The Tony Wight Gallery is a small, second-story space in, oddly, the same building as Checker Taxi. It’s as an appropriate venue as any for Ken Fandell’s Sex, Death and God, a photography exhibit with a sense of humor. more ›

Our relationship with art might not quite be symbiotic, but we sure do like it. Here are three exhibits we think you can't (or shouldn't) live without this week at the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and Tony Wight Gallery. more ›

In addition to teaching, art-making and having his work shown in galleries and museums on several continents, School of the Art Institute of Chicago professor and artist Ken Fandell is a long-distance runner who probably covers more miles in a week than most do in a year. All of that time spent engaged in the struggle of mind over body seems to surface in his work, which usually employs a conflict of some sort — for example, the epic vs. the banal — to explore heavy subjects such as infinity, control, and our physical limitations as humans. But it's not all about the meta: Fandell's work is as much about humor as it is about the big questions of human existence. Recently we visited his home studio to talk about marathons, titles, and the artistic merits of the Budget Smart Brain. more ›