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Pilsen & Little Village
Pilsen and Little Village are cousins—not only because families often extend across the neighborhood boundaries, nor simply because they are both port-of-entry regions for recent Mexican immigrants. These two are a pair, now more than ever, because of a growing exchange between the two. »
Many Truths
Paul Hopkin, curator of the Pilsen gallery Slow, embraces multiple perspectives in Slow’s newest show, “the low down.” The exhibition, a tribute to the subjectivity that colors our lives, features the work of photographers Caroline Allison and Danica Favorito and sculptor Jeffrey Grauel. »
Social Artifacts
“The creation of artifacts is inevitable, for all will be remnants with the devouring of time,” writes Leonel Hernandez in his artist’s statement. One of eleven artists contributing to the third show at Cobalt Art Studio in Pilsen, Hernandez touches on a theme running through Artifice//Artifact. »
A page of yours
If anyone had witnessed the tortuous track I took to get to Bibliotéca Popular, a community-run library and arts space in Pilsen, it would have been impossible to mistake me for a local. »
Dance Dance Revolution: Pilsen’s May Day Blast redefines party politics
Pasted to the front door of Pilsen’s Casa Aztlán is a handwritten sign that reads, “Donation $15—if unemployed, $5.” Inside the performance space, Benito Juárez and Pancho Villa stare grimly from the mural that covers the walls. Their vibrantly rendered figures are barely visible in the darkened room—every few moments their faces appear from... »
Reading into Subtext: Between the lines at Logsdon 1909
On Friday, April 9, the sound of leather soles hitting the pavement and the booming DJ set at the Chicago Art Department created the pleasurable din that fills Halsted Street during Pilsen’s Second Fridays gallery crawl. While patrons sipped white wine out of plastic cups in some of the neighborhood’s trendier art spaces, a... »
Nice Things: Marvin Astorga’s cut-out creations come to No Coast
It is a sweltering, beginning-of-April afternoon and the Pilsen arts collective No Coast is caught at a point of transition. The front exhibition and store space is in the process of being converted into a performance venue for the closing event of Tessa Siddle’s show “Hexenhaus.” Despite this, everything is in good order: stacks... »
DIY DIY: POST Pilsen Gallery’s monthly craft market provides a homemade venue for homemade wares
The POST Pilsen gallery’s monthly market, featuring vendors selling items from hot sauce to vintage clothing to tapes, is not a typical craft fair. Natasha Ryan and Bojan Jovanovic, who operate the gallery and organized the market, intend the monthly fair to be “an eclectic group of people…a fusing of different ages, different ideas,”... »
