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The High-Drama Kabuki Portraits of an Enigmatic Artist
An exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago features over 30 of Tōshūsai Sharaku's rarely shown ukiyo-e prints exemplifying the classic Japanese theater genre.
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Robert Earl Paige’s Colorful Textile Worlds
The 87-year-old artist is having one of those rare the-art-world-is-paying-attention moments, and it feels joyful and deserved.
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The Singular Style of Chicago’s Art
The more time I spent at Four Chicago Artists, the more I wanted to know about the less familiar paths these artists took in their work.
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The Fury and Failings of a Nicole Eisenman Survey
En masse, Eisenman's paintings feel weighty and overwrought, as if too many ideas had become tangled and sucked up all the air, like a one-way conversation.
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It’s Time for Chryssa’s Neon Art to Shine
Chryssa, it turns out, did everything that the famous Pop and New Media artists did, simultaneously or, in some instances, first.
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Bimbola Akinbola’s Postcards From Grief Island
Though the show is a response to a period of intense personal mourning in the artist’s life, it’s also achingly universal.
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The Fetishistically Fantastic Art of Christina Ramberg
Ramberg was one of the lesser-known — but, to my mind, most exciting — artists often grouped together as the Chicago Imagists.
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Police Arrest Dozens Protesting for Gaza at Art Institute of Chicago
The demonstrators symbolically renamed the school “The People’s Art Institute.”
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Wrightwood 659 Hosts Chryssa & New York
Chryssa’s long unseen neon sculptures shine again in a new groundbreaking exhibition. On view now through July 27 in Chicago.
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A Rock and a Fry Pan Walked Into a Gallery
In addition to being some combination of formally delectable, politically astute, and historically poignant, five solo shows currently in Chicago are hilarious.
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The Productive Messiness of Expo Chicago 2024
The art felt as if it was trying to find the language to merge emotion with content, to harness the energies of the search within the courage of experimentation.