Ai Weiwei’s photo selfie, Illumination (2009), which signaled the start of the artist-activist’s notoriety, is a defining image in the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s new exhibition, #AiWeiWei, covering a whole wall in […]
The Arts Club of Chicago, tucked unassumingly on the corner of Ontario and St. Clair in Streeterville, may be one of the most overlooked and under-appreciated exhibition spaces in the […]
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., author of fourteen novels and numerous short stories, was also a prolific visual artist during his lifetime. On display at the National Veterans Art Museum is Vonnegut’s […]
[soliloquy id=”11084″] Photography is a medium of great power. It can show us things we’ve never seen before, transport us places, and capture a moment in time like an insect […]
Go is the second installation in “The Modern Series,” a group of exhibitions focusing on modern art in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Coming a year after […]
Random Sequence is a great choice of title for an exciting and vibrant show of mid-career abstraction by Ralph Coburn (b. 1923) at the Arts Club of Chicago. Organized around […]
In the canon of contemporary art, Hélio Oiticica (Brazilian, 1937–80) is considered an innovator who pushed the boundaries of what art can be. His retrospective at the Art Institute, Hélio […]
On a cool blue night in Chicago, streetlights twinkle across the stained glass windows of the Richard H. Driehaus Museum—an old Gilded Age mansion turned art museum, ornately silhouetted against […]
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 […]
Ink on Paper: Japanese Monochromatic Works, currently on display at the Art Institute of Chicago, explores the rich history of Japanese monoprint art. Before methods in color printing came around in the […]
Art AIDS America Chicago is a monumental exhibition that explores how the AIDS crisis had an impact on American art and culture. The works on display, from the early 1980s […]
In 1953, as a senior at the Illinois Institute of Technology, a young John Massey offered to volunteer at the International Design Conference in Aspen, Colorado. Born in 1931, he […]