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Who Do Chicago’s Art Fairs Serve?

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Who Do Chicago’s Art Fairs Serve?
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Gabrielle Garland, "I tried to hate you. I wanted so much to hate you. —Megan Halsey, Re-Animator (1985)" (2026) at Expo Chicago (all photos Natalie Jenkins/Hyperallergic)CHICAGO — Between the scores of working artists, underpaid arts administrators, and wealthy, often well-meaning arts hobbyists with cash to burn on $40 tickets and $7 bottles of Dasani, the question burns: What does Expo Chicago (and its orbit of adjacent fairs) actually do for the local arts commun

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