Art & Chicago (intersection of tags)

Current museum projects I’ve got several art projects that take place in art museums. Last summer I got reciprocal art museum pass from the Walker Art Center and it allows me to go into over 400 art museums nationwide. With…

Today Gapers Block featured a photo from my "Alley Giveaway" series.

I’ve never been caught leaving my public art around. Until today. It happened at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. The idea The past couple days I’ve been thinking about what artwork I can leave in public elevators. This…

These two photos appeared next to each other in my most interesting photos 2011. I like how they are kinda similar.

Precisely it would take 105,714,892,800 sticky notes to cover every square inch of Chicago. How did I come with that? 3 inch x 3 inch sticky note 63,360 inches per mile 63,360/3= It takes 21,120 stickies lined up to cover…

Do you know about the “One of a Kind” annual show at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago? I never heard of it, yet this is its 11th year running. Maybe I never heard of it, because I’m always going to…

The Museum of Contemporary Art is working with 17 teen artists to make self-portrait videos. Give them a look. They are interesting. Alejandro: I’d like to hear more of Alejandro’s interviews with MCA visitors. Alexis: Interesting piece asking strangers who…

There are two incredible art events happening in Chicago on Thursday, November 17, 2011. 1) A talk at the Cultural Center on Chicago’s bridges (i love Chicago’s Bridges) 2) A dance performance interpreting artwork at the Art Institute (art +…

While looking for more art podcasts, I found three audio podcasts that I’m going to bring into my mix of podcasts. How about you give them a try too? ————— Art Talk KCRW Edward Goldman offers impassioned views on what…

The Art Institute of Chicago’s official twitter account calls my art “wild card”! View all 15 “wild card” photos on the Spudart Facebook Page.

Be boldly simple. That’s my sticky note memorial I wrote for Steve Jobs. Lots of people wrote things like “Steve Jobs changed my life.” “I have a hole in my heart.” Do you really? The man is a great thinker.…

For my encaustic painting class, we are going to learn image transfer. We were told to bring patterns of just b&w—no gray. This is what I’m bringing. Starting with the Gummi bear and moving clockwise:

I respect good street art, but I also value public spaces. Can street art be a gift rather than just self-expression? Let’s talk about it.

What do you think someone needs to hear? The question was posted by the You are Postcard Workshop at the Renegade Craft Fair. While walking the fair this past weekend, lots of great vendors were selling great wares, but I…

Thanks to everyone on Facebook for recommending the printmaking demo (by Julian Cox at the Le Gallery Thorndale on August 7, 2011) We had a small, but highly interested crowd of three people (including myself), so we got to ask…

Placing swings in unexpected places—parks, train stations, street signs—because everyone (even tiny wire people) deserves a moment to swing.

The suburban train line system in Chicago recently started a new policy of having a “Quiet Car” on every Metra train. These “Quiet Cars” have signage to indicate that you are on a “Quiet Car” and thus you are to…

It’s lots of fun shooting with a new lens, especially a funky fisheye lens (from the super-fun photojojo). Everything looks all fun and curvy, especially on the CTA train where you got lots of layering of things. The reflections in…

Dear flickr friends, please name one of the roadblock pillars in this photo by leaving a note on my Quincy train station image. Leaving a note is as easy as 1,2,3: 1) Sign into flickr. 2) Go to the photo.…

What discoveries happen when you throw a paper airplane from an elevated CTA train platform? I had so many fun surprises that they couldn’t fit into one story! The one story ended up making little baby stories. Eight of ’em!…

(above image is a blog post by chicagoartmagazine) Great idea to rent billboards. I wonder how effective the abstract subject matter is to the general public. Often we forget that the general public does not interpret art the same as…

Comic books that take place in the snow are so cool. I love arctic adventures. Two G.I. Joe comic books take place in Antarctica. One from 1989 (G.I. Joe Special Missions #20), the other from 2006 (G.I. Joe Special Missions…

The aesthetic forms of the signature are very intriguing. When I paypal’ed $1.74 to the seller, I included the following note: Thanks for selling this card. It has to be one of the coolest signatures ever. It’s like a work…

Photos from Chicago’s third largest snow storm ever. I walked around Lincoln Square the day the blizzard ended and took these photographs of the neighborhood.

Time Out or some publication did coverage on which candidate supports the arts the most. (excuse me as I forget the link, if anyone has it, please leave it in the comments) They looked at if anyone in their family…

My 50 most interesting photos posted in 2010 The following set was automatically created by dopiaza’s set generator. It’s a really cool script. Every day it checks the popularity ranking of all my photos I posted in 2010 and then…

Here’s what the Art Institute should do for their lion sculptures for Christmas 2011. Wrap them entirely in crochet. People would love it. Photo from http://animalnewyork.com/2010/12/wall-street-bull-crocheted/ Here’s what the Art Insitute of Chicago did in 2010: And what the lion…

An interesting conversation was happening about using one of my photos on Brian Micklethwait’s blog. Brian debates about “what the owner of the photos would think.” It’s fun reading about this debate. Especially since I’m part of it. I’m totally…

NBC Chicago has a fun section on their website called “So My City.” They welcome people to “Tell us your moment.” I was about to submit a couple of my photos and stories, until I read their terms of service.…

Do a Google image search for my name, Matt Maldre, and the results show a photo of me that I use everywhere. I’m wearing a tan plaid shirt. But then just a few results after that, there is a guy…

In celebration of Christmas coming up, here are some of my favorite Christmas photos shot around Chicago.