Art
CHICAGO — All over the United States, groups of people (usually men) get together a few times a year or more to reenact great battles from history. The US Civil War is popular, of course, but according to Charlie Schroeder’s memoir Man of War: My Adventures in the World of Historical Re-Enactment, t
Books
CHICAGO — A friend who was in London recently went to see what was on at the Tate Modern, and at the end of his visit he did something I never do: he went into the gift shop and bought something. "I've got something to show you, Philip!" he told me on his return. My heart sank. Was it a set of dinne
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CHICAGO — The 30th installment of a series in which artists send in a photo and a description of their workspace.
Art
SAN FRANCISCO — The main focus of the de Young Museum, located in Golden Gate Park and given a big redesign by architects Herzog and De Meuron in 2005, is American art past and present, encompassing ancient art of all the Americas as well as art of the United States from the colonial era up to today
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This week, studios in Greece, Queens, British Columbia, Arkansas, and Chicago.
News
CHICAGO — For the second time this year, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art has received a multi-million dollar gift from one of its philanthropic supporters.
Opinion
CHICAGO — When my wife was completing her mail-in voter ballot for the upcoming US elections, something on the instruction leaflet caught my eye.
Community
Artist studios in California, Colorado, Illinois, Quebec, and Virginia.
Community
CHICAGO — Five artists from New York, Ontario, Utah, and Wyoming open up their studios for Hyperallergic readers.
Art
CHICAGO — A few years ago, when I spent most of a summer in Prague (Czech Republic), I visited the lapidarium, the museum where they store all the fragments of old statues. I thought of that museum again when I saw Industry of the Ordinary: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi at the Chicago Cultural Center. In
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This week, studio porn from Edinburgh, Albuquerque, Honolulu, NYC, and Munich.
Art
CHICAGO — At the beginning of 2012, Art Chicago was canceled by the owners of the Merchandise Mart, the huge exhibition area on the river where the fair was held for a few years. For the first time in over thirty years, it looked like there would be no art fair in the city. Then, thanks to the deter