Paul Cezanne was thought of as the greatest by some very great artists, including Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet, to name just two. The Art Institute along with the Tate Modern in London is presenting its first exhibition of Cezanne in 70 years. TRANSCRIPT Marc Vitali: Bathing beauties and rich landscapes. Seemingly simple still lifes and complicated portraits. And … stranger things. The Cezanne ...
Chicago visitors may notice something a bit different at the city’s Art Institute, with the iconic lions that normally guard the entrance to the building currently gone from their posts. The lions didn’t magically come to life and disappear however. The museum says that they are currently being given a deep cleaning for the first time in decades, and they were removed by cranes ...
From art fairs and music festivals to races and sporting events, Chicagoans have plenty to do this weekend throughout the city. Chicago's Office of Emergency Management and Communications warned people headed to the city from Saturday and Sunday to be wary of additional crowds, leading to different traffic patterns and likely delays. OEMC also warned Chicgaoans to be aware of surroundings and report any ...
As art fairs, music festivals, races and sporting events take over Chicago this weekend, officials are asking that people report any suspicious activity and expect heavy traffic. Chicago's Office of Emergency Management and Communications warned people headed to the city from Friday through Sunday to be wary of additional crowds, leading to different traffic patterns and likely delays. OEMC also warned Chicgaoans to be ...
Non-tenure-track faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, one of the nation’s biggest art schools, said on Tuesday that they planned to join an ongoing unionization effort at the college. They announced their intention to unionize in a letter signed by around 200 lecturers and non-ranked adjuncts at the school. The letter was posted on Tuesday by the Art Institute of ...
Three years ago, the Greek collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos, having amassed over 500 artworks by 220 artists over two decades, decided to stop collecting. Last September, he told Artsy, “My collection is big enough and important enough that it requires attention to what will happen to it in the future.” He’d already said—in 2014, in an interview with a Greek newspaper—that he’d be giving his ...
The Curatorial Forum at the 2022 edition of Expo Chicago began with a reminder and a call to action. “I think that in the last two and a half years, we’ve gotten a little sore,” Renaud Proch said in his opening remarks. The executive and artistic director of Independent Curators International, which helped organize the forum, explained that he thought curators had fallen into ...
For over six decades, Mary Lovelace O’Neal’s artistic practice has continually changed and evolved. “I look at the work now, and I go, ‘Wow, that girl sure could paint,’ because it’s the truth,” she said during a conversation at Expo Chicago on Thursday with Jamillah James, recently appointed senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. “I understood the work more or less ...
Thursday was opening day for Major League Baseball, and over at Wrigley Field, shortstop Nico Hoerner’s home run, caught by a lucky fan in the bleachers, helped the Cubs beat the Milwaukee Brewers 5–4. Earlier in the day, what appeared to be the Cubs’ mascot, Clark, the bear cub, was seen wandering the aisles of Expo Chicago, during the fair’s VIP preview, occasionally pausing ...
After a two-and-a-half year hiatus due to the pandemic, Expo Chicago, which opened its 2022 edition on Thursday, is making up for lost time. Last November, the fair announced that it would expand its Northern Trust Purchase Prize to facilitate the acquisition of three artworks to three museums: the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Portland Art Museum, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. ...
