http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/ Chicago- and St. Louis-based writer, editor, and consultant specializing in the arts, media, culture and lifestyle topics for print and online publications, businesses and nonprofits. en Copyright 2009 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:09:48 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss From the glittering blue waters of Lake Michigan to the packed streets of the Magnificent Mile and the lush greenery in Grant Park (affectionately known as our "front yard") –– summer in Chicago is the city at its best. And unlike many culture capitals in the US and abroad who might trim hours or close for vacation, summer is no longer a slow season for the local art community...Read on (download PDF, 3.4MB)]]> http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2009/08/the_art_of_summ.html http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2009/08/the_art_of_summ.html Art Chicago Collection Features Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:09:48 -0600
Le Concorde, Photo: Todd Baxter A roundup of selected music reviews/previews from Flavorpill: The Panda Band w/Pale Young Gentlemen Le Concorde Bettye LaVette Punch Brothers ]]> http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2009/08/music_nonstop.html http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2009/08/music_nonstop.html Clips Flavorpill Reviews Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:48:17 -0600
Chinese New Year Brunch A roundup of selected food-and-drink-centric clips from Flavorpill: Delilah's 11th Annual Vintage Strong Beer Fest Consider the Cocktail: A Slow Celebration of the Repeal of Prohibition Chinese New Year: Dim Sum Brunch Green City Market Chef Demonstration feat. Sarah Stegner and George Bumbaris of Prairie Grass Café The Violet Hour New Year's Day Pajama Brunch Green City Market Chef Demonstration feat. Chef Bruce Sherman ]]> http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2009/08/bon_appetit.html http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2009/08/bon_appetit.html Clips Food Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:59:31 -0600
Chicago, Courtesy A.M.P.A.S. A roundup of film clips (reviews and previews) from Flavorpill: Gigantic Who Does She Think She Is? Waitress (2007) Chicago (1927) w/ accompanist Dave Drazin Tampico (2006) and Chicago Phonography Night Mail (1936) and Whisky Galore! (1949) ]]> http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2009/08/film_comment.html http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2009/08/film_comment.html Clips Film Flavorpill Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:19:03 -0600 In "Urban Warp/Weft," collaborative partners Amanda Browder and Stuart Keeler investigate and expose the interrelated, overlapping, and frequently obscure systems that sustain modern urban life. The artists assert that their projects do not attempt to solve environmental challenges; instead...read on (download PDF, 1.7MB)]]> http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2008/09/amanda_browder.html http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2008/09/amanda_browder.html Architecture/Design Art Clips Reviews Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:36:19 -0600 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 (download PDF, 828K)...]]> http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2008/01/book_review_daw.html http://www.audreymichelle.net/news/archives/2008/01/book_review_daw.html Photography 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 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