Art Archives - Page 9 of 10

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...

‘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...

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...

Art events in Chicago heal through expressive celebration

Jordan Sarti • April 19, 2015

Many students use drinking, dancing and attending art events as opportunities for cathartic release after overscheduled workweeks. But some groups around Chicago are drawing an even more explicit connection...

Louder than a Bomb: World’s largest youth poetry festival empowers and enlightens

Vanessa Bell and Emily Brandenstein • April 5, 2015

The floor seating of the Arie Crown Theater was packed with over 2,000 students cheering, dancing and laughing with their friends. In one corner of the VIP section was a camera crew adjusting their tripods...

Bringing crafty back: Crafting for a Cause at DePaul gives back

Colin Sallee • March 1, 2015

Creating new things with just two hands and some tools is a rarity for many college students. But Crafting for a Cause, a subgroup of the Catholic Campus Ministry, is trying to change that. The group...

Review: MCA’s Doris Salcedo retrospective

Jordan Sarti • February 22, 2015

The Museum of Contemporary Art’s fourth floor houses Colombian artist Doris Salcedo’s first retrospective. Salcedo has produced sculptures, installations and public interventions for the last 30...

Artist Jennifer Tamayo talks Dora the Explorer and Dreamers

Jordan Sarti • February 9, 2015

Jennifer Tamayo sat with a long white sheet draped over her front and neatly spread in front of her. As audience members filled the Poetry Foundation’s reading room, she scribbled the Gloria Anzaldua...

Review: ‘Rooted in Soil’ at DePaul Art Museum

Courtney Jacquin, Editor in Chief • February 1, 2015

With snow packed on the ground right now, soil is hard to come by, but the DePaul Art Museum has plenty to go around. “Rooted in Soil,” which opened Jan. 29 at the museum, explores the reciprocal...

DePaul Art Museum blossoms in face of change with ‘Rooted in Soil’

Courtney Jacquin, Editor in Chief • January 25, 2015

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he upcoming exhibition at the DePaul Art Museum is a pile of dirt. That’s not a bad thing — “Rooted in Soil,” opening Jan. 29, explores the reciprocal relationship between...

MCA celebrates renowned Chicago sculptor Richard Hunt

Jordan Sarti • January 18, 2015

Chicago is celebrating long-time resident and prolific abstract sculptor Richard Hunt this year. In addition to the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) exhibition, the Chicago Cultural Center is hosting...