2025 - Frieze Art Expo Chicago
A tour of Art Expo Chicago 2025 - in its first iteration as a Frieze Art Fair. Zoe Schweiger, Miami , B. 2000, A Warm Stare Used to complain there was not enough observational figurative art at the annual Art Expo Chicago. (and since that's all that used to interest me, my expo posts were quite short) Believe me - that is no longer an issue. Collectors love figurative these days, though rarely if those figures are not people of color. Now I better understand why Kerry Marshall wanted to see more black people on the walls of art museums. He felt as left out there - just as do I now at Navy Pier. For every white person depicted, there are at least twenty black ones in this year’s Expo. Looking back at what I posted in previous shows - here's the chronology: 2006 - began to blog about Art Expo 2010 -- first historic black artist (Charles White) depicting a black person 2011 -- first contemporary depiction of a black person (by a ...