Art
The Wizard of Oz mural in Humboldt Park, the Haymarket Memorial downtown and the Buddha heads in Lincoln Park are among the works that readers called out in a diverse list.
The Riverside-based artist has designed a delightfully detailed sheet of 20 Forever stamps, in honor of the Postal Service’s 250th birthday.
How do you fashion modern galleries to showcase objects from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries? Visitors will find out starting Friday.
“Freedom in Form: Richard Hunt” opens Friday at the Loyola University Museum of Art, spotlighting America’s most prolific public art sculptor.
The Museum of Contemporary Art commissioned the 16-ton artwork, a 1957 Cadillac DeVille encased in concrete, that was created in 1970 by German artist Wolf Vostell. Since a 2016 rehab, it’s been parked in a space near the entrance to a campus parking garage.
Making its U.S. debut in Chicago on Wednesday, the exhibit by the American philanthropist, businessman and photographer is on display at the Ukrainian National Museum through Sept. 7.
Through Oct. 5, this show explores the artist’s depictions of men, a focus more intense than that of virtually any other French painter of his time.
The Art Institute of Chicago has two works on display by one of the world’s great landscape painters, J.M.W. Turner, born 250 years ago.
As part of a new series, “Your Next New Skill,” Sun-Times reporter Ambar Colón took a beginner’s workshop on making miniature items and broke through her years-long artist’s block.
Malik Zambize, 25, said Bronzeville’s bustling years of the 1920s through 1950s inspired this year’s films and photos. “I did this shoot just to bring awareness of what it used to be like and what it still can be like.”
One of the oldest juried art shows in the Midwest, the focus of the event remains on the community — with 30 of the artists hailing from across Illinois.
Orion Gustafson, 14, drew two sketches of actor Dwayne Johnson, and now the movie star is talking about hiring him for more work.
