Paul Metivier: Silent Defiance
Paul Metivier's ceramic sculpture of silent defiance has anticipated the rising awareness of systemic racism for at least a decade. More...
Laura Parker's Finch
Laura Parker’s photograph of an ordinary finch sits framed by a circular splash of white light and a terrifyingly deep universe. More...
Decomposed Art
Disposal, decay and rejuvenation has long played a role in shaping art's response to cyclical structures and the effects of time. More...
Randi Matushevitz
Randi Matushevitz deploys Expressionism to respond to resurgent sexism, racism, homophobia and white supremacism. More...
Making a Difference
Created in 1992, Robbie Conal's "Freedom of Choice" skewered thee pre-RBG Supreme Court in support of Planned Parenthood. More...
Artist's Charts
For those who like visual poetry or puzzles, I recommend some artist’s charts to peruse while riding out the pandemic. More...
“Being Human in the Age of AI”
“Uncanny Valley” refers to the deep curve of a graphed line measuring human emotional response to humanoid objects. More...
"Chicago Artists and Immigration”
“In Flux” underscores the importance of immigrant artists to Chicago’s art community, and indeed immigrants to the city at large. More...
“Signs of the Times”
"Signs of the Times" posits that the same social, political and cultural issues have remained continually relevant since the 1920’s. More...
Jessica Rath
In “fruiting bodies,” Jessica Rath explores the wide-ranging effects of human activity on plants and bees in superbly crafted works. More...
“Women in Neon”
“She Bends: Women in Neon” spotlights the She Bends network of female-identifying artists who work with neon. More...
The Lavender Palette
"The Lavender Palette: Gay Culture and the Art of Washington State" addresses an overlooked chapter of art's history. More...
Graphic Subversion
Mark Steven Greenfield and Mark Dean Veca approach mark making for reinterpreting historical and media imagery. More...
Sámi Intervention
For an exhibition that covers so much ground, “Sámi Intervention / Dáidda Gážada” is deceptively and wonderfully modest. More...
Nicole Fein
Nicole Phungrasamee Fein's drawings are as meticulous as her pushing of water droplets operate at the edge of control. More...
Maria Hupfield
Indigenous artist Maria Hupfield sees herself as a disruptor of stereotypes between craft and art, gender, and tropes of her own culture. More...
Laurits Andersen Ring
A retrospective of Danish painter Laurits Andersen Ring situates the artist between 19th century Romanticism and 20th century Modernism. More...
A Taste for Spain
Spanish old masters are represented in highlights of the UK's Bowes Museum collection, featuring the most familiar masters and more. More...
Julie Mehretu
Julie Mehretu's large scale abstractions at first read as gestural paintings, but are in face built-up layers of imagery drawn from widespread sources. More...
Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz
The inspiration for “The Merry-Go-World or Begat by Chance” came after Nancy Kienholz encountered a poor woman asking her for money. More...
