Alan G. Artner

ARCHITECTURE DANIEL LIBESKIND The man behind the master plan for the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan, who won a highly publicized design competition this year, will speak about...

ARCHITECTURE `TAKING THE FIELD' Four prominent stadium architects, including a key designer of the Soldier Field renovation, will speak at a symposium Monday about the future of sports architecture. "Taking...

ART TRADITION AND TRANSFORMATION Eighty seldom seen objects from the permanent collection of the Spertus Museum; opens Sunday at the Spertus Museum, 618 S. Michigan Ave.; free; 312-922-9012. DRAWN TOWARD...

ART MARK MANDERS Two local exhibitions for a young Dutch artist who creates works guided by abstract notions of portraiture; at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 5811...

ART ASAPH BEN-MENAHEM: MONUMENTAL WOODCUTS AND RELATED WORKS Prints and mixed-media pieces by the contemporary expressionist; opens Wednesday at Oakton Community College, 1600 E. Golf Rd., Des Plaines; free; 847-635-1806....

ART Romania's bumpy road to democracy Gregory G. Knight, director of visual arts, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs: "Locally, I'm excited to see a Romanian group show that will appear...

Manet show: Tickets go on sale Sunday for "Manet and the Sea," the Art Institute of Chicago's major fall offering, the first exhibition to focus on the seascapes of one...

ART AROUND THE COYOTE FALL ARTS FESTIVAL The annual interdisciplinary celebration; opens 8:30 p.m. Thursday and ends Sept. 7; 1935 W. North Ave. and environs; $20 Thursday, $5 Friday-Sunday; 773-342-6777....

ART DEBATING AMERICAN MODERNISM Seventy works of art explore the early 20th Century quest to define American Modernism; opens Saturday at the Terra Museum of American Art, 666 N. Michigan...

Mars has captured the imagination of many Tribune critics too. Here's a collection of their favorite references to the Red Planet. MOVIES Mars has been the unlikely movie site of...