Alan Artner

In the house INTIMATE SETTINGS MAKE COLLECTING ALL THE MORE PERSONAL Chicago long has had apartment galleries, where dealers publicly showed art in the places where they lived. The difference...

1) C.J. Matherne and Jamisen Ogg: Abstract, site-specific painting and drawing in the final exhibition at one of the most unusual art spaces in Chicago. Through April 26. Old Gold,...

To: The 13 International Olympic Committee evaluators From: Some die-hard Chicagoans Re: The real Chicago After four days, you're probably worn out from all the official presentations and glad-handing celebrities...

Chicago art galleries have opened and closed almost as quickly as restaurants. Even museums, such as those named for George F. Harding and Daniel J. Terra, have disappeared to survive...

Hundreds of art and photography books are published every year. The half dozen I've listed are among the best of 2008. For reading, you scarcely can do better than Michael...

Chicago-based photographer Dawoud Bey will unveil a new portrait of Barack Obama on Saturday at the 2008 "African American Fine Art Show Chicago" in Bronzeville's Parkway Ballroom, 4455 S. Martin...

Sandra Binion's "Ennesbo," at the Swedish American Museum Center, is a multimedia installation that explores a place in southern Sweden where the artist's family has had a farm for 300...