Alan G. Artner

Brady Roberts, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Phoenix Art Museum from 2001 to 2006, has become chief curator of the Milwaukee Art Museum. He will oversee the...

"Michael K. Paxton: Alpestrine": Several of the 16 semiabstract landscape drawings in the show at Linda Warren Gallery resemble watercolors, which in style, subject and medium therefore suggest a kinship...

David Kroll: Little by little, David Kroll has become a provocative naturalist. The scenes that used to resemble studio set-ups placed before painted backdrops now have opened up, frequently including...

The most popular image from the 2008 presidential election, Shepard Fairey's portrait of Barack Obama underlined with the word "Hope," has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in Washington,...

New year, fresh start. Chris Jones got the resolution game kicked off on the cover, with suggestions for himself, theaters and theatergoers. Just so he wouldn't have all the fun,...

The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestries. 70 pieces in the first exhibition of wall hangings (and table carpets) from the museum's collection; through January 4. Art Institute, 111...

The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestries. 70 pieces in the first exhibition of wall hangings (and table carpets) from the museum's collection; through January 4. Art Institute, 111...

This time's the charm? After previous outings as a satellite of "Art Chicago," the city's international spring exposition of contemporary art, "The Artist Project" has found a new partner and...

Pick of the Week Stephen De Staebler Sculpture. Do not miss the 14 fired-clay pieces that show the artist's allegiance to the human figure as both heroic and poignant. It's...

Wayne F. Miller: Photojournalists are made by heightened times, and the 87 black-and-white prints at the Stephen Daiter Gallery record some of the most heightened times of the 20th Century....