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…
In an era when a laugh is most needed and a feature can be shot for less than $100,000, writer/director team, Ron Falzone and Jack C. Newell, respectively, are taking advantage of the independent market with their improvisational feature comedy, Close Quarters, starring Second City veteran Susan Messing [Watch Fear No Art Chicago’s interview with Read more…
In support of the Outfest Legacy Project screening at Gene Siskel Film Center this Thursday, Sept 8 at 8PM, I am taking the opportunity to convey what good the archive is doing to preserve the memory of queer film as well as how easy it is to support its ongoing preservation projects, which keep the Read more…
In this interview with Elysabeth Alfano of Fear No ART, Jeff Zimmerman discusses the making of his mural at Chicago’s Oak Street Beach. A native of Chicago, Jeff Zimmermann has achieved national and international recognition for his large scale murals featuring painted images of contemporary pop culture and sensitively rendered portraits. Zimmermann’s pop-culture references range Read more…
Enjoy the in-depth and intimate conversation above with Kurt Elling and Fear No ART host, Elysabeth Alfano. On Friday, September 30, the Union League Club of Chicago will proudly induct jazz vocalist and composer Kurt Elling as a Distinguished Musician. Kurt Elling (born November 2, 1967) is an American jazz vocalist, composer, lyricist and vocalese Read more…
If you’ve ever bought a ticket to a fundraising gala, it’s more than just cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. For the savvy film director/producer, it’s money well-spent on networking with industry professionals. You may have gone to IFP’s Independent Film Galas or the many Midwest Independent Film Festival after-parties, but Kartemquin offers something a little different Read more…
Following up our behind the scenes interview at the premiere of Steve James‘ The Interrupters (2011), this month, Chicagoans would find it hard not notice in the news the increasing number of youth-related violence incidents, youth homelessness, and youth job readiness. Even as the last of Chicago’s housing projects have fallen, a record number of Read more…
Tickets for the June 25th Dinner Party, click here. Steve James is the award-winning director, producer, and co-editor of Kartemquin’s Hoop Dreams, which won every major critics award as well as a Peabody and Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in 1995. The film earned James the Directors Guild of America Award and the MTV Movie Read more…
Named Chicago’s Best Reporter and a member of the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame, Rick Kogan is a senior writer and columnist for the Chicago Tribune’s Sunday section and creator and host of “The Sunday Papers with Rick Kogan” on WGN-AM. Kogan began his career at 16, working for the Chicago Sun-Times during the tumultuous Read more…
At 7PM on Thursday, August 27th, I Paint My Mind, a progressive Chicago-based web magazine for the arts will be holding its first film screening at Center Portion, featuring Oscar-nominated Wasteland (2010) by Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, and João Jardim. Brian Flannery, Executive Board Member of the Chicago non-profit shared his excitement about the documentary, Read more…
