Today in the Culture, April 14, 2021 | Dawoud Bey's Whitney Solo | Denise Gardner's AIC Ascent | Turn out the Arclights ART Dawoud Bey Pictures Poetics Surveying his nearly half-century of work, Chicago photographer Dawoud Bey's retrospective, "An American Project" opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, including 35mm, Polaroid and large-format images. "We feel both the passion and contempt that he holds for his complicated country," Sasha Bonét writes at Vulture. "In a street corner…
Today in the Culture: March 25, 2021 | Bronzeville up | Greektown down | Signs of summer ART Is Glencoe the new gallery district? Alan Koppel is opening a satellite gallery, Alan Koppel Gallery-North, at 342 Park Avenue in Glencoe with "Diane Arbus: A Secret about a Secret," April 1 - May 8. DESIGN Build Back Bronzeville Better The Tribune looks at the federal legislation introduced last month to make Bronzeville a National Heritage Area, and "pump…
Editor's Letter: December 2020 We're committed to championing Chicago design, and this issue bears testament to that commitment.
This Week in the Culture: December 18, 2020 DESIGN The Reed rises soon In a rare burst of good—or at least normal—news, plans for The Reed, the condo building in the Southbank along the Chicago River, were unveiled. “There is always migration to the suburbs, but we’re very bullish on the urban downtown market,” the developer told the Tribune. “People love and thrive on the nightlife and the…
This Week in the Culture: December 16, 2020 Catherine Edelman Gallery is closing One of the Chicago's art world's stalwarts for thirty-three years, Catherine Edelman announced she's closing her physical space at 1637 West Chicago effective January 1, in response to the "unsustainable reality" brought on by the pandemic. A national force in photography, Edelman hosted 245 exhibitions featuring more than 200 artists in spaces ranging from River…
