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- Arts & Culture, Art Review Dec 10, 2019
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Tetsuya Ishida’s first U.S. retrospective isn’t for the faint of heart
The dismal depiction of Japan’s “missing million” features more than 70 paintings and drawings.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Aug 8, 2017
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Garage rocker Mac Blackout hangs his cosmic caricatures at Ampersand’s first art show
Plus: The National Steppers Society comes to Summerdance, and raunchy rapper Cupcakke hits an all-building party at Metro and Smart Bar.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Mar 20, 2017
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Ty Segall hangs his first art show, ‘Assterpiece Theatre,’ in Chicago
Plus: Hip-hop showcase All Smiles puts together a top-shelf March lineup, and Drunk [Redacted] Talks features half the Gossip Wolf team.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Aug 27, 2014
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How a mysterious box of photos sent an Evanston couple halfway around the world
For a quarter century, Jerri Zbiral and Alan Teller have been trying to figure out the identity of the photographer responsible for a treasure trove of images from 1940s India.
- City Life, Space Aug 24, 2014
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Outsider art inside an Uptown one-bedroom
Keith Sadler's home holds a gallery's worth of artwork and other oddities.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Jun 3, 2014
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The natural selection of Jenny Kendler
Artist and environmental activist Jenny Kendler makes complex work about the weird relationship between humans and the natural world. And she has just found a bigger platform as the first-ever artist in residence for the Natural Resources Defense Council.
- News & Politics, Chicagoans Mar 23, 2014
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This week's Chicagoan: Margie Lawrence, baseball artist
"Ted Williams was a handsome man; that's why he pops up in my art a lot."
- Music, Music Feature Mar 20, 2014
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An oral history of the Green Mill
The neon-lit bar at Lawrence and Broadway, now a legendary jazz club, has been around for 107 years—and has more stories than any tavern in town. Here are a few from the past three decades.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Oct 9, 2013
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The art of collecting
The Chicagoans in Diasporal Rhythms aren't just collecting work by artists of African descent. They're also preserving a culture.
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Sep 16, 2013
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On the south side, art tackles a problem
Not far from Navy Pier, another expo beckons (and this one's free).
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Aug 19, 2013
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James Tissot's tragic muse
In an Art Institute exhibit that blends history and impressionism, one notorious figure stands in sharp focus.
- Arts & Culture, Art Feature Feb 23, 2011
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Art From the Margins of Haiti
The Sifu Design Studio will exhibit paintings and jewelry by founders of a new collective
- News & Politics, Feature May 7, 1998
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Open Houses
Painter Kerry James Marshall rediscovers the civil rights era in the living rooms of the black middle class.
- News & Politics, Feature May 5, 1994
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Protecting Leo
Thirteen-year-old Leo Ionita is an art-world phenom. His father Adrian helps to handle his affairs. Together they could make a lot of money.