The VIEWS: Thomas Houseago, Barry McGee, EXPO CHICAGO - September 17 - 23

(Emily Burns, The Three Daughters of Mara, 2012, oil on canvas, 52 x 48 in. ArtSlant Showcase Juried Winner.) Half shaman, half showman... ...the classic chimera of the contemporary artist. Thomas Houseago's monolithic sculptures are both bombastic and mystic. Barry McGee's street-wise work is both irreverent and disarmingly sincere. Procheta Mukherjee's delicate drawings evoke subjects eerie and disquieting, like illustrations for unfamiliar fables; and Angela Dufresne's paintings retell classic romanticized scenes with a pop culture cast. Mika Rottenburg's strange alchemy of subjects find unity across disparate media; and Philippe Parreno's work takes over the museum like an invasive species. Liu Wei's works are monumental and massive yet reticent, unstable, uncertain; and an exhibition at MOT International is a riddle best left unsolved. In New York, we get swept up in the great ritual of September openings; while in Santa Fe, a mysterious new supermarket offers a distinctly unusual shopping experience... In the RACKROOM Nicola Bozzi discusses the role of art, its limits, and political activism and imagination with Yael Bartana. In the GEOSLANT Legacy Russell looks, and then finds: Peradam. In the EDITIONS ArtSlant is in Chicago this week for EXPO CHICAGO! Log in to Facebook on Tuesday at 4pm Central Time for a chance to win tickets!

PICKS AND PERSPECTIVES THIS WEEK Continuously Habitable FONDATION BEYELER

INTERVIEW WITH YAEL BARTANA Amsterdam, Sep. 2012 - The past few years have brought a renewed relevance to politics in contemporary art, a necessary reflex of the cultural world to global economic and societal conditions from wh...[more]

THE BUZZ from other SLANT cities Los Angeles Mark Bradford, URS FISCHER , more... New York Jonathan Beer, Angela Dufresne London Thomas Houseago, Arthur Bispo do Rosário Amsterdam Roi Alter, Jabu Arnell , more... Paris Mika Rottenberg San Francisco David Shrigley, Barry McGee Miami Emmett Moore China Liu Wei