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Art & Antiques Fair - 2014
William McGregor Paxton, "The Sisters", 1904 This year, the Chicago Art and Antiques Fair moved to Festival Hall at  Navy Pier - where the 80-foot ceiling offered  the show a more spacious...
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Wooden Horses
As it turns out -- I've become a big fan of Deborah Butterfield - a woman my age who managed to combine a passion for both horses and making sculpture.Her art is like flower arranging -- only much...
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Yahoo Calligraphy
Wang Duo, 1635Jerry Yang, one of the founders of Yahoo, has been a serious collector of historical Chinese calligraphy - and many of his selections are now on view at the Met.All the basic styles are...
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Henry Bartolomew
The curator of the Miller Museum has just uncovered this rare book created in the mid-sixties, after I had gone off to college.It is an edition of one.
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Degenerates and Nazis
Adolph Ziegler   (1892-1959) , "The Four Elements" , 1937About 15 years ago, the Art Institute of Chicago reprised the notorious "Entarte Kunst" exhibit of 1937, and now the Neue Galerie in New York...
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MOMA
Lygia Clark (1920-1988)I last visited the Museum of Modern Art about 50 years ago. That was when I got to spend an entire Summer with my grandmother on the upper east side - visiting museums every...
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Meet me by the Pharaoh at 4 o'clock
Even though it's an obvious landmark near the main entrance to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I didn't notice this piece at all during our trip to the museum last September.But since we arranged to...
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Brooklyn Museum 2014
        Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), "Storm in the Rocky Mountains", 1866   The Brooklyn Museum is currently running a special exhibit of the celebrated Chinese artist, Ai WeiWei, but I just couldn't...
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Chinese Painting at AIC - June 2014
Chen Wu, Orchids, 1832With such a common name, it's impossible to find this artist on the internet.Which is another reason the museum should re-consider devoting a website to its rotating exhibitions...
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Reginald Mars at the Oak Park Public Library
 In 1963, the Village of Oak Park commissioned Reginald Mars (1901 - 1973) to depict 10 seasonal recreational activities to adorn a newly built fieldhouse. They went into storage twenty years later,...
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Chinese Painting AIC September 2014
 Chen Daofu, (1483-1544), Flowering Lotus, 1543It looks like lotus will be the theme of  the September installation in the alcove of Chinese painting - but so far only two pieces have been installed....
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Egon Weiner
     Here's "Brotherhood",  the first Egon Weiner statue I ever saw in Chicago It was encouraging to find positive, figurative public sculpture in the "Where's mine?" city.But it's not really great -...
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Art Expo Chicago - 2014
Lorraine Shemesh  Approaching these shows like a treasure huntrather than doing a thorough survey of each and every gallery,I really can't comment on how they have changed over the years.Recent expos...
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Smart Museum: What is Sculpture ?
WHAT MAKES AN OBJECT A SCULPTURE ?In an effort to explore the essential qualities that define sculpture, we have transformed all of our galleries into a single museum-wide exhibition.  ************
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Art Institute: New Galleries of Islamic Art
 Isfahan (Iranian) - Safavid DynastyAfter the Jaharis Galleries of Greek and Roman art took its gallery space two years ago, the Islamic collection of the Art Institute has finally gone back on view.It...
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Goldman Collection 2014
Allesandro Maganza, 1580 Andrea Sacchi, 1650 Â Baldassari Franceschini,1640 Battista Franco, 1650 Â Francesco Ballegrini Giacomo Cavedone Giovanni Francesco Bezzi, 1565 Girolamo Muziano Giuseppe Cesari...
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Contemporary Citizens - 15th & West
 "Contemporary Citizens" -- also called"12 Chicago" --  was a one-night show that seemed to be more for artists than collectors, sort of like the "Meeting of Styles" that gathers together the graffiti...
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Richard Hunt
Richard Hunt has been Chicago's premier public sculptor since the days of Albin Polasek - and maybe even back to Laredo Taft.The piece I see most often is "We Will", pictured above, located on...
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In Praise of Oisin Kelly
Oisin Kelly (1915-1981) has become something of a hero of mine He put so much life into his sculptures -- and not just his own.That distinguishes him from both the conceptualists and the...
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Henry Bartolomew
The curator of the Miller Museum has just uncovered this rare book created in the mid-sixties, after I had gone off to college.It is an edition of one.
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