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/mæn-ʌs/ --- /MAN-us/

Chicago art history and artists in a broader context

Publisher of /mæn-ʌs/: A Chicago Art Zine (First issue published October 2025)

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Chicago Art Ephemera: Jim Nutt (b.1938) exhibition advertisement for a show at Phyllis Kind Gallery, which ran April 12-May 11, 1985. Nutt was a founding member of the Chicago surrealist art movement known as the Chicago Imagists, aka the Hairy Who.

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Image titled "This and That 1984 Colored pencil on brown paper 12 1/16 x 20" shows drawn figures of varying sizes, perhaps on a stage. Text reads Jim Nutt 12 April - 11 May 1985 Phyllis Kind Gallery 313 West Superior Chicago
February 1, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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LAST DAY! Support the 2026 art activities at COMPOUND YELLOW! $25,000 matching grant thru 1/31/26!

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Image shows artists and musicians enjoying their time at Compound Yellow in Oak Park, Illinois
January 31, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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I believe that we will win

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Tom Morello - Intro + Killing In The Name Of
YouTube video by Kyle Matteson
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January 31, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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Final day for free shipping! Offer runs through midnight on Jan 31. Shop here: verticalgallery.com/collections/...
All Artwork for Sale
Thank you for shopping with Vertical Gallery. This 'Art For Sale' page features all available artwork. You can also shop by: Artwork under $500 visit here. All prints visit here.Books and sculptures v...
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January 31, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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We are wrapping up this fundraiser soon, and I'm happy to say that work to restore the gallery to function is underway. We really, really appreciate all the support, which will help us purchase replacements for damaged essentials, put the space back together, and resume programming.

One last push:
sorenspicknall.bsky.social Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 8d
Our community-run art gallery flooded. Building management will get the space back into habitable condition, but we lost a bunch of stuff and we're closed for who knows how long.

We're a tiny volunteer org that spends like $20K a year, so a $3,000 emergency is a big problem. Please help us out:
Donate to Help PullmanArts Recover From A Flood, organized by Soren Spicknall
On Thursday, January 22nd, our volunteer-run community art gallery flooded with … Soren Spicknall needs your support for Help PullmanArts Recover From A Flood
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January 31, 2026 at 3:05 AM
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Are you a Tony Tasset (American, b.1960) fan or. know someone who is? A hardcover survey book, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, is available in the gallery store, This Chicago artist, tongue in cheek, describes his work as Pop Conceptual.

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#chicagoart #art
Tony Tasset Works 1985-2022 book (Signed/Autographed) — Menas Gallery Chicago
This hardcover volume contains 200 reproductions chosen by the artist and essays by fellow artists reflecting on his artwork. Buy a Tony Tasset SIGNED/AUTOGRAPHED copy of the book "Tony Tasset Works…
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January 30, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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A digital illustration. Seen mostly in silhouette (with some hints of detail if you zoom in) we see Sisyphus in his classical Greek togs against a reddish orange background. He is working very hard to shove an extremely large, roughly spherical boulder up a very steep grade. Large letters carved into the side of the boulder facing us read ‘Maybe it will happen today’.
January 30, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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Sequel to The Time Traveler’s Wife to be published this autumn
Audrey Niffenegger’s follow-up to her global bestseller focuses on Alba, the daughter of Henry and Clare, as she negotiates two marriages and various modern-era dystopias
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January 30, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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Now available in the shop The second issue of /mæn-ʌs/ Chicago Art Zine! RIP Tony Fitzpatrick, Maxwell Volkman mask, public art, and more - 40 pages this time, printed on 60lb stock, edition of 100.

#chicagoart #art #chicagoartzine #zine #blueskyart
January 28, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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Help JP, Andi and Ollie Rebuild After House Fire! Chicago artist Andi Crist needs your help to rebuild her family's home after a fire

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Donate to Help JP, Andi and Ollie Rebuild After House Fire, organized by Morganne B Wakefield
We are raising funds to assist our good friends, JP, Andi and th… Morganne B Wakefield needs your support for Help JP, Andi and Ollie Rebuild After House Fire
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January 27, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Welcome to the Occupation
🎸
Document, 1987
Live in Chicago, 1995

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R.E.M. - Welcome To The Occupation (Live in Chicago / 1995 Monster Tour)
YouTube video by remhq
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January 26, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis

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BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
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January 26, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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Milwaukee! This Wednesday, January 28th, at 5PM, I’ll be on the panel "Making Zines, Making Change: A Conversation about Collaborating, Publishing, Selling, and Archiving DIY Art." Lots more info in the Alt text. Hope to see you!
Milwaukee! This Wednesday, January 28th, I’ll be on the panel Making Zines, Making Change: A Conversation about Collaborating, Publishing, Selling, and Archiving DIY Art, with scholar-teacher Jason Luther, head of the Factsheet Five Archive Project and Kirsten Leenaars, Liz Mason and Milo Miller. The panel is at 5 PM at the Haggerty Museum at Marquette University. This panel is the first (of three) opening events for Artifact, the 8th annual Writing Innovation Symposium. This event is inspired by the symposium as well as the Spring ‘26 Haggerty Museum of Art exhibitions Declaration of _____ and Let the Real World In. Making Zines, Making Change is made possible by the Haggerty Museum of Art and Marquette English/FAME as well as the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Lemonis Center for Student Success along with long-time WIS partners Raynor Library and Macmillan Learning. While in Milwaukee I'll be dropping off a big restock to Lion's Tooth so go there after the event to find lots of publications from Half Letter Press, Temporary Services, and Public Collectors.
January 26, 2026 at 3:52 AM
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Support the 2026 art activities at COMPOUND YELLOW! $25,000 matching grant thru 1/31/26!

www.facebook.com/donate/13731...

#compoundyellow #fundraiser #chicagoart
Image shows artists and musicians enjoying their time at Compound Yellow in Oak Park, Illinois
January 25, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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Now available in the shop The second issue of /mæn-ʌs/ Chicago Art Zine! RIP Tony Fitzpatrick, Maxwell Volkman mask, public art, and more - 40 pages this time, printed on 60lb stock, edition of 100.

#chicagoart #art #chicagoartzine #zine #blueskyart
January 24, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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Not sure why, but thinking about František Kupka today.

František Kupka, The Beginning of Life, 1900

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The image is primarily of water filled with lotus pads . Centered is a fetus within a circle, attached by an umbilical cord to a sun or star and then on to a lotus flower
January 24, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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Favorite #music that I came across on socials today :
January 23, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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Help out an important Chicago art group!
sorenspicknall.bsky.social Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 8d
Our community-run art gallery flooded. Building management will get the space back into habitable condition, but we lost a bunch of stuff and we're closed for who knows how long.

We're a tiny volunteer org that spends like $20K a year, so a $3,000 emergency is a big problem. Please help us out:
Donate to Help PullmanArts Recover From A Flood, organized by Soren Spicknall
On Thursday, January 22nd, our volunteer-run community art gallery flooded with … Soren Spicknall needs your support for Help PullmanArts Recover From A Flood
gofund.me
January 24, 2026 at 3:23 AM
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Chicago art ephemera: Ronald Ahlstrom postcard for new works

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Postcard with image of artwork by Ronald Ahlstrom with text: New Works, Mixed Media Postcard from Ronald Ahlstrom with studio address and facts about his art career, addressed to the Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago
January 23, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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Jesse Howard: ‘A Woke Diaspora”
January 31 - March 7, 2026

Opening Reception Saturday January 31, 5-7pm

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January 20, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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There are many books about zines & zine culture, including some that are just expensive eye candy with little info to guide someone that wants to start publishing now. This book is the one I'd give to people who don't know how to begin. It's filled with good info. halfletterpress.com/make-a-zine/
Make a Zine: Start Your Own Underground Publishing Revolution
In this new edition of Microcosm’s popular DIY guide to zine-making, Joe Biel updates the information provided in the first edition (edited by Biel and the late and great Bill Brent) to address zine m...
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January 20, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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January 19, 2026 at 11:34 PM
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Support the 2026 art activities at COMPOUND YELLOW! $25,000 matching grant thru 1/31/26!

www.facebook.com/donate/13731...

#compoundyellow #fundraiser #chicagoart
Image shows artists and musicians enjoying their time at Compound Yellow in Oak Park, Illinois
January 19, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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226 is a site-specific installation and conceptual fan zine by Chicago artist Maxwell Volkman. The project contains a body of selected collage works documented and presented through video and print media.
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226 by Maxwell Volkman
226 is a site-specific installation and conceptual fan zine by Maxwell Volkman. The project contains a body of selected collage works documented and presented through video and print media. The…
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January 18, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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We got the job from the guy with the funny name
We built a bomb and wired it for the grave
We cashed a check and spent more than we could save
We're just a little sad that the morning finally came to play

We're here for more
We're ready for war

Written by: John Huston

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Stomatopod - "We Built the Bomb" (official video)
YouTube video by Stomatopod HQ
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January 18, 2026 at 5:18 PM