The new must-see exhibit "Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts From Britain to Chicago" just opened at the Art Institute of Chicago this weekend. Check out the details here.Image copyright Art Institute of Chicago
Age 81 and still taking pictures every day, Barbara Crane’s career retrospective, Challenging Vision, at the Chicago Cultural Center (CCC), hardly scratches the surface of her incredible body of work. She has shown in 170 group exhibitions, 75 solo exhibitions, and her work is included in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, [...]
Denver, CO - Kick off the winter season with the first annual Denver Backyard Bang Rail Jam, a grassroots snowboarding competition held Saturday, Nov. 21 at The Art Institute of Colorado in downtown Denver.
Reality star Kim Kardashian and basketball star Alonzo Mourning will be co-grand marshal's in this year's boat parade, officials announced over the weekend.
That's right, we're still adding stuff to the November calender, and if the past is any indication, there'll be even more by the time last turkey emerges from hiding on the 30th. Global Architecture Brigades: Student-:Led Design Build - Monday at noon in the lower core of Crown Hall at IIT, director John Cunningham will be talking about the Global Architecture Brigades , a "volunteer student-led...
Art Institute graduate students Katherine Pill, 26 (right), and Francesca Wilmott, 24, operate the Concertina Gallery out of their own apartment. Brian J. Morowczynski for RedEyeBy Ryan SmithFor RedEyeMost curators don't make a habit of sleeping next to their exhibits,...
Developer Epic Games has released a free, Unreal 3-powered development kit that will allow students, schools, researchers or fledgling game developers the ability to experiment with 3D game technology. The Unreal Development Kit (UDK) can be downloading at the UDK website . The UDK is free for noncommercial or educational use, and a variety of licensing options are available—including a revenue...
Her works, which combined drawing, painting, collage and printmaking, examined the treatment of women and the horrors of war. Nancy Spero, a pioneering feminist artist who examined the treatment of women and the horrors of war, has died. She was 83.
Oprah Winfrey says she's keeping singer BeBe Winans off her show until domestic violence charges against him are resolved. The gospel singer had taped appearances on Winfrey's "karaoke challenge" and was on last Friday.
If you're sick of looking at paintings and sculptures all the danged time, for god's sake already, then maybe it's time to give your eardrums a work-out. And here's the perfect venue to do so: the 10th annual Outer Ear Festival of Sound , a celebration of the sonic arts in Chicago presented by the Experimental Sound Studio , the Sound Department of the School of the Art Institute and several other...
Dallas police have arrested an acquaintance in the stabbing death of a 20-year-old Art Institute student whose body was discovered in her Lake Highlands apartment in September. Also Online Daniel Willyam, 26, was taken into custody Wednesday afternoon in the death of Samantha Michelle Nance, who was found slain in her bedroom on Sept. 11. Shortly after the discovery of her body, Dallas detectives searched...
[ November 7, 2009 to January 10, 2010. ] Masterpieces in Miniature Delaware Art Museum November 7, 2009 – January 10, 2010 [ad#lb] The Delaware Art Museum is pleased to present the fourth annual Masterpieces in Miniature exhibition, on view November 7, 2009 – January 10, 2010. Masterpieces in Miniature is the Museum’s signature holiday display, featuring three-dimensional miniatures...
...from the Thorne Miniature Rooms Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago... ...it's hard to believe that these rooms are 1:12 scale and even harder to believe that they were all built between 1932 and 1940 (no precision laser etching back then!). There are 68 rooms in total showcasing interiors from the late 13th Century through to the 1930's. Donated to the Art Instute by Mrs James Ward Thorne,...
For a the city between the fashion capitol (NY) and the shopping capitol (LA), Chicago certainly puts a lot of effort in it’s own fashion identity. With the city funded Fashion Council, they were able to host a full-fledged fashion show for their top-tier recent graduates. I’ve been to several student shows this year, most [...]
Original works by Mary Cassatt available for purchase at art galleries worldwide This survey of Mary Cassatt's work included 46 paintings and 10 color prints. It was the first comprehensive showing of Cassatt's work since the National Gallery's 1970 exhibition. The showing in Washington included works from the Chester Dale collection, which, by terms of the Dale gift, can only be shown at the National