http://blog.art21.org/2010/09/28/four-for-fall/ The Official Blog of Art21, Inc. and the <i>Art in the Twenty-First Century</i> PBS series Fri, 17 May 2013 17:30:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.art21.org/2010/09/28/four-for-fall/comment-page-1/#comment-22823 Four for Fall | Centerfield on Art:21 blog : Bad at Sports Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:55:55 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/?p=28127#comment-22823 [...] Our latest post is up over at art:21 blog. This week, we look at a few of the gallery exhibitions that have opened in Chicago over the past month. A brief teaser below: Traditionally, fall is the time when galleries launch their new slate of exhibitions after a relatively slow-paced couple of summer months. Galleries tend to highlight some of the most prominent artists on their roster around this time, but it’s also common to use the Fall slot to introduce promising new up-and-comers. In Chicago, at least, all the hoopla around the fall openings (many of which took place on a single night several weeks ago) can feel a lot like a high school pep rally: the anticipatory fall preview lists and gallery guides, the minutely detailed gallery crawl maps and the inevitable “best of” Tweets that follow are ways of rousing ourselves from the complacencies of summer in order to get psyched for the upcoming art season. [...]

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