South Shore Cultural Center/ Photo: Eric Allix Rogers
1 Open House Chicago (Chicago Architecture Center) The annual free public festival gives a look behind the scenes of Chicago’s landmarks. October 16-25
2 Luftwerk & Normal: SOS Color Code 2020 (Elmhurst Art Museum) Luftwerk design duo Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero collaborate with Normal Studio’s Renata Graw to create Color Code, a work that visualizes SOS, the international distress signal, as colored flags rather than Morse code. Through November 3
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.
