Alan Artner

Kenneth Josephson has had revealing solo exhibitions at both the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Art Institute of Chicago, so one might think the time for surprises had passed....

Wolf Kahn, the subject of a solo exhibition at the KN Gallery, is 80 and has been painting and drawing rural landscapes in high, sweet color for more than half...

What a difference a song makes. And what a difference a movie can make for a song. Take "Singin' in the Rain." It has been ukulele ditty (Cliff Edwards in...

Holly Roberts was at her best when the family photographs she took were seen in an uneasy disjunction with the primitive painting style she used to cover them. At the...

William Betts' new representational paintings, at the Peter Miller Gallery, show a satisfyingly tight union of the things depicted and the method of depiction. The paintings are based on surveillance...

The five artists in "Bright," the upbeat group show at I space Gallery, all use highly saturated color to create generally bouncy abstractions. In four of the five cases, however,...

"Bilingual: Art at the Intersection of Painting and Video," at the Columbia College Glass Curtain Gallery, is a show of work by 22 artists that is memorable less for particular...

Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, whose paintings, photographs and sculptures were discovered only after his death in 1983, is a prototypical outsider artist. But looking at his small retrospective at the Carl...

Andre Kertesz came to Polaroid photography late in life, but unlike other masters of the 20th Century who used it experimentally to work with form and color, he approached it...

Miao Xiaochun's last time out 18 months ago at the Walsh Gallery had the Beijing-based artist re-approaching Michelangelo's 16th Century fresco, "The Last Judgment," in giant multi-panel photographs that constituted...