Year after year, Chicago adds to its arts and culture accolades with inventive new exhibits and exciting new artist exhibitions. And it’s not just the Museum Campus weighing in heavy on our […]
Our Top Picks for Art & Museums 2019
Chicago Botanic Garden Dazzles with New Holiday Show, Lightscape–Act Now if You Want to Get a Glimpse!
Tradition is typically king at the holidays, with meals, movies and destinations remaining the same year after year and creating that sense of cozy familiarity. This always seems particularly true in Chicago, […]
Night of 1000 Jack o’ Lanterns is a Botanic Garden Blockbuster
It was only four years ago the Chicago Botanic Garden first displayed a gorgeous gallery of gourds on its grounds for Night of 1000 Jack o’ Lanterns. We were on scene […]
Preview: Andy Warhol – From A to B and Back Again Finally Arrives in Chicago
A massive image of Mao Tse Tung hanging two galleries away greets visitors to the latest major exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, Andy Warhol – From A to B and […]
Focus On: The Oriental Institute Museum at University of Chicago at 100
Is 100 years a long time? Maybe not geologically, but it is longer than an average lifetime. Here in the US, things that hit the century mark are often celebrated, since we’re […]
Bit Bash at MSI Blew Our Minds
What a weekend! Bit Bash made its triumphant return this weekend at the Museum of Science and Industry (MSI). It was truly amazing to see Bit Bash in and around one of […]
MSI’s 75 Stories Adds Even More History and Context to a Larger Than Life Tale
It was just about two weeks and seventy-five years ago that the United States Navy would attempt and succeed at an extremely difficult mission that would mark the first of its kind […]
Finding the Beautiful in the Dark: Joel-Peter Witkin’s From the Studio at Catherine Edelman Gallery
The work of Joel-Peter Witkin stirs up an array of emotions and aptly tantalizes the eye and mind. From a sense of staggering beauty in their black and white soft-starkness (almost dream-like), […]
Virgil Abloh’s Figures of Speech Tries to Find Balance Between the Tourist and the Purist
I should start off by saying I’m a big fan of Virgil Abloh’s work. From his deconstructed shoe designs and minimalist accessories to design work, it all has an aesthetic that really […]
Review: Perspectives of “New Age” Concepts at DePaul Art Museum
When New Age first came into vogue in the late ’60s and ’70s, yoga, meditation and astrology as well as vegetarianism were viewed as exotic and often dismissed as forms of quackery. […]
Review: Hamilton: The Exhibition Explores the Room Where It Happens
By June Skinner Sawyers On Friday afternoon, the eve of the opening of Hamilton: The Exhibition, a gleeful Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of the blockbuster musical Hamilton, surveyed the room, observing the […]
Laurie Simmons at the MCA: Big Camera / Little Camera on View Through May 5th
A lot of things come to mind when one looks at the work of Laurie Simmons: isolation, scale, gender, and the modern myths that surround us. From empty domestic spaces and miniatures, […]
