Comics
Artists Return to New Age Strategies for Empowerment
It makes sense that artists would return to New Age strategies in the age we live in. Still, I’m not sure these methods provide much more than temporary soothing.
Chicago
Art
Imagining the Western Other in 19th-Century Japanese Prints
Images of Americans in these prints tell us a great deal about the local culture as it met the West. They tell us, specifically, about what many Japanese feared, and desired, from the encounter of cultures.
Performance
Anne Imhof's Sex Creates Drama but Not Desire
Imhof's performance Sex is dramatic, even melodramatic, yet its drama is not sensual; it removes bodily urges from the mix.
In Brief
Seven Arrested After "The Bean" by Anish Kapoor Was Defaced in Chicago
The police found Kapoor's "Cloud Gate" sculpture at the city's Millennium Park covered in graffiti.
News
The Gazebo Where Tamir Rice Was Killed Is Rebuilt as a Memorial in Chicago
Samaria Rice has partnered with artist Theaster Gates to rebuild the gazebo as a temporary meeting place for those affected by racially motivated killings and police brutality.
Art
Theaster Gates Makes Visible the Hidden Layers of Cities
The collection of never-before-showcased objects materialize the underpinnings of urban livelihoods: commerce, culture, ancestry, trauma, which, particularly for Black Americans, are inextricably entwined.
News
A Cottage Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Is Facing Demolition
The honorary landmark in Glencoe, Illinois sold for $555,000. Its new owners asked for a demolition permit two weeks after the purchase.
Art
An Artist's Critique of Colonialism in Brazil
Centered on Brazil's northeastern region, Jonathas de Andrade's One to One dramatizes exchanges between the colonizer and colonized, between the haves and have-nots.
Art
A Vision of Mass Media Compromised and Revised
A fan of chance and the lucky find, Robert Heinecken took every possible advantage of living in a media-saturated environment.
Announcement
SAIC Celebrates 50 Years of Art and Technology Studies with a Series of Programmed Events
The celebration casts new light on art and technology practices at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, illuminating the contributions made by faculty and alumni throughout 50 years of uninterrupted experimentation.
Art
Entering Art's Unknown
A sense of mystery pervades Enrico David’s art, in which a rich language of symbols suggests paths of possible interpretation.
In Brief
Art Historians Are Using Cutting-Edge Medical Technology to Study Sculptures
Researchers at the Art Institute of Chicago, partnered with the UChicago School of Medicine, used CT scanning to discover a set of Malian figures were older and more unique than believed.