Nancy Holt, the artist who catches stars
In the mid-'70s, Nancy Holt spent a year in the Utah desert building one of the great works of the land art movement. The four giant...
Get the full story >>Project splashes art on digital billboard for I-90 motorists
You're stuck in traffic on your way into the city from the northwest suburbs, and something catches your eye: a digital billboard, its...
Get the full story >>Druick brings a new era for Art Institute
It has been just six weeks since Douglas Druick was appointed the Art Institute of Chicago's director and president, the museum's 11th...
Get the full story >>'Charles Smith Homecoming': Whimsical vision informs quirky art
Some two dozen works by sculptor Charles Smith — or, Dr. Charles Smith, as the colorful artist prefers — are the...
Get the full story >>Who's famous? Who's not? Who cares?
Coming at the end of a decade and a half of ambitious museum building, the new DePaul Art Museum offers a relatively modest but entirely...
Get the full story >>Museum turns a fresh eye on Native Americans
A few years ago, Nat Silverman was reading a book to a group of students when he came across a Native American name he was not sure how to...
Get the full story >>Art gallery directors play a larger role than meets the eye
Walk into any gallery in the city and there's an unknown force at work, a person whose efforts are the reason you're seeing what you're...
Get the full story >>Local venues lighten up this fall
Since last fall, numerous museums and institutions have been tied up in "The Soviet Arts Experience," the University of Chicago Presents...
Get the full story >>Meeting at the intersection of blue and white
We tend to think of collaboration as something that happens intentionally. A certain number of people agree to work together, and jointly...
Get the full story >>'Hope & Spirit' exhibit: Exposing cruelty, hoping for justice
This summer marked the 70th anniversary of the start of one of the darker chapters of recent Eastern European history: the mass Soviet...
Get the full story >>Combining tradition, innovation for Joffrey
Yuri Possokhov's name reveals his homeland and a lot — but by no means all — about his choreographic aesthetics.
Get the full story >>Autumnal art: Galleries cover wide spectrum with fall shows
Almost as if on cue with the annual mass openings of gallery exhibitions, Chicago's September weather shifted to mark the season....
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Stan Shellabarger at Western Exhibitions
Get the full story >>DePaul Art Museum reopens with 'Re: Chicago'
It's been awhile since Chicago welcomed a brand new art museum.
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At the beginning of the 20th century, Chicagoans of German ancestry were a significant part of the city's population, making their mark on...
Get the full story >>Supporting the arts, one pixel at a time
As so often happens with creative endeavors, Brian Kirkbride started offering his Web design services as a favor. Little did he know he'd...
Get the full story >>Photos ride 'Soul Train' back in time
The instructions for the dancers were simple enough: no jeans, no sneakers, no see-through tops — and no looking straight into the...
Get the full story >>Tiny treasures are worth a little time at Michael's Museum
At first glance, Michael's Museum seems a striking departure for the Chicago Children's Museum, that bastion of hands-on, all-in, five-...
Get the full story >>Modern kids tinker with classic toys
When curator Lance Tawzer was looking for ideas for a summertime exhibit for the Elmhurst Historical Museum, he came across a blogger who...
Get the full story >>'Killing Season' yields public art
Summer weather can be unbearable. For some, deathly so.
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