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Today, Matthew Chojnacki is set to release his new book, Alternative Movie Posters: Film Art from the Underground, a collection that showcases a mix of avant-garde art and minimalistic design for movies ranging from Sixteen Candles to Star Wars.

The deadlines to garner tickets to the Nov. 1 events are at hand: Oct. 25 for the dinner and Oct. 30 for the artist’s talk and cocktail time. If you can’t make it, perhaps you’ll catch Pardo wandering through the Matisse exhibit at the IMA. He says he’s a fan.

“One cannot get into, or out of, the spacesuits as quickly as shown, but that’s okay,” he says.

On Oct. 4 at iMOCA, the local rockstar and architecture buff launched an exhibit of works by his grandfather Jan Ruhtenberg, a modernist designer. Here, a minimalist interview.

Our expert pulls up a chair and assesses a new furniture exhibit.

Fan-favorite pieces and drawings that reveal the artist’s thought process are on display from Oct. 13 through Jan. 12, 2014, in one of the most comprehensive collections of his work to date.

“What didn’t happen is enough people showing up to populate the structure we had built,” Venable says. But “Art is not for everybody,” says one IMA critic. “Art is for anybody, which is very different.”

A caravan of imagined art vehicles, inspired by the campaign to build an Indy Fringe Truck that will bring theater to festivals across the state.

Psst! Here’s the scoop on a pair of hot sales this weekend that you may not have heard about: high-end homethings at Carmel’s Indiana Design Center and a pop-up art fair in Irvington.

Indy’s own Lily & Madeleine, Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue, and many more musical performers and entertainers populated the stages as festival-goers strolled the park and shopped local styles.

Who’s who among Indianans on the fast track in NYC, from breakout designers to NBA bigwigs.

Talbot (June 8–9) continues to lure new artists, but sometimes making a truly fresh discovery means looking beyond its rows. And you don’t have to go far: All around the Herron-Morton Place neighborhood, complementary events are cropping up that, to the average participant, must look like an extension of Talbot.

Freiman’s impending evaporation from Indy is the latest move at the IMA, where relatively new director and CEO Charles Venable, who started in October 2012, has made an array of changes.

The English artist’s 16 pieces at the CityWay parking garages were commissioned with his finely-dressed alternate persona, “the Vandal,” letting him speak his mind through the character’s works, some of them elaborate pieces (called “burners” in graffiti-artist parlance).

Ai’s works—more than 30—are on display in the world-famous artist’s exhibit, titled Ai Weiwei: According to What?