Other Chicago recipients include $20,000 to Roots & Culture for their “Double Exposure” exhibitions, $100,000 to Public Media ...

In 2023, the executive began discussions with the artist about creating a new Skyspace installation for his community in New ...

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“It’s not more than a few seconds after we meet that the artist Gladys Nilsson, eighty-six, insists on helping me carry my suitcase over the threshold and into her home. Nilsson has lived in a ...

Artist-designer Bob Faust’s “Ways and Means” is a “participatory public initiative that reclaims and reimagines the American ...

My earliest political memory is of despising Nixon and cheering on the demise of his presidency, a sentiment far too mature for the boy I was, but one readily absorbed from my very liberal father. Not ...

Artist, poet and performer Karen Finley will perform her solo piece “Believe” at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on Monday, July 20 in a free performance open to the public. In the piece, ...

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