Review: Process–Works by Max Unterhaslberger at Adventureland Gallery
Process. That is the first thing a viewer may think of as they begin to take in the work of…
Interview: Adoring Paris: The Absinthe Birds by Tony Fitzpatrick at The Dime Gallery
Artists have found inspiration in the city of Paris for ages. From the Degas painting, The Absinthe Drinker, to the poetic black…
Wizard World Chicago 2018 Thursday Panel Catchup
It was time to hit the floors at the Donald E Stephens Convention Center today, as things kicked off a…
Review: 29Rooms Inspires Creativity in Chicago
For the first time since its inception in 2015, Refinery29’s travelling art exhibition, 29Rooms, made its way over to the…
Review: Ai Weiwei’s Trace: a Sobering Look at the Price Paid by Dissidents
The first thing that struck me walking into the building that houses Trace, a four-story art installation created by Chinese…
Global Citizen of Conscience: Ai Weiwei At the Auditorium Theatre
In 2011, multi-disciplinary artist Ai Weiwei was detained by the Chinese government, held captive for 81 days in an unknown…
Get It On, Bang Some Gongs with Mind Over Mirror’s Bellowing Sun
Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art co-commissioned Bellowing Sun, the sixth album from Jaime Fennelly’s Mind Over Mirrors, once a solo…
Energy Efficient Architecture in Chicago and the World Shared in Peter Land Retrospective
British-born architect Peter Land has taught at Harvard and here in Chicago for over four decades at the College of…
TheMART Looks to Become World’s Largest Canvas for theARTs – Is That a Good Thing?
Merchandise Mart is something of a marvel. When it was completed in 1931, it wasn’t just the largest building in…
Artists Connect: Bit Bash – Interactive Influence at Art Institute
Some may argue that video games don’t have a place amongst world famous works of art, but on Thursday night…
Film Review: Starring Anton Yelchin, Porto Is Melancholy and Marvelous
Porto, the feature debut by former Chicago film critic Gabe Klinger (his follow-up to the engaging 2013 documentary Double Play:…
Specter of Housing Insecurity Exorcised in Theater Oobleck’s A Memory Palace of Fear
Rust Belt Chicago’s editor/writer Martha Bayne and artist Andrea Jablonski co-curate Theater Oobleck’s unique haunted house, tapping into fears about…
