Alan G. Artner

Four decades back? Can't be. The year 1968 -- historically profound, politically momentous, artistically revolutionary -- is still going on, still surrounding us, still repeating its crucial notes, like a...

Robin Denevan's encaustic paintings at Addington Gallery are mostly evocations of Asian landscapes with inevitable recollections of the fragility and measure of Asian art. But the easy seductiveness of the...

There are ideas aplenty in Hollis Brown Thornton's exhibition of paintings, drawings and photographs at the Linda Warren Gallery. Both its title and that of all the pieces on view...

Alex Katz's recent paintings at the Richard Gray Gallery are all of heads viewed from the rear, as if the figures were staring off into the distance and we have...

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When I was a teen, the most exciting neighborhood I discovered was Old Town, a center of Beat culture. Week after week I'd explore the streets, and when the weather...

Tickets go on sale Thursday for "Edward Hopper" and "Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light," the major exhibitions of the winter/spring season at the Art Institute of Chicago....

'The Gates' ** 1/2 This is the sixth film Albert Maysles has worked on documenting a massive temporary project by the artist Christo and his collaborator-wife Jeanne-Claude. All have the...

JAZZ ASCAP Salutes Alan and Marilyn Bergman (305), 7:30-9 p.m. Oct. 30, Northwestern University School of Law, Thorne Auditorium, 375 E. Chicago Ave.; $10. The veteran lyricists -- who have...

The centennial of the birth of Frida Kahlo occurred earlier this month, and the National Museum of Mexican Art observed it directly with a party and indirectly with a pair...