Edgar Arceneaux, a contemporary artist from L.A., discussed his body of work in a broader art and community context at the Arts Incubator in Washington Park on Wednesday.
Visual Arts
Renaissance Society gets a rise out of Pope.L’s new exhibit
William Pope.L, a DoVA professor, opens his first solo Chicago exhibit to collective engrossment.
Art cache proves there’s life in business school, after all
The Booth School of Business has an art collection unknown to most UChicagoans, including its own students.
Sem Co-Op documentarians write new chapter with Reg exhibit
Remember the good ol’ days, before the Becker Friedman Institute moved in? Us, too.
MFA exhibitions spotlight talent
Logan’s ongoing MFA exhibitions create community around UChicago arts.
Artists destroy matter to create meaning at MCA
In an exhibit that will run through this spring, artists cut, slash, and burn their way toward reappropriation of wartime experiences.
Happy trails for HPAC resident
Artist-in-residence Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford’s exhibit, Hall of Khan, finds itself muddled in disparate media.
Logan, meet DoVA: Undergrads share work in open studio night
Fourth-year DoVA majors opened up their Logan Center studio spaces for a night of art, drinking, and conversation.
In seeking a city, AIC’s latest misses connection
The Art Institute of Chicago’s latest exhibit, They Seek A City, misses the opportunity to situate universal themes of otherness in the present, and instead focuses on “turbulent and often tragic pasts.”
Sahmat Collective brings a history of Indian activism to the Smart
The latest exhibit at the Smart proves to be one worth visiting for those interested in arts and politics alike.
Picasso finally shows his faces in the Windy City
The Art Institute’s new retrospective features work from Picasso’s long-distance relationship with Chicago.
In new Art Institute exhibit, Kara Walker raises up her profile
Kara Walker’s first exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago, which was commissioned for its Modern Wing, touches on issues of race, gender, and power.
At Renaissance Society, Neff charts intimate territory
John Neff’s photography exhibit just opened at the Renaissance Society. At a talk following the opening, Neff said, “I point my camera at people that I care about.”
In MCA’s Exhibit, A, Macuga unites message and method
A Polish artist’s dissimilar pieces ultimately harmonize through their consistent political leanings and, she says, “sincere” artistic intentions.
At Logan, Schutter’s frame subsumes its subject
A new exhibit’s main attraction is four gray canvases which serve to emphasize the nature of representation and the act of looking.
HPAC launches new visual arts certificate program
The new program seeks to create dialogue between the worlds of art and academia.
Penn offers the AIC plenty to chew on (and spit out)
Irving Penn gets gum all over his couture camera in new exhibit.
Jungen & Linklater at Logan
Two artists discuss Modest Livelihood, their current exhibit at the Logan Center.
In Reg, zine but not herd
My Life is an Open Book pins a mix of autobiographical narratives to the walls of the Regenstein’s Special Collections Resource Center.
Quaytman critiques a campus institution from within
The Renaissance Society celebrates and studies its history in self-referential show.
Ross’s candid camera documents incarcerated youth
Arts, politics, and social justice intersect at the Juvenile-in-Justice exhibit at the Gage Gallery.
From Russia with architectural exuberance
Richard Pare’s exhibition showcases the beauty and cultural significance of forgotten structures.
MCA pulls a chair up to Bivouac
Bivou-what? It’s an ephemeral encampment, the furniture you lounge upon, and a new exhibit at the MCA.
Basbaum’s sparse exhibit is touch-and-go
Ricardo Basbaum’s “Would you like to participate in an artistic experience?”—currently featured at the Logan Center—questions the space between art and audience.
Logan’s walls are worth a thousand words
The Logan Center’s newest exhibit, Wall Text, channels an artistic dialogue that is accessible to art lovers of every ilk.
Mischief Night pours some sugar and PBR on HPAC
Artists trick and treat audiences to psychoanalytic bartenders, general public drunkenness, and more at the Hyde Park Art Center.
Poetry’s myriad faces on exhibit at centennial retrospective
The Poetry Foundation launches an exhibit to accompany its newly-released anthology, which was published in September by the University of Chicago Press.
McQueen’s art reigns over space, time, and the human body
Steve McQueen’s new exhibit at the Art Institute has an eye for movement and drama.
HPAC saddles up for new artists-in-residency exhibit
At HPAC, a horse is a course, of course.
East blends with West in Smart Museum’s palette of prints
The flow of cross-cultural influence through art makes for a dynamic and lasting exhibit.
For artist Peter Karklins, controlled chaos comes naturally
Artist embraces huge concepts on small canvases in the DePaul Art Museum.
Danh Vo puts the ‘u’ and ‘us’ in Uterus
Renaissance Society displays several seemingly unrelated objects, and Lady Liberty graces campus bit by bit.
O-Issue 2012: Chicago Art
The city has something for the artiste in everyone
O-Issue 2012: Campus art
Even the museums here are Smart
MCA revisits its beginnings
The Museum of Contemporary Arts celebrates its origins with new retrospective exhibit.
(500) docents of summer: upcoming gallery openings
Cool art galleries to check out this summer.
Comics conference explores the brainier side of cartoons
Notable comic book artists took part in “Comics: Philosophy and Practice,” a three-day conference held in Logan Arts Center this past weekend.
FOTA launches an exposé of high heels and high art
In the upcoming days, The Festival of the Arts will expose the artistic talent of the student body.
Hyde Park Art Center’s “Hairy Blob” has split ends
While “Hairy Blob” at the Hyde Park Arts Center is built around an interesting concept, the exhibit as a whole is characterized by a distracting disconnect among the individual pieces.
Graphic artist’s new exhibit is something to watch out for
Cartoonist Alice Bechdel gets a retrospective at the Center for Gender and Race Studies.
Historical exhibit commemorates Chinatown centennial
Chinatown celebrates its centennial with a new exhibit at the Chinese-American Museum.
Little-known surrealist finally gets a room of his own
Jindrich Heisler, surrealist painter, gets his first retrospective at the Art Institute.
Temple rerun at the Oriental Institute
New technology brings artistic remnants at the Oriental Institute to life.
Beats & Pieces creates “Legacies” of sights and sounds
Arts RSO Beats & Pieces displays their exhibition “Legacies” at SHoP.
Artist and RH bursts out of housing bubble
The Chicago Maroon talked to Charles McGhee-Hasserick, a community artist and RH in South Campus, about his work.
All of the (neon) lights: Portrait of ’80s reveals turbulence of a decade
“This Will Have Been: Art, Love, and Politics in the 1980s” explores the darker side of a decade.
Entre who? French artist probes identity
Claude Cahun’s first retrospective exhibit in the U.S explores the distance between artist and viewer.
SHop exhibit explores line between home and museum
As SHoP prepares to vacate the Fenn house, new exhibit examines the culture of home.
Artist uses computer sculpture to create music
Columbia College of Chicago music professor Ben Sutherland performed at the opening of new Regenstein exhibit.
Fit for consumption: Everyone’s invited to ‘Feast’ at the Smart
Feast kicks off with a well-attended opening reception.
