Friday, October 31, 2008

Images drawn and shot





Normally,
I stay out of the photograph galleries
at the Art Institute of Chicago.
(except to walk through them
to get to the elevator)

But this exhibit,
"Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Art and Photography of Paris"
included drawings, etchings, and paintings
as well as photographs
from the same time and place,
Paris in the 1920's.

The Matisse etching shown above
was the first thing to catch my eye
(while waiting for the elevator)
and I wish that every wait
could be that enjoyable!





Actually,
I prefer his line drawing
to his painting






Same with Picasso,
when he draws in his classical style
I am in his thrall




Which is not say I couldn't stand
the Cartier-Bresson photographs.

They're wonderful,
and I'm always surprised
at how every photographer
has his own visual style.

But still ----
something very important is missing,
that leaves these images feeling dead and cold
to me.

Like a collection of dried, pressed flowers.



And I really liked the
distinctive work of André Kertész, as well.

When I like photography,
it's because it feels so clever,
especially with these impromptu photographers
who seem to be always hunting for an interesting angle
while walking through the world.




and I admit that I preferred the selected photographs
to the painting and drawing
of Andre Lhote






who gets an "A" in drawing,
but doesn't capture
my imagination.
















Tuesday, October 28, 2008

My Career as an Art Critic










*

Beginning with weekly sketching trips to the Cincinnati Art Museum sixty years ago, I've been viewing, making, and more recently writing about art ever since. Growing up in the studio of a sculptor whose interest in a kind of Modern Classical figuration was outdated the moment his career began, I've recklessly continued in that direction while earning a living as a music retailer in Oak Park, Illinois. A web museum of Twentieth Century figure sculpture  was begun in 2001 and a blog of expeditions to exhibitions in 2006. Jason Foumberg invited me to write art criticism for New City in 2008. Some of my sculpture can be seen here .  More recent ceramics can be seen here and recent drawings are shown here .

Reviews began to receive provocative, and often inaccurate,  headlines in 2015. Please do not hold me responsible for them.

A brief discussion of my critical qualifications, or lack of them, may be  found here

As readers may soon notice - my critical voice is sui generis.  It certainly is outside the trends of either Chicago art or university approved art theory.  It is rooted in the art and aesthetics of Milton Horn, a neo-medieval  Jewish sculptor who worked in Chicago from 1950 to 1990. I have written about him here. I doubt he would share many of my current opinions, however,  and he never bought contemporary ABX painting as i do (Just as I would not like to live within the world-class collection of medieval sculpture that filled his home on Lincoln Avenue. )



*******

New City's editor stopped accepting my pitches in 2022,
explaining  that the online journal was becoming more "newsy".

New City has always been more about documentation than critique,  and as journalism has become ever more partisan, New City has followed suit.
Now, I suppose, they will become even more so. 
 

I write criticism that is unapologetically subjective.  Sometimes positive, more often negative, sometimes  political, not always politically correct, never politically centered.

It's not surprising that a politically correct journal will no longer publish me.  
God knows why they ever did.
 
 Those who write art criticism periodically wring their hands at its disappearance in newspapers or magazines. But even those who do get published hardly ever dare to critique.

Denis Diderot wrote his brutal, withering Salon critiques for fifteen readers,
and I am proud to say that my polite, self published reviews,  sometimes reach nearly thirty.

************

Self published  reviews can be found   here   .
 


Amtonio Canova at the Art Institute of Chicago

Candida Alvaez. at Monique Meloche 

Jackie Kazarian. at O'Connor Gallery




  Women on the Verge. at Rhona Hoffman


Picasso - Drawing from Life at the Art Institute of Chicago

Remedios Varo at the Art Institute of Chicago
 
 
 



















 
 
 
 








 


 
 
 

Van Gogh and the Avant Garde at Art Institute of Chicago 



Lygia Pape at Art Institute of Chicago 
 
 



Liu Shou Kwan at Art Institute of Chicago 
 
 



Dimitri Hadzi at Rosenthal Gallery 
 



Suchitra Mattai at Kavi Gupta 
 



James Little at Kavi Gupta 
 



Language of Beauty in African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago 



 
 

 
 

Arvie Smith at Monique Meloche 
 
 
 


Mitch Clark at Oliva Gallery 
 
 
 

October Museum Tour
A Natural Turn at DePaul Art Museum
First Homosexuals at Wrightwood 659
David Hockney at the Art Institute of Chicago
Bridget Riley at the Art Institute of Chicago 
(shown above: Charles Demuth)
 
 
 
 
 

Nick Cave at M.C.A.




Ruben Aguirre at National Museum of Mexican Art 
 

 



An Instrument in the Shape of a Woman at Chicago Cultural Center 
(Piece shown above:  Leslie Baum)
 






Igshaan Adams at Art Institute of Chicago 
 






Cezanne at Art Institute of Chicago
 






Robert Colescott at Chicago Cultural Center 
 



 

 

Melanie Pankau at Thomas McCormick 



 
  


Joseph Lindon Smith at the Oriental Institute 


 Bob Thompson at the Smart Museum






Tomokazu Matsuyama at Kavi Gupta






Brendan Getz at Carrie Secrist



Rachel Harrison at Corbett Vs Dempsey 

 


 Detail



David Antonio Cruz at Monique Meloche (self published)





Peter Uka at Mariane Ibrahim (self published)




,Nancy Rubins at Rhonda  Hoffman




Lay of the Land at O'Connor Gallery

 (piece shown above: Nina Rizzo)





Surface is only a Material Vehicle for Spirit at Kavi Gupta 

(piece shown above by Charles Mason III)



 

Celeste Rapone at Corbett vs Dempsey 
(self published)


 

Carmen Chami at National Museum of Mexican Art 

(self published)






Pooja Pittie at Thomas McCormick Gallery 

(self published)


 

The Breakfast Group at Leslie Wolfe Gallery 

(piece shown above by Leslie Robin)




 
Stanley Edwards at Oliva Gallery





Caroline Kent at the MCA







Day Drawing / Day Dreaming at Portrait Society (Milwaukee) 




Kennedy Yanko at Kavi Gupta 




Florine Demosthene at Mariane Ibrahim 




Gordon Powell at Thomas McCormick




Duncan Phillips Collection at Milwaukee Art Museum 




David Bekker at Koehnline Museum 




Jennifer Olds Kryczka at Riverside Arts Center 



Wesley Willis
at Matthew Rachman






Julia Fish
at DePaul Art Museum





Tetsuya Ishida
at Wrightwood 659






Darrell Roberts
at McCormick Gallery














Third Generation Imagists
at Elmhurst Art Museum







at Riverside Arts Center








at Hofheimer Gallery
(self published)





at Soldier Field






Bengt Lindstrom
at Swedish American Museum







Blue Collar
at UIMA







Maura Segal
at Matthew Rachman







Serious Vanity
at One After 909








Synergy
at Zhou B Art Center







Arceo Press
at Bridgeport Art Center






Andrew Hostick
at Western Exhibitions





Small Paintings
at Corbett vs. Dempsey







Melville Price
at Thomas McCormick





Posters from London Underground
at Art Institute of Chicago









Nude Figuration
at Victor Armendariz and Melanie Meloche






Marion Kryczka
at Eat Paint Studio




With a Capital P
at Elmhurst Art Museum





Joseph Burlini
at Koehnline Museum






Poojah Pittie
at McCormick Gallery





Paul Nudd
at Western Exhibitions






Abstractly Speaking
at Woman Made Gallery







Manet and Modern Beauty
at Art Institute of Chicago (self published)





Amy Sillman
at Arts Club of Chicago (self published)








Herman Aguirre
at Zolla Lieberman (self published)













Rembrandt Portraits
at Art Institute of Chicago







Meghan Borah
at Goldfinch Projects







William Bouguereau
at Milwaukee Art Museum








Soak Stroke Scratch
at Melanee Cooper








Johnson and Nix
at Intuit










Solidary and Solitary
at the Smart Museum
(shown above: Sam Gilliam)






Craig Blietz
at Tory Folliard








Kay Hofmann
at Patron Gallery





Todros Geller
at Spertus Institute (self published)









Tomma Abts
at Art Institute of Chicago
(shown above: "Teiko", detail)




Ben Tinsley
at McCormick Gallery
(shown above:     detail from "Marco Polo")





Ukiyo-e Paintings
at Art Institute of Chicago
(shown above: Miyagawa Issho)





Hairy Who
at Art Institute of Chicago
(self published)
(shown above: Jim Falconer)









Yoshida Family prints
at the Art Institute of Chicago







John Singer Sargent
at the Art Institute of Chicago





Charles White
at the Art Institute of Chicago
(self published)







Richard Hunt and Mentors
at the Koehnline Museum


(detail)



Young Il Ahn at Kavi Gupta







Greg Breda
at Patron Gallery







Tang Chang
at the Smart Museum





Richard Schmid and students
at the Palette and Chisel Academy
(self published)








Jan Matulka
at Thomas McCormick

(self published)







Arte Diseno Xicago
at National Museum of Mexican Art
(self published)










Ivan Albright
at Art Institute of Chicago
(self published)






Rachel Niffenegger
at Western Exhibitions
(self published)







Xu Longsen
at Art Institute of Chicago







Women Painting Men
at Riverside Arts Center
(self published)





  Elliott Hundley
at Shane Campbell
(self published)






Visions of Venus
at Zhou B. Art Center
(shown above: Daniel Maidman)





Della Wells
at LUMA



Dozier Bell
at Zolla Lieberman





Judy Ledgerwood
at Rhona Hoffman

(self published)






Martin Hurtig
at Renaissance Society

(self published)





Richard Hull
at Western Exhibitions

(self published)







Mary Qian and Miguel Malagon
at Vanderpoel Museum

(self published)








Richard Rezac
at Renaissance Society

(self published)







Valerio - Bowers - Tomasula
at Printworks
(self published)






Ancient Chinese Broze
at Art Institute of Chicago






Winslow Homer
at Milwaukee Art Museum





Asian Perspective
at Gallerie Waterton






Piotrowsky-Marshall-Rizzo
at Linda Warren





Andrew Lord
at Art Institute of Chicago





Gregory Block
at Zolla Lieberman







This is a Pipe
at Shane Campbell









Nina Chanel Abney
at the Chicago Cultural Center
(self published)





Gertrude Abercrombie
at the Elmhurst Art Museum





Faiyum portraits
at the Block Museum



at Robert Morris University





at the Saw Room








Luis Tapia
at the National Museum of Mexican Art










Eddie Owens Martin
at Intuit






Jackie Saccoccio
at Rhona Hoffman





Apocolyptic Images
at Haggerty Museum





Richard J. Olsen
at Zhou B. Art Center






3-D art
at Gallery Victor Armendariz







Rick Shaefer
at Haggerty Art Museum





Peter Drake
at Linda Warren






Degas to Picasso
at the Milwaukee Museum of Art





Tarsila do Amaral
at the Art Institute of Chicago








Lui Shtini
at Corbett vs Dempsey






William Blake and Age of Aquarius
at Block Museum




Go Figure
at Linda Warren



Anna Kunz
at McCormick Gallery



Rodin-Naumann
at Smart Museum



Portage
at Riverside Arts Center



M.F. Husain
at the Art Institute of Chicago
(unpublished)




West and Weidner
at Palette and Chisel
(unpublished)







Figure 8
at Victor Armendariz
(shown above: Aaron Smith - detail)






Lindsey and Azarnia
at Abryant Gallery
(shown above: Karen Azarnia)







Woman as Warrior
at Zhou B Art Center
(shown above: Daniela Kovacic)






at Bridgeport Art Center
(shown above: Michele Thrane)





at La Luz Gallery
(shown above: Anne Horjus)






at Victor Armendariz
(shown above: Christopher Klein)








Automythography
at Anastasia Tinari
(shown above: Kaveri Raina: Twist of Bajrang)










A Sag, Harbored
at Western Exhibitions








at Zolla Lieberman










at Art Institute of Chicago
(unpublished)




at Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum








at Gallery 19





Toyoharu Kii
at Pagoda Red







at the Hyde Park Art Center




at the Art Institute of Chicago




at Chicago Cultural Center








at U.I.M.A.





at Carrie Secrist







at Galerie Waterton






at Richard Gray Gallery
(unpublished)






at Linda Warren






at Firecat Projects
(unpublished)






at National Museum of Mexican Art
(shown above: Luis Nuno)





at the Smart Museum
(unpublished)





at Douglas s Dawson






at Kavi Gupta





at Thomas McCormick Gallery







at Bridgeport Art Center
(shown above: Katherine Nemanich)




at the Chicago Cultural Center





at the Charles Allis Art Museum





at the Milwaukee Art Museum
(shown above: Johan Frederik Møller )


at the Elmhurst Art Museum
(shown above: Constantino Mitchell)






at Jane Addams Memorial Park





at Depaul Art Museum
( shown above: Rodrigo Lara Zendejas )



at the Swedish Museum





 at Gallery 19
(shown  above:: Anne Kaferle)




at ZG gallery
(shown above: Amy Casey)







at Racine Art Museum
(shown above: Karen Mathis)





at Western Exhibitions





at the Milwaukee Art Museum






at Chicago Cultural Center





at Laluz Gallery





 at Bridgeport Art Center




at Gallery 400 (unpublished)






 at Zolla Lieberman (unpublished)







 at Chicago Cultural Center (unpublished)







at Mongerson Gallery








at LVL3





at Corbett Vs. Dempsey




at Golden Triangle




at U.I.M.A.




at Riverside Arts Center




at U.I.M.A.




at Richard Gray
(rejected for publication)





at Thomas McCormick




at Shane Campbell




at Addington Gallery





at DuSable Museum
(shown above: Elio Rodriguez Valdes)




at Bridgeport Art Gallery
(shown above: Russell Harris)







at Chicago Cultural Center
(shown above: Sueko Kawamura)




at the National Museum of Mexican Art



at the Koehnline Museum



at Richard Gray Gallery





 
Phyllis Bramson
at the Chicago Cultural Center








Two Portraits of Antinous
at the Art Institute of Chicago






Dorothy Hughes
at the Chicago Cultural Center







Figure sculpture
at Gallery Oh!





Known Unknowns
at Cleve Carney
(Shown above: Leslie Baum)








Material
at National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture
(shown above: Sebastian Vallejo - detail)







New American Paintings
at Elmhurst Art Museum
(shown above: David Rettner, detail)









Barbara Rossi
at the DePaul Art Museum








Tony Fitzpatrick
at the DePaul Art Museum









Kerry James Marshall
at the MCA (unpublished)








Juan Munoz
at Art Institute of Chicago










Judith Goldsmith
at Rosenthal Fine Art









DuSable Masterworks 
at DuSable Museum
(shown above: Alfred E. Jackson, Jr.)









Julio Galan and Daniel Lezama
at Mana Contemporary














Estampas de la Raza
at the National Museum of Mexican Art










  Jennifer Presant
at Linda Warren Gallery









Vidvuds Zviedris
at Thomas McCormick Gallery
(shown above: detail)







at Carrie Secrist Gallery
(shown above: Howard Fonda)








at Shane Campbell Gallery
(shown above: William J. O'Brien)










Terracotta Warriors
at the Field Museum


Hudson River Valley School
at the Milwaukee Art Museum
(shown above: Kensett, Shrewsbury River)








Malvina Hoffman
at the Field Museum





  Monster Roster
at the Smart Museum
(shown above: Leon Golub)






  Patrick Earl Hammie
at Kruger Gallery





William Utermohlen
at LUMA








Latin American Connections
at Depaul Art Museum
(shown above: Jose Bedia)







ABG Artists
at Andrew Bae Gallery
(shown above:Gapchul Lee)







Hard Edge Abstraction
at McCormick Gallery
(shown above: Harold Krisel)







Phases of Faces
at Jean Albano Gallery
(shown above: Hunt Slonem)





Spirit in the Land
Addington Gallery
(shown above: Rebecca Crowell, - detail)






 

The Greeks
at the Field Museum



Dionysos Unmasked
at the Art Institute of Chicago






Homegrown at the Art Institute of Chicago
(shown above: Michiko Ito)





Michael Hedges at McCormick Gallery
(shown above: detail)






Milwaukee Museum Renovation








Larassa Kabel at The Mission








Political Clay
at the Chicago Ceramic Center
(piece shown: Beverly Mayeri)






Stanley Tigerman
at Volume Gallery








Nature Transformed
at Chicago Art Source
(pieces shown: Elise Morris)





Far Out Females
at Mongerson Gallery
(shown above: Marcena Barton - detail)







Kishio Suga
at Shane Campbell Gallery






Krishna Painting
at the Art Institute of Chicago





Florian Baudrexel
at the Art Institute of Chicago





Carole Feuerman
at KM Fine Arts






Chicago Connection
At the U.I.M.A.
(shown above: Maurice Lapp)




Hohenberg and Klein
at Richard Norton Gallery







at Studio Oh!



 at Firecat Projects


Cyrus Tang Hall
at the Field Museum









Brandon Anschultz
at Regards Gallery





Timothy J. Clark at L.U.M.A.






Art Paul at U.I.M.A.






Mary Porterfield at Packer Schopf




Rim Lee at Japonais








Archibald Motley
at the Chicago Cultural Center




Australian Artists from Ukraine
at U.I.M.A.
(shown above: Michael Kmit)

Matt Mitchell: One Hundred Faces of War
National Veterans Art Museum
( unpublished )


Bill Frederick at Printworks Gallery









Eldzier Cortor at the Art Institute of Chicago








Collecting Paradise (Kashmir)  at the Block Museum





Bruce Thorn
at Koehnline Museum













Her Work
at McCormick Gallery
(shown above: Mary Abbott, 1955, detail)









Chicago's New Realists
at Zhou B. Center
(shown above: "A Figure Painter with Gin Martini, Tums, and Cigarettes"
by Aras Volodka )





Erik Weisenburger
at Perimeter Gallery








Shio Kusaka at Shane Campbell








Ben Herr
at Thomas McCormick Gallery
"Open Secret", 2013 (detail)





Richard Hunt
at Chicago Cultural Center
(un-published)







Jack Tworkov
at Valerie Carberry




Christian Vincent
at Ann Nathan










Heaven and Earth, 500 years of Italian Painting
at the Milwaukee Museum of Art



Tim Leeming
profile




Heaven and Earth, Byzantine Art from Greek Collections
Art Institute of Chicago

Jaume Plensa
at Millennium Park and Richard Gray Gallery Plensa
10th National Self Portrait Show
at Zhou B. Art Center
(shown above: Corinna Button)
at the Art Institute of Chicago








Wassily Kandinsky
at the Milwaukee Museum of Art





Deborah Butterfield
at Zolla-Lieberman

Joe Steiner
at A.R.C.  
(unpublished)



International Sculpture Center 
at Elks National Memorial






Perle Fine and Lisa Nankivil
at Thomas MccCormick Gallery
(shown above: Lisa Nankivil: "A Place to Greet the Day" )







Anthony Adcock at Packer Schopf
(detail)








Stephen Dinsmore
at Anne Loucks Gallery













Diane Thodos
at Re-Invent Gallery













Joseph Noderer
at Linda Warren Gallery









African American Quilts
at the Depaul Museum
(shown above: Mary Lee Bendolph)










Sam Feinstein
at McCormick Gallery
(detail)







Jose Lerma
at Kavi Gupta







Modern Metaphors
at the Rockford Art Museum
(shown above: Katherine Ace)





Nilima Sheikh
at the Art Institute of Chicago









35 years of Public Art
at the Chicago Cultural Center
(shown above: Kerry James Marshal, detail)








Emilie Charmy
at Arts Club of Chicago







The Left Front"
at the Block Museum
(shown above: Reginald Marsh, "Chicago 1930"










Dmitry Samarov
at the Living Room Gallery







 Jane Freilicher
at Valerie Carberry




 Jeff Britton

at Bert Green






Peri Schwartz

at Perimeter








Emmett Kerrigan
at Linda Warren Projects









Zoe Nelson
at Western Exhibitions








Ben Stone
at Western Exhibitions











Judith Roth and Sandra Holubow
at Koehnline Museum of Art
(shown above; Judith Roth)








John Sparagana, Arturo Herrera, and Jackie Saccoccio
at Corbett Vs. Dempsey
(shown above; Jackie Saccoccio)










David Hockney
at Richard Gray Gallery







David Sharpe
at Karl Hammer Gallery















Sabina Ott
at Riverside Arts Center









Errol Jacobson
at the Palette and Chisel Academy









Robert Guinan and Mary Livoni
at Frederick Baker Inc.







Cornelius Varley

Dreams and Echoes: Drawings and Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection
at the Art Institute of Chicago
(un-edited version found here )







Elijah Burgher
at Western Exhibitions









Violence and Virtue
at the Art Institute of Chicago













Alex Katz
at Richard Gray Gallery
(un-edited version found found here )







Nicholas Sistler
at Printworks Gallery










Bill Traylor
at Carl Hammer Gallery










Chicago's Bauhaus Legacy
at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
(shown above: June Leaf "Turtle Clock")









Keiko Hara

at Perimeter Gallery








Sarah Sohn

at Zolla Liebermann Gallery





Leon and Sadie Garland
at the Koehnline Museum
(unpublished)







Steinunn Thorarinsdottir
in Solti Garden





Richard Gibbons
at Roy Boyd Gallery













Koffler Collection
at the DePaul Art Museum (shown above: Robert Louis Thompson)







John Valadez
at the National Mexican Museum of Art
(unpublished)













Tomoaki Suzuki
at the Art Institute of Chicago
(unpublished)









John Buck and Hunter Buck
at Zolla Lieberman Gallery






Thomas Kapsalis
at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art











Bruno Surdo
at Ann Nathan Gallery








Charles Szymkowicz
at the Koehnline Museum












Gina Litherland, Gertrude Abercrombie, Julia Thecla
at Corbett Vs. Dempsey
(shown above: "Vernal Equinox" by Gina Litherland)









From Russia to America
at the Palette and Chisel Academy
(shown above: Misha Livchitz (detail) )





Subconsious Eye
at Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art

(shown above: John A. Kurtz (detail))








Kaoru Arima
at Queer Thoughts Gallery








Elsa Munoz
at Zygman Voss Gallery






David Abed
at Century Guild








Xiaowei Chen
at Maya Polsky Gallery








Cave Paintings from Lascaux
at the Field Museum





Hale Woodruff
at the Chicago Cultural Center




Eric Bellis
at Thomas Masters Gallery







They Seek a City
at the Art Institute of Chicago
(Shown above: Bernece Berkman "Jim Crow Train")




Michael Van Zeyl
at Gallery 180
(unpublished)



Peace, War, More War
at Out of Line Gallery
(shown above: Doug Blanchard)





Herbert Ferber
at Valerie Carberry






Gabriel Vormstein
at Monique Meloche Gallery






Ceramic Sculpture
at Rhona Hoffman Gallery
(shown above: Tiago Carneiro da Cunha )





James Mesple
at Jackson/Junge Gallery




Picasso in Chicago
at the Art Institute of Chicago
(unedited version found here )




William Conger and Vera Klement
at Zolla Lieberman Gallery




Shay Kun
at Linda Warren



Moissei Liangleben
at Palette and Chisel Academy



Richard Koppe
at Corbett Vs. Dempsey



Body and Soul
at Norback, Hilton-Asmus, and Addington galleries
(shown above: Ettore Greco)



Art of the Self Portrait
at Printworks Gallery
(shown above: Robert Barnes)






Walter Robinson
at Firecat Projects






Tribute to Francisco Mendoza
at the National Museum of Mexican Art

(shown above: Rene Arceo)




Chaz Bojorquez
at the National Museum of Mexican Art






Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art

At the Art Institute of Chicago




Xavier Toubes
at Perimeter Gallery





Radiate: Art of the South Asian Diaspora

(Shown above: Siona Benjamin)




J Clayton and Michelle Bolinger
at Riverside Art Center
(shown above: Michelle Bolinger)





No Rules Ceramic
at the Elmhurst Art Museum (shown above: "Ron Paul" by Joeseph Siegenthaler)





Maharaja: Splendor of India's Royal Courts
at the Field Museum





Treasures of Kenwood House
at the Milwaukee Art Museum
(shown above: 'Mary, Lady Howe' by Gainsborough)






Clare Rojas
at Kavi Gupta Gallery






Josef Frank>
at Swedish American Museum





Jack Roth
at Thomas McCormick Gallery





Brenda Moore
at Linda Warren Projects






Quest for the West (unpublished)
at the Eiteljorn Museum
(piece shown: P.A. Nisbet)






Itow Takumi
at Floating World Gallery






Candida Alvarez
at Riverside Arts Center





Buried Treasures
at the DuSable Museum



Traditions of Korean Art
at the Smart Museum
(shown above: Kim Eung Won)



Mario Gonzalez Jr.
at Zhao B. Art Center


Anders Nilsen
at Elmhurst Art Museum


Jeff Gillette
at Bert Green Fine Art


Larry Zgoda
at Vale Craft Gallery



Kathleen Waterloo
at Addington Gallery



Robert Barnes
at Printworks Gallery


Andy Paczos
at Maya Polsky


Push-Pull
at Riverside Art Center
(piece shown: Kyle Staver)




Mutuality
at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
(piece shown: Mishiko Itatani)





Mario Trejo
at the Elmhurst Art Museum









Peggy Macnamara
at the Elmhurst Art Museum






Keiko Nemeth
at 300 South Riverside Plaza




Daniel Bodner
at Roy Boyd Gallery




Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
at the Museum of Contemporary Art
(unpublished)




Modern Polish Posters
at the Polish Museum of America
(piece shown: Gregorz Marszalek)




Antonio Martorell
at Puerto Rican Institute of Arts and Culture




50 Years of American Glass
Krannert Museum
(shown above: Nicolas Africano)





Petullo Collection
at the Milwaukee Art Museum
(shown above: Sylvia Levine
(though not Petullo's))

Un-edited version posted here




H.D. Tylle
at the Grohmann Museum




Various shows
at the Field Museum




Heaven and Hell
at LUMA and Intuit
(unedited version foundhere )
(Shown above: Clementine Hunter)




Lester Goldman
at Kamp Galleries


Don Southard
at the Union League Club





Figurisms
at the Illinois State Museum Gallery
(piece shown: Mark Forth)






Vivuds Zviedris and Andre Butzer
at Thomas McCormick and Rhona Hoffman






Bright Lights, Big City
lecture at Floating World Gallery

Rabindranath Tagore at the Art Institute of Chicago









Human
at Gallery 180
(piece shown: Catherine Maize)



Formalisms 2
at 65 Grand
(piece shown: Melissa Oresky)




Mary Borgman
at Ann Nathan



Angelicies at Jackson Junge Gallery
(shown above: John Pranica and Laura Lein-Svencner )







Tony Fitzpatrick
at Firecat Projects





Jamie Adams
at Zolla Liebermann Gallery





Edgar Miller at Richard Norton Gallery







From Turin to Chicago
at Zhao B Center







Jim Lutes
at Valerie Carberry
(unedited version found here)






Kusmierczak Art Gallery
at the Polish Museum of America
(piece shown: Alfons Karpinski)





Celebrarte
at Zhao B. Art Center
(shown above: Marcos Raya "PTSD")





Dmitry Samarov
at Lloyd Dobler Gallery









Discussing technology
at Weekend with the Masters











Bauhaus Now
at Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
(pieces shown by William FitzPatrick)





Bill Harrison >
at Packer Schopf Gallery



Julia Katz
at Addington Gallery






Andrew Holmquist
at Carrie Secrist







John Santoro at Thomas McCormick
and Angel Otero at Kavi Gupta

(Santoro shown above)









North Park Art Walk



Mary Lou Zelazny
at Carl Hammer Gallery







Ellen Lanyon and Philip Pearlstein
at Valerie Carberry Gallery




Mary McCarthy
at the Union League Club of Chicago





Re:Chicago
at DePaul Art Museum
(shown above: Ramon Gabriel, 1945)





Phil Renaud
at Palette and Chisel Gallery



Janet Mckenzie
at Loyola University Museum of Art








Elsa Munoz at National Museum of Mexican Art








Gift of Hope
at the Swedish American Museum
(piece shown: Boruch Lev)









Soviet war posters at Art Institute of Chicago
(piece shown: Sergei Kostin)
(uncensored version posted here )






7th Annual Self Portrait Exhibition
at Zhou B. Art Center
(piece shown: Brian Curtis)




Movie posters from Ghana
at the Chicago Cultural Center







Rina Lazo and Arturo Garcia-Bustos
at Casa Aviles











Ali Hasmut
at Palette and Chisel Gallery








Rita O'Hara
at the Chicago Cultural Center








Emperor's Private Paradise
at Milwaukee Art Museum







Nature Unframed at the Morton Arboretum
(piece shown: Juan Angel Chavez)









Ruth Vansickle Ford
at Aurora Public Art Commission Gallery




Denise Burgie
at Elmhurst Art Museum




Charlie Shobe
at National Veterans Art Museum












Seymour Rosofsky
at Elmhurst Art Museum





Luminous Ground
at Illinois Art Museum
(shown above: Elizabeth Rupprecht "Untitled (Oxbow)"








Down and Out
at Madron LLC
(shown above: Edmund Yaghjian "Most any night on Columbus Circle")






Susan Clinard at Art Matrix Gallery










East-West
at Murphy-Hill Gallery
(piece shown: Li Hu)






Marion Kryczka
at Chicago Cultural Center







The Tragic Muse
at the Smart Museum
(piece shown: "Tragic Actor" by Edouard Manet)







Claire Sherman
at Kavi Gupta Gallery







Franz Schulze
at Printworks Gallery
(shown: portrait of Thomas Beeby)






Douglas C. Bloom
at Carrie Secrist Gallery









Kings, Queens, and Courtiers
at the Art Institute of Chicago





Bohdan Kowalsky Collection
at the Ukrainain Institute of Modern Art
(piece shown: Jerzy Nowosielski)









Get Real: New Figurative Realism in Chicago
at 33 Collective Gallery
(shown above: Javier Chavira)






Peter Saul and Brian Calvin
at Corbett Vs. Dempsey
(shown above: Brian Calvin)









Charles White
at N'Namdi Gallery
(original version is here )







Thomas Rowlandson
at the Block Museum








William Eckhardt Kohler
at Linda Warren Gallery









Alfonso Iannelli
at Architech Gallery





Echoes of the Past
at the Smart Museum






James Brooks
at Valerie Carberry






Svitlana and Vasyl Yarych
at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art







Jun'Ichiro Sekino
at Floating World Gallery








Richard Bresnahan and students
at the Elmhurst Art Museum
(piece shown by Anne Meyer)








Society for Art of the Imagination
at Murphy-Hill Gallery
(piece shown: Brigid Martin (detail))













Joseph Spangler
at Galleries Maurice Sternberg







Creating What Has Never Been
at the Floating World Gallery






Polaridad Complementaria
at the Chicago Cultural Center








Walter Krawiec
at Richard Norton Gallery










Robert Amft
at Galleries Maurice Sternberg










Kehinde Wiley
at Rhona Hoffman Gallery









Ben Whitehouse
at Perimeter Gallery










Angelbert Metoyer
at N'Namdi Gallery
(unpublished)







Chuck Walker and Heather Marshall
at Linda Warren Gallery










Cartier-Bresson
at the Art Institute of Chicago
(un-published)











African Presence in Mexico
at the DuSable Museum
(un-published)





National Self Portrait Show
at 33 Collective Gallery
(un-published)
















Arthur Upham Pope and the New Survey of Persian Art
at the Art Institute of Chicago
(un-published)














Ox-Bow Centennial
at Corbett Vs. Dempsey
(piece shown by Edgar Rupprecht)








Louis Sullivan at the Chicago Cultural Center
and the Art Institute
(pieces shown: John Edelmann (left), Louis Sullivan (right))









Peter Hoffer and Patrick Adams
at Gallery KH
(un-published)
(piece shown: Patrick Adams)










Passionate Holiness
at La Llorona Gallery
(above piece by Robert Lentz)









Drawing Attention at Tom Robinson Studio
(piece shown by Chuck Walker)
(un-edited text found here )












Ben Shahn at the Smart Museum





Tom Parish at Gruen Galleries
(original, unedited version found here )





















Steve Tobin at Morton Arboretum
(original, unedited version found here )






Gary Bowling
at Gallery KH






Chicago Art Open and Dali Lamb Museum
(piece shown above is by Joseph Kim)










Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence>
at Chicago Cultural Center
and N'Namdi Gallery
(piece shown: Bearden's "Brass Section" at N'Namdi)








Gladys Nilsson
at U.I.M.A.
(unpublished)








Mishiko Itatani at Walsh Gallery
(shown above: detail from Moonlight/Mooring #1)






Matisse: Radical Invention
at the Art Institute of Chicago
(unpublished)






New Gallery of Folk Art
at the Art Institute of Chicago
(Piece shown: Leslie Bolling "Sister Tuesday")















Robert Vonnoh
at Madron LLC




A Touch of the Poet
at the Irish Cultural Center
(above "Innisfree" by Anne Farley Gaines)











Two exhibits of Blackness
at Dittmar and Murphy Hill Galleries.
(piece shown by Tim Leeming)




Deborah Maris Lader
at Chicago Art Matrix












Translating Revolution
at the National Museum of Mexican Art
(shown above: sketch by Jose Orozco)



Palette and Chisel Faculty Show
(shown above: David Leffel self portrait)






Ulysses Davis
at Intuit Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art








Joe Sheesley
at the Chicago Cultural Center







Good, Bad, Ugly
at the DePaul Univiverity Museum.
(painting shown above by Jose Puyet)


Angel Otero
at the Chicago Cultural Center




National Wet Paint Exhibit
at Zhou B Art Center
(above by Kim Deakins)






Robert Guinan
at Ann Nathan Gallery





Susan Clinard
at Art Matrix Chicago







Margo Hoff
at Corbett Vs. Dempsey





Hiratsuka Unichi
at Art Institute of Chicago







Gedion Nyanhongo
at Galleries Maurice Sternberg






Scott Addis
at KH Gallery


(note: before the editor chopped it up,
the first sentence read:
"There’s nothing wrong with landscapes about land.",
though, thankfully,
the rest of the text was untouched)


Phyllis Brodny and Marina Kovalevskaya
at Palette and Chisel
(piece shown is by Kovalevskaya)






Iran Inside Out at DePaul Art Museum
Piece shown above
by Bita Fayyazi








Yozo Hamaguchi
at Floating World Gallery



Niels Strobek
at Galleries Maurice Sternberg











Francis Chapin at Richard Norton Gallery










Tony Smith at Carberry Gallery


Note: the last sentence of this review originally read:

"Which doesn’t make these paintings any less enjoyable, but would diminish their value in an artworld that demands innovation, and only celebrated his works when they were made large enough to abuse the public spaces into which they were placed."

But was edited as follows:

"This doesn’t make them any less enjoyable, but perhaps these quiet studies are only interesting retroactively as we celebrate his large sculptures that abuse the public spaces into which they were placed."

Just to make it clear that it is the editor,
Jason Foumberg,
not myself,
who is doing that celebrating.










Ginger Fox at Portals Gallery






Ito Shinsui
in the Buckingham Print Gallery at the Art Institute





Back to the Future
at the Loyola Univsity Museum of Art.
(piece shown by Charmion Von Wiegand)












Artapalooza
at the 12th Street Gallery
(pieces shown: by George Clinton)







Andy Chan
at the Palette and Chisel





Alexander Dubovyk and Vasily Fedoruk
at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
(piece shown: Alexander Dubovyk)






Big Picture Show
at Galleries Maurice Sternberg
(piece shown above by Niels Strobek)







Big Youth at Corbett-Dempsey Gallery
(piece shown above by Joel Dean)










Rodin at the Loyola University Museum of Art
(piece shown above: Portrait of Benedict XV)




Walter Burt Adams
at Richard Norton Gallery








"Beyond Golden Clouds"
Japanese Screens at the Art Institute of Chicago
(Above: "Maize and Coxcombs"
artist unkown, 17th C.)





Midwestern Blab!
at A+D Gallery

(above drawing by Don Colley)












The Grohmann Museum






Modern Wing
at the Art Institute of Chicago










From Lvov to Chicago
at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art







Recent art from China
at the Chicago Cultural Center






Jack Tworkov
at Vallery Carberry





Ian Hornak
at Galleries Maurice Sternberg














Jan Lievens
at Milwaukee Art Museum










Outsider-Insider Art
at the Cincinnati Art Museum






Italian Renaissance Drawing
at the Block Museum











Richard Koppe
at Richard Norton Gallery






Bogosian and Chartow
at Ann Nathan Gallery
(piece shown by Ahzad Bogosian)








Body and Terrain
at Bella Vista Gallery
(piece shown by Kathleen Newman)






Rosenwald Collection
at the Spertus Museum




Hector Duarte and others
at the Mexican Museum of Fine Arts
(piece shown above
by David Sequeiros)





Edvard Munch at the Art Institute






Gold Medal Show at the Palette and Chisel
(piece shown above: Judith McCabe Renner)










Colonial Andean art at DePaul University








Portrait of William Conger














Morris Barazani at Corbett vs. Dempsey









George Clark and others at Murphy Hill Gallery











Murray Jones at Henry Adams Fine Art








David Kroll at Zolla Lieberman Gallery







William Conger at Roy Boyd Gallery









New Galleries of European Art at the Art Institute
(unpublished)








Alsdorf Galleries of Indian and South Asian Art








Henry Coe at Gallery KH











Pottery from Mata Ortiz
at the Field Museum







20th C. Japanese prints and ceramics
at the Buckingham Gallery
of the Art Institute





Figurative art at Temple Har Zion






Nancy Mertz and friends go to China
at the Artful Framer Gallery








Tapestries at the A.I.C.








Arnold Turtle
at the Palette and Chisel








Lane Tech Murals
at the Cultural Center





Goldman Collection of Italian Drawings
(unpublished)
(picture shown by Il Guercino)





Enrique Santana









Murphy Hill Gallery
(picture shown by Alice L. Alexander)






Jeff Aeling







Union League Club
(picture shown by Raymond Perry Rogers)







Gerrit V. Sinclair









Braude Memorial Ceramic Collection







Louis Agassiz Fuertes










The Chinese Approach
(Picture shown by Mary Qian)







Plein Aire Painters of Chicago
(picture shown by Nancy Albrecht)



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