Design Top 5: July 2019 | Newcity Design

Virgil Abloh at work/Photo: Hanna García Fleer

(Museum of Contemporary Art)

The much-anticipated exhibition on the Louis Vuitton Men’s artistic director, whose influence and creativity rises beyond media, merging visual arts, music, fashion, graphic design and architecture.

Through September 22

Setting the Stage: Objects of Chicago Theatre

(Design Museum of Chicago)

Celebrating the Year of Chicago Theatre with a showcase of design objects including costumes, lights, sound, props and sets, on loan from local theater companies.

Through January 2020

Mies van der Rohe: Chicago Blues and Beyond

(Matthew Rachman Gallery)

A collection of original blueprints, artifacts and furniture by pioneer of modernist architecture Mies van der Rohe explores the legacy of the legendary architect and designer in Chicago and beyond.

Through July 21

Silver Screen to Mainstream: American Fashion in the 1930s and Forties

(Chicago History Museum)

Artifacts from the Chicago History Museum’s famed costume collection highlight the ways the glamour of the silver screen influenced and shaped American fashion during a challenging era.

Through January 2020

Luftwerk: Parallel Perspectives

(Elmhurst Art Museum)

Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero play with light, color and perception at a site-specific installation within McCormick House, which was designed by Mies van der Rohe.

Through August 25

Vasia Rigou

Greek-born Vasia Rigou is a Chicago-based art critic and pop culture journalist, largely on the subjects of contemporary art, design, and fashion. She moved to Chicago in 2013 to study Arts Journalism at the School of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC,) where she was awarded the New Artist Society Merit Scholarship. She grew up to appreciate art after years of carefully planned, culture-filled travel itineraries and museum-hopping around Europe with her family. During this time, she received a bachelor’s in English Literature, in her native Athens; a master’s in Media, in Nottingham, UK; and studied foreign languages—English, German, and Spanish at the University of Salamanca, Spain. Her writing—reviewing museum exhibitions, gallery shows, art fairs, fashion shows, and music festivals among others—has been published nationally and internationally both in print and online. In 2017, she founded and now serves as editor-in-chief of Rainbowed.—an independently published website focused on the visual and performing arts, digital media, and popular culture. When she’s not writing about art or looking at art—wine in hand, she keeps up with Chicago’s creative entrepreneurial and startup community, makes lists for pretty much everything, drinks immense amounts of coffee and takes cross-country road trips every chance she gets.

Contact: hello@rigouvasia.com Website: www.rigouvasia.com

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