Alan G. Artner

ARCHITECTURE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL ILLUSTRATORS The annual exhibition of the American Society of Architectural Illustrators opens Wednesday at the Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago, 350 N. Orleans St. The show...

Evan M. Maurer, director and president of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts since 1988, will retire Feb. 28 because of health problems. A subcommittee of the museum's board of trustees...

ARCHITECTURE MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION Marking the 100th anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright's first visit to Japan, the Unity Temple Restoration Foundation is staging the American premiere of the documentary, "Magnificent Obsession:...

Chicago Contemporary & Classic, the new art fair that in May will replace the 13-year-old Art Chicago at Navy Pier, has changed its dates. Originally scheduled for May 6 through...

ART COLLABORATIVE ART "Zhou Brothers: 30 Years of Collaboration," more than 100 large-scale collaborative paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures by the Chicago-based team; through Jan. 2; Chicago Cultural Center, 78...

ARCHITECTURE `ANTONIO GAUDI' The Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St., is screening the 1985 film, "Antonio Gaudi," by Hiroshi Teshigahara. The 72-minute film, which will be shown through...

ART DIA DE LOS MUERTOS "Day of the Dead" exhibition, the annual show, said to be the largest in the United States; final week; Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, 1852...

ART `A PERFECT UNION . . . MORE OR LESS' A group show of contemporary work on democracy; opens Sunday; Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 5811 S. Ellis...

ART CAPITAL PUNISHMENT "Premeditated: Meditations on Capital Punishment," paintings and prints by Malaquias Montoya dealing with the death penalty; final week; Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, 1852 W. 19th St.;...

Hamza Walker, since 1994 director of education and associate curator of the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, has won the $15,000 Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement from...