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a square-format portrait in oil of three football players in blue uniforms that read "Lincoln," standing on a football field and looking directly at the viewer

In ‘Flying High,’ Tyler D. Ballon’s Portraits Parallel Sports, History, Identity, and Patriotism

February 21, 2025

a painting by Wayne Thiebauld of a meal spread with dishes of fish, ham, chicken, appetizers, and desserts in pastel oil paint

Wayne Thiebaud’s Passion for Art History Shines in ‘Art Comes from Art’

February 20, 2025

a combination woodcut and acrylic painting of a blue fish with the face of a human woman, with blue flowers falling from its back as it floats atop the surface of the water

Matt Roussel’s Textured Woodcuts Metamorphose into Paintings

February 18, 2025

a paper collage of five Black school children out in the schoolyard playing jumprope

Intimacy Centers in Nia Winslow’s Nostalgic Paper Collages Highlighting Black Experiences

February 11, 2025

a ceramic sculpture of a face with a small flower with a face on its hair. a blue ceramic worm sits in front

Announcing Joy Machine, a New Art Gallery in Chicago

February 10, 2025

Green-tinted woven wood covers the corners and leads to the middle where a woman in an orange cloak made from various wooden objects such as a wagon wheel holds a candle and looks to her right at a man entering into the room from a door. The man is wearing a blue cloak and is also comprised of wooden objects. In his right hand, he holds a white flower. Behind them, a clock hangs on the wall, and in the left corner, a blackbird perches on a chair.

From Remedios Varo to Laurie Simmons, a New Exhibition Forwards a Feminist View of the Uncanny

February 4, 2025

a large-scale bronze figure with branches and leaves for a head stands in a gallery

Nick Cave’s Nearly 26-Foot Bronze Stands for Resistance Amid Oppression

January 30, 2025

a portrait of a man in a brown suit, sitting on a brown leather couch, covered in spaghetti

A Provocative Photography Exhibition Invites You to Experience ‘Chromotherapia’

January 28, 2025

a surreal oil painting of a woman in a pink dress, standing in a gray room holding a string, connected to an owl, with a painting in the background of a castle tower in a landscape

Gertrude Abercrombie’s Autobiographical Surrealism Traverses Dreams and Reality

January 6, 2025

a striking portrait of a figure wearing a niqab, with roses on her head and wire worn like glasses in front of her eyes that reads "love"

Mous Lamrabat’s Striking Portraits Put Unity, Love, and Compassion in Sharp Focus

December 27, 2024

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December 13, 2024

a man in a gray suit seated in a red chair is obscured by weeds bursting through a window

My Brain Took an Extended Vacation: Ben Zank Playfully Twists the Banal

November 25, 2024

a woman stands in front of a round installation with various imagery

Through Monumental Installations of Soap and Stones, Jesse Krimes Interrogates the Prison System

November 21, 2024

two people, one in a blue shirt and pink pants and the other in a yellow shirt and blue pants, embrace while seated on the sidewalk

In ‘Keep the Kid Alive,’ Arielle Bobb-Willis Reaches for Exuberance

November 1, 2024