Correction: The original version of our Best Bet item on “Afterimage” omitted and confused information relating to the main exhibit and its three satellite shows.
In the Imagist spirit, the exhibits highlight links between high and low art, comic books and tchotchkes, as well as the aesthetics of heterogeneous agglomeration. But they also emphasize a great gift the Imagists gave Chicago: a vision of art as the product not of isolated genius but of communities—friends and colleagues, the dead and living, curators, artists, and everyone else—creating a joyful mess together. —Noah Berlatsky “Afterimage”: 9/14-11/18: Mon-Thu 11 AM-5 PM, Fri 11 AM-7 PM, Sat-Sun noon-5 PM, DePaul Art Museum, 935 W. Fullerton, 773-325-7506, museums.depaul.edu, free. “Afterimage at the Roger Brown Study Collection”: 9/15-11/18: Sat 1-4 PM and by appointment, Roger Brown Study Collection, 1926 N. Halsted, 773-929-2452, saic.edu/rogerbrown, free. “Spotlight Exhibition: Afterimage”: Through 12/7, Mon-Sat 10 AM-6 PM, Columbia College Chicago Center for Book & Paper Arts, 1104 S. Wabash, 312-369-6630, colum.edu/Academics/Interarts/index. “Afterimage: Selections from the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection”: 9/14-11/11: Mon-Thu 9 AM- 7:30 PM, Fri 9 AM- 4 PM, Sat noon-3 PM, film screening event Tue 10/2, 6 PM, Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Flaxman Library, 37 S. Wabash, #508, 312-899-5098, saic.edu/art_design/special_collections/joan_flasch, free.
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Building: Inside Studio Gang Architects
Jeanne Gang can’t be said to suffer from underexposure. She was already plenty acclaimed when the MacArthur Foundation handed her a pile of money last September, just for being a genius. The fact that her most famous work to date—the rippling, 82-story Aqua Tower—was completed just two years ago suggests that there’s much more coming from this 48-year-old Chicagoan who started Studio Gang Architects in 1997.
Awash in Color
Setting aside the considerable visual appeal of the woodblock prints it denotes, I’ve always been drawn to the very romantic term ukiyo-e—”pictures of the floating world.” In Edo-era Japan, ukiyo-e depicted the newfound pleasures enjoyed by the prosperous urban classes: a night at the theater, a trip to the countryside, the company of a geisha.
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Fall Arts Calendar: An event for each of the season’s 80 days
