Menas Gallery Chicago
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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 history and artists in a broader context
Publisher of /mæn-ʌs/: A Chicago Art zine (First issue published October 2025)
https://www.menasgallerychicago.com
https://www.facebook.com/menas.gallery.chicago
#chicagoart
Bueller? Bueller?
Anyone know this art institution?
Museum folk--does anyone recognize the inscription visible in the background of this installation photo. I can't determine which institution this is!
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Bueller? Bueller?
A Chicago artist that really needs more acclaim
Ralph Arnold (American, 1928–2006). Yeah Team, ca. 1970. Oil and mixed media collage on canvas
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@ralpharnoldartist.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
A Chicago artist that really needs more acclaim
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Beauty is Embarrassing, a documentary about the artist Wayne White, is a fantastic movie, delving deeply into his art and personality, inspiring and well worth watching.
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Art Movie: Beauty is Embarassing (2012) — Menas Gallery Chicago
Beauty is Embarrassing, a documentary about the artist Wayne White, is a fantastic movie, delving deeply into his art and personality, inspiring and well worth watching.
www.menasgallerychicago.com
June 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Beauty is Embarrassing, a documentary about the artist Wayne White, is a fantastic movie, delving deeply into his art and personality, inspiring and well worth watching.
www.menasgallerychicago.com/blog/art-mov...
www.menasgallerychicago.com/blog/art-mov...
"You might fall off this motherfucker."
Former Chicago artist Rashid Johnson Keeps His Cool - an Art21 "New York Close Up"
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#rashidjohnson #chicagoart #chicagoartist #chicagoarthistory #art
Former Chicago artist Rashid Johnson Keeps His Cool - an Art21 "New York Close Up"
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#rashidjohnson #chicagoart #chicagoartist #chicagoarthistory #art
Rashid Johnson Keeps His Cool | Art21 "New York Close Up"
YouTube video by Art21
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November 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"You might fall off this motherfucker."
Former Chicago artist Rashid Johnson Keeps His Cool - an Art21 "New York Close Up"
youtu.be/6jZuUC2Kf9A?...
#rashidjohnson #chicagoart #chicagoartist #chicagoarthistory #art
Former Chicago artist Rashid Johnson Keeps His Cool - an Art21 "New York Close Up"
youtu.be/6jZuUC2Kf9A?...
#rashidjohnson #chicagoart #chicagoartist #chicagoarthistory #art
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Can't wait to go see the newly reopened Intuit Art Museum in Chicago!
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When you visit, head across the street for great art from today at VSG Contemporary!
#intuitartmuseum #chicagoartmuseum #outsiderart #arthistory #vsgcontemporary #newcity #menasgallerychicago
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When you visit, head across the street for great art from today at VSG Contemporary!
#intuitartmuseum #chicagoartmuseum #outsiderart #arthistory #vsgcontemporary #newcity #menasgallerychicago
May 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Can't wait to go see the newly reopened Intuit Art Museum in Chicago!
art.newcity.com/2025/05/20/e...
When you visit, head across the street for great art from today at VSG Contemporary!
#intuitartmuseum #chicagoartmuseum #outsiderart #arthistory #vsgcontemporary #newcity #menasgallerychicago
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When you visit, head across the street for great art from today at VSG Contemporary!
#intuitartmuseum #chicagoartmuseum #outsiderart #arthistory #vsgcontemporary #newcity #menasgallerychicago
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Mikey Mosher is an artist currently based in Chicago. Growing out of a robust hand-cut collage practice, his recent work revolves around collecting and arranging objects, images, and materials in combination with design, woodworking, and digital fabrication.
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Mikey Mosher “Crossroads” Exhibition at Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago, from April 19 - June 14, 2025
YouTube video by Menas Gallery Chicago
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May 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Mikey Mosher is an artist currently based in Chicago. Growing out of a robust hand-cut collage practice, his recent work revolves around collecting and arranging objects, images, and materials in combination with design, woodworking, and digital fabrication.
youtube.com/shorts/JE00q...
youtube.com/shorts/JE00q...
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Dan Barry combines found objects, ephemera, and vintage frames with mark making and text to produce artworks densely layered with meaning and textural complexity.
His current exhibition, “As Funny As It May Seem,” is up at Bert Green Fine Art until June 14, 2025.
Dan Barry, Erica Murayanna, 2025
His current exhibition, “As Funny As It May Seem,” is up at Bert Green Fine Art until June 14, 2025.
Dan Barry, Erica Murayanna, 2025
May 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Dan Barry combines found objects, ephemera, and vintage frames with mark making and text to produce artworks densely layered with meaning and textural complexity.
His current exhibition, “As Funny As It May Seem,” is up at Bert Green Fine Art until June 14, 2025.
Dan Barry, Erica Murayanna, 2025
His current exhibition, “As Funny As It May Seem,” is up at Bert Green Fine Art until June 14, 2025.
Dan Barry, Erica Murayanna, 2025
SHOP SMALL CHICAGO! This holiday season, and beyond, buy from your local small business, especially those in the arts - it also has the benefit of keeping your dollars out of the billionaires' pockets, win-win. Happy holidays to you and yours!
#chicagoart #art #shopsmall
#chicagoart #art #shopsmall
November 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
SHOP SMALL CHICAGO! This holiday season, and beyond, buy from your local small business, especially those in the arts - it also has the benefit of keeping your dollars out of the billionaires' pockets, win-win. Happy holidays to you and yours!
#chicagoart #art #shopsmall
#chicagoart #art #shopsmall
It's one of the great things that happens all over, a small museum with a huge collection of whatever widget struck their fancy and they collected. Chicago's Busy Beaver Button Museum has 9,000 buttons catalogued, a fraction of their collection.
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#chicagoart #art
buttonmuseum.org
#chicagoart #art
November 28, 2025 at 12:06 AM
It's one of the great things that happens all over, a small museum with a huge collection of whatever widget struck their fancy and they collected. Chicago's Busy Beaver Button Museum has 9,000 buttons catalogued, a fraction of their collection.
buttonmuseum.org
#chicagoart #art
buttonmuseum.org
#chicagoart #art
The first issue of /mæn-ʌs/ Chicago Art Zine is now available! A lot of cool content - 32 pages, printed on 60lb stock, edition of 100.
Available now in the shop: www.menasgallerychicago.com/shop/p/mn-s-...
#chicagoart #artzine #art
Available now in the shop: www.menasgallerychicago.com/shop/p/mn-s-...
#chicagoart #artzine #art
November 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The first issue of /mæn-ʌs/ Chicago Art Zine is now available! A lot of cool content - 32 pages, printed on 60lb stock, edition of 100.
Available now in the shop: www.menasgallerychicago.com/shop/p/mn-s-...
#chicagoart #artzine #art
Available now in the shop: www.menasgallerychicago.com/shop/p/mn-s-...
#chicagoart #artzine #art
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"Chicago has a great potential to become an art capital." From Dream to Reality - the story of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art.
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#museumofcontemporaryartchicago #mca #mcastories #origins #FromDreamToReality #chicagoart #chicagoarthistory #chicagoartmuseum
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#museumofcontemporaryartchicago #mca #mcastories #origins #FromDreamToReality #chicagoart #chicagoarthistory #chicagoartmuseum
May 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"Chicago has a great potential to become an art capital." From Dream to Reality - the story of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art.
stories.mcachicago.org/2017/10/20/f...
#museumofcontemporaryartchicago #mca #mcastories #origins #FromDreamToReality #chicagoart #chicagoarthistory #chicagoartmuseum
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#museumofcontemporaryartchicago #mca #mcastories #origins #FromDreamToReality #chicagoart #chicagoarthistory #chicagoartmuseum
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Quick review of "Better Me," published on the occasion of Tony Tasset's exhibition of the same name. Great essays on his work and approach to art.
www.menasgallerychicago.com/blog/tony-ta...
You can see "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!" through June 7, 2025 at Corbett vs Dempsey Chicago.
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You can see "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!" through June 7, 2025 at Corbett vs Dempsey Chicago.
Tony Tasset Better Me Book Review — Menas Gallery Chicago
“Tony Tasset Better Me” is a wonderful primer of all things (most things? Some things?) Tony Tasset. Explanatory essays and an interview really give a good insight into his work and his way of looking...
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May 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Quick review of "Better Me," published on the occasion of Tony Tasset's exhibition of the same name. Great essays on his work and approach to art.
www.menasgallerychicago.com/blog/tony-ta...
You can see "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!" through June 7, 2025 at Corbett vs Dempsey Chicago.
www.menasgallerychicago.com/blog/tony-ta...
You can see "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!" through June 7, 2025 at Corbett vs Dempsey Chicago.
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Laura-Caroline de Lara and Rodrigo Lara discuss Gregory Bae's 24-7, 365 (#5), 2017
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#objectlesson #gregorybae #mcachicago #LauraCarolinedeLara #rodrigolara #chicagoworks #menasgallerychicago #menasgallery #chicagoart #chicagoarthistory.
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#objectlesson #gregorybae #mcachicago #LauraCarolinedeLara #rodrigolara #chicagoworks #menasgallerychicago #menasgallery #chicagoart #chicagoarthistory.
Object Lesson: Laura-Caroline de Lara and Rodrigo Lara on Gregory Bae
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May 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Laura-Caroline de Lara and Rodrigo Lara discuss Gregory Bae's 24-7, 365 (#5), 2017
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#objectlesson #gregorybae #mcachicago #LauraCarolinedeLara #rodrigolara #chicagoworks #menasgallerychicago #menasgallery #chicagoart #chicagoarthistory.
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#objectlesson #gregorybae #mcachicago #LauraCarolinedeLara #rodrigolara #chicagoworks #menasgallerychicago #menasgallery #chicagoart #chicagoarthistory.
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Grab a coffee and apply!
December 2025 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists
Every month, we share opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Grab a coffee and apply!
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"Being a working artist is waking up every single day and betting on yourself. If u ask me, there’s nobody who did that better than my father,” Gaby Fitzpatrick said. “Please lend your support to working artists... Show up for working artists, because it might be the only honest work that’s left.”
Hundreds Pack The Metro — And Lakeview Streets — To Honor Tony Fitzpatrick: 'Tony Was Chicago'
The Chicago visual artist, poet and actor died in October at the age of 66. A Sunday "celebration of life" included a program at the Metro and parade through the neighborhood.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
"Being a working artist is waking up every single day and betting on yourself. If u ask me, there’s nobody who did that better than my father,” Gaby Fitzpatrick said. “Please lend your support to working artists... Show up for working artists, because it might be the only honest work that’s left.”
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Now would be the perfect time to get new Krampus apparel Krampusnacht is a couple weeks off and all this stuff is on sale...
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Shop the Krampus Collection on Octophant's Artist Shop | Featuring custom t-shirts, prints, and more
Krampus
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November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Now would be the perfect time to get new Krampus apparel Krampusnacht is a couple weeks off and all this stuff is on sale...
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“Morris Barazani (1924-2015) was a painter and collage maker dedicated to the different methods
of abstraction. ...[S]even luscious medium-size canvases with complex palettes and soft, cloud-like forms, composed to suggest an image as subtle as a thought.”
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of abstraction. ...[S]even luscious medium-size canvases with complex palettes and soft, cloud-like forms, composed to suggest an image as subtle as a thought.”
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Chicago Art: Morris Barazani: 1966 Paintings Exhibition at Chicago Gallery Corbett vs Dempsey
YouTube video by Menas Gallery Chicago
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May 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
“Morris Barazani (1924-2015) was a painter and collage maker dedicated to the different methods
of abstraction. ...[S]even luscious medium-size canvases with complex palettes and soft, cloud-like forms, composed to suggest an image as subtle as a thought.”
youtube.com/shorts/JrI9U...
of abstraction. ...[S]even luscious medium-size canvases with complex palettes and soft, cloud-like forms, composed to suggest an image as subtle as a thought.”
youtube.com/shorts/JrI9U...
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Is Chicago's public art (as well as all federally owned public art across the country) in danger due to the downsizing of our Government?
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#publicart #PublicArtMatters #alexandercalder #doge #generalservicesadministration #chicagoreader #menasgallerychicago
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#publicart #PublicArtMatters #alexandercalder #doge #generalservicesadministration #chicagoreader #menasgallerychicago
Will DOGE set its sights on Chicago’s public art? - Chicago Reader
Over 1,400 pieces of public art in Illinois are in limbo after the DOGE downsized the General Services Administration.
chicagoreader.com
May 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Is Chicago's public art (as well as all federally owned public art across the country) in danger due to the downsizing of our Government?
chicagoreader.com/visual-arts/...
#publicart #PublicArtMatters #alexandercalder #doge #generalservicesadministration #chicagoreader #menasgallerychicago
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#publicart #PublicArtMatters #alexandercalder #doge #generalservicesadministration #chicagoreader #menasgallerychicago
Check out those colors!
Arthur "Art" Green (1914-2025) was a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a member of Chicago's Hairy Who and later worked as a fine arts professor
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#artgreen #hairywho #chicagoart #chicagoartist #hyperallergic #menasgallerychicago #menasgallery
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#artgreen #hairywho #chicagoart #chicagoartist #hyperallergic #menasgallerychicago #menasgallery
November 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Check out those colors!
One of the Art Institute's most famous paintings, Georgia O’Keeffe's "Sky above Clouds IV" is an attempt by the artist to share her experience above the clouds that she had observed from airplane windows during trips all over the world
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#georgiaokeeffe #chicagoart #art
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#georgiaokeeffe #chicagoart #art
Chicago Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), Sky above Clouds IV, 1965, at Art Institute of Chicago
YouTube video by Menas Gallery Chicago
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November 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
One of the Art Institute's most famous paintings, Georgia O’Keeffe's "Sky above Clouds IV" is an attempt by the artist to share her experience above the clouds that she had observed from airplane windows during trips all over the world
youtube.com/shorts/GOmG2...
#georgiaokeeffe #chicagoart #art
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#georgiaokeeffe #chicagoart #art
I want you to want me
I need you to need me
I'd love you to love me
I'm beggin' you to beg me
I'll shine up my old brown shoes
I'll put on a brand new shirt
I'll get home early from work
If you say that you love me
Didn't I, didn't I, didn't I
See you cryin' (cryin, cryin')
I need you to need me
I'd love you to love me
I'm beggin' you to beg me
I'll shine up my old brown shoes
I'll put on a brand new shirt
I'll get home early from work
If you say that you love me
Didn't I, didn't I, didn't I
See you cryin' (cryin, cryin')
November 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I want you to want me
I need you to need me
I'd love you to love me
I'm beggin' you to beg me
I'll shine up my old brown shoes
I'll put on a brand new shirt
I'll get home early from work
If you say that you love me
Didn't I, didn't I, didn't I
See you cryin' (cryin, cryin')
I need you to need me
I'd love you to love me
I'm beggin' you to beg me
I'll shine up my old brown shoes
I'll put on a brand new shirt
I'll get home early from work
If you say that you love me
Didn't I, didn't I, didn't I
See you cryin' (cryin, cryin')
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It's hard to believe that Adam "MCA" Yauch (August 5, 1964 - May 4, 2012) passed over a decade ago. I often wonder what the Beastie Boys would be creating if he were still around. Something unexpected and ultimately wonderful
May 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It's hard to believe that Adam "MCA" Yauch (August 5, 1964 - May 4, 2012) passed over a decade ago. I often wonder what the Beastie Boys would be creating if he were still around. Something unexpected and ultimately wonderful
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Two more weekends of Barely Fair, Saturday and Sundays 12-5PM, with entry reduced to $5!
Also a special VIP night, Last Call, May 10th, hosted by Tony Lewis, who will be serving Salty and Classic Negronis.
Check out the Barely Fair website for tix and more info.
#barelyfair #chicagoart #artfair
Also a special VIP night, Last Call, May 10th, hosted by Tony Lewis, who will be serving Salty and Classic Negronis.
Check out the Barely Fair website for tix and more info.
#barelyfair #chicagoart #artfair
May 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Two more weekends of Barely Fair, Saturday and Sundays 12-5PM, with entry reduced to $5!
Also a special VIP night, Last Call, May 10th, hosted by Tony Lewis, who will be serving Salty and Classic Negronis.
Check out the Barely Fair website for tix and more info.
#barelyfair #chicagoart #artfair
Also a special VIP night, Last Call, May 10th, hosted by Tony Lewis, who will be serving Salty and Classic Negronis.
Check out the Barely Fair website for tix and more info.
#barelyfair #chicagoart #artfair
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Artist Mike Cloud discusses beheading as abstraction of portraiture and the violence of arrangement and rearrangement.
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#chicagoart #chicagoartist #mikecloudart #menasgallerychicago
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#chicagoart #chicagoartist #mikecloudart #menasgallerychicago
TOUGH CONNECTIONS: Mike Cloud
YouTube video by KunstLANDing / Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg e.V.
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May 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Artist Mike Cloud discusses beheading as abstraction of portraiture and the violence of arrangement and rearrangement.
youtu.be/svnlarsW2wc?...
#chicagoart #chicagoartist #mikecloudart #menasgallerychicago
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#chicagoart #chicagoartist #mikecloudart #menasgallerychicago
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November 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM