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Special Report: My Galivants with Pooh Zawicki at MDW Chicago
Pooh Zawicki at MDW Fair. Image courtesy Rachel Helene Swift. BY MICHAEL WORKMAN It’s a chilly Fall evening here in Chicago, and I’ve spent the day helping Chicago artist Frank Pollard lug around a...
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A Conversation With Thomas Blackman, Part 3
Chicago's Merchandise Mart, the location of the annual Art Chicago (recently renamed "Next Art Chicago") and owners of the Armory Show, Platform LA and other fair properties. This is the third in a...
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Crash Mentality
Illustration for the tech issue of Newcity Chicago by Brett Muller. Courtesy Newcity. For this week’s technology-themed issue of art and culture alt-weekly Newcity, I wrote a piece on how technology...
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Briefing Room: Diane Christiansen
Diane Christiansen and Shoshanna Utchenik, "Notes to Nonself," 2011. Installation view. Courtesy the artists and the Hyde Park Art Center. My series “Briefing Room,” an ongoing collection of artist...
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Op-Ed: Transformational Experiences in Space
Image of the Oakland Occupation by Asad Haider. Courtesy Viewpoint Magazine. BY MICHAEL WORKMAN I was reading Asad Haider’s excellent “Notes on Oakland” over at Viewpoint magazine this morning after a...
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Hope Dies Last: The Lasting Scars of Difficult Times
Illustration: Zeke Danielson. Courtesy Newcity. “True Stories” has been pretty busy these past few weeks with other writing. Here’s a excerpt and link to a new cover story just published over at...
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Cynthia Plastercaster Writes Her Autobiography (Finally)
Cynthia Plastercaster. Courtesy the artist. BY MICHAEL WORKMAN Cynthia Plastercaster, nee Cynthia Albritton, has earned a place for herself among the world’s most famous groupies, if not THE most...
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Is Art Still A Matter of Shared Humanity?
Jean Baptist Junior, Miguelita " Farah" Joseph, Eder Romeus performing at Alliance Francais in Jakmel, Haiti; Spare Change Theater Project presented “An Evening in Paradise” at the Alliance Francaise...
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Mike Kelley’s MC5 Party
This from Don Celender and Ricardo Bloch’s 1996 book Mortal Remains, found at Chicago artist Marc Fisher’s “Public Collectors” site: A response from artist Mike Kelley, scanned from Mortal Remains, a...
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The Problem With Art
Cover image of Proximity #9 BY MICHAEL WORKMAN Below is an essay that recently came out in the Chicago-based periodical art journal Proximity. I’m reproducing it here in its entirety with the...
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Self-Reflection in Chicago: A Photo Essay
Caitlin Baucom with Colleen Marie, "Sick," at Defibrillator BY MICHAEL WORKMAN Chicago is in a somewhat public mode of self-examination at the moment. Does the city want a biennial or doesn’t it? Can...
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