A new exhibit of the Japanese artist’s work at the Museum of Contemporary Art is a dizzying depiction of the current cultural moment.
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Twentieth-century art makes the Art Institute a 21st-century museum
“The New Contemporary” isn’t really new or contemporary, but it’s a coup for the AIC.
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A conversation with Jeff Koons: ‘For me art has never been about money’
The SAIC alum discusses balloon dogs, art forgery, and exploring Chicago’s low life with Ed Paschke
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SAIC’s sesquicentennial alumni show features work by Jeff Koons, Tony Tasset, Chris Ware, and more
In celebration of its 150th academic year, the School of the Art Institute is pulling out the big guns. This fall’s alumni exhibition, “Civilization and Its Discontents,” curated by SAIC faculty members and brothers Scott Reeder and Tyson Reeder, features work by notable graduates from the past 30 years, including Jeff Koons, Tony Tasset, Rashid […]
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Jeff Koons—in the flesh!—at the Art Institute
When Jeff Koons was 17 years old, he mustered up all his courage and telephoned Salvador Dali to ask if the two could meet. His mother had read in the newspaper that each winter the eccentric surrealist took up residence in an opulent suite at the Saint Regis Hotel in New York, where he’d walk […]
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Peter Max isn’t a fad, he’s a great artist
In defense of Peter Max, acid-age designer and painter
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Lilli Carré in three dimensions
Lilli Carré blurs the boundaries between comics and art in a solo show at the MCA.
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This week in tactile cinema: Monsters University and Stan Brakhage
The great avant-garde filmmaker and the Pixar animators use the technology at their disposal to create images you can practically touch; the similarities pretty much end there.
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Beck’s beer has never looked better
Beck’s Beer Limited Edition comes to the U.S. for the first time in 25 years.
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What the hell …
Is Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy II just another hack job or something closer to “aaarrrttt”?