Review: Perspectives of “New Age” Concepts at DePaul Art Museum
When New Age first came into vogue in the late ’60s and ’70s, yoga, meditation and astrology as well as vegetarianism were viewed as exotic and often dismissed as forms […]
Preview: VGA Gallery Brings Hong Kong Artists to Chicago for PLAY.GROUND II: Video Game Art from Hong Kong
In the US, we can be myopic about our place in the world sometimes. Much of the media we consume can seem to revolve around us and what’s happening here, […]
Review: Hamilton: The Exhibition Explores the Room Where It Happens
By June Skinner Sawyers On Friday afternoon, the eve of the opening of Hamilton: The Exhibition, a gleeful Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of the blockbuster musical Hamilton, surveyed the room, […]
Laurie Simmons at the MCA: Big Camera / Little Camera on View Through May 5th
A lot of things come to mind when one looks at the work of Laurie Simmons: isolation, scale, gender, and the modern myths that surround us. From empty domestic spaces […]
Ten Great Things We Saw at IH+HS 2019
Last month’s International Home and Housewares Show in Chicago at McCormick Place is an annual tradition for us at Third Coast. Every year it’s been in Chicago (since 1928), it’s […]
Review: The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt by Ken Krimstein
The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth By Ken Krimstein Bloomsbury Publishing Am I intelligent enough to critique the life’s work of philosopher and political theorist Hannah […]
Review: Brendan Hoffman Captures the Daily Life of War in the Ukraine at UIMA
The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art presents a powerful exhibition, Brotherland: War in Ukraine, that displays the work of photojournalist Brendan Hoffman. In this photo exhibition, Hoffman gives us a closer […]
New York Museums: Frida Kahlo at the Brooklyn Museum—Obsession With Self-Image; Plus MAD
The Brooklyn Museum is a grand art museum housed in an 1893 building designed by McKim, Mead and White. You enter the museum, not through its 19th century Beaux Arts […]
Review: The Art Institute’s Quartet of Rembrandt Portraits
This exhibit feels like it’s being billed as a big dealio, but, in fact, the Art Institute of Chicago’s Rembrandt Portraits, running through June 9, is merely four paintings, two of […]
Works by Sarah Cook: Encountering Light Between the Shadows of Chaos and Order
In a world that is in constant motion, we all look for that fleeting moment of quietude, that meditative space, where we can enjoy a brief period of mindfulness. In […]
Polymorphism: Queer Encounters of Intimacy in Games Continues Through April at VGA Gallery
If love or sex comes up in a video game, it’s often the muscle-bound male protagonist bedding buxom women. Some games even have an accompanying minigame to put you in […]
New York Reviews: Andy Warhol—from A to B and Back Again at the Whitney Museum
The blockbuster exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art could be called Andy Warhol—From A to Z and Back Again. Because it’s a very comprehensive view of the life […]