Home is where the feral cats watch TV
A red carpet runs from the sidewalk, up the steps and all the way to the front door of the former Eberhardt Mansion in Edgewater. Inside lies much of what...
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Art Institute lands first major Roy Lichtenstein exhibit since artist’s death
You might think Roy Lichtenstein loved the stuff of everyday postwar American existence. Swirling washing machines, diamond engagement rings, steaming hot cups of coffee, hi-top sneakers, golf balls and hot...
Art Institute lands first major Roy Lichtenstein exhibit since artist’s death
You might think Roy Lichtenstein loved the stuff of everyday postwar American existence. Swirling washing machines, diamond engagement rings, steaming hot cups of coffee, hi-top sneakers, golf balls and hot...
‘Morbid Curiosity’ captivates, repels at the Chicago Cultural Center
A naked toddler and a skeleton struggle fiercely over the body of the child's mother in a print etched by the German artist Kathe Kollwitz in 1910. This is one...
Museum of Contemporary Art looks back at the ’80s
A group of young people clustered around a video monitor at the entrance to the Museum of Contemporary Art's survey of the art of the 1980s. Playing was "Wild Style,"...
Several sides to Barrada photos at Renaissance Society exhibit
Two peculiar photographs face one another across the gallery in "Riffs," Yto Barrada's quietly mesmerizing solo exhibition at the Renaissance Society. In one, round, rectangular red stains fade against the...
Personal exhibits live in ‘Living By Example,’ ‘House Is Not a Home’
Does art feel more at home in a museum or hung on the living room wall? It depends on the art, of course, but also on the couch. Ikea or...
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Cathy Wilkes draw on strikingly similar themes in separate exhibitions
Jagged strata of acid yellow, ultramarine blue and fiery red color the windows of Anthropologie on Chicago Avenue. Part Native American weave, part geological fragment, sharp black marks edge the...
Nikki Renee Anderson puts the stories in pictures
Somewhere out in the mossy tumbles of an Icelandic meadow, a mischievous creature has popped three bulbous blue heads out of the earth, bobbly unicorn horn first. On a nearby...
‘Light Years’: What happens when you take a picture of nothing?
Filling the Art Institute right now is an ambitious survey tracing the role of photography in the development of conceptual art from 1964 to 1977. "Light Years," the first major...