Hope you enjoyed that red-drenched February holiday spent with loved ones and gifts in paper form... Chinese New Year, duh.
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| (Still relevant to CNY.) Spotted this in downtown Chicago. One of my Dreams of a City assistants saw one in Lakeview as well. |
Some personal news:
- Apparently I have one of the top 1% most viewed LinkedIn profiles of 2012. Thanks for
creepingstalkinglooking at my profile!
- Two years ago, I moved into the city of Chicago. What a great decision. Here’s to all the wonderful people I’ve met in this wonderful place.
A roundup of news and tips from the past few weeks (if you’re interested in getting these and more on a daily basis, you can follow Artists on the Lam on Twitter and Facebook!):
Awesome people doing awesome stuff:
Awesome people doing awesome stuff:
- Congratulations to Tempestt Hazel, friend and co-founder of Sixty Inches From Center, for topping Chicago Magazine’s “C Notes Power List: Art’s Hit Makers”! She deserves it. She’s also a great hugger.
- As a preview of the Art Institute of Chicago’s new Kara Walker: Rise Up Ye Mighty Race! exhibition, I live-tweeted last week’s sold-out Chicago Humanities Festival talk about race and identity, featuring the artist herself. (The last local event I live-tweeted was “Art: How It Moves,” part of Chicago Ideas Week, which you can read about in this post.) She casually threw around questions like “What are the stories we tell to help us understand our being in the world?” She shaded Steven Spielberg. She wore an outfit that I coveted. She called her childhood self a witch. She elicited an audience reaction that tempted me to create the hashtag #WhiteLaughter (but I refrained). Her brilliance here (scroll down a little, past my freaking out about David Bowie and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but not further than my freaking out about Frank Ocean and Depeche Mode... welcome).
Free stuff:
- Speaking of the Art Institute, Free Thursday Evenings are back! (I may or may not have already used one such evening to plaster the place with postcards.*) Just in time for the new Picasso and Chicago exhibition.
- Leonardo Da Vinci’s notebooks have been published online. (I idolized him as a teen because he made me feel less weird about simultaneously being an artist and a scientist-slash-nerd. Slightly less weird.)
Interesting stuff:
- This is a 3D printing pen that lets you draw sculptures in midair. This was my reaction after watching the video.
*(“Snail mail is dying”? “The post office is going
bankrupt”?
And
impressions of L.A.:
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| James Turrell installation at NYE+BROWN, L.A. |
You can take a look at photos of my recent L.A. trip
on Flickr, on Facebook, and via the slideshow below.
From unexpectedly walking into and subsequently geeking out over a Metropolis and Cabinet of Dr. Caligari exhibition at the LACMA to shamelessly asking a Culver City gallerist where the nearest In-N-Out Burger was (crossing off an item from my food bucket list was worth the side-eye OK), I’ve got you covered.
From unexpectedly walking into and subsequently geeking out over a Metropolis and Cabinet of Dr. Caligari exhibition at the LACMA to shamelessly asking a Culver City gallerist where the nearest In-N-Out Burger was (crossing off an item from my food bucket list was worth the side-eye OK), I’ve got you covered.
Previous
art trip: Miami (covered in December’s “Notes from [an] underground [art scene advocate / Miami Art Week virgin],” one of the most read posts of 2012).
Next
art trip: Hong Kong (flight tickets booked! May 16–29).
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