Lauren Viera

To every genre of visual art, there is a season. In the spring, art aficionados flock to Artropolis (30-year-old Art Chicago reincarnated for the 21st century) to peruse booth after...

Name a famous artist, any famous artist, and he or she probably has work on display at the Art Institute right this very moment. No, not in the massive Regenstein...

Name a famous artist, any famous artist, and he or she probably has work on display at the Art Institute right this very moment. No, not in the massive Regenstein...

For centuries, the brick-and-mortar store has been the ultimate status symbol of the independently owned service provider's success. After building a clientele base and squirreling away enough in savings, signing...

Imagine downtown Chicago without Cloud Gate (aka "The Bean"). While you're at it, imagine it without Crown Fountain, the Lurie Garden and Millennium Park. Daley's multimillion-dollar mark on Chicago's front...

Many exhibitions staged in local galleries and small museums are the culmination of a few months of planning, maybe a year or two, tops. There are schedules to coordinate between...

Saturday morning, for the first time in seven years, the Museum of Contemporary Art's massive fourth-floor galleries shone with natural sunlight, illuminating contemporary Belgian painter Luc Tuymans' purposefully washed-out canvases....