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Scott Burton's "Two-Part Chaise Longue," 1986-87, is made of polished Rosa Benveno granite. “Scott Burton: Shape Shift” has two on display, including one that visitors can try out. (Daniel Eggert)

Review: More seating please: Scott Burton’s furniture as sculpture at Wrightwood 659

November 3, 2025 at 1:02 p.m.

Though mostly we ignore it, furniture says a lot about a place, its priorities and the people who use it.

Three versions of Helen Frankenthaler’s “Divertimento” lithograph from 1983, on view in “Pouring, Spilling, Bleeding,” a survey of the Abstract Expressionist artist’s works on paper at the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University. (Provided by Block Museum of Art, gift of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation. Photographs by Thomas Barratt)

Art for fall 2025: From the Art Institute to the Architecture Biennial, 10 exhibits for all kinds of realities

September 5, 2025 at 5:30 a.m.

Look for visionary artwork by Elizabeth Catlett, Theaster Gates and Yoko Ono, plus a new show at the Elmhurst Art Museum.

Edie Fake’s mural “The Free Clinic for Gender Affirming Care” on display as part of the “City in a Garden: Queer Art and Activism in Chicago” exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art on July 15, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Review: ‘City in a Garden’ spans decades of local LGBTQ+ art and activism at the MCA

July 25, 2025 at 12:32 p.m.

The MCA’s “City in a Garden: Queer Art and Activism in Chicago” is a messy, exuberant gathering of painting, sculpture, photography, film and ephemera from the 1980s to the present...

“The Great Wave off Kanagawa” by Katsushika Hokusai. “Hokusai & Ukiyo-e: The Floating World” is now at the Cleve Carney Museum of Art in Glen Ellyn. (Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art of Genoa, Italy)

Review: Going to Japan by way of Glen Ellyn in ‘Hokusai & Ukiyo-e: The Floating World’

June 18, 2025 at 4:41 p.m.

“Hokusai & Ukiyo-e: The Floating World,” a multimedia extravaganza inspired by the art of 18th- and 19th-century Japan, is on view through September at the Cleve Carney Museum.

A visitor views a Romaine Brooks self-portrait from 1923 at "The First Homosexuals" exhibit at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Art for summer 2025: Top 10 exhibitions from Impressionists to protest art

May 22, 2026 at 7:46 p.m.

The Art Institute has a big summer show on Gustave Caillebotte, the Intuit Art Museum has reopened and "The First Homosexuals" at Wrightwood 659 is not to be missed. That's...

“Unbound,” by Barbara Cooper, made from recycled paper and veneer scraps, can be found in a chamber off the third-floor ballroom as part of “A Tale of Today: Materialities” at the Driehaus Museum in Chicago. (Bob. photos)

Review: ‘Materialities’ at the Driehaus Museum puts new Chicago art in an old Chicago mansion

March 24, 2025 at 5:15 a.m.

About once a year, the Driehaus does something brave and thrilling: it invites in contemporary artists.

The coffins in Ebony G. Patterson’s “Invisible Presence: Bling Memories,” 2014, were originally carried through the streets of Kingston in Jamaica in a carnival-esque performance. Part of the exhibition “Project a Black Planet” at the Art Institute. (Provided by AIC)

Review: In ‘Project a Black Planet’ at the Art Institute, artists from all over expand on the idea of Pan-Africanism

February 18, 2025 at 10:27 a.m.

Regenstein Hall looks magnificent, resplendent with more than 350 objects from paintings to flags to a rotating disco ball in the form of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti.

A dozen screen prints by Thomas Bayrle (left) and a 1965

artwork made by Barbara T. Smith using a Xerox machine are part of "The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970-2020" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. (Robert Chase Heishman)

Review: ‘The Living End’ at MCA: When artists first discovered computers, the results weren’t always pretty

January 23, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

“The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970-2020” takes over the museum's fourth floor. A lot of the work is ugly, plenty of it is funny, and nearly all of...

Part of the exhibition "Potential Energy: Chicago Puppets Up Close" at the Chicago Cultural Center. (Colectivo Multipolar)

Art for winter 2025: 10 shows, from revisionist surveys to unusual solos

January 14, 2025 at 11:42 a.m.

If your New Year’s resolutions include seeing more art, be it for distraction or engagement, look no further.

New Yorker Losel Yauch based "Procession Immemorial" on her grandfather's memories of growing up in eastern Tibet. Her horses, currently on view in "Reimagine: Himalayan Art Now" at Wrightwood 659, are sculpted from willow branches, recycled sari silk, brass bells, raffia and cotton. (Michael Topea)

Review: From Buddhas to busses, icons to iPods, Wrightwood 659 shows Himalayan artworks then and now

December 26, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

“Reimagine: Himalayan Art Now” pairs art by living artists of the Himalayas and its diaspora with traditional religious objects from Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan and surrounding areas.

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