DOUBLE TAKE: The Ravenswood artist, who is gaining international attention with his combination of trompe l’oeil and abstraction, is featured in a solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art
Smart Home opens today (Earth Day) at the Museum of Science + Industry, and if you like the idea of living green as much as you like a certain Andersonville shop called Scout, then you should definitely check it out…
Now that the digital-lending service Overdrive is set to get along with Amazon at long last, you’ll soon be able to check out books on your Kindle.
THREE ARTISTS TO WATCH: Three emerging, SAIC-connected artists to look for at the younger, edgier companion to the art fair
LETTING IN THE LIGHT: The local starchitect builds an idiosyncratic work from her firm’s hidden influences
Critics can’t stand “Atlas Shrugged: Part 1.” Insiders think it should be a flop. But a cursory look at the numbers suggests that the film is bulletproof, just like a certain epic about taxation.
How Alan Keyes’s substantial–but not 100 percent total–loss to Barack Obama–explains the world, or at least birthers and the sudden political popularity of Donald Trump.
Linda Johnson Rice, the chairman of Johnson Publishing, closed yesterday on the sale of her ten-room condo at the Carlyle. The sale price was $2,255,815—77 percent of the $2.9 million Rice was asking when she first listed the condo for sale in April 2010…
Design-seeking Andersonville strollers (with or without strollers) usually troll up and down Clark Street to get their shop on, but there are some eclectic, deserving destinations tucked into storefronts on easily accessed side streets as well…
Former Metropolitan Home design editor and Chicago Home + Garden contributor Susan Victoria sent us a report of her faves from last month’s Architectural Digest Home Design Show in New York…
