Latest from Kyle MacMillan - For the Sun-Times
How do you fashion modern galleries to showcase objects from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries? Visitors will find out starting Friday.
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.
In a rare, transcendent concert, the 83-year-old maestro and Verdi specialist put his musical wisdom, lifetime experience and sheer artistry to work.
Foul weather put a damper on the artistic director’s debut with the Grant Park Music Festival, but audience “die-hards” were rewarded with a glimpse of how he will continue the festival’s tradition of offering contemporary music and unusual works.
On Thursday evening at Symphony Center, in what might fairly be called a low-key concert with a chamber-sized version of the CSO, there were no fireworks, but none were needed.
Christopher Wheeldon’s delightful adaptation of the Lewis Carroll classic tale is a cornucopia of artistry, color, whimsy, merriment, zaniness and, well, fun.
“Chicago was really the place that really pushed me not only as a conductor but as a musician overall and showed me what the possibilities could be,” Giancarlo Guerrero says.
The seven impeccably cast singers are strong, each fitting superbly into the ensemble and making the most of their solo moments.
Centered on the extraordinary appeal of “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa” by Katsushika Hokusai, this exhibition offers a smartly curated overview of the larger artistic and cultural milieu from the era which the iconic artwork emerged.
Intuit now boasts a room devoted to its gift shop and entry, an educational and art-making studio and a first-floor, centerpiece gallery housing rotating displays from its permanent collection.