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Josh Dihle has the visual vernacular of an obsessive-compulsive raised on "Goodnight Moon."
25/06/2025

Josh Dihle has the visual vernacular of an obsessive-compulsive raised on "Goodnight Moon."

Josh Dihle has the visual vernacular of an obsessive-compulsive raised on "Goodnight Moon."

In “Strawberry,” the single room-sized sculpture that makes up Caitlyn Min-ji Au’s solo show “Panda,” the artificial idi...
24/06/2025

In “Strawberry,” the single room-sized sculpture that makes up Caitlyn Min-ji Au’s solo show “Panda,” the artificial idiot is a Roborock Q7 Max robot vacuum trying to traverse the known world and return home.

In “Strawberry,” the single room-sized sculpture that makes up Caitlyn Min-ji Au’s solo show “Panda,” the artificial idiot is a Roborock Q7 Max robot vacuum trying to traverse the known world and return home.

“Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men” was a sensation at the Musée d'Orsay when it opened last year, and arrives June 29 a...
23/06/2025

“Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men” was a sensation at the Musée d'Orsay when it opened last year, and arrives June 29 at the Art Institute of Chicago—this time, under the less-pointed exhibition title, “Gustave Caillebotte: Painting His World.”

“History will remember them as roommates” is a gay proverb, one that provides comic relief when historians refuse to investigate a hidden, historical relationship between men and men and women and women. When it comes to the curators of “Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men” which was a sensati...

In the back of the main gallery at Derek Eller Gallery, there is a small room dedicated to early works by Robert Lostutt...
20/06/2025

In the back of the main gallery at Derek Eller Gallery, there is a small room dedicated to early works by Robert Lostutter. They are small and intricate, nearly postcard-sized.

Much like the Chicago Imagist visual language of torsos, heads and corsets that populate the group’s works, the eclectic figures in Lostutter’s work are surprisingly comforting to look at even if they are also strange and almost disturbing.

Modernist painter Jan Matulka (Bohemia, 1890) has more recently been at the center of a thirty-year drive by gallerist T...
18/06/2025

Modernist painter Jan Matulka (Bohemia, 1890) has more recently been at the center of a thirty-year drive by gallerist Thomas McCormick of McCormick Gallery to return this most prodigious of individuals to the heart of American Modernism.

Modernist painter Jan Matulka (Bohemia, 1890) has more recently been at the center of a thirty-year drive by gallerist Thomas McCormick to return this most prodigious of individuals to the heart of American Modernism.

At Artists Space, Pope.L’s life is preserved and life, as a general theme, is preserved.
17/06/2025

At Artists Space, Pope.L’s life is preserved and life, as a general theme, is preserved.

At Artists Space, Pope.L’s life is preserved and life, as a general theme, is preserved.

The atmosphere of “Pressure” grows in intensity throughout one's visit. Expect to step back into reality and question if...
13/06/2025

The atmosphere of “Pressure” grows in intensity throughout one's visit. Expect to step back into reality and question if it's changed yet.

The atmosphere of “Pressure” grows in intensity throughout one's visit. Expect to step back into reality and question if it's changed yet.

“Slide” is a canal to a chill fever dream parade. Take a ride down the lane; maybe you’ll end up in a majestic pool of l...
12/06/2025

“Slide” is a canal to a chill fever dream parade. Take a ride down the lane; maybe you’ll end up in a majestic pool of lost pageantry.

“Slide” is a canal to a chill fever dream parade. Take a ride down the lane; maybe you’ll end up in a majestic pool of lost pageantry.

Paul Pfeiffer’s concerns are blisteringly formal. He approaches his subjects like a chemist, adding and removing visual ...
09/06/2025

Paul Pfeiffer’s concerns are blisteringly formal. He approaches his subjects like a chemist, adding and removing visual dollops at will until the aesthetic product appears unrecognizable.

Paul Pfeiffer’s concerns are blisteringly formal. He approaches his subjects like a chemist, adding and removing visual dollops at will until the aesthetic product appears unrecognizable.

The newly opened exhibition provides a comprehensive overview of the distinguished British artist’s lifelong production ...
06/06/2025

The newly opened exhibition provides a comprehensive overview of the distinguished British artist’s lifelong production of prints and multiples.

The newly opened exhibition provides a comprehensive overview of the distinguished British artist’s lifelong production of prints and multiples.

Viewing this extensive show is thought-provoking and enlightening and is well worth several hours of one’s time. It show...
05/06/2025

Viewing this extensive show is thought-provoking and enlightening and is well worth several hours of one’s time. It shows just how stunningly vast and exceptional the MoCP’s permanent collection is.

Viewing this extensive show is thought-provoking and enlightening and is well worth several hours of one’s time. It shows just how stunningly vast and exceptional the MoCP’s permanent collection is.

To study this vast and varied show at Woman Made Gallery is to unravel juror Whitney Bradshaw’s complicated soul.
04/06/2025

To study this vast and varied show at Woman Made Gallery is to unravel juror Whitney Bradshaw’s complicated soul.

To study this vast and varied show at Woman Made Gallery is to unravel juror Whitney Bradshaw’s complicated soul.

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