CHICAGO — Social history paints the 1950s as a time of comforting and stultifying convention. Men exchanged their military uniforms for gray flannel suits, women moved from the factory to the…

Straus pointed out that underinsurance was also a big problem, because plenty of people amass pretty large collections of art, antiques, jewelry or other collectibles, but relatively few have a…

A decade or so ago, executive and philanthropist John H. Bryan Jr., the former CEO of Sara Lee Corp., raised a broad swath of the roughly $475 million needed for…

By JOEL HENNING ‘I can remember the first time that a work of art knocked my socks off. It was Van Gogh’s ‘Peach Trees in Blossom,’” recalled Douglas Druick, the wiry,…

Chicago is losing its artists, to New York City and Los Angeles and San Francisco. This is admitted, from various members–with varying statures–of the art community, either begrudgingly or with…

In the last half-decade, no less than five “exchange exhibitions,” several fact-finding missions and study trips, and a graduate seminar that positioned the entire city of “Detroit as material,” have…

There’s an extra Chicago touch in the White House this holiday season, but it’s not from Obama. David Lee Csicsko was among several local artists and designers who helped created…

Art in Chicago 1945-1995 is 312 pages, and it depicts 50 years of Chicago art. This hardcover book consists of text and photos. Lynne Warren organized this book. Source: http://www.examiner.com/review/fifty-years-of-art-chicago?cid=rss

By Laura Hodes n Chicago, The Spertus Museum has just opened “Jewish Modernists in Chicago,” the seventh chapter in its eight-part series, “Uncovered & Rediscovered: Stories of Jewish Chicago.” This…

  By Ellen Jean HirstTribune reporter 11:48 a.m. CDT, October 31, 2012 Ten million-dollar gifts aren’t exactly the norm for Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art — still, it just received its…