Barbara B. Buchholz

Thirty years after it debuted at the Merchandise Mart, the National Exhibition of Contract Furniture, known as NeoCon, has grown into a crowded, dizzying display of the office industry's newest...

Steven E. Halvorsen's charming oil-on-linen painted landscapes with figures have moved slightly in a new direction in his show at the Byron Roche Gallery. Halvorsen doesn't incorporate historical references to...

The 35 works on view at Gallery A's group show run a gamut of subject matter, media and technique, from Hiro Yokose's mixed-media atmospheric landscapes to Maurizio Pellegrin's intellectually challenging...

How much is an art critic influenced by the art he critiques? Decide for yourself by viewing the work of Peter Plagens, art critic for Newsweek magazine, at the Jan...

You're all excited. Your real estate agent has found the supposed house of your dreams, raving for days about its perfect size, long list of fabulous amenities and great location....

It's a small show, but the six oil and mixed-media paintings by Frederick Brown on view at the Thomas McCormick Works of Art gallery offer a good sampling of the...

Congratulations. You've bought the house or apartment of your dreams. Well, almost. With a little work here and there, it should be close to perfection whether you collaborate with a...

Terry Evans' fond memories of living and working in rural Kansas, as well as the stories she heard from her parents of their growing up in rural Missouri, come to...

Jim Dine has painted for more than 40 years, and he continues to surprise. Dine's current show at the Richard Gray Gallery is a wallop of new images taken from...

Chicago artist Valerie Beller proves in her exhibition of paintings at the Jean Albano Gallery that there is always room for another solid variation on abstract expressionism. Layers of color...