CHICAGO BUILD UP
by Pedro Vélez
I think I’ve had it with apartment galleries and alternative spaces, which have been one of the Chicago art scene’s special attractions for so many years. Trust me, I used to run one in the late ‘90s. Chicago has been there, done that, and even reinvented the brand. And as if to prove it,
Allison Peters Quinn and
Briton Bertran organized
"Artist Run Chicago" at the
Hyde Park Art Center last spring, a magnificent look back at a decade of such noteworthy hubs as
Joymore,
NFA Space (which showed
Luis Gispert),
Dogmatic (where
Paul Chan started),
Green Lantern,
Polvo and
Law Office
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