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  • Art & Museums , Installation , Mixed media , Museum , Review , Sculpture

Review: Art Institute’s New Korea Gallery Examines the Country’s Long Historical Timeline of Art and Artists

Review by Mitchell Oldham.  In a long pocket of space between the Art Institute’s Japanese and Chinese galleries, a brand-new exquisite new addition opened last fall. Supported by the National […]

  • Guest Author
  • April 17, 2025
    • Art & Museums , Installation , Museum , Painting & sculpture , Sculpture

    Review: Driehaus Museum’s Materialities Exhibit Uses Art to Reevaluate the Priorities of the Past

    Review written by Mitchell Oldham. Zoë Schlanger’s 2024 bestselling book, The Light Eaters, reveals a world few of us can fathom: One where lifeforms we dismiss as primitive or rudimentary are being […]

  • Guest Author
  • February 24, 2025
    • Architecture , Art & Museums , Chicago history , Chicago history , Design , Lit , Museum , Nonfiction , Painting & sculpture , Sculpture

    Review: An Elegant Tour of Great Buildings, The Story of Architecture, by Witold Rybczynski

    The 1902 plan to revamp and expand the National Mall in Washington, DC, was the product of a commission of prominent Americans. Three of them worked closely together to produce […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • January 24, 2025
    • Art & Museums , Design , Installation , Mixed media , Museum , Sculpture

    Review: Design Museum Explores the Climate Crisis in At the Precipice—It’s Beautiful and Tragic

    The beauty of art and the tragedy of the climate crisis live side by side in a stunning new exhibit at the Design Museum of Chicago. Some 30 pieces ranging […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • July 24, 2023
    • Art & Museums , Beyond , Feature , Installation , Painting & sculpture , Photography , Sculpture , Suburbs and exurbs

    Review: Andy Warhol Portfolios: A Life in Pop Inspires at Cleve Carney Museum of Art

    Andy Warhol’s contributions to our ideas of art and culture are monumental. The commercial illustrator had a hugely successful career long before the Campbell’s soup cans but ended up not […]

  • Marielle Bokor
  • June 14, 2023
    • Art & Museums , Gallery , Mixed media , Museum , Painting & sculpture , Sculpture

    Review: The Sculptures of Dr. Charles Smith Address Racism from a Historical Perspective

    Dr. Charles Smith

    The current exhibition at the National Veterans Art Museum (NVAM) displays the artwork of Dr. Charles Smith (born 1940) who is a sculptor, a US Marine Corps Veteran of Vietnam, and […]

  • Thomas Wawzenek
  • February 5, 2023
    • Art & Museums , Gallery , Installation , Mixed media , Sculpture

    Review: Six Artists Imagine All That Glows in the Dark of Democracy at the Weinberg/Newton Gallery

    It’s two months until our midterm elections. And four weeks for you to find some electoral insights by checking out All That Glows in the Dark of Democracy, an interactive exhibition […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • September 4, 2022
    • Architecture , Chicago history , Chicago history , Design , Lit , Nonfiction , Reviews , Sculpture

    Essay: Walking Graceland Cemetery with—and Without—Adam Selzer’s New Book

    Near the end of my hourlong walk around Graceland Cemetery the other day, I went past a stone obelisk, maybe 30 feet tall, and noticed this on the side: SANDRA […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • August 17, 2022
    • Art & Museums , Gallery , Painting & sculpture , Photography , Sculpture

    Review: Abandoned Spaces Come to Life at the Oak Park Art League

    John Padour, Abandoned Mine

    For many of us, there is a lure to abandoned spaces because they often evoke curiosity about their history while also arousing emotions of nostalgia, fear and sadness. There is […]

  • Thomas Wawzenek
  • May 12, 2022
    • Art & Museums , Gallery , Painting & sculpture , Photography , Sculpture

    Feature: Cornelia Arts Building Displays Compelling Variety in Open Studio Event

    The Cornelia Arts Building recently held their spring open studio event where the public had the opportunity to see work by dozens of artists. The building, located at the corner […]

  • Thomas Wawzenek
  • April 3, 2022
    • Art & Museums , Fiction , Gallery , Lit , Museum , Museums , Painting & sculpture , Sculpture

    Review: Just Add Water, The Fountain, by David Scott Hay

    The Fountain By David Scott Hay Whiskey Tit Jasper P. Duckworth is a critic in an alternate universe Chicago for Chicago Shoulders, a New City-like (or, if you will, Third […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • March 18, 2022
    • Art & Museums , Sculpture

    Art on the Street: Get Over to Halsted for Hello, Helios, an Homage to the Sun in Greektown

    Chicago is known for its public art and you usually find it in high-traffic areas like Michigan Avenue or on Loop office building plazas. But this summer, we suggest you […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • July 4, 2021
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