a personal trainer and skin expert at a spa in Chicago. Dasha is a dancer and a sexual and relationship expert. Every-week they are tag teaming to bring you the best in skincare, makeup, fitness, food, health and sexual well being advice.Please send Dasha and Jess your health-care and wellness questions.Dr. Daniel S. Berger who is a primary care

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Fashion Editor Obsession: Volume 1Be still my freaking heart. This collection makes me want to cry…in a really-good way. D&G has managed to design a collection that would make me want to wake up every morning, just to get dressed. Can you say bow-tie? As my future boss Rachel Zoe would say, “I DIE--Brad, do you die?” And we all know his answer. Check it out. It’s Bananas…-Ryan Beshel

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"MY OWN PLAN FOR THE COMING FOURTEEN MONTHS IS TO KNOCK ON DOORS ANDSTUFF ENVELOPES. MAYBE EVEN TO WEAR A BUTTON. TO TRY TO ACCRETE WITHOTHERS INTO A DEMOGRAPHICALLY SIGNIFICANT MASS. TO TRY EXTRA HARD TOEXERCISE PATIENCE, POLITENESS, AND IMAGINATION ON THOSE WITH WHOM IDISAGREE. ALSO TO FLOSS MORE."

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Scott TreleavenPansy DivisionStephen LapthisophonJason LazarusFringe of the FringeOutcasts to the outcastLi WeiHaunting memoriesGhosts of social justice (or lack thereof)"Ghostly Matters" by Avery GordonWatchout! There's GhostsPurple Hearts-- Edgar Gonzalez-BaezaIn welcoming our new editor of Art , Mr. Edgar Gonzalez-Baeza I am posting an incredible video from one of our favorite artists Latham

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Check out the new season at the Joffrey under new artistic direction of Ashley Wheater.The evening program is Postcards, In The Night and the premiere of the Age of Innocence.A nod to the late great Robert Joffrey and Gerald Alpino who is stepping down (sadly) from artistic director.Choreography by Robert JoffreyMusic by Erik SatiePostcards will be presented in honor of our co-founder, Robert

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Our co-CEO Gonia is currently multitasking at least 4 tasks. I asked her for a shortlist of what is on her mind at this moment: JavaScript - struggling with a codetheory of music - building intervals and chords (my project - apply tango music to Nosferatu movie)Spanish languageslam poetrymicro and macro economicssalsa (and dance in general, very recently African dance)photography (have you seen

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Check out the lecture series on the credit crunch coming up:With the Dow Jones plummeting to a new low for the first time since 2004, the Wall Street Crisis has entered a new phase, sending shockwaves across world markets with panic selling, credit tightening, and growing fear of a global recession. In the words of the European Commission President José Manuel Barroso “no country is immune from

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than to vote ( for obama). The debates tonight promise too bring us more McCain uptight and suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. I am not a Dr. but when McCain said "My fellow Prisoners" it seemed pretty clear to me that he needs therapy and hasn't faced all his demons.Notice how McCains points to Obama and says ( with his stubby hands shoulder shrug) "uhh...that guy". McCain is still

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Over my captain crunch cereal this morning I couldn't help but thinking. Is the world ending? And than I went a head and had my normal cereal and soda.But, what is happening in this economic downturn? How did we get here? I asked our resident expert and economist and blogger Robert Olson to give it to us in the easiest to swallow terms.He choose to make the meltdown simple through this dialog:

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El Greco:Assumption of the VirginKandinsky:Painting with a Green CenterDeKooning:ExcavationMitchellCity LandscapeMi Tradi ariaBackwoods BarbieSugar in My BowlIn the DarkDomino DancingFinal TrioHumming electronicsprocrastination "napping"

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evolution pizza your shoes betterment invisibility exposure saying less doing more style pain all the details knowing searching awareness finding it when now

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Our Kingdom When things seem unbareable I remember this--"Do the Dance"--life is not a battle.In the poem by Mark Doty "Homo Will Not Inherit" the speaker faces his own spiritual crisis. He asks why god has forsaken him. The revelation comes when the speaker is "worshipping a while in his church"--while he is engaged sexually with an unknown stranger. The stranger replies "I’m going to punish

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everyday we will publish a list of fifty items or fewer. each contributor or reader can submit a list. we will short list, movies, magazines, books, music, ideas, people, places and things, plays, handbags, shoes, dresses , leather, cars, principles, habits, values, green innovations , inventions, technology, our world.please send us your shortlist to pulpistaken@gmail.comthank you

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Old Artists (get better as they age)http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/20/081020fa_fact_gladwellYoung Artists (best when they are young)Elder Photographers (live a long time (longer than most)Observers ( really live )Eye WitnessCollectorsReverenceForgivenessLovingKindnessEmpathyAsking QuestionsSimplicity

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One of the most interesting and exciting economist working today (and a personal hero) Paul Krugman was awarded the Nobel prize. His work points to the future of the globalization and to the idea of the "Endless City" as more than 70% of the world is now moving to urban areas. His work in patterns of trade and location and the effects of free trade and globalization. Paul Krugman formulated a

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Art NowAntique AmericaClean, Cleaning, CleanerDetailsFashion FriedmanIDprocrastinatingStartTime goes byUYouTubePopUpSunTimesKarita MattilaWendy and LucyBlindnessThe AlcholicSkinsMaozusa.comFriday Night

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Amy Winehouse, Britney Spears, CANNED HAM, Depression, Perfectly Normal, Pig Guts with Yeast, Podcasts, Prolapse, Recesssion, Robert Scoble, ate up with dumb, blood fart, clean blood, election 2008, get f@$ked, iphone, ipod touch, me and them girls, sarah palin, sh*%ting, sit and bitch, soundscapes, technology, toilet, ugly people talk to me more than i talk to them, yeast nation

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Issues Surrounding Encounters with Undetectable HIV-Positive MenBy Daniel S. Berger MDSexually active HIV-positive individuals are better off undergoing treatment to suppress virus and reduce transmission within our community. Since there’s the prevalence of resistant virus, individuals that have persistent viremia, should be on therapy that is truly effective. Many new class antiviral drugs are

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Legislative Update:Electronic Waste Bill is Signed into Law!As many of you already know from my travels around to your group meetings,the E-Waste bill has now been signed into law. For those of you who maynot have heard yet, this is a huge victory for Illinois, and one that ISECstudents played a significant role in securing. Here's the story:Electronic waste (E-Waste) is the fastest growing

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XDR-TB, or extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis, is a new and deadly mutation of tuberculosis. This is a vital story that the world needs to know about, if we are to stop this disease in its tracks.

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This may sound like a cliche, but you can't understand Americandemocracy until you've campaigned door to door. The people we spokewith were polite, thoughtful, concerned. Their views were much moresubtle and varied than one might gather from reading mainstream media.

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Part III: Most people were waiting for the bus to Iowa, which was,unsurprisingly, late. I ended up getting a ride from a wonderfulwoman, Birch, a former economist at the Federal Reserve and also aformer schoolteacher who was driving over. The Iowa office wasbuzzing with energy. It was one of the most vibrant places I've seenin recent memory, with handmade signs, posters, maps and

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Part IIMy friend Andrew called me up 8:30 pm Friday and asked me to come withhim to Iowa at 7 am the next day. I agreed reluctantly. My onlyprevious involvement in the campaign had been visiting a friend inPrinceton who was working for Obama and trying out the button machine. My impression from that experience was that political organizing is afundamentally chaotic affair, which is to be

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Obama campaign in Davenportby Ian LePart IYesterday I went to Davenport, Iowa to campaign for Barack Obama. Idid this with great reluctance. I usually watch politics from afar.I find too much of the political commentary in the media to be focusedon passing stories whose significance is overblown.Rather than analysis, we get stories about personality,he-said/she-said gossip, tactical maneuvers,

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Broadly speaking, globalization entered a new faster more ramped up phase after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The world economy opened up and the roughly 1 Billion actors in the financial systems in Europe and American tripled with the entrance of Russia, India, China, and Brazil. These new players know tenderly as BRIC smashed open the doors of the financial systems the world over.

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The story goes that American painter famous for large scale highly charged emotional color field paintings, Mark Rothko was influences into emotional abstraction through discovering Wasily Kandinsky. Kandinsky was a Russian painter, poet thinker who imbued his love of music and color into abstract paintings of powerful composition. In this brief tour of the work of these two abstract painters we

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Rodney Graham the Canadian born Art Star visited Chicago last night for the opening of his exhibition at Donald Young gallery in the West Loop. The exhibition included a large scale installation sculpture that was recreated from the Black Sabbath video paranoid from 1970. The large scale recreation was used by Graham during a music performance he recently gave.The sculpture is in black in

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Hai Yen1055 W. Argyle StreetEntrees $8-$12My grandmother owned a Vietnamese restaurant in Noisien, twentyminutes outside Paris, where she would cook, and where mother'sfamily, my aunts and uncles, would help out. I remember tasting aVietnamese hoagie (banh mi) that that my grandma made for my motherand biting into a spicy pepper. My mother rushed me to a waterfountain where I gulped down water

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No more perfect time for this over the top highly charged politcal drama that breaks down the forth wall and egages the audience in total politcal submersion.I was rocked off my chair which at the Hypocrits production of the Three Penny Opera in the Garage space at the Steppenwolf theater is litterall on the "stage".The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) is a musical theatre revolution-- or

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Natalie Dessay gives one of the great performances at the Lyric Opera in Mannon. Her range of styles is both impressive and awe inspiring. At first her sweet late romantic performance of farewell my little table ends the first act in a way that places her among the great French singers. In the thrid act, the highlight of the opera, Dessay opens up and gives it her all slicing open her heart and

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The amazing design boutique ID Chicago on Halsted has always been one of my favorite places for inspiration. This season they are showing off the new Tord Boontje pieces from his 2008 milan collection The Little Wild Garden of Love. No surprise that the recent work is more sensual and curvacious than ever. But also the colors, weight and light are softer. There are new floating greens and

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Allure of Couture Show Chicago couture hit the runway as Fashion Focus rolled on at the Allure of Couture Show, October 6th in Millennium Park. Designers showcased some of the season’s most outrageous (and not-so-outrageous) styles, as I tried my best not to have a fashion-loving melt-down. The line-up included: Sam Kori George, James De Colon, Redshift by Kristin Mariani Frieman, Maria

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Dress Code—Chicago Fashion Design School’s Show: ReviewChicago fashion schools delivered to onlookers a drastic selection of personal design at the Dress Code runway show on Friday October 3rd. Among the designs schools represented were the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the International Academy of Design and Technology, The Illinois Institute of Art at Chicago, and Columbia College

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Abysinnia Ethiopian Restaurant5842 N BroadwayEntrees $7-$13, also serves Ethiopian-style breakfastOne of Chicago's blessings is the many ethnic neighborhoods--Greek, Polish, German, Indian, Ukranian--and the authentic food (and grocery stores) that can be found there. Edgewater is quickly becoming the destination for Ethiopian food, with Rasdashen, Demera, Lalibela, Ethiopian Diamond and many

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The runway in Millennium Park went global last night as Fashion Focus Chicago 2008 hosted the World Fashion Chicago Show presented by Chicago Sister Cities International. Included were high-end collections from Chicago’s 27 sister cities. The whole shebang was sponsored by the i-REAL concept ‘car’, Toyota’s new personal mobility vehicle or as I like to call it: the personally lazy-as-hell

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GENART FRESH FACES GENART FRESH FACES RUNWAY REVIEW 10.01.08Last night’s GenArt Fresh Faces show brought emerging Chicago designs right to our eyes. Hosted (barely) by Fall Out Boy musician, Pete Wentz, the show began, as photographers argued for position, with the Sophia Reyes collection. A flowing mix of periwinkle blue short-dresses, wide legged-trousers, and ruffles--yawn. The music

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One of the artists who always makes my pulse rate go up and never ceases to amaze me is Mr. Johnson, a young Chicago native who lives in NYC and has a studio in Brooklyn.His two new shows reveal a different side of his art that I have never seen before, more charged and more personal.Funny, introspective, personal, performative, post-blackThe "new escapist promised land garden and recreation

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AKIRA GARDEN OF EDEN 2008 TEASER from AKIRA CHICAGO on Vimeo.

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AKIRA RUNWAY REVIEW 9.28.08 Liquid gold-metallic tights, models clutching studded shields, and tight jeans. Akira pulled off another fundraising runway show at Galleria Marchetti benefiting Imerman Angels. The 5th Annual Garden of Eden show was equipped with a sexy Paradeisos theme. The waiting crowd, a mix of Chicagoans spanning from the socially elite, to trend-obsessed fashion students--

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After the exhibition we went to the only 5 star African restaurant in Chicago. "Grace's African" on Broadway in Uptown. We finally met our match of food too foreign to possible eat. But the lime green walls, the folding card tables, the paper napkins and the hand soap on the tables all added to an unbelievable experience.We tried to eat the African exotic meat, which was some kind of unknown rich

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I recently posted on Think Pink Radio about the two new exhibitions opened at Gallery 2 and project space for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 847 West Jackson, 2nd Floor, the shows both run through February 15th. One “Limbo,” the other a group exhibition, explore two things:1. The many new ways artists are making sculptures.2. “Limbo” as a state of suspension.One particularly

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One of the lasting myths about artists is that they are mad geniuses-- opting out of society and living in near starvation in a bohemian lifestyle. Choosing a sparse life of the barest necessesity to give breath to a richness of vision. The visionary artist and visionary madman often overlap.The murderous mad Carrivagio who faked his own death or so we think, Van Gogh who cut his own ear off,

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Time: Consider objects as events.Scale: Objects are all connected. Approaching the glass front of Rhona Hoffman's Gallery on Peoria Street, one is struck by the neon green mass glowing in the window. The hazy color is so bright and inviting that you want to jump through the window and get inside the field of green. The big blurry object is actually made up of countless threads of brilliantly

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Intuit is opening tonight with two fantastics exhibition: Henry Darger Exhibition andLeast Wanted: A Century of American MugshotsFrom the INTUIT site: "In the making for nearly eight years, the Henry Darger Room Collection will be unveiled in the Study Center Gallery. In conjunction with the opening of the Henry Darger Room Collection, Intuit will present the Henry Darger Exhibition, an

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estudiotres is opening Friday January 18th with the group show--Thaw: Winter won't last forever.Samia Mirza presents her work Conjoined Snowmen (We all Fall Down) which is a beautiful and sad sculpture. I have variously interpreted this sculpture through many different readings. Mirza's work is an inspiration for me and has helpped me understand how "art in the present-tense" must be experienced

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A new art season kicks off this week with a thick list of openings last Friday. *Russell Bowman Gallery in River North opened the year with a Kiki Smith exhibition that is solid offering of recent work. Collaborating with Pace gallery Russell Bowman transported a recent larger than life bronze sculpture that is the center-piece of the exhibition. This exhibition like so many others at Bowman

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In one of the most exciting and memorable passage of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she encounters a sleepy hookah-smoking caterpillar. He asks her the all-important question, a question essential to all of us-- "Who are YOU?" The hookah-smoking caterpillar is more direct than most of us. But one question I get asked at parties or bars is: "Where are you from?" This is a tricky question to

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The New Museum is one of the most interesting institutions in the New York arts world. The founder and first curator, Marcia Tucker the legendary and passionate pioneer trail blazer who kicked opened the doors for daring and innovative arts. The New Museum is a staple in thriving lower Manhattan arts scene, founded in 1977 it is the only museum in New York City devoted to global contemporary art.

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I spent the last half of 2007 thinking about the important relationship between art and design. When I press the issue and try to dig into the ways design relates and fine art and vice versa, I find the line between them is often an illusion. Some of the most interesting things happening in both art and design seem to blur the line and even walk the line.Erik Wenzel posted about figurines that

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I took the past few days to see three important exhibitions in New York. All centered around black artists. This is a rare once in a lifetime moment where three major museums are exhibiting the art work of Africa at the same time. My first stop was the MOMA to see the Martin Puryear. The exhibitions is one of the best in city-- because Puryear is possibly one of the all time great sculptors. He

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Happy New Year.A big idea came to me this year.I am dreamer. Curiosity, creativity and imagination are not a laundry list but are all part of the same circle--each connected action is connected to each other. But the circle also includes realism, stoicism and pragmatism. How is that?We often think of dreaming in opposition to realism-- but it is not. This blog is named after the Biennale Art

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David Armano has a great blog full of some awesome visualization that I used in a presentation I gave at University of Illinois at Chicago

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Eric Kandel, the Nobel prize winning father of neuralscience has a new book: "In Search of Memory"The book traces Professor Kandel's pioneering research from the unknowable "black box" of the mind to our current understanding molecular biology and information processing into the mind. Thanks in part to the revolution in imaging technology brought on by new fMRI and other scanning technology,

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I asked Robert MacNeill to consider the relationship between art and business and specifically to consider how the TARGET company invites high-end designers to make low-end products.----------------------------------------What type of project does the architect prefer to design?The architect is also concerned with sustainability. But his definition of the term may vary from his client's, or from

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David Altmejd, The Settler, an awesome sculpture at the NEW SPERTUS Jewish museumSAMIA MIRZA working in her studio. This star shaped sculpture is one of her really great works, the shape is just right and the colors are candy yummy puke. When Chicago artist, teacher and professor art SAIC , Francis Whitehead described these sculpture she said they would sound like air it you hit them and not like

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For Erik Roldan's blog THINK PINK, I wrote a brief top ten queer art trends, check it out. Here is a sample:10. Camp Queer : Devine & John Waters ( they put the camp in campers)9. Queer Factory : Andy Warhol (His record label launched the VelvetUnderground. He produced Interview Magazine. He wore a snap on silvertupee, had crazy parties and filmed John Delasando getting a blowjob )8.Queering the

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Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to friends and readers around the globe. I am very grateful to live in a time where I reach so many people and live a more active life. As the year closes, it is a good time to look back.John Powers covered his TOP 10 Cultural Trends 2007. So I wanted to dig a little bit into what some artists in Chicago are thinking about at the wrap up of 2007. I spoke with the

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One of my guilty pleasure is top ten lists. But who doesn't love them? So here are my lists for 2007.Top Ten Chicago Exhibitions 200710. Interiority at the Hyde Park Art Center 9. Young Chicago at The Art Institute of Chicago8. Cosmophilia 7.Collection Highlights and Alexander Calder in Focus at the MCA6. Allora and Calzadilla at the Renn5.Cezanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard at The Art Institute

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Happy Thanksgiving. I think is important to create space and place for self-reflection, where we can bring the diverse pieces of ourselves together into meaningful wholes. I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge one thing I am very grateful for.I discovered the art historian Kirk Varnedoe while I lived in Princeton and he taught the History of Art at the Institute for Advanced Study in

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Drawing from the periphery of everyday life, John Parot makes ordinary objects interesting through unusual transformation. The top five Google searches: sex, god, jobs, music and a rotating cast of celebrities, are recurrent favorites in Parot’s work,stems from everyday experience and the way he make sense of it. Nodding to his heroes from the Velvet Underground, John Waters and project runway,

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Melanie Schiff, one of Chicago's best young photographers, will be in the 2008 Whitney Biennial! Congratulations girl you are white hot and your show "Underwater Photographer" at Kavi Gupta was awesome:) "Sleeping Boy" 2002"Spit" 2006

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(Eugene Bavinger House, Norman, Oklahoma, 1950 by Queer Architect Bruce Goff)Robert MacNeill is a working architect in Chicago. He has worked for Wesley Wei in Philadelphia and is currently an independent thinker and activist. He was the director and designer for "The Cowboy and the Pegasus," an exhibition for Queer Fest Midwest in August 2007. I have know Rob for years and we have collaborated

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What is text art? It is easier to address what it is not: compared to narrative painting or historical painting or portrait painting: text painting non-figurative, it dislocates or disrupts the image and most importantly it can displace the visual. Text Painting is a genre of painting and is part of the larger group of text art. Lawrence Weiner has a retrospective at the Whitney, but he is a

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