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'Idol Structures' at DePaul Art Museum highlights the creation of advertising

‘Idol Structures’ at DePaul Art Museum highlights the creation of advertising

Gabriella Mikiewicz October 12, 2015

DePaul Art Museum (DPAM) recently opened a new exhibition showcasing the work of Chicago-based artist Matt Siber. The exhibition, called “Idol Structures,” opened Sept. 9. Featuring photography,...

Adult coloring books prove crayons aren't just for kids

Adult coloring books prove crayons aren’t just for kids

Lauren Hernandez October 11, 2015

Anne Kowalski, a 21-year-old DePaul student, is sticking her colored pencils in the microwave. Kowalski is a coloring book connoisseur.  Endless pages of tiny, colorful details are tacked all over...

Chicago hosts first Architecture Biennial

Chicago hosts first Architecture Biennial

Christian Ianniello October 6, 2015

Imagine a man dressed in business casual clothing, Starbucks coffee in hand, reading news from a sleek silver laptop. He is not sitting on a bench outside, nor at a table, but rather sitting in a complex...

South Loop mural aims to bring awareness to catcalling

South Loop mural aims to bring awareness to catcalling

Danielle Church October 4, 2015

The CTA “L” trains in Chicago have been known for their loud, screeching noises echoing through the streets. They cancel out just about every noise, including the screams of a police officer directed...

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2015 Great Chicago Fire Festival redeems itself

Jackson Danbeck September 27, 2015

A man in a black and white polka-dot suit waved two torches in each hand, thrusting them into the air as a crowd of thousands chanted “burn it down, burn it down.” He stood in front of a particular...

Photos: Renegade Craft Fair

Photos: Renegade Craft Fair

Kaitlyn Roberts September 20, 2015

After a night of raging thunderstorms, Chicagoans from far and wide swarmed to Wicker Park Sept. 19 and 20 to enjoy not only the beautiful sunshine, but the city’s 12th annual Renegade Craft Fair. The...

Gallery Guichard exhibition features chilling Michael Brown sculpture

Sam Schwindt August 6, 2015

Face down, splayed across the ground is the body of Michael Brown. It is not August 9, 2014 when Michael Brown was shot 12 times and killed by Officer Darren Wilson, and we are not in Ferguson. Instead,...

Julie Rodrigues Widholm named DePaul Art Museum director

Julie Rodrigues Widholm named DePaul Art Museum director

Kirsten Onsgard July 1, 2015

The university announced today that Museum of Contemporary Art curator Julie Rodrigues Widholm has been named director of the DePaul Art Museum, beginning Aug. 31. Widholm will succeed Louise Lincoln,...

This photo of the Chicago skyline called “Jardine Water Treatment Plant” was taken on Oct. 24, 2014 as part of “Liminal Infrastructure.” (Photo courtesy of Metabolic Studios)

DePaul Art Museum’s ‘Liminal Structure’ sees Chicago through a new lens

Lindsay Goldstein May 31, 2015

Last October, artists Lauren Bon, Tristan Duke and Richard Nielsen brought a giant shipping container to Chicago.  That shipping container had been fashioned into a giant photography device, called...

Sonja Thomsen poses with “Trace of Possibility” at the DePaul Art Museum May 14. (DePaul University/Jamie Moncrief)

‘Glowing Wavelengths’ opens at DePaul Art Museum

Jordan Sarti May 17, 2015

Sonja Thomsen’s solo show at the DePaul Art Museum (DPAM), “Glowing Wavelengths in Between,” invites viewers to have temporal experiences with light. The show features photographs, sculpture and...

Kris Martin, “T. Y. F. F. S.H.,” 2011. Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of Mary and Earle Ludgin by exchange. © 2011 Kris Martin. (Photo: Robert Wedemeyer. Courtesy of the artist and MARC FOXX, Los Angeles.)

MCA exhibition ‘S, M, L, XL’ engages with all shapes, sizes

Tiffany Freeman May 17, 2015

Size does matter, according to the recent exhibition, “S, M, L, XL,” at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA). The exhibit held four works in varying sizes, spanning five decades with Robert Morris’...

DePaul Art Museum presents ‘Liminal Infrastructure’ May 14

Kirsten Onsgard April 27, 2015

Pinhole cameras are often the smallest and simplest photographic devices, but as one of the world's largest drove through Chicago as a shipping container, it produced stunning landscape photos of the...

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