Tuesday, October 13th, 2015

Cosmos of the Quotidian: Sarah Sze at Tanya Bonakdar

Sze’s new exhibition makes astronomical allusions with everyday goods and plays with viewer expectations.

Thursday, October 8th, 2015

Looking Back: A Retrospective of German Figure Painting

A show at the historic Städel Museum catalogues German painting from a breakout era.

Saturday, September 26th, 2015

“The natural world is a vibrating mystery”: Billy Childish with Jessica Holmes

The artist and punk rock veteran discusses his new paintings and his life.

Saturday, September 19th, 2015

A Complete Eye of Water: A Summer Show at Ampersand Gallery

Sea, sky, air, and space meet in the respectively trippy, geometric, and photorealist images of three artists.

Thursday, September 17th, 2015

Emojis and Emotion: New Painting by Margaux Ogden

Ogden’s work leverages anxiety and excitement, brush on canvas, as pain’ing.

Thursday, September 17th, 2015

Light and Liminality: Looking at Suzan Frecon

How and why Suzan Frecon’s recent work really succeeds, bending light and color.

Wednesday, September 9th, 2015

Hilma af Klint and the Spiritual in an Artist

The proceedings of a recent symposium on af Klint’s work have been compiled into a new book.

Sonny Assu, (B) Longing #4, 2015. Bronze, 13 x 16 x 9 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
Friday, September 4th, 2015

“The didactic becomes important”: Sonny Assu with Kyra Kordoski

First Nations artist Sonny Assu discusses his indigenous history, his family, culture, and work.

Rodri?guez Calero, Transcendent, 2013. Acrollage painting, 48 x 36 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
Friday, September 4th, 2015

Holy Hip-Hop: A Rodriguez Calero Retrospective

The inventive painter and collagist creates new ways of making art and showing the lives of unrepresented people and cultures.

Monday, August 24th, 2015

Aesthetics and Social Justice: “Arresting Patterns” at ArtSpace

An exhibition and its extracurricular programming explore artistic representations of mass incarceration.