“Les Lumieres: Urban Buffet,” Alliance Française de Chicago
1 Les Lumieres: Urban Buffet (Alliance Française de Chicago) What if the city’s available billboards were given a second life? Look up for BOA Light Studio’s light sculpture after dark. Through January 7
2 All Together Now: Sound x Design (Design Museum of Chicago) An exhibition exploring the parallels between design and music in Chicago’s creative culture. Through April 2022
3 General Objects (Heaven Gallery) Artists present general objects sometimes as a counter to, sometimes as an extension of, sometimes a perversion of, sometimes as a joke about Donald Judd’s “Specific Objects.” Through January 23
4 Still Life (The Franklin) Artists explore their personal, geographical, political or fictional relationship with their surroundings urging you to do the same. Through March 2022
5 David Wallace Haskins: Landscape + Light (Edith Farnsworth House) An ongoing exhibition including large-scale outdoor site-specific sculptures, an architectural intervention in the house, and a new series of works. Through December 2022
Greek-born Vasia Rigou is a journalist, editor and multimedia content producer largely on the subjects of visual art, culture, architecture and design. She currently serves as an Editor at Newcity, Chicago’s leading culture publication, as Writer and Copy Editor at the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) HQ, and regularly contributes to international architecture and design magazines OnOffice and ICON. She has experience creating content for brands and building conference speeches and influential TEDx talks. Simply put: she’s fascinated by finding out the great stories behind the people, places and objects that surround us, and by sharing those stories with the world. When she’s not writing about art or looking at art—wine in hand—she makes lists for pretty much everything, drinks immense amounts of coffee and takes cross-country road trips every chance she gets.
