When Dr. Pauli Murray –  civil rights activist and Episcopal priest – published her only book of poetry titled “Dark Testament and Other poems” in 1970, readers paid little attention to the collection. Five...

The conversation begins in the hallway at the entrance. A different feeling than the city outside, the light softens as the viewer approaches the sound of the artist's voice.   Located at the Art...

Twenty-five brightly colored canvases adorn the walls of the Richardson Art Gallery on DePaul's Lincoln Park Campus. From a distance, their content appears unrelated. However, a closer step reveals the...

Audrey Dwyer knows a lot of talented people. She wanted to use her presidency of DePaul Artists Collective (DAC) to create opportunities for the talented student artists at the university. With that...

Iron tongues rusted over, cholis hanging from the ceiling without bodies inside, a chess game played on a map of Northern India; these are the narrative-rich pieces sitting on display within the sleek...

  Thursday marked more than the beginning of fall as individuals congregated to the Loop, cameras in hand to view the "Chicagohenge.” Occurring during the fall and spring equinoxes, the Chicagohenge...

For artist Krista Franklin, surrealism is more than an artistic movement. It is a way of seeing the world, a way of living life. Rather than creating surrealist art, Franklin weaves the surrealist lifestyle...

Richard Alexander Lou lived in Tijuana, Mexico until he was almost 9 years old, and every day for almost three years, he would cross the border to go to elementary school. Around 6:30 a.m., Lou’s...

Hidden away within the depths of the Art Institute of Chicago resides a quiet hallway, baring only a single name — Cezanne. As museum-goers enter the exhibit, they are greeted by warm summer hues...

At the “Immersive Frida Kahlo Experience” art gallery, patrons are emotionally and physically transported into Frida Kahlo’s art and legacy. Frida Kahlo was a Mexican artist in the 1930s whose...

On Saturday afternoon on April 23, during one of the only warm days of this year’s spring, the Chicago Urban Sketchers gathered in Millennium Park’s Lurie Garden to draw together for the first time...