A couple of weeks ago, I reported on Chicago’s emerging public art crisis. In that article, I cautioned against alarmism and optimism in equal measure, advice that still applies. I […]
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 […]
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 […]
Exhibitionism lands at Navy Pier this weekend, rockin out the vibrant history and persona of the band the world has come to know as The Rolling Stones. The exhibit, chocked […]
Rolling blue waves and airy forest layers ebb along the walls of Chicago Art Source Gallery as the space reveals its new duo exhibition, Komorebi and Everything Is Fluid. The show […]
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 […]
The irony is unavoidable, and anyway, it’s appropriate: only in Chicago could a so-called ‘Public Art Crisis’ arise just three months into what has been deemed the Year of Public […]
[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 […]
This time last week, over 62,000 people were participating in a massive meeting of minds at McCormick Place. The topic? Housewares. Each year, our behemoth of a convention center houses […]
Free People opened its doors on Randolph Street last week, marking the seventh Chicago area location of the Boho-inspired women’s fashion line. The brand, which sells apparel, shoes, accessories, and cosmetics, features an eclectic […]