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I find that I go to the Art Institute much less than I’d like to, and I’m hoping that this series will encourage me, as well as you, the reader, to take advantage of our world-class museum and the exciting new temporary exhibitions that are shown there.

“Intimate Excavations”

In the home gallery's latest exhibition, performance serves as a springboard to proliferate personal experiences.

To Be Seen and Heard: Chicago’s Homage to Wisconsin Artists

At Intuit, the porous barrier dividing Chicago and Milwaukee outsider artists is considered.

France and Chicago Meet at EXPO

At this year's EXPO CHICAGO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago curator Naomi Beckwith spoke with independent French curators Guillaume Désanges and Matthieu Poirier about partnerships between the two locales that could test curatorial practices and forge new artistic and social discourses.

In Brief

Art news shorts for September 2014.

On Kawara’s Last Days

The iconic painter has passed away at the age of 81.

Curating Chicago

Representations of the Midwest at the 2014 Whitney Biennial


With a greater-than-usual number of artists from the Midwest, this year’s Whitney Biennial presents a variety of new and interesting work from a roster of Chicagoans at wildly varying points in their career, in all different types of media.

In Brief

This week's news shorts from SAIC, Chicago and beyond.

Can it be Sold?

City bankruptcy threatens Detroit Institute of Arts' collection.