It’s official: LEGO has invaded the Chicagoland suburbs for the summer! Both Brookfield Zoo and the Morton Arboretum are currently hosting exhibits that spotlight the iconic colorful bricks. Titled “Brick […]
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 […]
It’s about to be Museum Week in Chicago. Every January, while it’s too cold to enjoy the lakefront, rooftop bars and generally being outside for more than five minutes, the […]
Over 600 artists from across North America mob the Merchandise Mart’s 7th floor with a wide variety of wares through December 10. There’s an admission fee to even get in the […]
A is for Artist is a new exhibition at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art that challenges the idea of using the label “outsider art” when describing artists who not only […]
The DePaul Art Museum presents Senga Nengudi: Improvisational Gestures, an exhibition that surveys the sculpture, performance, and videos of American artist Senga Nengudi, with works dating from the 1970s to […]
At the start of 2017, the Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events announced Chicago’s Year of Public Art (YOPA), in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the famed untitled Picasso […]
The Oak Park Art League pays tribute to Frank Lloyd Wright on the 150th anniversary year of his birth with the exhibition, Midwest Juried Exhibition: Elevating Nature, as well as other events […]
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 […]
Entering Yvette Mayorga’s exhibition, The Politics of Desire, at Chicago Artists Coalition is a deliberate, and thoughtful, experience of visual sensory overload. Comprised of densely-placed paintings and sculptures, the works […]
At the quaint gallery space of The Comfort Station, located at the heart of Chicago’s Logan Square, is Sae Jun Kim’s new solo exhibition, The Beginning and End of things. […]
To celebrate the return of Concrete Traffic, a 1970 sculpture conceived by Wolf Vostell (1932-1998) specifically for Chicago, the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago has organized […]