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Galleries take plunge into new year
While most local museums and institutions hedge on hosting big(ger) shows till we're a few months into a new year, our galleries' first night out was last week, and there...
Mexican artist Yvonne Domenge comes to Millennium Park
The al fresco galleries flanking "Cloud Gate" will soon come alive with a colorful new sculptural installation. On view in the park's North and South Boeing Galleries from April 6...
Glimpses of city life
Street photographer Vivian Maier's shadowy biography reads so much like a fairy tale, it could pass as an urban legend. Born in 1926 in New York, Maier landed in post-World...
Cocktail capital
For wine lovers, Napa, Sonoma and Willamette valleys are the premier stateside destinations; for beer, Portland, Ore., has become a must. For cocktails, the most promising land is New York...
Local, global treasures
Most powerhouse museum shows don't open until warm weather is at least on the horizon. But, while tourists wait out the winter weather in anticipation of the Art Institute of...
Bubbles spark the celebration
Dec. 31 is on the calendar every year, and yet it always seems to creep up on us, lost in a sea of last-minute holiday shopping, family visits and unused...
An ambassador for the Loop
In a year that saw Chicago's Loop move into the spotlight as a viable destination for arts, competing for attention in multiple neighborhoods that have been fostering creative communities for...
Best art of 2010 found in unlikely places
Looking back at the year in Chicago's gallery scene, three things come to mind. First, the art community is capitalizing on our downtrodden economy. The ample supply of vacant and/or...
View of artist should not alter our perception
Can (or should) what we know about an artist be separated from how we experience her work? This is the writing on the wall at "Tomboy," on view at Columbia's...