“Geometry of Light,” Farnsworth House/Photo: Chris Bellezza Photography
1 Chicago Architecture Biennial (Chicago Cultural Center) CAB’s third edition enters a second month with architecture, design, urbanism, policymaking and visual arts events around the city. Through January 20
2 Geometry of Light Luftwerk and Iker Gil create a light-based art intervention to transform the Farnsworth House and explore the geometries that connect it to the natural landscape. October 12-13
3 Chicago Works: Assaf Evron (Museum of Contemporary Art) The multidisciplinary artist and former photojournalist explores local histories of Israel and Chicago at the intersection of architecture, design and place. Through January 2020
4 Setting the Stage: Objects of Chicago Theatre (Design Museum of Chicago) An exhibition to celebrate the Year of Chicago Theater by showcasing design objects including costumes, lights, sound, props and sets, on loan from local theater companies. Through January 2020
5 The Columbian Ball (Museum of Science and Industry) A night at the museum celebrating futuristic fashion and technology in the light of the MSI’s “Wired to Wear” exhibition. October 5
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.
