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- Arts & Culture, Art Review May 27, 2021
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Vivan Maier makes the everyday extraordinary
An exhibit at the Chicago History Museum offers a new perspective on the enigmatic photographer’s work.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Mar 22, 2021
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The midwestern decadence of “Indiscriminate Sincerity”
Patrick Wilkins’s exhibit celebrates humanity’s simplest pleasures with a perverse twist.
- Arts & Culture, Book Review Feb 1, 2021
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Theorem is more than a book of poetry
Evoking memory and mystery, two artists collaborate on an art piece.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Jan 29, 2021
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Bursting and bubbling, Susan Smith Trees opens at Evanston Art Center
Working with the unknown encourages the “known.”
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Dec 9, 2020
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Angela Jackson is the state’s new poet laureate
That shouldn’t cost her, right?
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Nov 18, 2020
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Em Kettner creates elaborate casings for her sacred sculptures
These small performative objects exemplify disability and protection.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Sep 23, 2020
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Balkrishna Doshi designs for the people
The Indian architect and urban planner’s work and process is on display in a new retrospective.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Mar 4, 2020
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Motherhood changes you—and your art
Gwendolyn Zabicki’s attention to time is the focus of her exhibition at Heaven Gallery.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Mar 3, 2020
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Vaginal Davis steps into the mainstream spotlight
Nearly five decades after her career began, the pioneer performance artist, musician, and activist is now a permanent fixture at the Art Institute.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Feb 26, 2020
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Smart Museum’s take on ‘Allure of Matter’ spends time on the details
An exhibition in two parts—Part II: The Smart Museum of Art
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Feb 18, 2020
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‘The Allure of Matter’ pushes boundaries
An exhibition in two parts—Part I: Wrightwood 659
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Jan 14, 2020
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‘You Will Die’ reminds us of our mortality
Metal art breaks into the white-wall gallery.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Dec 20, 2019
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‘Restrain’ appears static, but the works (and the viewers) dance
Brendan Fernandes’s bronze sculptures congeal pain and pleasure.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Dec 10, 2019
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Tetsuya Ishida’s first U.S. retrospective isn’t for the faint of heart
The dismal depiction of Japan’s “missing million” features more than 70 paintings and drawings.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Nov 27, 2019
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Camille Norment’s (red flame) brings the heat
The Oslo-based multimedia artist’s installation uses sound to speak volumes about Chicago’s social and political history.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Sep 24, 2019
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‘The Last Judgment’ brings catharsis to Little Village
Artist Adela Goldbard draws from Mexican traditions to address issues in the neighborhood today.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Jul 18, 2019
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"About Face," Wrightwood 659's exhibition on post-Stonewall LGBTQ art, embraces the uncertainty of queer identity
The show’s real power lies in how it acknowledges the complicated intergenerational conversations between queer artists of color.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review May 21, 2019
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Photographer Laura Aguilar invited viewers to take a long, hard look at all her imperfections
A career retrospective at the National Museum of Mexican Art shows an artist dealing with the complexities of her identity.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Feb 1, 2019
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The Beach is the interactive exhibit Navy Pier deserves
Neither art nor architecture, this ball pit is completely Instagram ready.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Nov 23, 2018
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'African-American Designers in Chicago' is an important corrective to art history
The new Cultural Center exhibit shows how much design innovation came from black artists in Chicago.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Nov 8, 2018
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The Time Is Now! celebrates the black artists of the south side who used their work as a vehicle for social change
The Smart Museum exhibit and companion book provide a valuable historical record of Chicago art between 1960 and 1980.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Aug 14, 2018
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Chicago artist Mika Horibuchi paints oil trompe-l’oeil replicas of her grandma’s watercolors
The result is an experiment in looking at the world through someone else’s eyes.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Feb 20, 2018
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For artist Ryan Browne, “a comic is a movie with an unlimited special effects budget”
In the new issue of Curse Words, expect more deadpan humor and boisterous excess.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Jan 24, 2018
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For the People Artists Collective looks back on 100 years of police violence in Chicago
"Do Not Resist?" spreads its message throughout the city
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Jan 23, 2018
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Egyptian death-mask portraits bring their subjects back to life after 2,000 years
At the Block Museum, mummies look as alive as you or I.
