More than 100 years ago, a Life magazine cartoon satirizing New York City real estate ads didn’t mock overpriced apartment leases. Instead, artist A.B. Walker’s Manhattan skyscraper was roofless and without exterior walls and soared into the stratosphere amid clouds and Wright Flyer-style airplanes. It proposed a unique open-air “country house” experience on every floor, each fitted with grandiose cottages, trees, and fountains.
After unearthing a history of taverns, clubs, and more that were once home to Chicago’s LGBT community, Fake set out to visually re-create those spaces in Memory Palaces, an elaborate, almost LP-size art book of psychedelic-quillike graphic design.
Fri 11/13, 6 PM Chicago Cultural Center 78 E. Washington 312-742-3165chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org Sold out.
