The top works—and our favorites—range from interactive pieces to a pen-and-paper drawing

“That’s how I became a chef.”Diakhate moved to the states 33 years ago, working as a senior editor at Northwestern University’s library for 20 of those years, at which point he decided it was time for a career switch. It’s a really good example of a performance, it’s theatre. The fish-and-rice combination is a best-seller at Badou Senegalese Cuisine, Diakhate’s restaurant on Howard Street.

Lekner, born in England, is a Wellingtonian, having previously been the head of photography at Wellington High School. From inflatable excrement to a porn James Dean, McCarthy has delved into America’s dark side. “How much more absurd can you get than Donald Trump?

She now works at Inverlochy Art School. Diakhate’s kitchen makes yassa, a plate where caramelized onions are the star; mafe, a peanut butter stew; and jollof rice, a staple with a hotly contested nation of origin, though Diakhate insists on the dish’s Senegalese roots.

“But in the past few years I’ve been stopped a number of times, censored.

But it took him a while to get there. You don’t know what it’s saying, it sits on an edge. Ever since, his complex and often utterly gross art has been headline-grabbing stuff. The 32-year-old 3D chalk artist shaded in a piece of folded-over cabbage, completing his rendition of Senegal’s national dish: vegetables, jollof rice and an entire fish — each element seeming to leap off the paper into reality.Meanwhile, 20 miles north in Rogers Park, Badara “Badou” Diakhate, 57, chatted about the cooking process behind the dish Baranowski was drawing. The artist and restauranteur pair connected online via Over the past few weeks, Baranowski has drawn Settlers of Catan game pieces from Athena Board Game Cafe, rum punch from Good To Go Jamaican Cuisine and a pizza from Salerno’s on Tap, all on Howard Street. Antique shop Lost Eras marks the next stop on the virtual tour on Aug. 14, and, going forward, Rogers Park Business Alliance plans to continue the series. “I’ve used the food to promote Senegalese and African culture, try to foster peace, awareness.”Since the pandemic brought the restaurant industry to a near standstill in March, maintaining business has been an uphill battle, Diakhate said, especially because people would often hold parties and events at his restaurant. But when his oldest daughter planted the seed of her father opening a restaurant, Badou Senegalese Cuisine was born in 2012.

Andre Vasquez (40th) said. He considers the idea silently for a minute, then his thoughts bubble over.“That’s your head in the sand. So this combination of the Alps, lederhosen, father figures, the Matterhorn, the Disneyland aesthetic, fascism and America all becomes a big stew.” A stew where the idealism of America and Hollywood is boiled until evil rises like scum to the surface.Due to problems with shipping art during the pandemic, the Swiss exhibition at Tarmak 22 in Gstaad features no new work, only pieces that were already in storage in Switzerland when coronavirus hit. Ever since, his complex and often utterly gross art has been headline-grabbing stuff.

Even now. One day, on their three-mile trek to the farm, his grandmother pointed out a patch of hyena footprints, causing Diakhate to start shaking in fear.The next morning, Diakhate faked illness to get out of going to the farm, instead spending the day helping fishers pull their haul from their boats. On Wednesday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot urged the public to help police catch the shooters, saying, "Give no shelter to killers. We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. Maybe I don’t have a choice but to throw up. A 20-year-old man was shot in the head Tuesday night on the South Side while he was sitting in the back seat of a car, according to Chicago police. Now an art world that McCarthy says is usually “moving like a steam shovel” has been stilled, the pandemic has offered a rare chance to look back over older work. After studying fine arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Baranowski was working a design job in Florida when he first saw artists completing 3D chalk drawings.

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But at the proper vantage point, the art seems to jump out of the canvas (picture a sidewalk mural of a hole that looks like someone might fall into). McCarthy left Utah in the early 70s to study fine art in California. “I love the excitement of starting a new job.”At Badou Senegalese cuisine, the West African country’s national dish isn’t the only crowd pleaser. To learn more or opt-out, read our Chicago artist Nate Baranowski is pairing up with Howard Street businesses this summer for a virtual chalk art festival on Instagram Life.Nate Baranowski sat in his Hyde Park apartment and picked up a golden yellow pastel pencil. Anamorphic art, the formal name for these 3D-looking creations, appears distorted when looking head-on at the piece. His light and potential have been extinguished at the hands of gun violence, like so many others in Chicago," Ald. "The White Sox are on a roll and trending upward, but this is only a taste, general manager Rick Hahn says.The rapper, whose name was Carlton Weekly, was shot Tuesday afternoon on Oak Street after two men jumped out of cars and opened fire.