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‘Loving Repeating’: Miller and Shellabarger explore intimacy, proximity and queerness with silhouettes at Hyde Park Art Center

May 22, 2026 at 7:54 p.m.

Spend enough time in the Chicago art world and you've probably noticed Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger. They cut an oddly repetitive figure in a population known for exhaustive individualism:...

Top 10 art shows for summer 2022: Nick Cave at the MCA, best of the Art Institute and some gallery openings of note

May 22, 2026 at 7:55 p.m.

Summer is not the traditional high season for art viewing unless you have the means to travel to Venice, Italy or Kassel, Germany. Or Cleveland for the Front Triennial —...

Art behind bars: ‘Tea, Torture & Reparations’ at DePaul makes connections between police violence in Chicago and torture in Guantanamo

May 22, 2026 at 7:55 p.m.

Mamdouh poses alone in a refuse-filled square of his Egyptian hometown; Murat in a cluster of mint-green containers that serve as a refugee housing complex in Germany; Rustam in the...

A little levity, please: Meriem Bennani’s ‘Life on the CAPS’ at the Renaissance Society is full of dark humor

May 22, 2026 at 7:55 p.m.

"Do you remember when teleportation replaced air travel," asks the fabulous crocodile who serves as an occasional guide to the CAPS, an island in the middle of the ocean of...

Review: ‘Ray Johnson c/o’ at Art Institute sums up an artist — with portraits, binders and mail — whose life was his chief artwork

May 22, 2026 at 7:56 p.m.

Some exhibitions are really just about the art — the bold painting, the clever sculpture, the mind-bending installation — and you needn't really think too much about the artist who...

Review: ‘Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott’ is now at Chicago Cultural Center, a rogue artist perfect for these times

May 22, 2026 at 7:56 p.m.

Is there an artist better suited than Robert Colescott to test the limits of our current moment, when calls for social justice have led to demands for cultural censorship and...

Top 10 for Visual Art in Chicago: Big shows, big messages in the first months of 2022

May 22, 2026 at 7:56 p.m.

As museums carry on showing pandemic holdovers too good to cancel, the embarrassment of riches continues. So many great shows, so little space to mention them all! "Art and Race...

Andrea Bowers at MCA: This is protest art by an artist long experienced in the genre. But does protest art change minds?

May 22, 2026 at 7:56 p.m.

In the 20 days following the opening of Andrea Bowers' retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Supreme Court heard arguments challenging a Mississippi law banning abortion after...

"Southside Sunday Morning" by artist Bisa Butler hangs in the exhibition,"Bisa Butler: Portraits" at the Art Institute in Chicago.

The best (and worst) in visual art in Chicago in 2021

May 22, 2026 at 7:56 p.m.

This most awkward of year-end lists must begin with the Most Consequential Art Event of 2021: the return to seeing art in person. When galleries and museums reopened after months...

Review: ‘Stockyard Institute’ and ‘Successful Failures’ retrospectives show how successful art hasn’t always hung on the wall

November 12, 2021 at 7:00 a.m.

Paintings and photographs get hung, sculptures placed, videos projected, installations installed. Easy-peasy. The real challenge for museums is figuring out how to present artworks that ended, that function like businesses...

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