Alan G. Artner

Tickets will go on sale June 15 for "Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre," the Art Institute of Chicago's exploration of the 19th Century French painter and his milieu, which will be at...

With only the Second and Eighth Symphonies left to go in Boulez's DG Mahler series, here he turns to three great song cycles, joined in each by a different artist....

In the days of monaural recording, conductors Hermann Scherchen and Carlos Surinach recognized the importance of Gossec (1734-1829) in the history of the symphony. But nearly 20 more years elapsed...

The completion date for Chicago's first permanent piece by perceptual artist James Turrell -- a concrete circle 43 feet in diameter for watching effects of light and sky -- has...

Ruth Duckworth is having quite a year. A career-long retrospective of her sculpture has appeared in New York and now has come to the Chicago Cultural Center, where it opened...

From 1935 to 1983, Swiss arts patron and conductor Paul Sacher commissioned more than 80 works that he performed with the Basel Chamber Orchestra and Choir, which he founded. For...

ARCHITECTURE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S DECORATIVE DESIGN Architectural historian and Chicago Architecture Foundation docent Lyman Shepard speaks on "Cross Currents: The Dynamics of Frank Lloyd Wright's Decorative Designs" at the foundation,...

Chicago has had a large art trade fair every spring since 1979. This year it has three -- without a corresponding increase in benefits for viewers. The three fairs --...

Welcome to 1993! That was the year Chicago hosted three upscale art trade fairs in the same time period, and now it is happening again. The major difference: These kinds...