March 2011
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edgysedgy: The National Portrait Gallery (London)... →
edgysedgy:
The National Portrait Gallery (London) has on display Tim Noble and Sue Webster’s portrait of Isabella Blow — a stunningly grotesque piece that they just acquired late last year. The artists used stuffed animals such as birds, a rat and a snake as ‘materials’ to form a sculpture…
Fashion Shows, Trunk Shows, and More
Bracelet by By Erin Gordon, at Sarca on Saturday
You can buy tickets at the door tonight for the Chicago Fashion Foundation’s fourth annual scholarship benefit at the Chicago History Museum, 1601 N. Clark. It runs from 6 to 8 PM; admission is $25 for students, $35 for members, and $45 for everyone else.
Also tonight, Cerato, the Southport boutique featuring work by local designers, presents a...
Obamacare for Artists
What health care reform looks like for creative pros—and where to get help now.
Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy
President Barack Obama’s signature on the health insurance reform bill at the White House, March 23, 2010.
Dr. David Hinkamp works at the University of Illinois at Chicago, codirecting the Health in the Arts Program—a medical clinic that was founded to research and...
Art From the Margins of Haiti
The Sifu Design Studio will exhibit paintings and jewelry by founders of a new collective
Dasha Gavrylova
Sue Frame and Flo McGarrell. The close friends were together when an earthquake hit Haiti in January 2010. McGarrell was killed, but his work to make Haiti more friendly to gay artists continues.
Sue Frame and Flores McGarrell stopped at the Peace of Mind Hotel in Jacmel, Haiti, on January...
The Art of War
And the science, too: The Pritzker Military Library and Lyric’s latest are all about battle.
Dan Rest
When high culture takes up a cause, the benefits can be mutual: the cause gets glamorized, the art form gets social relevance, publicity blooms, and cash may even flow. Then the two usually go their separate ways. Last week, on the same day that Lyric Opera treated local veterans to a...
An Artist's Homecoming
Chicago painter Calvin Jones stored work at the South Side Community Arts Center for a decade. Now that he’s getting a memorial show there, they can’t show any of it.
When Calvin Jones died in Arcata, California, on August 21, few knew about it. There were no obituaries or notices for the 76-year-old, Chicago-born artist—one of the midwest’s premier Afrocentric painters,...
Histoire de Melody Gainsbourg
Laetitia Casta and Eric Elmosnino in “Gainsbourg”
Maria’s Packaged Goods & Community Bar celebrates the 20th anniversary of the death of Serge Gainsbourg with Histoire de Melody Gainsbourg, a program of TV appearances and Scopitone films featuring the French pop icon, Wednesday 3/2 at 7 p.m. at 960 W. 31st St.
Afterward, DJ Clochard (aka DJ Vagrant) spins Gainsbourg...
