1 Chicago Architecture Biennial (Chicago Cultural Center) CAB’s third edition enters its fourth and final month with architecture, design, urbanism, policymaking and visual arts events around the city. Catch it while you can. Through January 5
2 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 March 1
4 Weaving Beyond the Bauhaus (Art Institute of Chicago) An exhibition presenting the work of Bauhaus artists as they moved from Germany across the Atlantic to shape the American design landscape. Through February 17
5 Setting the Stage: Objects of Chicago Theatre (Design Museum of Chicago) Costumes, lights, props, sets and other design objects from local theater companies come into the spotlight at this Design Museum exhibition. Through January 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.
