One point Perspective Study No 1, 2019, by John Faier/Photo: Luftwerk
1 Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech (Museum of Contemporary Art) The twenty-year career of Louis Vuitton men’s artistic director rises across media, merging visual art, music, fashion, graphic design and architecture. Through September 22
2 Luftwerk: Parallel Perspectives (Elmhurst Art Museum) Last chance to see the Mies van der Rohe’s McCormick House in—literally—a new light in this site-specific installation created by Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero. Through August 25
3 Setting the Stage: Objects of Chicago Theatre (Design Museum of Chicago) Celebrating the Year of Chicago Theatre by showcasing design objects including costumes, lights, sound, props, sets and more, on loan from local theater companies. Through January 2020
4 Wired to Wear (Museum of Science and Industry) Futuristic fashion and cutting-edge technology come together in the first-ever exhibit dedicated to the future of wearable technology. Through May 2020
5 Charles Radtke: Contained (Milwaukee Art Museum) Wisconsin-based Charles Radtke creates studio furniture with interiors that demand your attention—think cabinet of curiosities. Through August 25
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.
