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Sean Sullivan’s “Kitchen Harmonics” Explores the Virtues of Work
Sean Sullivan's solo show at Devening Projects is for those who enjoy used books and old LPs, and yellowed letters from forgotten friends.
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December 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Firelei Báez’s Triumph at the MCA Couldn’t Be More Timely
The Dominican-born artist's mid-career show reminds us that history and culture of the Americas and the African diaspora are anything but monolithic and contained.
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December 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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In Magalie Guérin’s Mystical World, Form Speaks the Loudest
The Marfa-based, Montreal-born artist sets her ceramic sculptures and drawings in a semiotic premise at Corbett vs. Dempsey.
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December 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Lost in the Woods: Justin Lowe’s “Blaze” and The Search for Meaning at Soccer Club Club
It’s a shame that with “Blaze,” Lowe, an artist capable of so much more, doesn’t plumb the depths of our high-beam conspiracies, delusions and freak-outs, but simply—blazing orange and all—disappears from sight and mind.
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December 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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How Chicago Artists Shaped a Curator’s Career and the Whitney’s New Blockbuster Show
Dan Nadel, the Whitney Museum’s recently named Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawings and Prints, quickly made his mark as lead curator for an ambitious, boundary-breaking show called “Sixties Surreal.”
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December 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Sabina Ott Is Still Anything but Ordinary
At the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Sabina Ott continues—posthumously—to challenge how we see, move and think. Her art asks us to look and to question with renewed attention to the act of perception itself.
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December 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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The Art Institute’s “Strange Realities: Symbolist Works on Paper” Reveals an Enchanted World
Get ready to see fantastic creatures, religious images and literary illustrations at the new prints and drawings exhibition.
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December 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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At Joy Machine, Little Matchboxes Ignite a Big Fire
Over seventy artists in Joy Machine's miniature show "General Strike" consider agency and resistance in Trump's America.
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December 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Sebastian Thomas Bends the Form of Medieval Morality Tales at Zolla/Lieberman Gallery
The artist's colorful paintings imbue the subject matter with a graphic novel aesthetic, reading like a soft parody of moral clarity.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Wells Chandler Creates an Oasis of Allegorical Avatars at Andrew Rafacz Gallery
The New York artist makes hand-crocheted installations that chart a queer iconography.
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December 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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With the Potential to Be on Pointe, Does an Old Joffrey Land on Its Derrière?
“The Joffrey + Ballet in the U.S.” at Wrightwood 659 is a densely situated historical survey with plenty rare archival footage of formative performances, photographs, costumes and related ephemera.
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December 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Diana Al-Hadid’s Norm-Resisting Survey Exhibition at MSU Broad Art Museum
The New York-based artist turns precarious materials into a sculptural, slow-forming feminist statement.
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December 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Gabriella Boros Finds Magic in Nature at Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
Boros’ show is beautiful, educational and meditative, showing us that our relationship to the natural world is both awe-inspiring and magical.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Melanie Pankau’s Meditative Paintings Translate Internal States Into Arrangements of Crystalline Shapes
The artist's latest works, on view at McCormick Gallery, compress the psychic residue of contemplation into visual form.
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December 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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In “The Disappointed Tourist,” Ellen Harvey Paints The Places We’ve Lost But Still Remember
The artist's solo exhibition at the Architecture Center commemorates places that people would like to visit or revisit but no longer exist.
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December 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Art Top 5: December 2025
An array of gift-oriented art shows, plus an eclectic mix of biennials and retrospectives.
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November 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Among the Stars: How Toshiko Takaezu Brought the Abstract Expressionist Ethos to Ceramics
“Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within” is the first retrospective for the artist in twenty years and includes over a hundred examples of works she produced during her career, including ceramics, weavings and paintings.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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The Pink Factory Is Expanding: On the Road with Yvette Mayorga and La Princesa
As her work has gained cachet, she has become clearer, more distinct, grown not into the fame and recognition but into its possibilities.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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At His Homecoming, Theaster Gates Is All That and More
Gates has returned to his Chicago home base, Gray, and in the process offered us a glimpse of what dreams can build.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Nathaniel Mary Quinn and Gregory Huebner Celebrate the Role of Mentorship in “The Hand That Guides”
The student-teacher duo exhibition at Arts + Public Life serves as a moment to underscore Huebner's rigor that helped foster Quinn’s studies and guide him in his quest to where he is today.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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How Aya Nakamura’s Drawings on Handmade Paper Tie Materiality and Temporality
The solo exhibition at 4th Ward Project Space presents the full arc of the artist's process: intensive making and temperate material application, resulting in an elegant, transitory viewing experience.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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How Ellen Altfest Condenses Time in Her Paintings
The painter's decades-spanning solo show "Forever," at Wrightwood 659, exhibits fifteen hyperrealistic paintings of extraordinarily detailed still lifes.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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How Scott Burton Shapeshifts Social Relations Through Architectures of the Body
At Wrightwood 659, the radiant exhibition on the late sculptor and performance artist produces an affectionate relationality.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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At the Altar and Together: magicfeifei Brings Magic to “Altærity” at First Presbyterian Church
A group show that also functions as a fundraiser for the National Immigrant Justice Center highlights intimate sides of the immigrant experience.
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November 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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“Chemical X” Channels the Surreal Spirit of Chicago’s DIY Scene
At Evoke Gallery, October Sharify curates a trippy, homegrown vision of community, memory and emerging art.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM