Look Up from Your Cup
Restaurants, cafés, and bars have become legitimate springboards for emerging artists—and good places to buy their work at attractive prices.
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Ease Your Sticker Shock
Many first-time buyers are taken aback by the prices, even for pieces from emerging artists who are not in great demand. But making art costs money. This expense breakdown for a recent work by Chicago sculptor Alex Chitty puts things in perspective.
Go Deep on a Genre
You can’t be an expert on everything. So rooting yourself chiefly in a single style is a smart way to begin collecting. To get you started, here are some artists doing bold work in major genres.
Nathaniel Mary Quinn Transforms His Fractured Past into Arresting Art
The painter’s new exhibit, Nothing’s Funny, renders comedy icons in his signature disjointed style.
66 Things to Do in Chicago in September
United Flight 232 Photo: Michael Brosilow Sept. 1 Rock Kevin Morby Lincoln Park This Texas-born singer has never made straight country music, but there’s always been a twang to his sound. Last year’s Singing Saw—his third release, named for and featuring the distinctly rural musical instrument—was a work of evocative songwriting, rooted in the tradition … Read more
10 Things You Should Do This Labor Day Weekend (and Beyond)
The Chicago Onscreen Local Film Showcase, Chicago Fringe Festival, Chicago Jazz Festival, Mount Eerie, Alias Grace, and more
Roscoe Mitchell, Who Helped Invent New Chicago Jazz Sound, Comes Home
Ahead of his Chicago Jazz Festival performance, Mitchell expounds on growing up in the jazz age, staying inspired, and how improvisation mixes with composition.
The South Side’s Last Remaining Jazz Landmarks
Once a bastion of jazz greats, many grand venues in and around Bronzeville have shuttered. These buildings hold on to some of that history.
Is This Year’s Hideout Block Party the Last Hurrah?
With all the upheaval in the neighborhood, it’s at least “the end of things as we’ve come to know them,” says co-owner Tim Tuten.
Your Favorite Raunchy Card Game Goes Live
The artistic director of Cards Against Humanity talks bad card combinations, choosing good improvisers, and more.