Extreme Ice at MSI Provides Poignant Proof of Climate Change
[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 Art Institute’s ‘Go’ is an Invigorating Exploration of the 20th Century in Motion
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 […]
Ralph Coburn’s Random Sequence Is Colorfully Exciting Experience at Arts Club of Chicago
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 […]
Participate in the Art of Hélio Oiticica at the Art Institute
In the canon of contemporary art, Hélio Oiticica (Brazilian, 1937–80) is considered an innovator who pushed the boundaries of what art can be. His retrospective at the Art Institute, Hélio […]
L’Affichomania French Poster Show at Driehaus Museum Is Captivating Portal to the Past
On a cool blue night in Chicago, streetlights twinkle across the stained glass windows of the Richard H. Driehaus Museum—an old Gilded Age mansion turned art museum, ornately silhouetted against […]
Viviane Sassen’s UMBRA Is Illuminating Walk Through the Shadows
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 […]
Japanese Monoprints at Art Institute, Bold and Delicate
Ink on Paper: Japanese Monochromatic Works, currently on display at the Art Institute of Chicago, explores the rich history of Japanese monoprint art. Before methods in color printing came around in the […]
Artists Explore AIDS Impact in Art AIDS America Chicago Exhibition
Art AIDS America Chicago is a monumental exhibition that explores how the AIDS crisis had an impact on American art and culture. The works on display, from the early 1980s […]
Review: John Massey: Cartón de Venezuela at The Art Institute of Chicago
In 1953, as a senior at the Illinois Institute of Technology, a young John Massey offered to volunteer at the International Design Conference in Aspen, Colorado. Born in 1931, he […]
Review: Moholy-Nagy: Future Present Reveals a Multimedia Master
The major retrospective examining the works of László Moholy-Nagy at the Art Institute of Chicago presents not only his prolific output, but also the amazing range of his art despite his […]
From Their Seats: The Legacy of the Modern Chair at the Art Institute of Chicago
Stepping into the Modern Chair gallery at the Art Institute of Chicago, one is greeted by a small audience of seats. Among them sits a curvy wooden lounge chair from […]
CST’s Doreen Sayegh Brings the Bard to the City of Big Shoulders with Shakespeare 400 Chicago
Doreen Sayegh has been a skosh busy. Playwright and quote-machine William Shakespeare died 400 years ago this year, and a few folks still like to produce his work, so […]