If you’re looking for the city’s most dynamic and provocative art — and quite possibly the next generation of exemplary creators — skip the museums and trendy galleries and dive into the world of artist-run spaces.
In which we ferret out some of the best artist-run spaces by asking fellow gallerists
Get to know these local emerging stars before everyone else does.
Five spaces that make creative use of real estate
Thirty years ago, few people would have expected conceptual artist Gregg Bordowitz to live long enough to see his career retrospective.
Every week, a group of nonbinary, gender-questioning, and trans Chicagoans gather to rehearse in a North Center church. Sometimes, that means learning to embrace their voices in the process.
The National Museum of Mexican Art is hosting a monumental survey of her work.
Photo: Jen Rosenstein The 36-year-old composer, who sang with the Chicago Children’s Choir starting at age 5, credits the group’s social-justice focus for inspiring Sound From the Bench, his piece about corporate personhood that was a finalist for last year’s Pulitzer Prize in music. (It was beat out by Kendrick Lamar’s Damn.) The Museum of … Read more
In the mid-2000s, when the Pill Hill native decided to become a director, she had already spent a decade in theater, working as an actress by night and a talent agent by day. But the career change meant starting over again — namely, at Timber Lake Playhouse in tiny Mount Carroll, Illinois — before becoming artistic director of the … Read more
As major museums rejigger their business models to prioritize experience, artworks are taking on a whole new utility.
