Art Review
A Better World at the Obama Center
The new campus is an expression of the former US president's civic ideals, and a reminder of how distant they now seem.
Chicago
Opinion
They Want to Control Our Imagination
A professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago asked her students to imagine a way to help someone they might encounter. Leadership found that beyond the pale.
News
SAIC Puts Professor on Leave After Palestine Reference
The Chicago school is investigating the director of its art therapy graduate program after she assigned a case study that touched on pro-Palestine activism.
Feature
A First Look at the Art in the New Obama Presidential Center
With works by Idris Khan, Maya Lin, and more, the $850M campus will be a public art destination for Chicago’s South Side, if it can live up to its community.
Art Review
Nicola Florimbi’s Paintings Are Unsettling and Necessary
Her depictions of individuals in settings that seem both out of time and of this moment represent one of many engaging paradoxes.
Art Review
The In-Between Worlds of Larissa Borteh
In the artist's paintings, are we looking at plants in a state of beautiful decay, ghosts, deities, fairylands, or something from a dream?
Art Review
The Black American Artists Who Dazzled Post-War Paris
An exhibition in Chicago celebrates the painters, writers, and performers who sought freedom in the city of light and left an indelible mark on its history.
Art Fairs
Who Do Chicago’s Art Fairs Serve?
Expo Chicago and its orbit of shows reveal both the joys and pain points of the city’s current creative environment.
Art Review
Leah Ke Yi Zheng’s Personal I Ching
The artist is synthesizing the divergent cultural histories of Western oil painting and Eastern ink painting into one.
Guide
10 Exhibitions to See in Chicago This Spring
Martin Wong's mesmerizing Chinatowns, Mindy Rose Schwartz's subversion of craft, Nate Millstein's tin ceilings, and so much more.
Art Review
Mid-Century Modernism Goes Rogue in “Chair-ish”
Artists Alex Chitty and Norman Teague give each other the permission needed to do something as heretical as saw an Eames chair into pieces.
Art Review
The Shapeshifting Sculpture of Diane Simpson
From one angle, her sculptural constructions appear deep, but from another flat; here they look angled, there not.