Painter Ayanah Moor is careful not to reveal spoilers about her work. The Chicago artist incorporates highly focused intentions into her paintings in the “I Wish I Could Be You More Often” exhibition, on display at the Cleve Carney Museum of Art from February 10 through April 10, but she wants patrons to be able […]
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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.
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Garage rocker Mac Blackout hangs his cosmic caricatures at Ampersand’s first art show
Garage rocker Mac Blackout hangs his cosmic caricatures at Ampersand’s first art show, raunchy rapper Cupcakke hits an all-building party at Metro and Smart Bar, and more.
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Ty Segall hangs his first art show, ‘Assterpiece Theatre,’ in Chicago
Ty Segall hangs his first art show in Chicago, hip-hop showcase All Smiles puts together a top-shelf March lineup, and more.
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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 behind images from 1940s India.
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Outsider art inside an Uptown one-bedroom
Keith Sadler’s Uptown one-bedroom holds a gallery’s worth of outsider art and other oddities.
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The natural selection of Jenny Kendler
Jenny Kendler, first-ever artist in residence for the Natural Resources Defense Council, makes complex work about the weird relationship between humans and the natural world.
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This week’s Chicagoan: Margie Lawrence, baseball artist
This week’s Chicagoan, Margie Lawrence: “Ted Williams was a handsome man; that’s why he pops up in my art a lot.”
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An oral history of the Green Mill
The Green Mill has more stories than any tavern in town. Here are a few from the past three decades.
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The art of collecting
Diasporal Rhythms, a group of Chicagoans who collect work by artists of African descent, celebrates ten years.
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On the south side, art tackles a problem
The South Side Community Art Center’s “Maleness to Manhood” offers an arts expo grounded in a Chicago reality.
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James Tissot’s tragic muse
In the Art Institute’s “Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity,” painter James Tissot’s muse stands in sharp focus.
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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
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Open Houses
Painter Kerry James Marshall rediscovers the civil rights era in the living rooms of the black middle class.
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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.