Join Elysabeth Alfano on Fear No ART for candid interviews with authors Sara Paretsky on Gwendolyn Brooks, Haki Mudhubhuti on Richard Wright and photographer Art Shay on Nelson Algren during the inaugural Chicago Literary Awards in 2010. The 2010 Chicago Literary Awards honored Saul Bellow, Studs Terkel, Lorraine Hansberry, Gwendolyn Brooks, Richard Wright and Nelson Read more…

With one more week of Chicago Artists Month, there are so many gallery openings and ongoing exhibits to see including Ray Noland’s “Let Them Eat Cro” exhibition (through Oct 28, 2011), this week’s post focuses on the artists selected for the Merchandise Artists in Residence Program (through Oct 31 2011) sponsored by the Chicago Artists Read more…

Join host Elysabeth Alfano as she goes behind of the scenes of DPR Art Rescue to learn the conservation techniques that bring precious artwork back to life. Disaster Planning & Response Art Rescue Evacuation: Time is crucial during a disaster and a quick response becomes the decisive element of preventing the disaster from becoming a Read more…

Want to find out how a rich oil magnate took his oil fortune and squandered it on the longest running box-office failure in New York theater history, The Ladder? Home to the ever popular, long-running Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, The Neo-Futurarium presents Chalk and Saltwater – learn about the title’s inspiration at neofuturists.org. Read more…

Host, Elysabeth Alfano, speaks with Chief Curator of Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Michael Darling.  Join them as they stroll through the current exhibition, “Pandora’s Box: Joseph Cornell Unlocks the MCA Collection”, and discuss some of the greatest artists in the MCA collection, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol.   In addition, Mr. Darling talks about Read more…