For four days each September, Chicago is immersed in a different kind of “Bright Lights, Big City” hustle and bustle, when the art world and The International Exposition of Contemporary…
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Rockefeller Center Stage
Provenance, quality, and rarity may be common auction speak, yet the caliber of connoisseurship presented in The Peggy and David Rockefeller Collection, to be sold in May at Christie’s New York,…
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Camera And Canvas
Paintings referencing the medical milieu have sparked intrigue throughout centuries and across continents. Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh’s late 19th century Portrait of Dr. Gachet, the artist’s own physician, set a…
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Art As A Second Act
“A deep need for personal and creative self-expression led me toward the world of art,” explains Regina Siske, an artist working in the Asian style known as Sumi-e, derived from…
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EXTERIOR SPACES THROUGH an INTERIOR LENS
Jennifer Presant always had an interest in art, graduating from college with a BFA in illustration. She began her career as a graphic designer in Manhattan working on book covers…
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Ravinia’s Renovation: Architecture And …
Dirk Lohan can easily recall the moment his grandfather, Mies van der Rohe, a pioneer of 20th century architecture, made an impression that determined Lohan’s own career choice. “I was 16…
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Winning Style
“I think we all go back to our roots,” says architect Lucien Lagrange, recalling the calm of the farmhouse he maintains in France to that of the hustle and bustle…
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MCA Chicago: Fabulous at Fifty
While cutting the cake at the 21st celebration of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), one of the founders, Joseph Randall Shapiro, stated: “No matter how many birthdays the MCA…
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Seriously Fun: The Art of Takashi Murakami
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Chief Curator Michael Darling takes us inside the Museum’s Murakami exhibition opening June 6. This summer the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (MCA) honors its…
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An Ear For Culture
In the 1980s, founders of the small San Francisco nonprofit experimental Antenna Theater company, Chris Hardman and Chris Telles, took note of how people were adding soundtracks to their steps…
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