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A toddler sits on a white couch facing three large portraits of a woman in thoughtful poses, with a vase of flowers on a side table.

by Maya Surrenti | July 21, 2026

Artist in Residence Gets a Fresh Spin Caryn Capotosto expands her Museum & Crane Arts from film into art exhibition at her Gold Coast home.

A modern living room features tan and yellow armchairs, a black-tiled fireplace, abstract art on the walls, a small table, lamps, and sculptural decor, with floor-to-ceiling curtains on the right.

by Emma Riva | May 6, 2026

How the Arts Club of Chicago Stays Contemporary in its Second Century At its founding, the club was the only space in the United States dedicated to the art of its time. Today, a walk up the club’s white Mies van der Rohe staircase is laden with its 110 years of history.

A large yellow room with angular walls and several windows; a screen displays a person lying on a bed, looking sideways, in the otherwise empty space.

by Teddy Sandler | April 28, 2026

The Relentless Avant-Garde of The Renaissance Society How did a hidden, nondescript place in a campus classroom building with a name that sounds like something from Harry Potter become one of the most important venues for contemporary art in the world?

Ink landscape painting of dramatic, jagged mountains, river, trees, and boats with distant misty peaks, rendered in traditional East Asian style on a long, horizontal scroll.

by Charles Venkatesh Young | March 20, 2026

Why Kansas City Has Some of the Best Chinese Landscape Paintings in the World A journey through the renowned collection of Chinese paintings at Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum, featured in the “Legendary Landscapes" exhibition opening March 21.

by Jonathan Bonfiglio | January 8, 2026

An Anthropologist in Action: Hamza Walker and the “Monuments” Project Spread across the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and The Brick, decommissioned Confederate monuments sit alongside newly commissioned work as well as borrowed art pieces which dialogue with the former public sculptures.

by Teddy Sandler | September 8, 2025

Shaped By Histories: “Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle: A Want for Nothing” at the DePaul Art Museum

by Vera Scekic | August 11, 2025

Art in Wisconsin—Art and Science and Art: The Semi-Hidden Wonders of the James Watrous Gallery

by Samuel Schwindt | June 23, 2025

The Male on Male Gaze: Who Cares Why Gustave Caillebotte Painted Men?

by Susan Aurinko | January 27, 2025

Paint Balls Over Baghdad: The Intense Story of Wafaa Bilal’s “Domestic Tension” Upon its Return to Chicago at the MCA

by Emma Riva | January 3, 2024

Three Galleries, One Building: Dan Devening, Claudine Isé and Elizabeth Lalley on Exhibiting at the Albany-Carroll

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