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Barbara Kruger’s ‘THINKING OF YOU’ at the Art Institute: Her words surround you, make you wince, stay with you

May 22, 2026 at 7:57 p.m.

It's not easy to single out an individual phrase or sentence from the reams that make up "THINKING OF YOU. I MEAN ME. I MEAN YOU.," Barbara Kruger's career-spanning exhibition...

How essential is art? 29 MacArthur ‘geniuses’ answer that question in ‘Toward Common Cause’

September 24, 2021 at 8:51 a.m.

"Why are artists and performers not considered essential workers?" The powerhouse performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña posed this question during one of his pandemic radio broadcasts, and it begets more. What...

Top 10 art shows in Chicago for fall 2021: All the art you didn’t get to see because of the pandemic

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

The schedule of exhibitions this fall is as thrilling and full as ever, no doubt because so many of the terrific shows that were delayed due to COVID-19 have been...

The invisible resistance of photographers Jo Ractliffe and An-My Lê on display in Chicago

May 22, 2026 at 7:57 p.m.

Artists are no strangers to politics. They participate in and sometimes lead protests, like those organized by Strike MoMA for 10 weeks this spring, exposing the Museum of Modern Art's...

DePaul Art Museum reckons with dearth of Latinx artists in U.S. collections

May 22, 2026 at 7:57 p.m.

Before viewing LatinXAmerican, a vigorous and timely exhibition of 40-plus artists of Latinx heritage that fills the entire DePaul Art Museum, you must first pass a 12-foot-tall green plumed headdress....

People check out a painting of water lilies in the new exhibit "Monet and Chicago" at the Art Institute of Chicago on Sept. 10, 2020.

Commentary: Where have all the arts critics gone?

November 3, 2020 at 3:25 p.m.

Closed since the coronavirus pandemic hit Chicago in March, the Art Institute reopened July 30 with exhibitions by perennial favorite Monet, legendary local sculptor Richard Hunt, and the late Mozambican...

Review: ‘Modernisms’ at the Block Museum shows off best of Iranian, Turkish art

May 22, 2026 at 8:04 p.m.

Visitors to the galleries of most American museums could be forgiven for thinking that modernism happened in the United States and Western Europe and hardly anywhere else. Paris! New York!...

Four fantastic art shows to catch before they’re gone

May 22, 2026 at 8:05 p.m.

Maybe you want to start off 2020 right by taking in some meaningful, surprising, or just otherwise very good art. Unfortunately, most new shows won't be on display until late...

At Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago visitors are treated Sunday Oct. 25, 2015 to an art installation titled Solarise created by Luftwerk which is the brain child of Chicago artists Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero.

Visual art winter preview: 10 shows to look forward to in 2020

May 22, 2026 at 8:06 p.m.

Is it any wonder that the upcoming season of art exhibitions testifies to so much that is wretched in our world, from runaway climate change to unchecked technological takeovers to...

Ken Griffin, the founder and CEO of Citadel, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014.

The year in art was explosive, scene-changing and expanded far beyond the walls of galleries. Here’s a look at some things that mattered in 2019

May 22, 2026 at 8:06 p.m.

Anyone who wants to know which Chicago area shows struck me as most trenchant, magnificent and affecting can read the articles I have written over the course of the year,...

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