NEXT in Chicago

More than an art fair, NEXT is a showcase for the world’s talents and an adventure in innovative culture. An opportunity to redefine the relationship between art and its public, NEXT is a platform for established and emerging galleries to promote the work of cutting-edge artists.  NEXT is dedicated to the exhibition and advancement of today’s art.  NEXT is the catalyst for the exchange of information and experimental ideas aimed at today’s educated collectors.

NEXT includes works from both commercial and non-commercial arts organizations—galleries, project spaces, art publications and key private contemporary collections from around the world.

Press release:
Post show press release 5-17-11 http://www.nextartfair.com/news/2010/05/official-post-show-press-relea.php

What If: To Dream, Desire and Acquire
12-1P
What if you could have what you want? Curators explore what they would buy if all restrictions were lifted – money, wall space, conflict of interest, or institutional directives. Contemporary curators Margo A. Crutchfield, recently Senior Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, and Lilly Wei, New York-based independent Curator, essayist and art critic, who writes regularly for Art in America and is a contributing editor at ARTnews, will speak about contemporary works of art they would love to own in a spirited session that addresses desire, connoisseurship, personal taste, and quality.
 
FOR FURTHER READING http://www.nextartfair.com/show-information/next-talk-shop-converge/

SOUND STRUCTURE: Sound and Art in an Era of Flow
4:30-5:30P
Presented by the International Sculpture Center
Sound exists simultaneously within multiple realms: as presence and absence, as action and object, within space and time. This panel will explore sound at the borders of visual art, science, and the tectonic, activated and manipulated as a material in contemporary art. Panelists include Andrea Polli, Chair of Digital Media and Professor of Art, Art History and Engineering at the University of New Mexico Center for the Arts; Shawn Decker, artist and professor at the School of the Art Institute Chicago; Christopher Janney, artist and architect; and Polly Ulrich, critic.