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 […]
VGA Limned the Video Star—Interview with Tiffany Funk of the Video Game Art Reader
What’s the status of art in state of the art video games? Do pixelated citizens have a sense of aesthetics? Will we find a Van Gogh or Basquiat skin among […]
Preview: Celebration for the Release of VGA Reader Issue 2 at Quimby’s This Weekend
Video games are art. I think I can say that authoritatively since great organizations like the Video Game Art Gallery go to lengths to approach these works in a scholarly […]
The Whole World a Bauhaus Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Iconic German and Chicago Design School
Furniture. Textiles. Toys. Home goods. Buildings. Photography. Theater design. Typography and graphic design. It’s hard to exaggerate how much the visual design that surrounds us is influenced by the work of […]
Andy Paczos Captures the Grit and Beauty of Chicago Landscapes
The Ed Paschke Art Center presents the exhibition, Andy Paczos: The Eye and the Hand, which showcases the paintings of Andy Paczos. Paczos executes his landscape paintings by remaining on site […]
Review: Temporary Monuments: Work by Rosemary Mayer, 1977–1982
Temporary Monuments: Work by Rosemary Mayer, 1977–1982 Soberscove Press Edited by Marie Warsh and Max Warsh Introduction by Gillian Sneed I was never an art student, but I picked up […]
Review: Process–Works by Max Unterhaslberger at Adventureland Gallery
Process. That is the first thing a viewer may think of as they begin to take in the work of Max Unterhaslberger in his exhibition, Unterhaslberger II now on view at Adventureland […]
Review: Dawoud Bey Reimagines the Underground Railroad
The Art Institute of Chicago presents the exhibition, Dawoud Bey: Night Coming Tenderly, Black, a collection of Bey’s black and white photographs that reimagine various sites along the last stages […]
Interview: Adoring Paris: The Absinthe Birds by Tony Fitzpatrick at The Dime Gallery
Artists have found inspiration in the city of Paris for ages. From the Degas painting, The Absinthe Drinker, to the poetic black and whites of 20th century photographer Robert Doisneau and so many […]