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Art dealer David Kordansky and Rashid Johnson with Houses in Motion, a work of branded redwood flooring from the collection of Rosa de la Cruz

OUT WITH RASHID JOHNSON
by Pedro Vélez

Apr. 17, 2012

Jet setters and art-world heavyweights, not monsters or black cats, showed up for the opening of “Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks,” Apr. 14-Aug. 5, 2012, organized by Julie Rodrigues Widholm at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago on Friday the 13th, 2012.

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Pedro Vélez Archives

Mar. 6, 2012	Puerto Rico Sun WHOLE LOTTA PAIN by Pedro Vélez "Vividos / Vividos," a show addressing brutal personal truths, at the Museo de Arte de Caguas in Puerto Rico.

Feb. 16, 2012	Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2012 GO WEST, YOUNG ART FAIR by Pedro Vélez West Coast élan and plenty of star power at the third edition of Art Los Angeles Contemporary.

Jan. 20, 2012	Party Pictures ART LOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY Photos by Pedro Vélez Good deals and a festive atmosphere abound at Art Los Angeles Contemporary at the Barker Hangar, Jan. 19-22, 2012..

Jan. 19, 2012	Detroit: 138 Square Miles RUIN PORN GALORE FOR BOTH RICH AND POOR by Pedro Vélez Considering Julia Reyes Taubman and her massive picture book, Detroit: 138 Square Miles, published by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.

Dec. 13, 2011	The Art Prophets CONFIDENCE MEN by Pedro Vélez The profiles in Richard Polsky's The Art Prophets suggest that many visionaries are wolves in sheeps' clothing.

Nov. 7, 2011	Lou Reed & Metallica ONCE WILD AT HEART by Pedro Vélez Lulu, the inimitable Lou Reed’s new “high-concept album” with trash metal icons Metallica, doesn’t deliver.

Sept. 28, 2011	New Art GALLERY WEEKEND CHICAGO by Pedro Vélez Monique Meloche and her team launch Gallery Weekend Chicago, Sept. 16-18, 2011.

Sept. 12, 2011	Hennessy Youngman ART THOUGHTZ AT THE CHICAGO MCA by Pedro Vélez The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art has a home run with Hennessy Youngman.

Aug. 15, 2011	"Report from Chicago" PHOTOCOPIED REBELLION by Pedro Vélez Underground music fanzines from the late 1980s and early '90s, courtesy Public Collectors in Chicago.

July 7, 2011	Sasha Grey GREY GARDENS by Pedro Vélez Sex star Sasha Grey's Neü Sex, a book of her own photographs and diary entries.

June 21, 2011	The Charlie Sheen Complex CHICAGO, WE HAVE A PROBLEM by Pedro Vélez With its five new art fairs, Chicago, like Charlie Sheen, must be "winning!"

June 6, 2011	Jennifer Schmidt SOUND IN PRINT by Pedro Vélez An interview with the Brooklyn-based conceptual artist who makes sound installations and supergraphics.

May 31, 2011	Art School Confidential NEW MFA GRADS AT CHICAGO ART SCHOOLS by Pedro Vélez New talent from Chicago MFA programs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Center for Book & Paper Arts at Columbia College, and the School of the Art Institute.

May 25, 2011	JIMMY BAKER'S DOUBLE TILLMAN by Pedro Vélez At the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, painter Jimmy Baker mixes radical painting and radical politics.

Apr. 20, 2011	Michael Wynne TRUE COLLECTING by Pedro Vélez Dallas artist Michael Wynne builds his art collection the right way.

Apr. 15, 2011	Art Cologne 2011 SCENT OF SUCCESS? by Pedro Vélez Out and about at Germany's own art fair, Art Cologne, Apr. 13-17, 2011.

Apr. 4, 2011	CBPA Chicago BOOKWORMS IN NERD HEAVEN by Pedro Vélez A visit to The Center for Book & Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago.

Mar. 7, 2011	USC Roski: ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL by Pedro Vélez In the studios with Kristen VanDeventer, Karen Adelman and Patrick Walsh.

Feb. 10, 2011	L.A. CONFIDENTIAL by Pedro Vélez The Art Los Angeles Contemporary art fair and more from the Left Coast capital.

Jan. 31, 2011	PICTURE POST by Pedro Vélez Three art fairs, three museums and galleries galore, the Los Angeles art scene is wide awake.

Jan. 13, 2011	CHICAGO 2010 by Pedro Vélez The Year of Theaster Gates, plus notes on important artists, exhibitions, controversies and critics in the Windy City.

Dec. 20, 2010	CHASTIZED BY THE NUCLEAR TAN OF JOHN BOEHNER by Pedro Vélez Curatorial politics, or lack of same, in the David Wojnarowicz censorship controversy.

Dec. 3, 2010	DALLAS, OH DALLAS! by Pedro Vélez Part I of a report on art in the Lone Star State.

Sept. 30, 2010	MUSIC MAN by Pedro Vélez Actually listening to "Christian Marclay: Festival" at the Whitney Museum.

Aug. 20, 2010	SUMMER OF PLOP by Pedro Vélez Tony Tasset’s Eye, Ben Stone’s Ghost, Roger Hiorns’ Untitled (Alliance) and Shane Selzer’s Grey Lady.

May 12, 2010	Close it, sell it, MAKE SOmeTHING new by Pedro Vélez Art Chicago has become the Nick Nolte of art fairs.

Apr. 20, 2010	PUERTO RICO IS HARDCORE by Pedro Vélez Reflections on an island on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

Jan. 29, 2009	CHICAGO BUILD UP by Pedro Vélez A survey of notable 2009 art events in the Windy City, plus "Italics" at the MCA.

June 3, 2009	REPORT FROM MILWAUKEE by Pedro Vélez Jefferson Pinder and Dennis Balk at Inova, the Green Gallery East and West, Jan Lievens, more.

May 11, 2009	AROUND ARTROPOLIS by Pedro Vélez Art Chicago, Next and other fair events in the Windy City 2009.

Mar. 12, 2009	CHICAGO BUILD UP by Pedro Vélez Edvard Munch, Robert Davis and Michael Langlois, Michelle Grabner, Matt Nichols, Matt Hanner, more.

Jan. 5, 2009	PUERTO RICAN SUN by Pedro Vélez Comedy and corruption in the celebrated U.S. territory.

Sept. 30, 2008	PUERTO RICAN SUN by Pedro Vélez The FAS 08 Sound Art Fair in San Juan.

Apr. 2, 2008	CARIBBEAN CACHET by Pedro Velez The Museo de Arte de Ponce is one great museum in the Caribbean.

Dec. 14, 2007	HEARTS OF DARKNESS by Pedro Velez Art vs. economic oppression in works by Steve McQueen and Hubert Sauper.

Dec. 6, 2007	POSERS AND ROCKERS by Pedro Velez The Chicago MCA ventures a show on art and rock music.

Sept. 16, 2007	PUERTO RICAN SUN by Pedro Velez Open season with Ada Bobonis and Karlo Ibarra.

Apr. 12, 2007	YOUNG NOISE by Pedro Velez Jorge Castro and Davila 666 rock the Noise music scene of San Juan.

Feb. 21, 2007	PUERTO RICAN SUN by Pedro Velez Photographers, graffiti and ghosts -- Tristán Reyes, Elsa Melendez, Bik Ismo, Lee Quinones, Aby Ruíz and Jose Luis Vargas.

Feb. 8, 2006	THE NEW SCENESTERS by Pedro Velez A hardscrabble renaissance of art and music in Puerto Rico.