There Was Some Funny Stuff At Expo Chicago 2014

• Deanna Isaacs
• Erika Rothenberg, Greetings IV, 1992 (detail)

The art may be pricey, but the humor was free at Expo Chicago—and the more than 30,000 people who attended this year saw plenty of it. Among the notables: onetime University of Chicago student Erika Rothenberg’s fearlessly sardonic “greeting cards,” at the Zolla/Lieberman Gallery booth. Created in the 1990s and still relevant, they go for about $4,000 each (framed), so you probably won’t be mailing them off to casual friends on birthdays. The good news is that when the gallery (which has been closed) reopens next March, the opening exhibit will feature about 100 of them.

• Deanna Isaacs
• Lino Lago, Atentados (detail), at Alvaro Alcazar Gallery

I’m a sucker for Tony Oursler’s shifting, raspy-voiced, multieyed monster Burst. Priced at $140,000 at the booth of Helsinki’s Galerie Forsblom, he’s so much more than his fiberglass, projector, and video parts.