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On the Road: Letter from New York—Culture Hopping in the City of Islands

“I’m in a New York state of mind”–Billy Joel New York is a city of islands or near-islands. In all, there are more than three dozen of them, inhabited and […]

  • June Sawyers
  • July 20, 2024
    • Art & Museums , Gallery , Installation , Museum , Painting & sculpture , Photography

    Review: Not Just Pretty Flowers—Georgia O’Keeffe: My New Yorks at the Art Institute Through September 22

    Some think that painter Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) was a sleepy Southwesterner who primarily depicted labial flora. But the Art Institute’s exhibit chronicles a more complete origin story with the energetic […]

  • Karin McKie
  • July 16, 2024
    • Architecture , Art & Museums , Chicago history , Feature

    Chicago on Foot: We Tour the New Old Post Office and You Can Do the Same

    We Chicagoans have memories of the old post office. You know, the building you drive through on the Ike when you’re heading into the Loop? The one where you walk […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • June 27, 2024
    • Art & Museums , Design , Gallery , Installation , Lit , Museum , Nonfiction

    Review: Putting on the Glitz—Driehaus Museum’s Jewelry Exhibit and Ellie Thompson’s Designing American Jewelry Book

    As we navigate the current Gilded Age, it’s helpful to reflect on the last one. The Driehaus Museum at 40 East Erie is showcasing 200 pieces of dazzling past and […]

  • Karin McKie
  • June 17, 2024
    • Art & Museums , Lit , Mixed media , Nonfiction

    Review: 44 Posters, Weeds Tavern, by Dave Hoekstra and Sergio Mayora

    Weeds Tavern is a bar biography, but something more, and slightly less. More or less an artist’s monograph, SunTimes writer and critic Dave Hoekstra covers the titular Chicago tavern’s background […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • June 14, 2024
    • Art & Museums , Beyond , Soapbox

    Dear Cinnamon: The Art of Conversation

    Dear Cinnamon is our monthly column based on the idea that all of life’s questions can be answered by art, because, after all, art is the spice of life. To […]

  • Caroline Huftalen
  • June 1, 2024
    • Art & Museums , Gallery , Photography

    Review: Carma Lynn Park and Scottie Kersta-Wilson—Catching a Glimpse With a New Perspective

    Scottie Kersta-Wilson, “Helo Girl”

    The current exhibition at the Austin-Irving Library is Glimpses that features photographs by Carma Lynn Park and Scottie Kersta-Wilson.  Although they each have a different approach in their art, together […]

  • Thomas Wawzenek
  • May 7, 2024
    • Art & Museums , Installation , Museum , Painting & sculpture

    Review: Christina Ramberg’s Female Torso Imagery at the Art Institute Reminds Us of the Glory Days of the Chicago Imagists

    Christina Ramberg, a Chicago artist who devoted many of her paintings to images of the female torso, cinched in and bulging out of feminine undergarments, is celebrated in a new Art […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 7, 2024
    • Architecture , Art & Museums , Design , Festivals & events , Lit , Live lit events

    Dialogs: Superstar Architect Jeanne Gang Explains the Art of Architectural Grafting at the Chicago Humanities Festival

    Spring has sprung, and the ever-eclectic Chicago Humanities Festival is flowering all over the city. Belvidere, Illinois-born architect Jeanne Gang spoke to an SRO crowd about her new book The […]

  • Karin McKie
  • April 19, 2024
    • Art & Museums , Gallery , Painting & sculpture

    Review: Ivan Segarra’s Portraits Capture the Essence of the Human Condition

    Ivan Segarra with his art

    Portrait painting has always played a vital role in creative expression throughout art history. The best portraits in many of today’s museums not only convey the intricacy of the human […]

  • Thomas Wawzenek
  • March 29, 2024
    • Art & Museums , Gallery , Painting & sculpture

    The Art of Janice Aponte Celebrates Womanhood, Nature, and Her Puerto Rican Heritage

    Janice Aponte in gallery.

    AponteART is a new art gallery that recently opened in the Jefferson Park neighborhood. Janice Aponte, who is the gallery owner and also an artist, originally saw the storefront as […]

  • Thomas Wawzenek
  • March 10, 2024
    • Art & Museums , Beyond , Design , Event

    Kinda Blue: The Chicago Auto Show Returns To McCormick Place Sans Stellantis

    Every year in early February we gear up to return to McCormick Place for the first big show of the year, the Chicago Auto Show. Put on by CATA, the […]

  • Marielle Bokor
  • February 15, 2024
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