Alan G. Artner

ARCHITECTURE ROAD TRIP The Chicago Architecture Foundation has opened "Road Trip," a series of exhibits about significant buildings in the Midwest, with a show about Japanese architect Tadao Ando's Pulitzer...

ARCHITECTURE SPECULATIVE CHICAGO An exhibition opening Tuesday at the University of Illinois at Chicago will argue that risk-taking design continues to thrive in Chicago, beneath the surface of disappointing large-scale...

ARCHITECTURE ROBIE HOUSE The ongoing, 10-year restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House, at 5757 S. Woodlawn Ave., will be discussed by project architect Karen Sweeney, of the Frank Lloyd...

ARCHITECTURE GENERAL MOTORS TECHNICAL CENTER An exhibition covering Eero Saarinen's General Motors Technical Center on the outskirts of Detroit appears through March 13 at the Graham Foundation, 4 W. Burton...

One of the best-loved paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago, Georges Seurat's "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte--1884," will be off view from Feb. 3 through Feb. 14 for...

MOVIES SOLARIS Andrei Tarkovsky's uncut 1972 "Solaris" ((star)(star)(star)(star)), based on Stanislaw Lem's 1961 science fiction classic, is a movie classic as well: a great visionary Russian film, about alien planets...

Pablo Picasso, the supreme avatar of Modernism, died 30 years ago this April, and even though our Postmodern period plays by a more relaxed set of rules, in one important...

ART `AMAR KANWAR' Three of the Indian artist's films that are "a mixture of documentary, poetic travelogue and visual essay"; opens Sunday, with a talk by the artist at 5...

CLASSICAL LAKE FOREST SYMPHONY Music director Alan Heatherington will lead the orchestra in an all-American program: Howard Hanson's "Song of Democracy," a suite from Richard Rodgers' "Victory at Sea"; Roy...

Queen honors Jones: Tony Jones, president of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has become a Commander of the British Empire for his promotion of British Art in...