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Columns & Opinion
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On Culture
Dec 9, 2020
Angela Jackson is the state’s new poet laureate
That shouldn’t cost her, right?
By Deanna Isaacs
Tags:
On Culture
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Angela Jackson
,
poet laureate
,
Hoyt Fuller
,
Haki Madhubuti
,
Sterling Plumpp
,
Carolyn Rodgers
,
Organization of Black American Culture
,
John Prine
,
J.B. Pritzker
,
M.K. Pritzker
,
Howard B. Austin
,
Henry Horner
,
Carl Sandburg
,
Gwendolyn Brooks
,
Kevin Stein
Arts & Culture
,
Art Review
Nov 18, 2020
Recommended
Em Kettner creates elaborate casings for her sacred sculptures
These small performative objects exemplify disability and protection.
By S. Nicole Lane
Tags:
Art Review
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Goldfinch
,
Em Kettner
,
Elizabeth Lalley
,
"Play the Fool"
,
muscular dystrophy
,
disabled bodies
,
Howard Fonda
,
“the message or the messenger”
,
Recommended
Arts & Culture
,
Art Review
Sep 23, 2020
Recommended
Balkrishna Doshi designs for the people
The Indian architect and urban planner’s work and process is on display in a new retrospective.
By Darshita Jain
Tags:
Art Review
,
Balkrishna Doshi
,
Wrightwood 659
,
“BV Doshi Architecture for the People"
,
Pritzker Architecture Prize
,
Khushnu Panthaki Hoof
,
Vastushilpa Foundation
,
Jolanthe Kugler
,
Vitra Design Museum
,
Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology University
,
Sardar Sarovar
,
Bandra Kurla Complex
,
Indian Institute of Technology
,
Recommended
Arts & Culture
,
Art Review
Mar 4, 2020
Recommended
Motherhood changes you—and your art
Gwendolyn Zabicki’s attention to time is the focus of her exhibition at Heaven Gallery.
By S. Nicole Lane
Tags:
Art Review
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Gwendolyn Zabicki
,
Heaven Gallery
,
Mana Contemporary
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Pat Mainardi
,
Jane Hirshfield
,
“In a Room with Many Windows"
,
motherhood
,
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Arts & Culture
,
Art Review
Mar 3, 2020
Recommended
Video
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.
By S. Nicole Lane
Tags:
Art Review
,
Vaginal Davis
,
Art Institute of Chicago
,
The White to be Angry
,
Fertile La Toyah Jackson
,
Pedro, Muriel & Ester
,
Homocore
,
José Esteban Muñoz
,
DIY
,
Recommended
,
Video
Arts & Culture
,
Art Review
Feb 26, 2020
Recommended
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
By S. Nicole Lane
Tags:
Art Review
,
Smart Museum
,
Allure of Matter
,
material art
,
Lin Tianmiao
,
Xu Bing
,
Sun Yuan
,
Peng Yu
,
Gu Wenda
,
Recommended
Arts & Culture
,
Art Review
Feb 18, 2020
Recommended
‘The Allure of Matter’ pushes boundaries
An exhibition in two parts—Part I: Wrightwood 659
By S. Nicole Lane
Tags:
Art Review
,
The Allure of Matter
,
Wrightwood 659
,
Smart Museum of Art
,
material arts movement
,
Zhu Jinshi
,
Wave of Materials
,
Yin Xiuzhen
,
Transformation
,
Liang Shaoji
,
Chains: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Nature Series, No. 79
,
Zhan Wang
,
Beyond 12 Nautical Miles—Floating Rock Drifts on the Open Sea
,
China
,
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Arts & Culture
,
Art Review
Jan 14, 2020
‘You Will Die’ reminds us of our mortality
Metal art breaks into the white-wall gallery.
By S. Nicole Lane
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Art Review
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You Will Die
,
Public Works Gallery
,
Scott Shellhamer
,
American Heritage
,
Josh Zoerner
,
Noelia Towers
,
Justin Bartlett
,
Marz Community Brewing
,
Kuma's Corner
,
Hatebreed
,
Gwar
,
Aghora
,
Hangman
,
Artizan
,
Eliran Kantor
,
The Pain That Keeps On Giving
,
Straight Line Stitch
,
Myrkur
,
Agoraphobic Nosebleed
,
metal
Arts & Culture
,
Art Review
Dec 20, 2019
Recommended
‘Restrain’ appears static, but the works (and the viewers) dance
Brendan Fernandes’s bronze sculptures congeal pain and pleasure.
By S. Nicole Lane
Tags:
Art Review
,
Brendan Fernandes
,
Restrain
,
Monique Meloche Gallery
,
ballet
,
BDSM
,
kink
,
bondage
,
dancing
,
masters
,
bronze
,
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Arts & Culture
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Art Review
Dec 10, 2019
Recommended
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.
By S. Nicole Lane
Tags:
Art Review
,
Tetsuya Ishida
,
Wrightwood 659
,
paintings
,
Japanese art
,
missing millions
,
hikikomori
,
dystopian
,
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Arts & Culture
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Art Review
Nov 27, 2019
Recommended
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.
By S. Nicole Lane
Tags:
Art Review
,
Camille Norment
,
sound installation
,
Logan Center Exhibitions
,
Untitled (red flame)
,
red flame
,
Camille Norment Trio
,
Great Chicago Fire
,
1960 race riots
,
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Arts & Culture
,
Art Review
Sep 24, 2019
Recommended
‘The Last Judgment’ brings catharsis to Little Village
Artist Adela Goldbard draws from Mexican traditions to address issues in the neighborhood today.
By Kerry Cardoza
Tags:
Art Review
,
Adela Goldbard
,
Gallery 400
,
Little Village
,
The Last Judgment
,
pyrotechnics
,
papier mache
,
Chicago Architecture Biennial
,
visual arts
,
Recommended
Arts & Culture
,
Art Review
Jul 18, 2019
"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.
By KT Hawbaker
Tags:
Art Review
,
About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and New Queer Art
,
Wrightwood 659
,
queer art
,
Stonewall Riot
,
Jonathan David Katz
,
Attila Richard Lukacs
,
Nick Cave
,
Harvey Milk
,
Greer Lankton
Arts & Culture
,
Art Review
May 21, 2019
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.
By Ionit Behar
Tags:
Art Review
,
Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell
,
Laura Aguilar
,
National Museum of Mexican Art
,
Nature Self Portrait
,
Mexican artists
,
Vincent Price Art Museum
,
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
,
Sybil Venegas
,
East Los Angeles Community College
,
Chicano art
,
Latina Lesbians
,
How Mexican is Mexican
,
Three Eagles Flying
,
Nature Self Portrait #4
,
Cesáreo Moreno
,
Luis Alfaro
Arts & Culture
,
Art Review
Feb 1, 2019
The Beach is the interactive exhibit Navy Pier deserves
Neither art nor architecture, this ball pit is completely Instagram ready.
By Anjulie Rao
Tags:
Art Review
,
The Beach, Navy Pier, Snarkitecture, Instagram, Alex Mustonen, Ben Porto, Playhouse, art installation, architecture, Instagram trap, 29Rooms, ball pit
Arts & Culture
,
Art Review
Nov 23, 2018
'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.
By Danielle A. Scruggs
Tags:
Art Review
,
African-American Designers in Chicago
,
Chicago Cultural Center
,
design
,
commercial art
,
Daniel Schulman
,
Chris Dingwell
,
Tim Samuelson
,
Charles Harrison
,
Thomas Miller
,
Pedro Bell
,
Sylvia Abernathy
,
Leroy Winbush
,
Emmett McBain
,
Barbara D. Mahone
,
Black Arts Movement
,
a
Arts & Culture
,
Art Review
Nov 8, 2018
Recommended
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.
By Deanna Isaacs
Tags:
Art Review
,
The Time Is Now
,
Smart Museum
,
Art Worlds of Chicago’s South Side, 1960-1980
,
Rebecca Zorach
,
Darryl Cowherd
,
Murry DePillars
,
Nathan Wright
,
Hyde Park Arts Center
,
Barbara Jones-Hogu
,
the Alley
,
South Side Community Art Center
,
Margaret Burroughs
,
DuSable Museum
,
Alison Gass
,
Michael Christiano
,
south side
,
south side art
,
AfriCOBRA
,
African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists
,
OBAC
,
Organization of Black African Culture
,
mural movement
,
civil rights era
,
black power
,
Recommended
Arts & Culture
,
Art Review
Aug 14, 2018
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.
By Kate Sierzputowski
Tags:
Art Review
,
Mika Horibuchi
,
oil paint
,
watercolor
,
MCA
,
trompe-l’oeil
,
Sayoko Yokoyama
,
School of the Art Institute
,
Trompe-l’Oeil Still Life with a Flower Garland and a Curtain
,
Frans van Mieris the Elder
,
Adriaen van der Spelt
,
Chicago Works
,
Dan Rizzo-Orr
Arts & Culture
,
Art Review
Feb 20, 2018
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.
By Mark Peters
Tags:
Art Review
,
Ryan Browne
,
Curse Words
,
Charles Soule
,
Image Comics
,
God Hates Astronauts
,
Wizord
,
Hole World
,
Stormshadow
,
Manhattan Projects
,
Blast Furnace
,
Logan Arcade
,
Beer Hates Astronauts
,
Murder by Death
,
Trash Bridge
,
Steve Seeley
,
Jim Terry
Arts & Culture
,
Art Review
Jan 24, 2018
For the People Artists Collective looks back on 100 years of police violence in Chicago
"Do Not Resist?" spreads its message throughout the city
By Kerry Cardoza
Tags:
Art Review
,
For the People Artists Collective
,
police violence
,
police abolition
,
Monica Trinidad
,
Emory Douglas
,
Larry Redmond
,
Hairpin Arts Center
,
Roman Susan Gallery
,
Uri-Eichen
,
Art in These Times
,
Invisible Institute
,
Ricardo Levins Morales
,
Rachel Wallis
,
We Charge Genocide
,
quilt
,
Salome Chasnoff
,
Meredith Zielke
,
Rekia Boyd
,
Dakota Bright
Arts & Culture
,
Art Review
Jan 23, 2018
Recommended
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.
By Dmitry Samarov
Tags:
Art Review
,
mummy
,
Egypt
,
Roman Egypt
,
death mask
,
Recommended
Arts & Culture
,
Art Review
Jan 11, 2018
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.
By Dmitry Samarov
Tags:
Art Review
,
Lee Grantham
,
Chicago Imagists
,
Jean Albano
,
John Maloof
Arts & Culture
,
Art Review
Jan 4, 2018
Recommended
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.
By Dmitry Samarov
Tags:
Art Review
,
In the Land of Pasaquan
,
Eddie Owens Martin
,
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
,
Columbus State University
,
Georgia
,
Buena Vista Georgia
,
Pasaquan
,
Saint EOM
,
Kohler Foundation
,
outsider art
,
Recommended
Arts & Culture
,
Art Review
Dec 6, 2017
Recommended
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.
By Tal Rosenberg
Tags:
Art Review
,
Isabelle Frances McGuire
,
I'm a Cliche
,
Prairie Gallery
,
Pilsen
,
Tim Mann
,
Jack Schneider
,
X-Ray Spex
,
Recommended
Arts & Culture
,
Art Review
Nov 22, 2017
Recommended
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.
By Dmitry Samarov
Tags:
Art Review
,
Deborah Slabeck Baker
,
Deborah Baker: 6B
,
Firecat Projects
,
Stan Klein
,
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