and I’m a professor at the University of Chicago. I don’t actually think about myself in three parts, I think about my whole self. My whole self makes things—I’m an artist and I make things. Sometimes ...

Exhibitions dedicated to mail art popped up around Chicago, such as “Hello USPS” by Purple Window Gallery and “Art in the Post” at the Elmhurst Art Museum. Motivated by a variety of ...

A comprehensive exhibition of Yoko Ono’s art, “Music of the Mind,” will open at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in October. The institution will display more than 200 pieces ...

They did a research trip across America in 1954 that included a stop in Chicago, with a visit to the Art Institute, author Thomas Maier recounts in the new Cuneo biography “The Invisible Spy.” ...

7 p.m. March 29 at Sketchbook Brewing Co., 821 Chicago Ave.; more on the free event at sketchbookbrewing.com The Other Art Fair: Get your portrait taken by Anna Marie Tendler, artist and author of ...

Adelante Chicago, El Schomburg Art Gallery is showing the exhibit "Puerto Rican Women in the Arts". The exhibit will be there until the end of April. For more information you can go to elschomburg ...

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LOS ANGELES -- The artistry and design process in "Disney's Snow White" was carefully crafted to transport audiences into a world of magic, nostalgia, and wonder. From hair and makeup, to costumes ...

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O’Neil/Provided Share Street artist Lajuana Lampkins could have set up shop in any number of Chicago’s neighborhoods ... who goes by the name Ghetto Art. “What brought her there was the ...

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago Can you explain the importance of this gift in the context of the institution’s existing collections of French art from this period? Will these works ...

They were voracious collectors of 19th century Western paintings, Japanese netsuke, Chinese jades and Indian jewelry, and donated more than 1,300 items to the Art Institute before leaving Chicago ...