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Feature: Cherry Trees Are Blooming in Jackson Park at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry

Article written by Mitchell Oldham. In our nation’s capital, the annual cherry blossom bloom along the Tidal Basin makes Spring one of the most highly anticipated times of the year […]

  • Guest Author
  • April 21, 2025
    • 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 , Museum , Prints and printmaking , Review

    Review: Art Institute’s Lines of Connection Exhibit Illuminates the Complexities of Printmaking

    The new exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago, Lines of Connection, shows that the line between drawing and printmaking is not so clear cut as we imagined. The exhibit’s […]

  • Devony Hof
  • March 22, 2025
    • Art & Museums , Design , Gallery , Installation , Museum

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

    Review: Griffin MSI Black Creativity Art Exhibition Teems with Excellence

    Review by Mitchell Oldham.  Coupling innovation and exploration in the sciences with those of the arts represents an enlightened approach to advancing childhood and adolescent development. And for more than […]

  • Guest Author
  • February 11, 2025
    • Architecture , Art & Museums , Beyond , Feature , Installation , Museum , Travel feature

    On the Road: In Palm Springs, New Agua Caliente Cultural Plaza Honors the First Residents of the Area

    One of the newest attractions in downtown Palm Springs, California, is arguably among its best. The long-awaited debut of the Agua Caliente Cultural Plaza offers something for residents and tourists […]

  • Anne Siegel
  • January 28, 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 , Museum , Painting & sculpture

    Review: Art Institute’s Paula Modersohn-Becker: I Am Me Is an Intimate Look at Womanhood From an Overlooked Feminist Painter

    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 […]

  • Devony Hof
  • November 23, 2024
    • 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 , Gallery , Museum , Painting & sculpture

    Review: The Art of Ron Mann: The Healing Journey of a Vietnam Vet at National Veterans Art Museum

    Vietnam Children

    In the late ’60s and early ’70s, most Americans had mixed feelings about the Vietnam War because it was a controversial conflict that for many had moral ambiguity. Even though […]

  • Thomas Wawzenek
  • October 17, 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
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