September 2024 Issue: Art 50 + Fall Arts (Digital Edition)
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Art 50 2024
Chicago's visual vanguard
"The ecosystem of art in Chicago runs strong and deep. That's my takeaway after working on this year's edition of Art 50, which included meeting nearly everyone on the list. Institutions both large and small are on the upswing, both in terms of leadership and creativity. Galleries, established as well as a heady group of newcomers, are expanding the market in terms of scale and scope, and the two major Chicago-based auction houses have undergone dramatic transitions, aiming to play not only on a regional stage but also nationally." (Brian Hieggelke)
FALL ARTS PREVIEW 2024
Anonymous Woman
Why isn't Patty Carroll more famous?"
"Patty Carroll wanted to face her frustrations. So a large and sturdy diorama greets visitors when they walk into Carroll’s photography studio in Ukrainian Village. The eight-foot-tall by eight-foot-wide wood box is switched out every few weeks for Carroll’s works of whimsy and meaning. On this afternoon in mid-July, a female mannequin in a pleated cotton-blend checkered dress is tending to a stable of nearly forty chicken figurines. Ceramic hens are on the floor, a few more are perched on a red shelf and the rest are in wooden crates, all set within the diorama." (Dave Hoekstra)
+ Can't Miss Fall Art Events
Caught in the Act
William Frederking's Dancer Portrait Project (Photo Essay)
"Chances are, if you read this magazine—or any other arts publication in Chicago—you’ve seen William Frederking’s work. Check the caption of an image in any dance section in the last thirty years and the odds are better than a coin flip you’ll see it credited to Frederking." (Sharon Hoyer)
+ Can't Miss Fall Dance Events
Dress For It
Behind Chicago’s revitalized Fashion Week
"Chicago Fashion Week 2024 is set to make its grand debut, marking the first such undertaking in a decade. We sat down with co-founders Ian Gerard and Maggie Gillette to discuss this landmark event—from its decentralized format intended to bring fashion excitement to various neighborhoods and engage the entire city, to the ways it bridges past, present and future, celebrating established designers and rising stars alike." (Vasia Rigou)
+ Can't Miss Fall Design Events
Light Years
The image according to Roger Deakins
"Cinematographer Roger Deakins is taking a break from a long and lustrous career that includes sixteen Oscar nominations and two wins (for '1917' and 'Blade Runner 2049'), as well as recurring work with directors Sam Mendes, Denis Villeneuve and the Coen brothers. Since art school, where he first had eyes on a career as a photographer, Deakins has shot stills separate from what became a career in film, capturing moments in black-and-white on regular walkabouts in his home of England and elsewhere." (Ray Pride)
+ Can't Miss Fall Film Events
Pilgrim Progress
The Holden Caulfield of the millennial generation
"If the millennial generation—my generation—has a Holden Caulfield, his name is Scott Pilgrim. It’s fitting that our Holden would be born not from prose but from comics, marinated in video games and pop culture, and disseminated via movies. Scott Pilgrim is a peak work of youth culture, tied to its place in time and yet timeless for its themes of growth and aimlessness." (Brendan Tynan Buck)
+ Can't Miss Fall Lit Events
Anthony’s Aria
The curtain falls on the Freud era at Lyric Opera
"For Anthony Freud, the fat lady has sung. Or as Canio says at the end of Leoncavallo's “Pagliacci,” “La commedia è finita!” After thirty years of being an opera administrator in the U.K. and the United States, Anthony Freud has left the building. For the last thirteen seasons, that building has been the Lyric Opera House." (Dennis Polkow)
+ Can't Miss Fall Music Events
A Company of Mad Scientists in The House of Belonging
How Collaboraction reinvented itself, over and over and over
"Anthony Moseley, artistic director of Collaboraction, is giving me a tour of what will be the company’s theater and performance space and art center within the Kimball Arts Center, at the corner of Kimball and Bloomingdale, where Logan Square meets Humboldt Park, directly across the street from The 606 trail. The building is a renovated dark brick factory and warehouse, part of the exterior along the side facing Bloomingdale is painted dark gray, another is an abstract mural—white and orange and yellow and two shades of blue. Inside it is all steel and concrete and glass, hardwood floors and painted sheetrock." (Jack Helbig)
+ Can't Miss Fall Stage Events
Arts & Culture
Art: Edra Soto's got a Central Park state of mind
Dance: Para.Mar Dance Theatre takes a stage
Design: INT.D's Hazel Belvins on “Science Art”
+ Mood: Coffee Table Books
Film: Fears Of A Clown: Unmasking filmmaker Todd Phillips and his Joker
Lit: Sympathy for the devil with Ananda Lima
Music: How Brent Heyl brought the Warm Love Cool Dreams Festival to life
Stage: Hogwarts From the Heartland: Chicago actors Matt Mueller and Larry Yando
Reviews
We're just getting started
Poetry
“I’m Cleaning My Apartment”: A new poem by Meghan Malachi