Alan Artner

Great ideas for exhibitions do not always result in great exhibitions, and a case in point is the ambitious 10-person show at the Black Walnut Gallery. Director Robert Wayner had...

Recently, On the Town asked our critics for their favorite insider tips and insights learned on the job -- and then blew the lid off by printing them on our...

One of the highlights of "Prague Days in Chicago," the ongoing festival of Czech art, music, history and film, is the reintroduction of the prints and drawings of Oldrich Kulhanek...

Drawing is big on the contemporary art scene, as are references to popular culture. The one serves the other arrestingly in Peregrine Honig's recent works at the newly relocated Gescheidle...

Suzy Poling's first solo exhibition of photographs at Zg Gallery presents selections from two ongoing series that attempt to communicate the wonder she finds in atmospheres of decay. The first...

"Roy Lichtenstein Prints 1956-97," the large survey at Northwestern University's Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, is a splendid show that will be enjoyed for reasons other than those...

Ben Whitehouse is a painter of the open air who attempts to fix fugitive conditions of light. His seeming departure at the Alfedena Gallery actually extends what he does in...

Eighty years after American artists optimistically looked to the promise of industry, another generation is surveying the ruins, in paintings, photographs and even sculptures of dazzling, unexpected beauty. Darris Lee...

One of the most satisfying things for anyone to see is an artist's leap forward, and that is visible now in the collaborative photographs by Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, at...

New York artist David Packer's first solo exhibition in Chicago, at the NavtaSchulz Gallery, looks to be a display of sculpture and drawings on macho mechanical themes, although the dominant...