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- 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.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Jan 11, 2018
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Lee Grantham can’t escape the long shadow of the Chicago Imagists
The Milwaukee-based artist's show "Reverse Acrylic Paintings" is showing at the Jean Albano Gallery.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Jan 4, 2018
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At Intuit, only a glimpse of the immersive art environment Pasaquan
“Outsider” artist Eddie Owens Martin’s seven-acre utopia in Georgia must be seen to be solved.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Dec 6, 2017
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Isabelle Frances McGuire’s bread and butter is their art
“I’m a Cliche” at Prairie Gallery uses yeast and fermentation to explore issues of identity.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Nov 22, 2017
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The beguiling mystery of Deborah Slabeck Baker’s drawings
A new show at Firecat Projects spotlights the quirky and captivating work of an artist known for her embroideries.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Nov 22, 2017
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Bill Walker, Dapper Bruce Lafitte, and the virtues of angry art
A review of two concurrent, improbably similar solo shows of artists working in different time periods and locations
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Nov 15, 2017
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The radical nature of Faith Wilding’s fantastical watercolors
Western Exhibitions puts on a compressed retrospective of the Paraguayan-American artist.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Nov 8, 2017
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Don’t celebrate the Russian Revolution
Two new art exhibits try to recast a bloody, inhumane time period in a positive light.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Nov 1, 2017
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A Black Panther Party retrospective eerily recalls the present day
An exhibit at the Westside Center for Justice demonstrates how little things have changed when it comes to racism and the surveillance state.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Oct 18, 2017
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Nicolas Carone, a revered teacher, was also a brilliant painter
The inaugural show at Avondale’s Rare Nest Gallery augurs a space committed to featuring overlooked artists.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Oct 4, 2017
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Take a trip and trip out to ‘William Blake and the Age of Aquarius’
A new exhibit at the Block Museum makes a startling connection between the 18th-century English artist and the 1960s counterculture.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Sep 28, 2017
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Michael Rakowitz forges bonds over Baghdad at the MCA
A major survey of the Iraqi-American, Chicago-based artist finally arrives.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Sep 26, 2017
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Carrie Mae Weems reshapes history in her image at the Block Museum
The artist’s Ritual and Revolution places her in politically charged moments in time.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Sep 6, 2017
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The Big Boys’ Tim Kerr paints his heroes in Skokie
At Miishkooki, “Your Name Here” boasts colorful portraits of the artist’s influences.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Aug 30, 2017
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‘Woman As Warrior’ works, but not because of its artworks
A new group show at Zhou B has something to admire, despite what’s on display.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Aug 16, 2017
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At Shane Campbell, another great Japanese art exhibit to see this summer
Painter Yui Yaegashi is the subject of a solo show, and she also curates a charming supplement.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Aug 9, 2017
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The Floating Museum literally becomes a floating museum
The nonprofit’s latest exhibit “River Assembly” sits atop a barge that will journey up the Chicago River.
