Alan G. Artner

UNIVERSITY SCULPTURE PARK TO DISPLAY 3 LOCAL ARTISTS Three sculptures by Chicago-area artists have been added to the collection of more than 20 outdoor works in the Nathan Manilow Sculpture...

Robert Remini, The House in Conflict. (402), 10-11 a.m. Nov. 4, The Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton St. The retired history professor from the University of Illinois at Chicago brings...

One of the more enterprising discs of the Shostakovich centenary year unites three substantial works written in 1946: Shostakovich's Third String Quartet (played trenchantly in the Rudolf Barshai arrangement for...

This is the third recording of Adams' engaging 1993 Concerto, and the 19-year-old Hanslip provides a feline, lyrical alternative to Gidon Kremer's recorded premiere on Nonesuch. She lacks Kremer's cumulative...

Ed Paschke died two years ago this Thanksgiving, and though tributes were profuse in the weeks that followed, not a lot of his work was on view to remind Chicagoans...

Directed by Bruno Monsaingeon (Ideale Audience) Legendary pianist and broadcaster Glenn Gould died a quarter century ago next year but is more present in recordings, writings and documentaries than at...

The fall season in our art museums offers a fine balance between large and small exhibitions, retrospectives and theme shows, local, national and international artists. Pre-modern work is unfortunately absent,...

Klaus Tennstedt's cycle of Mahler symphonies was one the freshest of the 1980s, marred mainly by a idiosyncratic First Symphony, which EMI made a second try at in a live...

The transformation of "low" source materials into "high" art occurs often in visual art of the 20th Century. But in music it happens much earlier, and this spirited disc focuses...

Regin Igloria's first solo exhibition, at the Zg Gallery, shows how a young, representational artist can still make use of his gifts without having to indulge in abstruse conceptualism. Igloria...