David Leggett Turn on any of Chicago’s hip-hop stations and there’s an entire weird galaxy of content out there mimicking American life and society, yet not touched by the art world. David Leggett is one of the few artists to productively venture into this territory bringing us back strange visions of Lil’ Wayne tripping out with Grimace and money-consumed Rick Ross with no shortage of acerbic racial, sexual, and art-world politics, as we saw in his solo exhibition at Hyde Park Art Center over the summer. Frequently the self-referential art world seems to have little to do with a larger world, but not so in Leggett’s art.
Today In The Culture, December 9, 2022: Intuit Expansion Funded | Carol Ross Barney Gets AIA Gold | History of the Green Book ART City Grants $5 Million To Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art Intuit, the West Town museum "dedicated to showcasing outsider art from Chicago and across the country, received a multimillion-dollar city grant to expand its exhibition spaces, modernize its facilities and build a dedicated education area," reports Block Club Chicago. "The city grant will help fund the…
