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The political is performative for Sharon Hayes

The artist/activist gets her first solo show, "Focus: Sharon Hayes," at the Art Institute by Sam Worley In 2008, artist Sharon Hayes led crowds outside the Republican and Democratic national conventions in mass recitations of a text about "political desire and romantic love." It wasn't her first attempt to wed performance to politics.…

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Australian sculptors, an Israeli cartoonist, and a furniture maker meet on Navy Pier

Together again: SOFA and the Intuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art by Sam Worley Last year the exhibition of Sculpture Objects and Functional Art took on a roommate. For the first time, SOFA linked up with another annual event, the Intuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art, at Navy Pier's festival hall.…

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A solo show called "We"

Todd Diederich exhibits his out-of-the-mainstream photos at ACRE Projects by Elly Fishman Photographer Todd Diederich grew up in Chicago's 1990s skateboard subculture, spent six years living in a punk house in Athens, Georgia, and documents Chicago's gay, black underground ballroom scene. Clearly, he's attracted to the fringe.…

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The Museum of Contemporary Photography’s “Crime Unseen”

A group show at Columbia College's photography gallery is all about the scene of the crime by Sam Worley If you're interested in how violent crime resonates through American culture, you could do worse than to study the case of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, the Nebraska teens who murdered ten people and a dog over the course of eight days in January 1958. Their spree has inspired at least a half-dozen movies, including Terrence Malick's 1973 Badlands, and prompted Bruce Springsteen to write the song "Nebraska" ("Me and her went for a ride, sir, and ten innocent people died").…

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Charles James's gowns, inside and out

The Chicago History Museum exhibits work by America's first high-fashion designer by Sam Worley The fashion world took note when actress Marisa Tomei attended the 2011 Academy Awards dressed in a gown designed by Charles James, the mid-20th-century haute couturier who got his sartorial start making hats in Chicago. Tomei's appearance, wrote one blogger, "was both a delight to the senses and a shock to the system for those who feel that garments of such exquisite workmanship and intelligent design that have passed the half century mark should be preserved and not promenaded."…

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Chris Ware reflects on his most nerve-racking Reader cartoon

'I'd assumed by its pretension and ridiculous complexity that it would be rejected' by Chris Ware Probably my fondest memory of being published at the Reader was the week in August 2002 that I sent in the attached strip—about which I felt completely, utterly wretched. In fact, I'd assumed by its pretension and ridiculous complexity that it would be rejected or I might even be fired; I was prepared for either inclemency.…

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Art against atrocity

Mandy Cano Villalobos speaks out silently in Voces by Sam Worley They're called feminicidios—femicides. According to a 2010 estimate from the International Media Project, nearly 500 women have been murdered in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez since 1993, most of them young, low-income factory workers or students.…

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"War Stories"

Mary King's at Woman Made Gallery by Sam Worley Mary King's "War Stories," at Woman Made Gallery "Were you scared?…

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Chicago Artists Month touts 200+ events

Thirty-one days of city-sponsored art events by Sam Worley Here comes the 16th annual Chicago Artists Month, a city-sponsored parade of art exhibits, studio tours, gallery walks—more than 200 events in all. It kicks off Friday with a reception at the Ravenswood Event Center (7-11 PM, 4011 N. Ravenswood, ravenswoodartwalk.org).…

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Bumper stickers, bookmarks, postcards

"The Alternative Press Multiple Originals Project" celebrates 30 years of letterpressed poetry by Sam Worley Bumper stickers, bookmarks, postcards—in the beginning, Ken and Ann Mikolowski printed poetry on whatever was at hand. Their Alternative Press emerged in late-1960s Detroit, two years after the infamous riots that left 43 people dead.…

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"A form which resists facts..."

Zachary Cahill's art of profusion in USSA 2012: The Orphanage Project by Bert Stabler Discussing his horror-vacui installation Das Auge (The Eye), Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn told Gregory Burke of the Power Plant gallery in Toronto, "I want to give a form which resists facts, which resists opinion and which goes beyond actuality. . . . The eye doesn't need to know—the eye just sees and that's what counts."…

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In the beginning there was nothing

The eloquent silence of "Our Origins" by Tony Adler People are forever talking about origins. Can you imagine a text more thoroughly chewed over than the one that starts "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth"?…

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The Art Institute's "Windows on the War" looks at the Soviet battle for hearts and minds during World War II

An exhibit of wartime Soviet propaganda posters, at the Art Institute. by Bill Stamets Violence ricochets from wall to wall in "Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941–1945." Based on a long-overlooked Art Institute collection, the show offers an encyclopedic installation of 157 epic-scaled, World War II-era Soviet propaganda posters whose graphic style is at times as visceral as their shocking content.…

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