CHICAGO, IL.- Beginning around 1910, a group of vanguard artists working in Europe advanced the radical idea that art had a mandate to transform daily life, from silverware to postage stamps to buildings. This theory would eventually take hold in the w…
Art Institute Acquires Robert Rauschenberg’s Important Early Work "Short Circuit"
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago announces a major acquisition by the museum’s Department of Contemporary Art: Robert Rauschenberg’s Combine of 1955, Short Circuit. This visually arresting and autobiographically rich work is the first major R…
Kay Rosen’s 6-Story Art Installation Unveiled Today in Chicago
CHICAGO, IL.- Chicago Loop Alliance (CLA) unveiled today “GO DO GOOD,” a bold six-story mural by Midwest-based, internationally-acclaimed contemporary artist, Kay Rosen, painted in bright yellow and black on the North wall of the Stevens Bui…
The Art Institute of Chicago Presents Work by Los Angeles-Based Artist Uta Barth
CHICAGO, IL- The Art Institute of Chicago (ARTIC) presents Uta Barth, on view from May 14 through August 14, 2011. Since the early 1990s, Los Angeles-–based artist Uta Barth has examined photographic and visual perception— how the human eye s…
Marathon Asian Auction Brings Over 4.5 Million at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
CHICAGO, IL.- With a saleroom packed full of international buyers, the majority from mainland China, almost 600 bidders online and the auctioneers’ book full of absentee bids, Leslie Hindman Auctioneers sale which carried a pre-sale median estimat…
Zoe Ryan Named Art Institute Chair and John H. Bryan Curator of Architecture and Design
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago announces today that Zoë Ryan has been named the Chair and John H. Bryan Curator of Architecture and Design, effective July 1, 2011 . Ryan’s career at the Art Institute began in 2006 when she was chosen as th…
Exhibition Reveals Unconventional Ways in Which Renaissance Europe Used Printed Image
CHICAGO, IL.- Today’s scrapbookers weren’t the first to abuse paper products––Renaissance print owners were regular vandals who cut, pasted, adored, and adorned their personal print collections, the same ones that are stored in museum vaults …
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Appoints Naomi Beckwith as New Curator
CHICAGO, IL.- Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, announced today that Naomi Beckwith has been appointed the new Curator at the MCA. Beckwith is currently the Associate Curator at The Studio…
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Appoints Naomi Beckwith as New Curator
CHICAGO, IL.- Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, announced today that Naomi Beckwith has been appointed the new Curator at the MCA. Beckwith is currently the Associate Curator at The Studio…
Packer Schopf Gallery to Present Chris Bathgate, Solo Show at SOFA: New York
CHICAGO, IL .- Packer Schopf Gallery will present the work of Baltimore artist, Chris Bathgate, in a solo show, New Machined Works, at the Sculpture, Objects & Functional Art Fair, which opens on April 14 to – 17 at the Park Avenue Armory, in New …