Art

In the second installment of his Ultra Local Geography, Larry Shure documents the "functional beauty" of the portals to various buildings in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood. An exhaustive zine-cum-architectural-guidebook, it documents and describes the features of eleven doors, including date, architect, building owner, cost, size, building materials, and even the reference information for the City of Chicago building permits. Shure provides drawings of the doors, their building facades, and street addresses/intersections.

A collection of poetry by Chicago poet Beatriz Badikian with scratch board artwork by Lonnie Poco.

Ira Bach describes architectural walks "selected to present Chicago as a great cosmopolitan city as well as a collection of local community areas, all tied together by an intricate web of transportation that makes them accessible to the pedestrian for a closer view."

This book has a CD that accompanies it. The audio and visual components created by Daniel Higgs. There are a series of words associated with religion such as the Bible, God, Devil etc. Each letter of the word begins another word.

Collected poems, prose and illustrations.

Exhibition catalog for a 2006 show of photographer Ben Gest's work at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. Includes reproductions of Gest's portraits.

A collection of surrealist automatic poems by Franklin Rosemont, with accompanying drawings by Schlechter Duvall.

Collection of exhibitions put on by the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago circa 1990-2000.

Includes reproductions of works by artist Tony Tasset, MFA '85, The Art Institute of Chicago, and an essay by Kathryn Hixon.

Exhibition catalog for the exhibit, "Dreaming of a Speech Without Words: The Paintings and Early Objects of H.C. Westermann," curated by Michael Rooks and on display at The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Montclair Art Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University. "'Dreaming of a Speech Without Words: The Paintings and Early Objects of H.C. Westerman' attempts to shed light on the artist's early enthusiasm for painting and the implications this had for his development as a mature student who had already reached his 30s at the close of his years at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago." (p. 14).