While there is more support for artists of color around Chicago, some feel there is much more work to be done to widen the scope of American art.
Green Hills Public Library District’s first podcast, “Checked Out,” features discussions of books, TV, movies and more.
Allison Peters Quinn comes to the west suburban art museum from the Hyde Park Art Center.
Nearly every week for the past 10 years, Paul D’Amato has been photographing the environs of Midway International Airport.
Federico Solmi’s installation recently opened at the Block Museum in Evanston. It’s like all of the election year art, all at once, magnified, multiplied and crammed inside eight minutes of chaos.
Every Biennial has had a theme and the title for this one will be “CAB 6: Shift: Architecture in Times of Radical Change,” with projects from some 50 countries.
The oldest garment on display in “Dressed in History: A Costume Collection Retrospective” dates from the 1770s, while the most recent dates to last year.
“Haunted History” tours are held at the zoo in October — past dark, of course — and blend historical records and anecdotes about what may be one of the most haunted places in the city.
In a strongly worded letter to Valparaiso University’s Board of Directors, Richard Brauer demanded his name be removed from the Brauer Museum of Art if any of three cornerstone paintings are sold to fund dorm renovations, and called the move to sell the paintings by José Padilla, the university’s president, a “desperate action by a desperate man.”
The Chicago-based nonprofit 3Arts has presented this year’s 3Arts Awards, with a total of $620,000 in unrestricted funds going to 26 local artists. Along with 10 recipients of $30,000 grants for 2024, previously announced, the organization presented six $50,000 Next Level Awards in a ceremony Monday evening at the Harris Theater in Chicago. An additional 10 artists received $2,000 Make a Wave Awards. Winners of the newly announced Next Level Awards include: Rozalinda Borcilă, a Romanian immigrant, artist and activist whose work explores settler colonialism. She developed the experimental seminar, video and walking project “Underlying Miami: Sea Level Rise and Settler […]