CACky Days Are Here Again

[Chicagoist]

http://chicagoist.com/attachments/Lauri Apple/Picture_2_copy_268x400.jpgIt's time once again for the nonprofit Chicago Artists' Coalition's Chicago Art Open (http://www.caconline.org/ArtOpen.asp), taking place October 3-19 at the Merchandise Mart (http://www.merchandisemart.com/mmart/about/index.cfm) and in the West Loop's FLATFILEgalleries (http://www.flatfilegalleries.com/). This year's exhibition features 285 works representing all media, from drawing to installations. The festivities kick off Friday, October 3 with a special preview event (i.e., more expensive) from 4-6 p.m. and a general opening reception (i.e., less expensive) from 6-10 p.m. at the Merchandise Mart. Other Open events include gallery tours, panel discussions and an October 19 talk with collector, philanthropist, MCA founder and National Medal of Arts recipient Lew Manilow; click here (http://www.caconline.org/print.asp?page=artopen-programschedule) for the full schedule.

As part of the Open, CAC will release its first-ever issue of Prompt: a cross-disciplinary, biannual, visual arts journal focused on the Chicago scene. We don't have a copy at our disposal, but the titles of the inaugural articles -- "Organizing as Fetish," "DIY, Why?" -- and features on artists such as Joan Livingstone (http://joanlivingstone.com/) make it all sound fairly promising, even if we're not sure what "contextualizing aesthetic artifacts" means.


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