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 […]
In his coffee table book, My Journey Into the Wilds of Chicago, Mike MacDonald, photographer and author, explores one of his greatest passions, the natural world all around Chicagoland. Mike […]
Jun Fujita thought of himself first as a poet and an artist. He wrote Japanese poetry in the form known as tanka and took exquisite black-and-white landscape and flower photos […]
[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 […]
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 […]
The new exhibition, Nothing from Something, at Gallery 19 explores when a moment of clarity is experienced through the realization of perfect peace, perhaps no matter how fleeting or how […]
Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art attempts to counter the emboldened pussy-grabbing culture with its Riot Grrrls installation. Male artists are disproportionately presented and compensated so the MCA borrowed from the […]
The air buzzes over the grand floors of Navy Pier’s Festival Hall where mini galleries are set like city blocks as guests navigate the aisles. There are colors everywhere: nestled […]
Chicago icon and national treasure Studs Terkel made a career out of chronicling the stories of others. A new art exhibit, opening September 14th at the Harold Washington Library, is […]
Chris Riha is Third Coast Review’s new staff photographer. One thing I’ve noticed I can count on Chris for is that if something is happening in Chicago, he will be […]
In their recent exhibition Fanfare for the Times at Heaven Gallery, the Chicago-based artists Lauren Edwards and Eric Watts combined photography, projection, sculpture, and installation into a mysterious collection of […]
[soliloquy id=”5562″] Aaron Siskind’s photographs are so painterly that you will at first mistake them for abstract expressionism. Of course, that’s what they are. The beautifully curated exhibit at […]