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The Song Remains the Same: David Hockney’s ‘Arrival of Spring’

Like you and I, David Hockney also enjoys playing on his tablet.

Thinking Outside the White Cube: Alternative Art Spaces in Chicago

Haunted by the institutional white cube? Not sure where to start showing your work? Here is a run-down of artist-run exhibition spaces in Chicago, featuring friendly faces from SAIC.

‘The Long Dream’ is a Long Nightmare for the MCA

The museum's clash with its employees continues, as the artists join the workers.

Tarnished by Protests

Walid Raad is leading over 100 artists, curators and others in a boycott of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi amidst reports that laborers are being exploited in constructing the museum.

A Chicago Icon Makes a Comeback

“The ‘new’ windows are beautiful, celebratory — very experiential and atmospheric — all qualities that visitors will appreciate when they see the new presentation.”

The Menagerie by "Death by Design, Co."

An interactive evening directed by Death by Design. A night of escape at the International Museum of Surgical Science! This once-in-a-lifetime event will transport guests to the forgotten mansion of the infamous Dr. Moreau.

Free Museum membership for graduates!

Before graduating, I was lamenting loosing my access to the Art Institute's Museum. But good news came in the mail yesterday

Studios on Display

The complex and poetic role of the studio in an artist’s life and work is explored in “Production Site: The Artist’s Studio Inside-Out,” which opened February 6 at the Museum of Contemporary Art

Ethereal work elicits a visceral response Dan Flavin at the MCA

Dan Flavin’s objects demand first and foremost that the viewer be physically present; the viewer’s body, subjected to tens of thousands of lumens, in turn becomes the subject of the artwork. The architecture of the MCA, especially the rounded barrel vaulting, turns everything into ritualized spaces of worship and devotion.

Lautrec Mountain

Returning to school this fall, you may have looked up and over at The Art Institute of Chicago’s front facade and noticed that instead of the usual three exhibition banners there is one three-sectioned banner advertising a single exhibition: Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre.

MOMA Rules

Like a powerful leader of a country, the Museum of Modern Art dominates the art world. I almost feel like MOMA warrants its own regular news column. Since the reopening this past fall, after an $858 million dollar expansion, MOMA is still making headlines.

How Museums Build Such Good Collections

The greatest problem that Western museums face is that they are, as one of my SAIC professors described, a guilty pleasure. Re-opening this fall is the de Young Museum's snazzy new Swiss-designed building in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

We Went to Vietnam and Some of Us Came Back

The National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum

Terra: The Closing of Chicago’s Third Largest Museum

Who can help but let out the slightest of sighs when an ambitious underdog of an institution closes its doors and its most choice pieces, treasured as only favorite children are, are sent to live with their southern relatives, most likely to hereafter be seen as just a few more stars in an already mostly warehoused galaxy.

Terra: The Closing of Chicago’s Third Largest Museum

Who can help but let out the slightest of sighs when an ambitious underdog of an institution closes its doors and its most choice pieces, treasured as only favorite children are, are sent to live with their southern relatives, most likely to hereafter be seen as just a few more stars in an already mostly warehoused galaxy.