Chicago Week artist Dmitry Samarov's "O'Hare Staging Area #10"
- Chicago Week, a collaboration between Gapers Block and Wall Blank is well underway. Each weekday this week, an interview with an artist and a corresponding print will be made available for one week through Wall Blank. 10% of the proceeds will benefit the Chicago Artists' Coalition. So far, featured artists include Dmitry Samarov, Sharon Parmet, Mark Hansen and David Schalliol. Check A/C Friday afternoon for a feature on Clare Rosean.
- Elsewhere on ChicagoNow, Amy Guth is looking for local literary tweeters.
- Zach Dodson, one of the founders of featherproof books, interviews Amelia Gray, author of featherproof's latest title, AM/PM.
- Carl Giometti headed down to Millennium Park in order to review the Zaha Hadid and UNStudio's Ben van Berkel pavilions for the Burnham Centennial before the temporary closure of the van Berkel pavilion.
- Bad at Sports invented a new "lost" Chicago movie that looks pretty darned good.
- By now, most everyone in the art world knows about the July 29 fire at Peggy Cooper Cafritz's D.C. home, in which hundreds of works by prominent artists were destroyed. Burned in the fire include pieces by prominent Chicago artists, such as Kerry James Marshall's Power to the People. Amazingly, O Magazine's current issue happened to have a feature of the house.
- Listen to J.M. Coetzee read from Summertime, thanks to the New York Review of Books podcast, or read the passages yourself online.
- Chicago artist Jeff Zimmerman designed these kicks for Lebron James to "express LeBron's positive energy through color and motion." [Via]
- A senior in economics at Princeton's findings about gender bias in the theater have sparked quite the media frenzy, including this interesting piece in which Chicago theater luminaries weighed in on the issue.
- Check out the bestselling books in Chicagoland last week.
- The Art Institute and MoMA have teamed up to uncover the mystery of the Matisse.
- Daniel Shea is funding his September trip to southern Ohio to work on his next series by having a sale of editioned (and non-editioned) work from his Removing Mountains series.
- Looking for a last minute documentary idea for Chicago 360? WBEZ has some suggestions.
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