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Review: Design Museum of Chicago’s Letters Beyond Form: Chicago Types Builds Community Through Style

The Design Museum of Chicago is a vibrant, compact space just off the Mag Mile and is currently running the vibrant, compact exhibit Letters Beyond Form: Chicago Types through April 4. The […]

  • Karin McKie
  • March 4, 2025
    • Art & Museums , Cafes and restaurants , Design , Food

    Daisies Chicago Combines Beauty and Taste with Limited Edition Art and Greeting Cards

    Daisies is a restaurant in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood that offers Italian cuisine with a warm familial influence. Joe Frillman, Daisies’ chef and owner, works closely with his brother Tim […]

  • Row Light
  • February 13, 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 , Cafes and restaurants , Design , Event , Food

    Interview: Artist Lin Bader Gives a Taste of Pendry Chicago and Venteux’s Winter Weekend Sip and Create Workshop Series

    Arts enthusiasts in Chicago are about to have an unmatched opportunity, thanks to a collaboration between luxury hotel Pendry Chicago, French brasserie Venteux, and Nest Artisan Guild. During the Winter […]

  • Row Light
  • January 14, 2025
    • Art & Museums , Design , Fashion , Gallery , Installation , Mixed media , Museum

    Feature: Chicago History Museum Exhibits Highlight Costume Collection and ’60s/’70s Protest Art

    We want to hear from you! Take our brief reader survey now and share your feedback on what you love at Third Coast Review—and what we could be doing better! Plus, everyone […]

  • Karin McKie
  • November 7, 2024
    • Art & Museums , Design , Gallery , Installation , Mixed media , Museum

    Review: Feminism, Flowers and Finns Explored in Swedish American Museum’s Marimekko Design Exhibit

    I love textiles. I crave colorful, saturated high-count cotton-thread fabrics in my kitchen, bathroom and bedroom. As someone born post-midcentury, I’m also drawn to utilitarian midcentury design. Most fiber and […]

  • Karin McKie
  • October 11, 2024
    • Architecture , Art & Museums , Design , Installation , Mixed media , Museum

    Review: DePaul Art Museum Exhibit Celebrates the Work of Edgar Miller, Renaissance Man

    Edgar Miller has been called the forgotten man of Chicago art. But with the new exhibit Edgar Miller Anti-Modern, 1917–1967 at the DePaul Museum of Art in Lincoln Park, he […]

  • June Sawyers
  • September 24, 2024
    • Art & Museums , Beyond , Design , Feature , Museum , Soapbox

    Opinion: Public Contest to Design New State Flag Is a Terrible Idea

    The State of Illinois has announced a contest to gather designs for a new state flag. Design submissions are due by October 18. This is a horrendously bad idea. Unless one of […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • September 12, 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
    • 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
    • Design , Lit , Nonfiction

    Review: Celebrating Well-Made Books—The Book by Design: The Remarkable Story of the World’s Greatest Invention, edited by P.J.M. Marks and Stephen Parkin

    For more than 18 centuries, paper was made with rags—old clothes, sails, and ropes—the same way it had first been fashioned in China. But, by the 19th century, the process of […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • February 17, 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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