Despite cuts, exhibits awe us
For many visual-arts enthusiasts, 2010 will be remembered as the year that a giant eyeball rolled onto a patch of lawn in the Loop, staring all summer at passers-by whether...
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Small town in the city
What makes a neighborhood work? Is it the people? The history and culture? Diversity? Or perhaps its status as a destination? Post the question to any number of proprietors who...
‘Turquoise’ a bright spot amid gloom
The group show, not unlike the group hang, is typically reserved for the warmer summer months, when the pace of the artistic community slows to a near-halt. Trips and residencies...
Paradise on a budget
SANDY CAY, Honduras — It takes a while to sink in. A few hours pass, and it still feels surreal, as if you're merely house-sitting, borrowing someone else's wealthy lifestyle,...
Small town in the city
What makes a neighborhood work? Is it the people? The history and culture? Diversity? Or perhaps its status as a destination? Post the question to any number of proprietors who...
Salons: An intro
Consuming art is lovely. But consuming art while consuming food, drink and intelligent conversation? Even lovelier. This is the wonderfulness that is the salon: a small gathering of like-minded folks...
Kathryn Hixson, 1955-2010
Longtime SAIC teacher leaves legacy of arts criticism Kathryn Hixson, Art Institute of Chicago, obituaries, Chicago Kathryn Hixson, 55, widely known and admired for her work in Chicago as an...
Sip of Solera this Thanksgiving
For Benjamin Schiller, head mixologist with Boka Restaurant Group (Boka, Landmark, Perennial, Girl & The Goat), precise measurements and simple, quality ingredients are the rules to drink by. But thereafter,...
Sip of Solera this Thanksgiving
For Benjamin Schiller, head mixologist with Boka Restaurant Group (Boka, Landmark, Perennial, Girl & The Goat), precise measurements and simple, quality ingredients are the rules to drink by. But thereafter,...
Gallery-hopping in the West Loop
Now in full swing, the 21st annual Chicago Humanities Festival is including in its programming a handful of tours of the West Loop gallery district, an area that CHF has...