Alan G. Artner

Stephanie Dean: All of the artist's lusciously colored digital prints at Flatfile Galleries are studio setups of food, drapery, plants and butterflies that recall 17th Century Dutch still-life paintings. At...

"Homeland": A number of photographers have captured the surreal-within-the-real that is post-9/11 America, but none has done it better than Nina Berman in "Homeland," the exhibition at the Gage Gallery...

"The Eternal Light of Egypt," Sarite Sanders' exhibition at the Loyola University Museum of Art, is subtitled "A Photographic Journey," which puts us in mind of 19th Century travel photographs...

ARCHITECTURE Lincoln Memorial. Architect Henry Bacon designed this gleaming white temple, whose 36 Doric columns symbolize the states at the start of the Civil War. Daniel Chester French's monumental statue...

Joseph E. Yoakum: Thirty-five years ago a Chicagoan could not escape the works of outsider artist Joseph E. Yoakum. The drum beat for him so loudly that it was even...

Polaroids: Mapplethorpe. Nearly 100 Polaroids from the almost 1,500 Robert Mapplethorpe shot at the beginning of his career trace the artist's development toward the provocation of his mature work. Through...

Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964) was one of the greatest Italian artists of the 20th Century, a painter, draftsman and printmaker whose rigor and poetry inspired awe the world over. But he...

Well before the weather's fit to wander Millennium Park, the scraggly lettered names scrawled into Chicago's mirrored Bean sculpture will be gone, buffed away with the handprints and foot scuffs...

William Conger and I met last week in his exhibition to talk about his way. The words that follow are the artist's own. CENTRAL ISSUES The important thing for me...