Alan Artner

To help you sort through the more than 140 offerings of the Chicago Humanities Festival, our critics offer a few suggestions. See the listings for the complete descriptions of the...

Richard Haas is best-known to Chicagoans for his fool-the-eye architectural murals such as the dazzling but now deterioriating one on the outside of the building on the northeast corner of...

In the latest chapter of a family saga that has spanned a half century and included a legal victory over the formidable Louvre museum in Paris, the Art Institute of...

Once upon a time, when the gallery scene was much smaller than it is today, prominent local artists exhibited in art fairs, and of all of them, the 57th Street...

One of the great subjects for painters throughout history has particular relevance to summer--a group of figures about to wade or swim in a body of water. These paintings of...

"The Third Memory," a new short video by French artist Pierre Huyghe, has finally opened at the Renaissance Society, 5811 S. Ellis Ave. Showings were scheduled to begin in March...

Vienna-born artist Rudolph Ingerle (1879-1950) was a celebrated Chicago landscape painter whose work seldom treated our city. In the mid teens of the last century, he helped found the Society...

For more than 20 years Chicago-area artist Margaret Wharton has made witty and beguiling sculptures by disassembling and reconfiguring such everyday objects as chairs and books. Her exhibition opening 5:30...

Friday is closing day for the spendid show on behalf of Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, a Portuguese Futurist who exhibited in the famous 1913 Armory Show and sold works to...

Like Bill Viola, American artist Gary Hill has worked with video and sound since the early 1970s, developing a singular, highly sophisticated language in his installation pieces. Chicagoans got to...