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Jeremy Plotkin Wong: Myth Through Clay
By Marky Salvati | Images Courtesy of the Artist | Plotkin Wong with their Ceramic Sculptures ...
Jun 233 min read
I Survived EXPO and All I Got Is This Lousy $20,000 Painting
By Heather Higgins | For the first time in my life I attended Expo Chicago, a yearly ritual so vast and opulent that people from across...
Jun 134 min read
The Puppet Stands Trial: The Controversy Chicago Artists Should be Paying Attention to
By Heather Higgins | It is a truism so often repeated that it almost ceases to have meaning, but we are living in very strange times. I...
Apr 95 min read


A Conversation With Asma Ghanem: Palestinian Tables as Resistance
By Marky Salvati | Images Courtesy of the Artist | Watermelon Table acrylic ink & pastel 55x50 Asma Ghanem is a Palestinian artist,...
Mar 103 min read


A Conversation with Sara Akhtar: Art and Design in the Ornamental
By Marky Salvati | Images Courtesy of the Artist | Pool Paati Wood, Fabric Sara Akhtar is a Pakistani-American painter and designer...
Jan 232 min read


The Passion of the Puppet: Exploring the Chicago Puppetry Renaissance
By Heather Marie Higgins | Photos by Heather Marie Higgins Out of the corner of my eye, I see what I think is a crouching fox — though...
Jan 236 min read


A Conversation with Ruby Greene: Her Imagined World and Her Teeth
By Marky Salvati | Images courtesy of the artist | FLOORED (2024) Sony ZV-E10 R uby...
Dec 7, 20242 min read
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