Alan Artner

Lucas Samaras has been perceived as a wild, unconventional artist almost since the moment of the first Happenings, those impromptu performances of the late 1950s. Then, decades later, when New...

The first solo exhibition in Chicago of New York painter Garth Weiser, at the Kavi Gupta Gallery, presents three large and three small abstract paintings that sometimes persuasively suggest landscapes...

Gerda Meyer Bernstein has exhibited for more than 50 years, and in honor of the landmark she has had four Midwestern exhibitions since last fall. The two in Chicago, her...

In 1987, when Margaret Israel was stuck by a truck and killed while on her bicycle in Manhattan, she left behind a three-story studio nearly overflowing with ceramics, wood constructions,...

Joseph Hronek has exhibited and taught for 20 years, and his representational oil paintings at the Gwenda Jay/Addington Gallery are a thrilling fulfillment of his experience. Nothing is left to...

Inch by inch, more drama is in Nicholas Sistler's diminutive gouaches at I space than in most contemporary representational paintings many times larger. As in his 2004 exhibition, much of...

Nostalgia is a longing so powerful that to play with it in art runs the risk of overwhelming if not obliterating other kinds of responses. But Brian Yates' collages, sculptures...

The following is a recap of Alan G. Artner's column about Alison Chernick's documentary "Matthew Barney: No Restraint," which appeared in Thursday's Tempo section. Find the full story at chicagotribune.com/entertainment....

Zoe Ryan, a senior curator at the Van Alen Institute in New York, has become the first Neville Bryan Curator of Design at the Art Institute of Chicago. She will...

Having done well by the numbered symphonies of George Antheil, CPO now has brought together some of the self-styled bad boy of music's works for piano and orchestra and solo...