
Brian Hieggelke
Editor and Publisher at Newcity
Editor and Publisher at Newcity Art
Editor and Publisher at NewCity Stage
Newcity editor & publisher
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3 weeks ago |
newcity.com | Brian Hieggelke
You might think we scripted it, having the first-ever major museum retrospective of one of Newcity’s Breakout Artists coincide with the publication month of the 2025 Breakout Artists. But the Rashid Johnson (Breakout Artists Class of 2004) exhibition, “A Poem for Deep Thinkers,” at New York’s Guggenheim Museum is a happy coincidence.
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3 weeks ago |
art.newcity.com | Brian Hieggelke
1 Caroline Kent (Patron) The 2020 Newcity Breakout Artist kicks off another breakout year. Opens April 102 Faheem Majeed: All of the Parts (Document) A solo turn from the Floating Museum co-founder. Opens April 183 Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers (Guggenheim Museum, New York) A mid-career retrospective for the 2004 Newcity Breakout Artist.
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1 month ago |
design.newcity.com | Brian Hieggelke
Larry Booth was not on my radar. I’d met him in passing decades ago, when his architecture firm Booth Hansen was based in my neighborhood, and saw his name pop up now and again as the architect on this building or that, but I’d be hard-pressed to name even one of his projects. But then he started showing up everywhere.
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2 months ago |
newcity.com | Brian Hieggelke
If Harry Weese had not told Larry Booth to go check out the then-derelict Transportation Building, Printers Row might not have been born; If Printers Row had not been born, then still in its infancy but with a restaurant and an international magazine shop to make it cosmopolitan enough for Jan and I to move here, temporarily, while she finished up at the University of Chicago; If Hollywood Knights had not opened Printers Row’s first video store back in the mid-eighties, I would not have...
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2 months ago |
art.newcity.com | Brian Hieggelke
1 A Tale of Today: Materialities (Driehaus Museum) The museum opens its largest contemporary art exhibition to date, with more than a dozen Midwest artists. Opens February 72 Arvie Smith: Crossing Clear Creek (moniquemeloche) The eighty-six-year-old Guggenheim winner explores his migration story from Jim Crow-era Texas to South Central Los Angeles. Opens February 83 Alberto Aguilar (Engage Projects) A new solo exhibition from the 2012 Newcity Breakout Artist.
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