Review: Is this art for real? ‘Augmented Chicago’ joins new artwork in Millennium Park
The park celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Some new public art installed for the occasion is only there in your mind, and on your phone.
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Art for fall 2024: Top 10 exhibitions at AIC, DePaul and the Cultural Center
From a first solo exhibition to a show about an artist who made oddball Chicago houses, our picks from the city's art museums and galleries for the next months.
Review of ‘My New Yorks’ at Art Institute: When Georgia O’Keeffe lived in the city
She's not just about desert landscapes. A fuller account of the artist's tale is told in the Art Institute’s summer blockbuster.
Top 10 for art in Chicago: Georgia O’Keeffe to Art on the Mart in a 2024 summer of firsts
An unusual number of firsts are taking place in Chicago museums this summer, from older artists getting their due to emergent talents making their local debuts.
Review: When Japan became modern: Meiji-era art and artifacts are now at Smart Museum
“Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan” is a building-wide exhibition and much of it shows a fusion of old and new, traditional and modern, Japanese and foreign.
Reseña: Artistas indígenas se hacen cargo de la cámara en el MoCP
La moda fabulosa se abre paso en “Native America: In Translation”, una exposición colectiva reflexiva y de amplio alcance de nueve artistas indígenas en el Museo de Fotografía Contemporánea (Museum...
Review: Indigenous artists take charge of the camera at MoCP
Fabulous fashion spreads open this new show at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. Look carefully, though, and the glossy veneer cracks.
Review: With ‘Contemporary Ex-Votos’ an exhibition about devotion, UIC galleries become its churches
First, a confession: As a Canadian Jew of Eastern European ancestry, I have rarely felt the urge to look at, never mind write about, Christian imagery of any sort. I...
Review: So many lumps of clay: Exhibitions by Ruth Duckworth and contemporary Japanese women artists
Lovers of sculpture who prefer clay to other materials have much to celebrate this month in Chicago, with a not-to-be-missed pair of shows at the Smart Museum of Art and...
Art in winter 2024: Plenty of new exhibits in the new year, from speculative futures to documentary pasts
From speculative futures to documentary pasts, obsessive sculpture to coolly meditative spaces, historical Japanese design to contemporary Latinx devotional painting — there's something for everyone at Chicago's galleries and museums...