Alan G. Artner

ARCHITECTURE PHILIP NOBEL Metropolis magazine contributing editor Philip Nobel speaks about his book "Sixteen Acres: Architecture and the Outrageous Struggle for Ground Zero," on Thursday at 6 p.m. at the...

ARCHITECTURE `THE NATURE OF DWELLINGS' Architect David Hovey, principal of Glencoe-based Optima Inc., lectures at 6 p.m. Monday on "The Nature of Dwellings" at the Illinois Institute of Technology's Crown...

The Sonia Zaks Gallery, one of the longest running commercial showplaces in Chicago, has closed because of the illness of its owner-director. The Hollis Taggert Gallery, which specializes in modern...

ART `FOCUS: INIGO MANGLANO-OVALLE' The Chicago-based artist presents a monumentally scaled model of an iceberg formation and a new digital video; through May 14; Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S....

The Terra Foundation for American Art has made a $3.6 million grant to the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art to digitize, over five years, nearly 1.6 million primary sources...

ARCHITECTURE BRIAN JOHNSEN AND SEBASTIAN SCHMALING Two young Milwaukee modernists, Brian Johnsen and Sebastian Schmaling, are the focus of a new exhibition at the I space gallery, 230 W. Superior...

Katharine Lee Reid, director of the Cleveland Museum of Art since 2000, will retire from the position by the end of this year, citing personal and family considerations. Reid was...

ARCHITECTURE DESIGN INNOVATIONS The Field Museum on Friday opens a new exhibition, "Design Innovations in Manufactured Housing," which showcases designs for prefabricated housing. The show, which appears through Jan. 16,...

A memorial service for artist Ed Paschke will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Alice Millar Chapel, 1870 Sheridan Rd., Evanston. The chapel is on the Northwestern University campus,...

ARCHITECTURE NEW FEDERAL ARCHITECTURE The exhibition "New Federal Architecture: The Face of a Nation," which showcases courthouses, border stations and other projects designed for the federal government by distinguished architects,...