Art
Torkwase Dyson Seeks Black Liberation Through Geometry
Dyson is part of a growing number of contemporary artists to imbue geometric abstraction with a sociopolitical dimension.
Reviews
Art
For William Kentridge, Art and Life Animate One Another
In an exhibition that consists of mostly small-scale black and white works on paper, viewer engagement almost magically awakens the sleepy room.
Art
When a Solo Exhibition Is Created by a Community
Maria Maea’s All in Time continues an intergenerational conversation and exemplifies the artist’s process, not simply the finished pieces.
Art
What Freedom Looks Like for Incarcerated Artists
Koestler Arts works with incarcerated people and patients in secure mental health units, aiming to improve their lives through creativity.
Art
Celebrating “Weird” Art in Chicago
Rocks, ducks, and a self-organized survey of Gingham are some of the things to see right now in four Chicago art galleries.
Art
Art in the Attention Economy
If there is an object you have ever desired in your life, rest assured that someone in the advertising industry made money convincing you of exactly that.
Film
An Achingly Personal Portrait of Nan Goldin
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed forcefully posits multiple parallels between the world Nan Goldin grew up in and the one she fights in today.
Art
Anne Harvey in a Club of One
There is the singular artist and then there is the more exclusive club that has only one member. Harvey belongs to the latter.
Art
Whose Stripe Is It, Anyway?
Astrid Dick was told that she could not paint stripes because Sean Scully and Frank Stella have done so before her, a patently foolish statement.
Art
A Matriarchal Legacy of Women Warriors
At the heart of What if the Matriarchy Was Here All Along? is the idea that matriarchy never really died but rather has transformed.
Art
Adrian Ghenie and the Soup of Fame
Ghenie's paintings of Marilyn Monroe are a relentless representation of a howling, turbulent tragedy, a face broken into crude sideways slewings and gougings and gorgings of paint.
Art
Hints of Memory in Layers of Paint
Suzanne Jackson’s paintings come to life, and find their way home, at the Arts Club of Chicago.