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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Nothing renews one’s faith in the future of this city quite like seeing 150 people turn out, of their own volition, on a weekday evening to witness and participate in a […]
Ink on Paper: Japanese Monochromatic Works, currently on display at the Art Institute of Chicago, explores the rich history of Japanese monoprint art. Before methods in color printing came around in the […]
When artist Mason Cosmo Pott found out he had histoplasmosis, a life-threatening infection affecting the immune system, he didn’t let it detour his life as an artist. After undergoing rigorous treatment […]
2016 is over and we hope you’ve had a chance to read the Best-of-2016 posts that our writers and editors have created on each page: Stages, Screens, Music, Art, Lit, […]
Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art attempts to counter the emboldened pussy-grabbing culture with its Riot Grrrls installation. Male artists are disproportionately presented and compensated so the MCA borrowed from the […]