About 25 new murals are showing up around the city, thanks to the founders of Bucktown’s Pawn Works. Here’s a look at the group and why they do what they do. Read more
Among our faves: The Franklin, a backyard art space by Edra Soto and Dan Sullivan; the Museum of Contemporary Photography's retrospective; and Blistner, Ill., a photo book about a small Midwestern town's post-industrial decline Read more
Chicago-based sculptors Mindy Rose Schwartz and Bernard Williams and writer Jack Zimmerman all won grants through The Helen Coburn Meier and Tim Meier Charitable Foundation for the Arts. Read more
The collision of improv comedy with contemporary art would make an excellent exhibition—and if it happened, it would surely include the artwork of Justin Cooper. Read more
