“The streets were never full of flowers.” -Bill Graham, Fillmore: The Last Days Visual and auditory introduction to Bill Graham and the Rock and Roll Revolution The 1960s promoted revolution, […]
The Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA) offers a plethora of photographs on display this summer, featuring three exhibitions: Jeffrey Wolin’s Pigeon Hill: Then and Now; Michelle Murphy’s Responsive Beauty; and Susan Aurinko’s Searching for Jehanne, […]
I can’t be the only one who has forgotten how to look up. Whether your heart is heavy with worries or your mind occupied with office bullshit, any cloud of […]
The University of Chicago Smart Museum of Art’s recently mounted exhibition, Classicisms, presents itself ambitiously. The accompanying text authored by co-curators Larry F. Norman and Anne Leonard states that the […]
Be prepared for your visit to The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg, the new exhibit of work by artist Takashi Murakami at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Your head may […]
The Presidential Library Project: Black Presidential Imaginary, currently on view at Hyde Park Art Center, offers a conceptual framework through which to imagine The Obama Presidential Center, which will be […]
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 […]