Tag: Art Institute of Chicago

• Sculpture and Designed Things Part I: Andre, Artschwager, and Everything but the Kitchen Sink

  14 August 2013

  object studies, thinking about the sculptural

  Art Institute of Chicago, blps, Carl Andre, minimalist sculpture, Richard Artschwager, sculpture and design

  I think I may be having a bit of a Richard Artschwager revelation. For all of my interest in sculpture, especially postwar sculpture, I have to admit that I have never given his work a lot of attention. The timing of this personal Artschwager-awakening, while caused by an seemingly odd confluence of encounters, is not…

• Sottsass, Olivetti, and the continuing lure of the Typewriter

  17 July 2013

  object studies, thinking about the sculptural

  Apple, Art Institute of Chicago, Ettore Sottsass, Olivetti, vintage typewriters

  The other day, while mapping out an upcoming museum visit for the class I am teaching this summer, I found myself wandering through the design and architecture galleries at the Art Institute of Chicago. I have been thinking a lot lately about the often tenuous line that separates a designed object and a sculptural thing.…

• Site without specificity – Picasso and Chicago

  29 March 2013

  exhibitions, public things

  Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Pablo Picasso, Sculpture

  I promise this is not a blog solely about public sculpture, though I do find it interesting that I both feel the need to express that caveat and have been thinking about ‘public things’ a lot lately. Once you start looking for them, you realize these encumbered objects are everywhere, and while they take on…