Art & Museums, Museum

Curation Obscures Art in the MCA’s I Am You

In honor of their 50th anniversary, alongside To the Racy Brink, the Museum of Contemporary Art is staging We Are Here, an exhibition program consisting of three semi-concurrent exhibits drawing […]

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Art & Museums, Painting & sculpture

Paint Takes Form in Ginny Sykes’ Irreverent Abstractions

Cliffs of colors curve across the walls at Chicago Art Source Gallery this month, donning Paint, Splatter & Roll: Ginny Skyes’ Irreverent Abstractions. In a full spread of dimensional acrylic paintings, Sykes’ […]

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Art & Museums, Live Lit, Theater

Theatre Oobleck’s Closed Casket: Baudelaire’s Final Act

It is no small undertaking to decide to adapt Charles Baudelaire’s seminal 19th century volume of poetry, Les fleurs du mal. Some may find its sheer length and poetic complexity daunting, […]

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Art & Museums

Everyone’s Picasso, Amid Confusion and Disappointment

First, it was quiet. Like a street in the early hours before a parade. A feeling of ceremony hung in the air, underscored by the seats still being set up […]

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Art & Museums, Features, Music, Photography, Reviews, Venues

Blondie and Garbage Prove They Can Still Rock

After 40 years, Debbie’s still got it. Punk rock veterans Blondie delivered an incredible performance at Ravinia Festival to a massive, diverse crowd. Both Debbie Harry and Chris Stein have […]

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Art & Museums, Front page

Sketchbooks Tell Stories at 8th International Urban Sketchers Symposium

This past week, Chicago hosted the 8th International Urban Sketchers Symposium, drawing over 600 artists and hobbyists from all over the world to fill their sketchpads with the bustling life […]

Stephanie Lenchard Warren /
Art & Museums, Beyond, Museum, Museums, Painting & sculpture, Parks and zoos

ArtSea: Shedd Aquarium Unveils Sculpture Ahead of New Exhibit

It’s a seahorse of a different color at the Shedd Aquarium. Visitors to the Waters of the World exhibit, which showcases the vast variety of sea life from all different […]

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Art & Museums, Museum

Slack Curation Belies History at the MCA’s To the Racy Brink

In 1967, a small group of curators, art historians, artists, critics, and architects set up shop in the former Playboy headquarters at 237 E. Ontario Street. They shared in a […]

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Art & Museums, Museum, Photography

Photo Shows on Poverty, Joan of Arc, and Commercialized Beauty Now on Display @ LUMA

The Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA) offers a plethora of photographs on display this summer, featuring three exhibitions: Jeffrey Wolin’s Pigeon Hill: Then and Now; Michelle Murphy’s Responsive Beauty; and Susan Aurinko’s Searching for Jehanne, […]

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Art & Museums, Photography

Dark Photographs Divulge Racism and Xenophobia in WWII Japanese Internment Camps

Then They Came for Me: Incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII and the Demise of Civil Liberties  is a monumental exhibition at the Alphawood Gallery that examines a dark episode […]

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Art & Museums, Festivals, Music, Painting & sculpture, Sculpture

Cultural Legacy in the Year of Public Art: From Picasso to Mucca Pazza

At the start of 2017, the Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events announced Chicago’s Year of Public Art (YOPA), in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the famed untitled Picasso […]

Bianca Bova /
Art & Museums, Dance, Fashion

Darkest Before Dawn: A Dark Circus of Music, Theater and Fashion

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Friday, June 30, is the time to get your gothic on for a good cause, and for a night of entertainment. Collaboraction Theatre Company is hosting  Darkest Before Dawn: A […]

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