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“Intimate Excavations”

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

To Have and To Hold: Art in a Comfortable Living Space

Through intimately-crafted shows exhibited in her apartment, SAIC Art History alum Budgie Birka-White brings brings art to the masses.

“David Bowie is” at the Brooklyn Museum

The last stop of the late artist and musician's traveling exhibition finds occasional clashes between the man and his persona.

“A Considerably More Urgent Situation”: Ai Weiwei on the Refugee Crisis

The famed Chinese artist's latest film combines a fixation on large groups in transit with a terrifying sense of scale.

Loss, Permanence, Vessels: On Ben Harle

At the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's SITE gallery, an accomplished ceramicist contemplates how we grieve and memorialize loved ones.

NAJ Portraits: The Playful Textures of Carolina Velez Muñiz

A painter and fiber artist at SAIC simultaneously discovers her practice and the history of her people.

NAJ Portraits: Saba Finds Freedom in a Framework

Post-Bac painting student Saba does mashups with conflicting forces.

Tania Aguiñiga’s Crisis of Identity at Volume Gallery

At Volume Gallery, the latest evolution of a resourceful and thought-provoking artist.

No Cheerleader: ‘Lysistrata Jones’ Stumbles at Refuge Theatre

In "Lysistrata Jones," Refuge Theatre puts on a sad excuse for an empowering female piece.