If love or sex comes up in a video game, it’s often the muscle-bound male protagonist bedding buxom women. Some games even have an accompanying minigame to put you in control of […]
Process. That is the first thing a viewer may think of as they begin to take in the work of Max Unterhaslberger in his exhibition, Unterhaslberger II now on view at Adventureland Gallery. These […]
Artists have found inspiration in the city of Paris for ages. From the Degas painting, The Absinthe Drinker, to the poetic black and whites of 20th century photographer Robert Doisneau and so many more, the city […]
It was time to hit the floors at the Donald E Stephens Convention Center today, as things kicked off a little early for Day One of Wizard World Chicago. The 2 pm […]
For the first time since its inception in 2015, Refinery29’s travelling art exhibition, 29Rooms, made its way over to the Midwest, having its inaugural launch in Chicago for an excitement-filled, 4-day popup […]
The first thing that struck me walking into the building that houses Trace, a four-story art installation created by Chinese artist and activist Ai WeiWei, was the stark stone staircase in the […]
In 2011, multi-disciplinary artist Ai Weiwei was detained by the Chinese government, held captive for 81 days in an unknown place without any explanation, threatened with 11 years of imprisonment, and eventually […]
Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art co-commissioned Bellowing Sun, the sixth album from Jaime Fennelly’s Mind Over Mirrors, once a solo project and now a quartet including Jim Becker, violinist from Califone, Jon […]
British-born architect Peter Land has taught at Harvard and here in Chicago for over four decades at the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, which recently hosted a retrospective […]
Merchandise Mart is something of a marvel. When it was completed in 1931, it wasn’t just the largest building in the world, taking up two city blocks and boasting over four million […]
Some may argue that video games don’t have a place amongst world famous works of art, but on Thursday night at the Art Institute we got to experience just that – and […]
Porto, the feature debut by former Chicago film critic Gabe Klinger (his follow-up to the engaging 2013 documentary Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater), is a film about being haunted by […]
