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A Symphony of Delicate and Colorful Concrete Forms
Cathy Hsiao's concrete sculptures, currently on view at Chicago gallery Goldfinch, possess a surprising airiness.
Chicago
News
Kerry James Marshall's Largest Work Yet Honors Women in the Arts
Marshall recently unveiled a 132-foot-wide, 100-foot-tall mural that pays homage to 20 women who shaped Chicago's cultural scene.
Art
Pushing Back Against the Sensational Image of Chicago as "Chi-raq"
Amanda Williams, an architect turned artist, has shifted her practice from constructing buildings, to making work that understands and reveals the social implications of how and when they are destroyed.
Art
A Lending Library for Handmade Protest Banners
Artist Aram Han Sifuentes has created a roving archive of fabric protest signs, which anyone can check out at no charge.
Art
Chicago’s Plan for Sick Trees: Turn Them into Art
Artists turn trees devastated by a pest into works of public art, calling attention to the problem and creating opportunities for unexpected artistic encounters across the city.
In Brief
Anish Kapoor's Bean Will Be Windexed, Baked (by Guy Fieri), Turned into a Ghost, and More
A new meme has people creating Facebook events to render peculiar tributes to Chicago's iconic "Cloud Gate" sculpture.
Art
Getting Comfortable with Sexy and Silly Art
SEX, an exhibition at Chicago's Lawrence & Clark gallery, challenged me to reckon with the cultural inheritance of my Taiwanese American upbringing.
Art
The Many Arms of Takashi Murakami’s Career
A retrospective at the MCA Chicago charts the many strands of Murakami's painting practice, from his early Nihonga style to recent Buddhist iconography.
Art
Sculpture of Abe Lincoln Confusingly Includes Generic White Man Sporting "a Dad Look"
Seward Johnson's latest sculpture in downtown Chicago features a giant Abe Lincoln next to a "common man," or a white guy in a cable-knit sweater and corduroy pants.
News
Chicago Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Its Picasso Sculpture, a Gift Many Residents Didn’t Want
When it was unveiled, people protested the Chicago Picasso and called it a "colossal booboo." Now it's become a beloved icon.
Art
The Subversive Works of China's First Video Artist
Zhang Peili, who's having his first American retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago, rejects the government's use of media for entertainment and propaganda.
Art
With Internet Comments and Colonial Imagery, an Artist Remixes Our Hybrid Identities
Larry Achiampong mixes pop culture, internet imagery, and historical iconography related to the African diaspora to craft images, videos, and installations that reflect the complexity of identity in today's fluid, interconnected world.