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How to Frame an Allegory
Not all ideas need to turn into products though, the best ones tend to become stories, without the need to turn into products.
Category: Art and Ideas
Politics is Like Trying to Screw a Cat in the Ass
Political art is at its best when it’s art first and foremost, and only incidentally a work of politics.
Kara’s Picks
Kara Leffler, one of “men behind the curtain,” so to speak, gives you her picks of what’s opening this week.
Updates to the Art Map!
Take a look at what we’ve done with the our Art Map and Art Calendar Tools since our launch in June!
Nut Up Or Shut Up: The Artist As Critic
By Chicago Art Map on Oct 30, 2009 in Art and Ideas
Artist and CAM contributor Jeriah Hildwine discusses the situation of artist as critic in contemporary art discourse.
Barbara Jones-Hogu and the Philosophy of AfriCOBRA
by Kathryn Born
Barbara Jones-Hogu is currently getting a Master’s in film, and plans create documentaries about the work of artists. But her history won’t let her be — she was one of the founders (and one of the few women), in the African American art group, AfriCOBRA.
The South Side Community Art Center brought together several of [...]
Replublicans, Again, Are Owning Obama Art News
By Chicago Art Map on Oct 15, 2009 in Art and Ideas
by Kathryn Born
When I posted about the NEA scandal, people wrote.. “but that story come from … conservatives!! How could you dignify it by re-blogging it!”
Well, here’s another one and the reason, as a left-of-Stalin liberal, that I forward these stories is because when we DON’T acknowledge the fact that the White House curator made [...]
Faheem Majeed. Remember that name.
I always complain that the same twenty writers cover the same forty artists, and when I started this blog, I was determined to break away from the usual suspects and find some new talent. Overall, the blog hasn’t been too successful in that goal, but if there is one person I feel like I’ve found by going off the beaten path, someone who wasn’t on the radar, then it’s Faheem Majeed.
Spotlight: Flat Iron Building and the $1,000 Contest for Artwork About an Intersection
Spotlight on Flat Iron’s intersection artwork contest
Highlights from the Opening of the Fall Gallery Season: West Loop
By Kathryn on Sep 26, 2009 in Art and Ideas
by Jeriah Hildwine
West Loop Part I: Wight, Western, Hoffman, Walsh, and Miller
The free shuttle bus was packed like a cattle car as we rumbled away from River North, leaving several would-be passengers standing disappointed on the sidewalk. The lowing and baying herd, myself included, was disgorged at our destination: a meat-packing district, appropriately enough. [...]
