http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/ Chicago-based writer, editor, and marketing consultant specializing in the arts, media, culture and lifestyle topics for a variety of publications, businesses and nonprofits. en Copyright 2008 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:59:14 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Class Pictures By Dawoud Bey [Aperture, 2007. 164 pages. $45.00, hardcover] “For all this rhetoric about ‘leave no child behind,’ I don’t think this society, quite frankly, gives a shit about young people other than as a kind of periodic political football,” says photographer Dawoud Bey in an interview with his former student Carrie Mae Weems in Class Pictures. “I’m trying to construct a kind of representation of the teenage subject that functions in opposition to those representations of teenagers as socially problematic or as engines for a certain consumerism.” Read on...]]> http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2008/01/book_review_daw.html http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2008/01/book_review_daw.html Books Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:59:14 -0600 She's a filmmaker who embroiders, a feminist who loves guys, an artist who's making noise as a curator: Columbia alum Marci Rae McDade (B.A. '01) believes in timelessness and finds inspiration in art history—the unapologetically turns it on its head. Read on... ]]> http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2008/01/feature_intervi.html http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2008/01/feature_intervi.html Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:33:06 -0600 check it out!]]> http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2007/11/new_gig_managin.html http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2007/11/new_gig_managin.html Shameless self-promotion Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:41:32 -0600 Read on... ]]> http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2007/05/oh_the_places_y.html http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2007/05/oh_the_places_y.html Features Wed, 23 May 2007 12:45:13 -0600 Read on... ]]> http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2007/05/all_about_artro.html http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2007/05/all_about_artro.html Wed, 02 May 2007 12:10:07 -0600 "MP3: Midwest Photographers Publication Project," DEMO4, Fall/Winter 2006, Vol. 2, Issue 1, p. 37. I'm a big fan of photographer Brian Ulrich, so I was pleased to write a book review of MP3, the recent trio of books published by MoCP and Aperture, which highlights Ulrich's work, for the Fall 2006 issue of DEMO, the beautifully produced magazine for friends and alumni of Columbia College Chicago (my alma mater). Read my review at DEMO online.]]> http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2006/12/book_review_mp3.html http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2006/12/book_review_mp3.html Books Thu, 07 Dec 2006 12:49:03 -0600 Neighborhood art walks are a great way to explore the city’s creative enclaves. Put these favorites on your calendar. http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2006/10/talk_the_walks.html http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2006/10/talk_the_walks.html Features Sun, 15 Oct 2006 13:10:41 -0600 New City Chicago, September 7, 2006, p.21. My first art review for the Chicago alt-weekly New City covers the inimitable Scott Fife's recent show at Tony Wight's Bodybuilder and Sportsman gallery.]]> http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2006/09/new_city_scott.html http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2006/09/new_city_scott.html Sat, 16 Sep 2006 17:12:20 -0600 Flavorpill Chicago, I've recently contributed to two issues of Artkrush, an online magazine focused on the international fine art scene that's a part of the Flavorpill culture-pub empire. First, a review of Edgar Arceneaux at Gallery 400 at UIC, and coming soon, a review of Los Carpinteros in Cincinnati. Meanwhile, make sure to subscribe to Flavorpill and get filtered cultural stimuli delivered to your inbox each Tuesday. For a taste of the Flavor, here's my review of Forecast, an exhibtion of local artists Shannon Stratton and Lisa Boumstein-Smalley at Gallery 40000, Britton Bertran's brilliant art space that, sadly, is soon moving out of my 'hood and into the West Loop gallery district proper...]]> http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2006/06/krushin_on_the.html http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2006/06/krushin_on_the.html Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:12:08 -0600 Uber+Punctum Newsletter, a semi-annual roundup of Museum happening, curatorial projects, and hot artists to watch. Snap!]]> http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2006/06/recent_projects_2.html http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2006/06/recent_projects_2.html News Mon, 05 Jun 2006 20:39:27 -0600 Another fascinating assignment from Kasia Kay...a brochure on her current exhibition of stylish and cinematic work by husband-and-wife art team Nick and Sheila Pye. Sheila and Nick Pye's work is a teetering see-saw, a complex set of juxtapositions that illuminates their intimacy while emphasizing our place, as viewers, outside their private coupledom. Yet a glimpse into their secret dream-world reveals that their works do not represent unity, per se. Instead, they are largely concerned with duality – sometimes discord, but more often, harmony. ]]> http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2006/05/recent_projects_1.html http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2006/05/recent_projects_1.html Tue, 30 May 2006 20:30:42 -0600 Manifest. It's a massive art party in Chicago's South Loop and a celebration of the achievements of graduating seniors at my alma mater, Columbia College Chicago. I've been busy-busy assisting the Manifest staff, copywriting and editing promotional material galore. Don't miss the big day, this Friday, May 12!]]> http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2006/05/manifest_2006.html http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2006/05/manifest_2006.html Mon, 08 May 2006 19:52:25 -0600 Kasia Kay to create informative promotional materials for her artists, including the brilliant Sandra Bermudez Read my take on Sandra's work here, where the text has been reproduced at an Italian art website. Ciao! ]]> http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2006/05/recent_projects.html http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2006/05/recent_projects.html Shameless self-promotion Mon, 01 May 2006 19:42:50 -0600 Flavorpill, an online magazine with outposts in Chicago, London, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, I write listings for upcoming and ongoing arts and culture events on a weekly basis. Check out these entries about artist Tiffany Calvert and the band The Books.]]> http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2006/03/recent_work_1.html http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2006/03/recent_work_1.html News Sat, 18 Mar 2006 17:44:43 -0600 "I was raised with society’s lesson that ‘nice little girls always wear a smile,’ but I always felt like breaking things," says Lawrence, Kansas-based artist Kristen Ferrell, whose paintings, drawings and prints often feature grotesque creatures and severed body parts juxtaposed with curlique flourishes and delicate rendering. "I'm drawn to things that are ultra-decorative and pretty, but when I start putting the images in there, they just come out really angry and gross," she explains.]]> http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2005/10/pistilmagazine.html http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2005/10/pistilmagazine.html Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:59:43 -0600