Alan G. Artner

ART MAN RAY "Conversion to Modernism: The Early Work of Man Ray," drawings, photographs and magazines produced by the pioneering artist from 1907 to 1917; opens Saturday at the Terra...

Dean departing: Christopher Bratton, dean of undergraduate studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago since 2002, has become president of one of the most venerable art colleges...

ARCHITECTURE BARRY BYRNE LECTURE Barry Byrne, an often-overlooked member of the Prairie School of Architecture, is the subject of a lecture by Vince Michael, director of the historic preservation program...

Tickets go on sale Monday for "Rembrandt's Journey: Painter, Draftsman, Etcher," the first exhibition in the United States to present the artist's work as a printmaker in the context of...

ART `LEAVING FOR THE COUNTRY: GEORGE BELLOWS AT WOODSTOCK' Paintings of nature and neighborhood done during the artist's last years; final week, Terra Museum of American Art, 666 N. Michigan...

ART `HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: SEA OF BUDDHA' Black-and-white photographs of dawn light illuminating 1,000 statues of an enlightened being of boundless compassion in a 13th Century Buddhist temple; final week, David...

Viewers seldom think about how large international loan exhibitions come together, but in the case of "Manet and the Sea," the intelligent and beautiful show (through Jan. 19) at the...

STAYING IN. This year will be like every year. I'll be in my hometown. It will have snowed. My large family will gather at my cousin's house, on Main Street....

ART `THE CHRISTMAS STORY' A lecture at 6 p.m. Tuesday in Gallery 215 of the Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan Ave.; free; 312-443-3600. `TRADITION AND TRANSFORMATION: TREASURES FROM...

ART `CONSUMING NATURE' Works by four contemporary artists concerned with the symbiotic relationship between Nature and man; opens Thursday, Museum of Contemporary Photography, 600 S. Michigan Ave. Free. 312-663-5554. `THE...