"Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now" emphasizes how women artists and artists of color have contributed to the city's cultural life from its very beginnings and how activism has…
A prominent and charismatic personality of his generation, R.B. Kitaj (1932–2007) was also a polarizing figure, commanding widespread art world admiration as well as a smaller quotient of critical…
In the six large paintings on view in Elizabeth Malaska's exhibition (all works 2017), female nudes in strange interiors smoke, sleep, sob, or stare at smartphones.
With the subtlest of moves, he weds abstraction to extra-aesthetic concern: Black Lives Matter protests come to mind, with the chilling recollection that the white-clad Klan has had a presence in the…
Eighteen landscape paintings (all 2016) made up the exhibition Stephen Hayes called “In the Hour Before,” most depicting unremarkable terrain. Roseburg (10-1-15) resembles a Daubigny only just begun…
In our November 2011 issue, art historian Sue Taylor tackled the subject of Malvina Hoffman's infamous Field Museum bronzes in a book review of Marianne Kinkel's R…
In “So-and-So,” Rae Mahaffey presented 11 abstract paintings (all 2015) that signal an exciting high point in an already accomplished, 30-year career. Impeccably crafted, with beautiful, layered surfa…
Over the past two decades, Julia Stoops has forged a multi-faceted career in Portland, founding a design studio, teaching art, writing fiction and showing her paintings at various venues around the ci…
Despite wishful arguments for art as an agent of change, art-making itself can never be confused with real activism, where personal liberty, livelihoods, bodies, even lives are laid on the line. …