Alan G. Artner

Stephen De Staebler: The exhibition of De Staebler's sculpture at the Zolla/Lieberman Gallery is the largest to appear in Chicago in decades and the first great show of the fall...

Stephen De Staebler: The exhibition of De Staebler's sculpture at the Zolla/Lieberman Gallery is the largest to appear in Chicago in decades and the first great show of the fall...

Architecture Antony Wood: Tall, Taller, Tallest ... ! (401). 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Nov. 2 at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 S. Michigan Ave.; $5. The executive director of the Chicago-based...

Louise Bourgeois is a modern sculptor who achieved success in postmodern times. For more than half her life -- she will be 97 on Christmas Day -- Bourgeois was filled...

"Let no one enter who cannot think geometrically" was supposed to be the inscription above the door of Plato's ancient Academy, and its insistence on thought that finds order in...

Diane Simpson's new sculptures and drawings at the Alfedena Gallery go some distance toward convincing you domesticity is a generator as strong as any. The forms of her hanging, free-standing...

'Mister Foe' ** A plaintively messed-up young man with an ardent devotion to voyeurism, newly arrived in Glasgow and obsessed with a hotel co-worker, is the subject of this prettily...

John Fraser's new mixed-media collages at the Roy Boyd Gallery are among the finest works Chicago artists have to offer. They have strength of geometry, subtlety of color, exquisiteness of...

Here we are again on the first big day of gallery openings in the fall art season. About 60 exhibitions open around town, to be followed by a smaller group...

Q: What now constitutes quality in contemporary art? A: In different periods artistic quality has been determined by craft, subject matter, newness, geography and politics. Always there have been artists...