The first issue of /mæn-ʌs/ Chicago Art Zine is now available in the shop! A lot of cool content - check out Tom Billings’ print; a Nelson Algren Quote; Carl Sandburg’s poem, FREE THE MAN IN THE BEAN!, and a whole lot more. We appreciate your consideration and request that you spread this news far and wide.

A Chicago Art Zine - Volume I, Issue 1 of /mæn-ʌs/ is coming! It’s planned to be a quarterly zine, published by Menas Gallery Chicago. The focus will be on Chicago art, artists, and art history, but we reserve the right to indulge ourselves as wanted or needed.

Chicago Artist Colonies, by Keith M. Stolte, does a great job of reviewing Chicago’s art culture in the nineteenth century, the effect on it by the World’s Columbian Exposition, and the better known (at the time) artists, both local and those who had moved from elsewhere.

Short and easy read, highly recommended.