December 2011
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Lingering Voices
I am posting this way too late for anyone to see either of the shows that Janeil Engelstad assembled and mounted at the threewalls gallery space and the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College during November. But due to the magic of digital media, you can still experience some of the content in cyberspace. Engelstad built both shows on material she had developed for her website,...
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Virtuous Objects -- Wright "Important Design"...
The preview of an auction at Wright Gallery remains one of my great personal pleasures: I have often likened it to going to a great, small design museum where you can touch everything. It’s fun to look at the items in the catalog and online, but really, nothing beats going to Wright’s show room and seeing how the staff creates the display vignettes. I went the day before the auction, where...
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My Trip to Microgastronomyland
While I like to watch food tv and used to read food magazines, my issue with all of it is that you can’t taste the food. But sometimes the visual presentation is so spectacular, it’s almost as impressive as the aromatic and savory elements of the dining experience.
Dinner at Moto falls into that category: it’s a true adventure, and even though my phone pictures are pretty...
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Shopping Windows
Although I am not, generally, somebody who finds much to like about the “winter holidays,” from time to time I fall victim to a kind of a thing for the store window decorations. This year in Chicago, I must regretfully report that the holiday offerings are, overall, kind of limp. If retailers depended on their window displays to lure shoppers off the street, a lot of the stores along Michigan,...