The Art of Cake Decorating @ Elysia Root Cakes
One of the defining characteristics of contemporary art is the wide range of media used by its practitioners. In addition to paint, marble, and other more traditional materials, today’s artists […]
Design Focus: 2017 Dodge Challenger R/T at Chicago Auto Show
Sparkling new cars lined up this Wednesday at McCormick Place’s Concept & Technology Garage to help kick off the 2017 Chicago Auto Show–the nation’s largest automotive exhibition featuring the latest […]
Open House This Weekend: Speakeasy Launches Classic Cadillac Design Group With Custom Flair
This weekend, Speakeasy Customs & Classics opens its garage doors to celebrate its public launch. The group, which started up in 2016, specializes in Cadillac-inspired restoration and customization with an […]
Design Focus: 2017 Mazda MX-5 at Chicago Auto Show
Pulling in at this year’s Chicago Auto Show–the nation’s largest automotive exhibition held annually at McCormick Place–is the sleek and stylish 2017 Mazda MX-5 Miata. Equipped with an automatic convertible […]
Cars Show Off Their Curves at 2017 Chicago Auto Show
[soliloquy id=”9660″] LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, start your engines and get set for this year’s Chicago Auto Show, now showing at McCormick Place. It’s the nation’s largest annual automotive exhibition, showcasing the […]
Annette Hur’s Work at Chicago Artists Coalition Resonates With Today’s Issues
Comprising five paintings and a ceramic sculpture (all from 2016), Annette Hur’s Ee Bang In/Person from Outside at Chicago Artists Coalition is particularly relevant in our current environment. Hur was […]
Public Art History at the Chicago Cultural Center
As Chicago enters into its Year of Public Art it seems necessary to take the time to look back on the works that helped to secure the cultural acclaim this city […]
Review: Richard Crawford, ‘Compositions in Color’ at Everybody’s Coffee
It is always intriguing to see an artist’s first public exhibition, particularly if it’s a solo show. Richard Crawford’s debut exhibition, Compositions in Color, displaying 27 of his works at Everybody’s […]
Review: Vostell Concrete at the Smart Museum of Art
To celebrate the return of Concrete Traffic, a 1970 sculpture conceived by Wolf Vostell (1932-1998) specifically for Chicago, the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago has organized […]
Viviane Sassen’s UMBRA Is Illuminating Walk Through the Shadows
The walls at the Museum of Contemporary Photography are lit this evening by overhanging gallery lights. Photographs of shadows dancing across hidden faces, hunching figures, barren landscapes, and wrinkled clothes […]
Review: ‘Nothing from Something’ at Gallery 19
The new exhibition, Nothing from Something, at Gallery 19 explores when a moment of clarity is experienced through the realization of perfect peace, perhaps no matter how fleeting or how […]
Richard Gray Gallery Hosts Art Encounter
Last Saturday, venerable Chicago contemporary art gallery Richard Gray played host to Art Encounter, a nonprofit visual art education organization founded in 1978 with a mission to “bring an appreciation […]