Alan G. Artner

ART `DRAWN TOWARD THE AVANT-GARDE' From the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, come 80 19th and 20th Century French drawings and watercolors, most of which have never been shown...

ART PORTRAITS BY ILLINOIS ARTISTS PAST AND PRESENT Nearly 80 paintings, prints, photographs and sculptures; opens Monday at the Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery, 100 W. Randolph St., Suite 2-100;...

ART ULRIKE OTTINGER A three-chapter video on the artist's trip from Poland to the Black Sea; opens Sunday at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 5811 S. Ellis...

ART `GRAPHIC MODERNISM: SELECTIONS FROM THE COLLECTION OF FRANCEY AND DR. MARTIN L. GECHT' More than 130 works on paper, including a gift of 31 promised to the museum by...

"Saving and Spending" may be the official theme of this year's Chicago Humanities Festival, but our quick peeks at some opening-weekend highlights might be better titled "comedy and tragedy." From...

ART BILL VIOLA The pioneer of video art, creator of some of the most eloquent spiritually based work in the medium, lectures; 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Getz Theater, 72 E....

ART `REGARDING SEAS AND SKIES' Fifty seascapes by the 19th Century French master and contemporary photographers Gustave Legray, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Dodo Jin Ming from Japan and China; opens Saturday...

ART `KERRY JAMES MARSHALL: ONE TRUE THING, MEDITATIONS ON BLACK AESTHETICS' A new installation of paintings, sculptures and videos, plus the work of three artists Marshall invited; opens Saturday at...

The 14th Chicago Humanities Festival (Saving+Spending) explores the economics of our choices and their human consequences -- what we cherish . . . what we allow to perish. In a...

ART RUTH DUCKWORTH AND MARTIN PURYEAR The sculptors speak about their lives as artists as part of an Art Resources in Teaching benefit event; 6 p.m. Wednesday, Rubloff Auditorium, Art...