Brian Hieggelke

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Top Chicago Art Exhibitions to See: June 2025

2 weeks ago | art.newcity.com | Brian Hieggelke

1 Elsa Muñoz: Dreamwork (Goldfinch Gallery) Wonder what the 2023 Newcity Breakout Artist has been up to?
Editor’s Letter: May 2025

1 month ago | newcity.com | Brian Hieggelke

It’s a special moment in Chicago, as we’re getting two new museums this spring. The National Public Housing Museum opened in early April and I was able to get a peek at a press event; it exceeded my expectations. Actually, I am not sure I had expectations, as NPHM is one-of-a-kind as far as I know.
Chicago Art Exhibitions to See: May 2025

1 month ago | art.newcity.com | Brian Hieggelke

1 Herminio Rodríguez: Osamenta (Oliva Gallery) The photographer captured the “erosion of infrastructure, ambition and memory across Puerto Rico” by documenting the “structural remnants” of all seventy-eight municipalities. Opens May 22 Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom (Museum of Contemporary Art) An exploration of spectacle and mass culture through the lens of basketball, soccer and other sports.
Five Brazilian Gallery Exhibitions at Expo Chicago We’re Excited About

1 month ago | art.newcity.com | Brian Hieggelke

1 Chico da Silva at Galeria MaPa The late indigenous artist had an extraordinary rise and fall in life, and now in death he’s been “rediscovered” and is one of the most sought-after names in Brazilian art, with his first North American museum show underway in Lexington, Kentucky as a companion to this solo in Chicago.
Art for Art’s Sake: How to Get the Most of Expo Chicago if you just love art

1 month ago | art.newcity.com | Brian Hieggelke

We asked some of the top collectors, curators and art advisors of the Midwest and the world for their experiences and insights into the art-fair experience. But if that’s not you, there is still a great Expo Chicago experience available. To get to it, don’t do what I too often do, that is meander the aisles, hoping to see old friends, new acquaintances or artistic inspiration and end up seeing nothing. Make a plan. 1 It’s OK not to visit every booth.
Who Wants to Run A Museum? How the Directors Summit is Shaping a New Generation of Leadership

1 month ago | art.newcity.com | Brian Hieggelke

One of the most compelling things Expo Chicago did in recent years to set itself apart from the crowded and often generic art-fair market has been to expand its special programming, most notably in creating its curator’s forum.
Five Chicago Gallery Exhibitions at Expo Chicago We’re Excited About

1 month ago | art.newcity.com | Brian Hieggelke

1 Edra Soto at Engage Projects The Puerto Rico-born Chicago artist has been on a roll, and this solo at Engage offers a chance to see where she’s been and where she’s going, with “the place of dwelling,” a wall sculpture that connects her heritage to memories of her mother and themes of migration. 2 Politically Engaged Artists at Rhona Hoffman The legendary Chicago gallerist is closing her physical space next month, and this may be her last art fair.
Welcome to the Art Party: The Unofficial Guide to Expo Chicago

1 month ago | art.newcity.com | Brian Hieggelke

I’ve been going to art fairs, mostly in Chicago, my entire adult life. In the 1980s, when I was a young art obsessive, I’d visit the fair at Navy Pier with palpable enthusiasm, albeit little knowledge about the dealers whose booths I was passing by. I’d leave, physically exhausted and so mentally fatigued that I felt I’d fallen out of love with art.
How to Expo: Collectors, Curators and Art Advisors Share Their Insights Into Doing the Art Fair

1 month ago | art.newcity.com | Brian Hieggelke

While the masses might be wandering around Navy Pier in search of cool art to gaze at, a good glass of wine to guzzle and famous people like fair regular Chance the Rapper to peep, at the end of the day, art fairs exist to sell art. So we asked a cross-section of Chicago and the Midwest’s leading buyers of art—curators, collectors and art advisers—to offer input derived from their experiences at Expo Chicago and other fairs. What art fairs do you regularly attend and what’s your routine?
Marion Maneker on "Wall Power" and the Puckish Side of the Art Market

1 month ago | art.newcity.com | Brian Hieggelke

Artists should not be starving anymore, based on estimates that put annual revenue in the global art market in the sixty-five billion-dollar range. Art might be big business, but coverage of art tends to look past the dollars in favor of personalities and, well, art. Which is why I’ve been charmed this past year by the “Wall Power” newsletter that seasoned journalist Marion Maneker writes for the Puck media company.