One thing about Expo Chicago, it’s ephemeral: see the 2018 edition this weekend or not at all.
It's no coincidence that work by members of the Hairy Who—the subject of a big, happy, historical exhibit that opened this week at the Art Institute of Chicago—crops up at multiple booths. Corbett vs. Dempsey, for one, is showing a handsome example of Art Green's color-drenched surrealism—a 1971 painting titled Authoritative Source. And ProjectArt, which brings art classes for kids to public libraries, has a novel curatorial concept: an exhibit of childhood work by artists who are now well-known; it includes Gladys Nilsson's self-portrait at the age of 14, and an unbelievably mature piece by six-year-old Karl Wirsum.
– Deanna Isaacs