Corbett vs. Dempsey

03/25/2026

"“All Lock No Key.” “All Lock” marks a moment where Olson not only continues her longstanding interest in the dialectical exchange between space, image and the body, but forces viewers to confront the desires that drive them to name the constitutive elements of that relationship."
-Annette LePique/New City

B. Ingrid Olson's solo exhibition at Corbett vs. Dempsey deepens her investigation into doubling, desire and the limits of perception.

03/06/2026

Sat 3/14, 2–4 PM, Corbett vs. Dempsey

Nearly a decade has passed since clarinetist James Falzone left Chicago to assume the post of professor of music at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. But he keeps coming back.

02/18/2026

If you are in LA for the art fairs next week, make time for John Sparagana's exhibition at the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College. The opening will have a live performance by Ken Vandermark.

Claremont, CA—The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College is thrilled to present the first survey exhibition of the work of John Sparagana. On view from February 21 to June 28, 2026, Interference Patterns brings together nearly 100 works by the Houston- and Chicago-based artist to consider his uniq...

02/17/2026

"Fabricating everything fastidiously and from scratch, without assistants, out of components not designed to do what she asks of them, has resulted in years of inventiveness."
-Lori Waxman/Hyperallergic

From one angle, her sculptural constructions appear deep, but from another flat; here they look angled, there not.

02/07/2026

https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/6785113/mayfield-brookswhale-fall-with-merobert-lostutter-and-kristi-cavataro

The Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery at the Center for the Arts presents two concurrent exhibitions: mayfield brooks’ Whale Fall with Me and Robert Lostutter and Kristi Cavataro.

02/07/2026

https://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/project/diane-simpson-at-american-academy-of-arts-and-letters-new-york-62560

Documentation of Diane Simpson at American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York is featured on Contemporary Art Daily.

02/04/2026

"It seems to me that among Simpson’s great achievements is her use of a spatial system like isometry against itself. Her work shows precisely how unnaturally such systems capture everyday experience, and asserts that the forever responsive and shifting positions of caregiver and mother occupy a central—indeed essential—place within this liberation of view."
-Elizabeth Buhe/Brooklyn Rail

Diane Simpson has gained considerable visibility since her retrospective at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston in 2015–16 and her inclusion in the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Now—at the age of ninety—she is the subject of a career survey of sculptures and works on paper from the mid-1970s th...

01/28/2026

Expo Chicago, right around the corner

Down from around 170 exhibitors in recent years, it is the first edition of the fair under director Kate Sierzputowski

01/14/2026

Corbett vs. Dempsey's 6-CD release of The Bottle Tapes comes in at #14, amongst giants!

"The Bottle Tapes (14) is also a surprise, a 6-CD box that cherry-picks a decade’s worth of avant-jazz in Chicago, a series of concerts arranged by Corbett and Ken Vandermark. About half of the artists are Europeans, in a reversal of the usual pattern of Americans searching out audiences in Europe. "

Since 2014, the category has been dominated by previously unreleased music, mostly live shots.

12/19/2025

The conversation with Ivy Wilson, Associate Professor of English at Northwestern University, and John Corbett about Duke Ellington’s 1939 U.S. passport has been postponed. Please join us on Saturday, February 21 at 2pm to dive into this fascinating artifact, the significance of personal documentation in periods of international crisis, and the status of ephemeral material culture in African American history.

12/19/2025

"But now, 20 years after the last concerts of the series and 33 and a third years — the same as the playing speed of an LP — after the Empty Bottle was founded, Corbett, through his eponymous label Corbett vs. Dempsey, celebrates those heady times with The Bottle Tapes, 41 tracks from 1997 to 2005, totaling just over seven-and-a-half hours music from 86 local and visiting players." -JazzTimes

Jewish theology, specifically verses 14:33-45 of Leviticus, third book of the Torah, sets forth how a house that has been the site of disease can … Read More "Anything But Empty at the Empty Bottle"

12/12/2025

🔊 (sound on) The Bottle Tapes featured in New York Times “15 Deep-Dive, Goodies-Filled Boxes Sets and Reissues From 2025.” Thanks Hank Shteamer ✨

Currently have 3 copies remaining in our bookshop at the gallery. Can purchase the digital album on Bandcamp, and Forced Exposure will be restocking on the 15th.

Track sampled here is “Piano Solo,” by Misha Mengelberg, track 1, CD4.