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Art Wed Feb 17 2010
Street Level
You've probably been hearing a lot about "pop-up" art galleries around town lately. It makes sense-- dismal spatterings of vacant storefronts are plaguing this city as it simultaneously busts at the seams with even more underrepresented artists. The solution? Put art in those windows! One of the most successful examples of such lives in Pilsen around 18th and Halsted. Last Friday the frozen sidewalks were bustling with plastic cup-carrying art fans, hopping from gallery to gallery, enjoying the squatting spectacles in the windows between them.
Check out these videos of some of these pop-up gallery projects, put up by the Chicago Urban Art Society, collectively titled Street Level. If you'd like to see them in person, you can find them along the 1800 block of S. Halsted until February 28. More videos can be viewed at Chicago Urban Art Society's Vimeo page.