Although Nathaniel Mary Quinn's faces look collaged, they're actually rendered with oil, paint stick, gouache, and pastel, usually against a plain colored background. He works intuitively but…
In a political moment riven by dogmatism, Vaginal Davis's work subverting categories of race and gender is freshly urgent.
Venezuela-born, Berlin-based artist Arturo Herrera breathes life into well-worn practices of modernist collage, exploring the tensions between exactitude and spontaneity, placement and displacement.
Joseph Sterling died in 2010, at age seventy-four, having never received the sort of blue-chip retrospective that helped canonize Ray Metzker and Kenneth Josephson, his contemporaries and fellow…
The charged, evocative third edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial pivots away from the young initiative's early hallmarks.
Martha Tuttle stitched together creamy-hued patches of wool and pieces of thin open-weave linen that she colored with flinty gray mineral-based pigments. She stretched the resultant geometric…
Critics and art historians often take Édouard Manet to be the first master of reification, the original modern painter. Evidence of that mastery is intermittent at best in the exhibition "Manet and…
Brittany Nelson's exhibition merged the biography of New Wave author Alice Sheldon (pen name, James Tiptree Jr.) and the lonely wanderings of the Mars Opportunity Rover.
"A Tale of Today: Yinka Shonibare CBE" inaugurates the Driehaus Museum's exhibition series spotlighting the work of contemporary artists of color, an exciting new direction for this Gilded Age…
The titular work in Chicago native Maia Cruz Palileo's first hometown exhibition, "All the While I Thought You Had Received This," was one of several paintings in the show depicting a not-quite-empty…