Happy summer solstice! (To the southern hemisphere
folks: Happy winter solstice, although I’ll still wish you a happy summer
solstice as well because summer.) I’m
back, un-jetlagged, and bear happy news (happy!):
Artists on the Lam has
been named the “Best Local Visual Arts
Blog” in the Chicago Reader’s
Best of Chicago issue! It’s so crazy / such a great honor especially when I
consider how established the runner-up is. (While this blog has posts like this
and this.) Thank you so, so much to everyone who voted! You can view the
issue online and / or pick up a copy at newsstands.
On Saturday I conducted
portfolio reviews at Sixty Inches From Center and WBEZ’s “Get Archived!” event. I had so much fun meeting artists and seeing their
work. I also had fun doing things like this. (I wish
everyone could’ve witnessed, firsthand, just how much SIFC co-founder Tempestt Hazel giggled
while she took and uploaded that photo.) (A photo that, I’d say, sums me up
pretty well.)
And that little trip I got back from…
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| Inside a Man Mo temple. |
Ah, Hong Kong. My soulcity. From partying in a
parking garage on the industrial outskirts of town to kickin’ it with a cousin
in the infamously seedy Chungking Mansions, I micro-blogged about my
adventures in the Fragrant Harbour on Facebook and Twitter. I
also took plenty of photos, and you can check them out in the following albums:
The inaugural Art Basel Hong Kong:
Everything else
(including the local art scene):
More about my trip to
come. For now… here. Click on the cap below. Do it.
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| Oh hey. |
Yep, that’s me at the first Art Basel Hong Kong Conversations
panel. I ask my question / introduce myself at around 1 hr. 24 min. into the
video.
Heads
up:
Chicagoans: Next month,
the Chicago Public Library will welcome the city’s first free “Maker Space.”
That means public access to 3D printers, laser cutters, and more.
East Coasters: The
glorious giant inflatable rubber duck
I saw in Hong Kong will be gracing Pittsburgh next. Also, go see this
new mural by ICY and SOT, young street artists I interviewed several
months ago:
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| ICY and SOT at Welling Court in Queens. (Photo by Lois Stavsky.) |
The
revolution will not be televised.
Now, go out and enjoy summer! (Or winter and backwards-flushing
toilets and unicorns.)
