I love it when other cities take note of how much great art we really do create, possess, display, perform, and share. Good for us. Good for us! Thanks to Yvonne Abraham from the Boston Globe for the nod. – Elysabeth Alfano, Fear No Art Chicago Re-Post: CHICAGO — Why don’t we have a Cloud Read more…
Well, I’m back. Having finally recovered (more or less) from packing about 45 hours of music into four days at the Chicago Jazz Festival last weekend, I’m ready to re-engage the music scene. And not a moment too soon, it turns out, as the next 10 weeks promise to keep anyone with ears pretty busy. In Read more…
Everyone says they have a Fall Art Opening Guide but when we say comprehensive, we mean it. We have a lot of content on the site, so here is an index. 1. Our map. The map currently lists 67 gallery openings on Friday and 13 on Saturday. Within that you can sort by venue type Read more…
I, for a long time, have envied sculptors…they change space by shoving their stuff into it, affecting everything around it, sometimes for miles around! Recently, I spent a morning with Richard Hunt, the internationally recognized sculptor with more public works than any other living artist. It’s a given that he just blows me away. His Read more…
I interviewed Kevin Miyazaki the photographer and founder of the altruistic art site collect.give to find out more about the program and the artists involved. The site introduces Kevin as “based in Milwaukee, shoots regularly in nearby Chicago and travels often (for love + work) to St. Louis.” As of last week, Kevin reports that Read more…
September offers tons of opportunities to see great artists and artwork. I’m excited to see the wide range of talent hosted at these exhibitions. What better way to fully encounter Chicago’s undoubted diversity and artistic spirit than to visit a few of these openings over the big opening weekend? Here is a short list of Read more…
The 32nd annual Chicago Jazz Festival officially kicks off at noon Thursday, and the theme is “growth.” This year, the schedule adds a day, returning to the four-day format it last enjoyed nearly two decades ago. The 2010 festival includes three more venues and six more bands than last year’s event, and will host more Read more…
In ancient times – by which I mean the first four years of its existence (1979-82) – the Chicago Jazz Festival was a week-long affair. In the slightly more recent days of yore (1983-88), it still ran for five days, then shrank to four, and finally settled into the three-day weekend it has occupied since Read more…
Get Your Goat This Weekend The last full weekend in August always signifies one thing: the Bucktown Arts Fest has arrived. One (if not the only one) of the city’s absolutely free neighborhood fests (no death stares for a “donation” at the gate … not even gates), the not-for-profit BAF draws a huge crowd, fair Read more…
My friends with a dance studio put out a newsletter saying she doesn’t mind the allergies that come with fall – because it means her kids are back in school and the routine resumes. Here here. So now I don’t even have to pretend to write about August anymore. Last week I didn’t blog about Read more…
