3 Dimensions brochure (detail), about 1950/ courtesy Elsa Kula Bauhaus Chicago Foundation, Art Institute of Chicago
1 NeoConnect NeoCon’s digital hub keeps the design community connected with resources, programming, events and panels online. June 2020
2 Bauhaus at the IIT Institute of Design (Illinois Institute of Technology) Two online exhibitions, “50 Years Bauhaus, 1969” and “Founding an American Bauhaus,” dive into the design movement’s history. Ongoing
3 Classic Chicago: The Art of Architecture (Elmhurst Art Museum) A 360-degree virtual tour of late-nineteenth-to-early-twentieth-century Chicago via large-scale graphite drawings by Jack Nixon. Through August 2
4 Bauhaus Chicago: Design in the City (Art Institute of Chicago) Contemplate Bauhaus’ influence in the city of Chicago at the German school’s centenary. Through Fall 2020
5 Kiki in the Commons (MCA Chicago) A conversation about drag and its relationship to art history, design and pop culture in celebration of Pride Month. June 27, 2pm (rescheduled date)
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.
