Hull House and its founder Jane Addams have long been recognized as pioneers in citizenship development and education for low-income and immigrant communities. A new book expands on that history […]
The exhibition On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival is now on view at the Art Institute of Chicago. Anne Wilson, one of four curators who undertook this […]
Sustainability author and educator Anna Lappe said, “Every time you spend money, you’re casting a vote for the kind of world you want.” Shopping is at the forefront of a […]
The Richard Driehaus Museum is a repository of decorative arts and Gilded Age treasures. I covered A Nativity Tribute last year at the Murphy Auditorium, featuring stained-glass windows and throne […]
The exhibition City in a Garden: Art and Activism in Chicago is currently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA). The show is an archive, a meditation, […]
Though Cheech Marin first found fame while partnering with Tommy Chong to create some of the most iconic counterculture comedy of all time, stoner humor won’t be the main focus […]
For the entirety of my life, growing up in Oak Park and visiting the Art Institute of Chicago first on school field trips and then as an adult whose favorite […]
Two nights ago I finished reading the marvelous and peculiar 2001 novel—Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish—by Australian author Richard Flanagan. In his pages of colorful prose, […]
In the new exhibit at Wrightwood 659, curators Jonathan D. Katz and Johnny Willis have realized the full version of an ambitious goal. To create an art exhibition that recognizes and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]