News
The Art Institute of Chicago to Cut Its Entire Custodial Staff
The museum's union called the plan to outsource in-house custodial work to a third-party vendor a "devastating and unconscionable injustice."
Chicago
News
Chicago Photographer Accuses Mickalene Thomas of Copyright Infringement
Barbara Karant alleges that Thomas “appropriated more than a dozen” of her images in a new lawsuit.
Art Review
In Two Chicago Exhibitions, Liberation Takes the Floor
Shows at MCA Chicago and Wrightwood 659 chart a path from colonial dispossession to the possibilities of dance, music, and community.
Guide
10 Art Shows to See in Chicago This Summer
Blessedly, despite the corn sweat, the city’s gallery and museum scene is eager to provide fresh work for the Midwestern mind.
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.
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.