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Yes, we can also point out and extol the virtues of artists we admire.

One of the greatest treasures Chicago has is the photographer Dawoud Bey.

Bey was one of my surprise discoveries last year when I was in the Chicago Art Fair. He came to my booth, we talked, I found him very interesting. Back at Wesley's where I was staying, I googled him, my favorite spy tactic. I was amazed at how outstanding his photos were! I had suspected that he would be a good artist, but here I was presented with a great one. His works unite a strong humanism (that disgraced word) with striking formal qualities in service of an art at once aesthetically challenging, sociological (in the best sense) and personal. And all that depth is carried lightly, under a mantel of (seemingly) direct image making.

His most recent works feature pictures ...


EELS

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California Moray (Gymnothorax mordax)



"The Impact of the Cities," after Bertolt Brecht

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Leave the woman where she is.
She has two arms of her own
And two legs for that matter
(Which, sir, are no longer any affair of yours).
See that you yourself come through.





Alexander Wilson's Magnolia Warbler

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In 1811, near the end of his life, poet, ornithologist, naturalist and illustrator Alexander Wilson named this common North American warbler after observing it for the first time in the branches of a Mississippi magnolia tree. This bird, which breeds in spruce trees near the Canadian border of the United States and in Canada, is commonly called the Black and Yellow Warbler.


Yellow Bellied Sapsucker

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A kind of woodpecker, the yellow bellied sapsucker harvests sap from trees for food, as well as the insects the sap they tap attracts. The holes these birds make appear as unmistakable horizontal lines of dots that can illustrate the entire trunk of a tree. They manage the trees they use, like any conscientious user of natural resources.


car repair

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Lost Cat

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krakow, poland

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I photographed so much, that I can't make sense of everything yet. But, the churches were the most comforting. The child mannequin and projector came along for the trip, smashed in a suitcase. Fortunately, no problems with airport security, at least in Chicago...


B B Two: On everyday theatre

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You artists who perform plays
In great houses under electric suns
Before the hushed crowd, pay a visit some time
To that theatre whose setting is the street.



Flight of the Woodcock

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The male woodcock’s courtship flight is spectacular to behold. At sunset he flies to the singing grounds and gives an insect-like “peent” call.


Sharkforum Praise: Dawoud Bey by Mark Staff Brandl

EELS by ken clarke

"The Impact of the Cities," after Bertolt Brecht by Ray Pride

Alexander Wilson's Magnolia Warbler by ken clarke

Yellow Bellied Sapsucker by ken clarke

car repair by Ursula Sokolowska

Lost Cat by Ursula Sokolowska

krakow, poland by Ursula Sokolowska

B B Two: On everyday theatre by Ray Pride

Flight of the Woodcock by ken clarke

the stockyards by Ursula Sokolowska

B B One: I hear by Ray Pride

After Don DeLillo's Falling Man by Ray Pride

Save Pandas / Buy Diamonds by Ursula Sokolowska

Looking away: one day in Toronto by Ray Pride




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