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The Art Geography of Chicago
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (894+ words) Visual Art Culture of Chicago and Beyond by Newcity | April 1, 2026 This story is part of the Art in Chicago guide featured in our February/March 2026 issue. The Art Geography of Chicago was written by Susan Aurinko (SA), Ryan Fazio (RF),…...
Review: "Shakkei" by Mayumi Lake and Bob Faust at Elmhurst Art Museum
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (337+ words) Visual Art Culture of Chicago and Beyond by Elisa Shoenberger | September 17, 2025 Both use the concept both literally and figuratively in their work. Lake creates paper collages of varying sizes, made of hand-cut images of flowers and feathers, scanned from designs…...
Tongji Philip Qian and McKinzie Trotta at W.I.H.S.H. Projects, Chicago
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (319+ words) At W.I.H.S.H. Projects, Qian and Trotta offer an extended contrast between the human-made and what Trotta describes as "god-given." More fundamentally, these dualities emphasize the porous interdependence between symbols and reality. McKinzie Trotta, "Bucket & Water," 2024, ink on paper, in two parts…...
Expanded and Expansive: How the Intuit Art Museum Used A Transformative Renovation to Reinvent Itself
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (993+ words) Visual Art Culture of Chicago and Beyond by Alison Cuddy | May 20, 2025 "From Chicago," held in late September at Navy Pier, presented work by Henry Darger, Joseph Yoakum, William Dawson, Lee Godie and others. "Thrift Store Paintings," which opened in early…...
"City in a Garden" at MCA Chicago Spotlights the Fight for Queer Rights
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (81+ words) Visual Art Culture of Chicago and Beyond by Teddy Sandler | July 7, 2025 Doug Ischar, "Marginal Waters #7," 1985, printed 2009. Inkjet from color transparency; 28 x 40 inches. Collection of Dr. Daniel S. Berger, Chicago. Courtesy of the artist Patric McCoy, "Two Young Men and Waves," 1985. Digital…...
The Vastness of Life Examined in Gray Chicago's "Roger Brown: Weathervane"
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (303+ words) Visual Art Culture of Chicago and Beyond by Elisa Shoenberger | March 31, 2026 Anyone who's driven to Michigan/Indiana on Interstate 90 will be familiar with the land. The highway bisects a wetlands area near some heavy industrial buildings. But what makes the…...
In “When the Div Came Home,” Soheila Kayoud Mixes Whimsy and Macabre
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (208+ words) Visual Art Culture of Chicago and Beyond by Emma Riva | March 30, 2026 Soheila Kayoud, "Divs #11," 2025, Hand dyed wool on muslin, 19.75 x 16 in. To understand reality, Soheila Kayoud turns to the fantastical. The Iranian-born artist's first solo exhibition, "When the Div Came…...
Artin Chicago—The Relentless Avant-Garde of The Renaissance Society: How did a Hidden, Nondescript Place in a Campus Classroom Building With a Name that Sounds like Something from Harry Potter Become One of the Most Important Venues for Contemporary Art in the World?
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (219+ words) Visual Art Culture of Chicago and Beyond by Teddy Sandler | March 28, 2026 The Art Institute of Chicago brought the first modern art to Chicago with its legendary 1913 Armory Show, on tour from New York City, which would bring the first full-time…...
The Origins of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
6+ day, 18+ hour ago (422+ words) Visual Art Culture of Chicago and Beyond by Kristine Hansen | March 27, 2026 Part of the Art in Chicago feature, a guide to Chicago art institutions, galleries and movements for collectors, curators and the curious." In-class critiques are a tool that prepare…...
Carlos Rolón Remembers the Division Street Riots at 65Grand
1+ week, 18+ hour ago (100+ words) Visual Art Culture of Chicago and Beyond by Samuel Schwindt | March 26, 2026 It's a disappointing time-jump to today. Police brutality couples the failures of the state in protecting its citizens'sixty years later. With the gritty gaze of Carlos Rol'n's solo exhibition…...