Barbara B. Buchholz

Love those Old World tapestries but can't find them or hate the price tags? Beautiful, well-made reproductions are available that are based on museum originals, which once warmed the cold...

Drawing in Chicago Now: What is a drawing? Corey Postiglione, professor of art history and critical theory in the Department of Art and Design at Columbia College and curator of...

As an encore to its Hanukkah menorah competition in 1994, the Museum of the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies held a Passover seder plate competition this year. The Spertus Judaica...

Mary Bero uses a kaleidoscope of threads and acrylic paint colors to create works dominated by isolated human features. Her "Kiss" places two small heads in different poses made from...

The 14 black and white portrait-style drawings by Robert L. Schultz at Printworks gallery focus on the human figure and are so technically skillful and detailed that they appear to...

The two shows at the Lyons-Wier & Ginsberg Gallery represent a good juxtaposition of figurative painting. The larger show, of Leslie Wilkes' paintings, who received a master's degree from the...

Michael Byron and Richard Hull met at the Kansas City Art Institute more than 23 years ago and have remained friends -- hence the inspiration for their combined show at...

Nancy Bromberg's densely packed mixed-media assemblages are about much more than the scantily clad women, artificial fruits and flowers, shimmery gold beads, Scrabble letters and miniature pink flamingos that first...

At age 24, metal sculptor Frank Rudman worked as a draftsman but began making exterior ornamental railings in his spare time. Rudman then switched jobs and became a welder-fabricator for...

A little bit of this and a little bit of that can be found at a group show at the Jean Albano Gallery. Chicagoan John Himmelfarb's mixed media on paper,...