The first thing that struck me walking into the building that houses Trace, a four-story art installation created by Chinese artist and activist Ai WeiWei, was the stark stone staircase […]
In 2011, multi-disciplinary artist Ai Weiwei was detained by the Chinese government, held captive for 81 days in an unknown place without any explanation, threatened with 11 years of imprisonment, […]
Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art co-commissioned Bellowing Sun, the sixth album from Jaime Fennelly’s Mind Over Mirrors, once a solo project and now a quartet including Jim Becker, violinist from […]
British-born architect Peter Land has taught at Harvard and here in Chicago for over four decades at the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, which recently hosted […]
Merchandise Mart is something of a marvel. When it was completed in 1931, it wasn’t just the largest building in the world, taking up two city blocks and boasting over […]
Some may argue that video games don’t have a place amongst world famous works of art, but on Thursday night at the Art Institute we got to experience just that […]
Porto, the feature debut by former Chicago film critic Gabe Klinger (his follow-up to the engaging 2013 documentary Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater), is a film about being […]
Rust Belt Chicago’s editor/writer Martha Bayne and artist Andrea Jablonski co-curate Theater Oobleck’s unique haunted house, tapping into fears about housing insecurity. A rainy, raw fall day was an apt […]
No new building in Chicago was as highly anticipated in recent times as the engineering marvel that is 150 N. Riverside Plaza. The 54-story glass office tower–noted for its sharply […]
Entering Yvette Mayorga’s exhibition, The Politics of Desire, at Chicago Artists Coalition is a deliberate, and thoughtful, experience of visual sensory overload. Comprised of densely-placed paintings and sculptures, the works […]
At the quaint gallery space of The Comfort Station, located at the heart of Chicago’s Logan Square, is Sae Jun Kim’s new solo exhibition, The Beginning and End of things. […]
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 […]