Ruth Lopez
The Big Review: Gary Simmons: Public Enemy at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago ★★★★★
A powerful retrospective of the New York-born artist that is all too timely in its examination of racism in American culture
When Native American art merged with New York abstraction
A show on the early days of the Institute of American Indian Arts explores the fusing of Native American ancestral aesthetics with mainstream Modernist movements
A Kusama installation fails to inspire wonder in Chicago
An immersive work by the beloved Japanese artist at Chicago’s WNDR Museum disappoints
Minneapolis to host 'most comprehensive US show of Botticelli' with major loans from the Uffizi
The exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art features more than 45 works from the Florentine museum
At the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the city becomes a community landscape
Projects and site-specific installations have been brought into six neigbourhoods, taking local needs into account
The top five museum shows to see during Armory Week
From Dior at the Brooklyn Museum to Shigeko Kubota at MoMA
Driehaus Museum in Chicago reactivates an ornate historic auditorium for the arts
Built for the American College of Surgeons in 1926, the Beaux Arts space will be used for lectures, concerts, workshops and other events
Art campaign shows the many sides of mental illness
The Florida-based artist Ian Woods has created layered portraits of mental health advocates
Mary Beth Edelson, feminist art pioneer, has died, aged 88
She was a founding member of the Heresies Collective and made activism as well as spirituality a major part of her practice
Chicago’s Joyce Foundation awards $75,000 each to four artists’ projects
Sydney Chatman, Daniel Minter, Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Santiago X will create new works in Great Lakes cities that “honour individual and collective resiliency”
Karl Wirsum, life-long Chicago painter and member of the Hairy Who, has died, aged 81
An early interest in comics never left him, as could be seen in his colourful figurative work that reflected a love of robots and toys, as well as an admiration for El Greco
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Ray Johnson at David Zwirner to Dawoud Bey at the Whitney
The places you can’t go: Ellen Harvey recreates lost places
Her Disappointed Tourist project now includes more than 200 sites submitted by the public
Dawoud Bey on his new show spanning 1970s street photography to poignant nocturnal landscapes
The US photographer's travelling exhibition, which opens at the Whitney Museum in New York, charts his four decades documenting the African American experience
Artists withdraw their works from Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago group show
The move is the latest surge of simmering tensions between the museum, its workers and local arts groups
Richard Driehaus, Chicago philanthropist and architecture patron, dies at 79
After purchasing and renovating the 1883 Nickerson House, he opened the historic mansion as an art and design museum
In new exhibition, timeless favourite Frida Kahlo finds fresh relevance during a time of isolation and illness
Delayed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, a show of the beloved Mexican artist’s work prepares to open in the Chicago suburbs with a full slate of virtual programming
Underground New York artist Colette is reborn ‘victorious’ as crowdfunding saves her legendary Living Environment
The French Tunisian performer is hoping to find a permanent home for her immersive installation, hidden in storage for nearly 15 years
Union League Club of Chicago considers selling a prized Monet to stay afloat
The decision has divided members, but there are hopes the work might stay in the Windy City
Ruth DeYoung Kohler II, Outsider art champion and Art Preserve founder, has died, aged 79
She helped establish the John Michael Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin as one of the leading institutions dedicated to self-taught artists
Chicago students help Jenny Holzer get out the vote
Young citizens, many of them voting in their first presidential election, provide phrases to be shown on LED billboard trucks across the city
Chicago non-profit 3Arts awards $150,000 to three women artists
In its largest round of grants ever, the arts club turned artist funder has created a new “Next Level” series of prizes
Anti-Trump artist billboards greet presidential candidates in Cleveland
Ahead of Tuesday’s debate, political action committee Artists United for Change rolled out a new campaign to #VoteThemOut aimed at five battleground states
Experts weigh in on alleged art forgery ring in Michigan
Art historians explain why the work of lesser known artists with rising markets, like George Copeland Ault and Gertrude Abercrombie, might become the target of a fakes scheme
What to do with all those toppled monuments? Artist suggests turning Chicago dump site into sculpture park
The conceptual artist JB Daniel has offered a location for America’s unwanted statues in an industrial wasteland bounded by the Calumet River
Does a Minnesota college own a portrait by Edvard Munch?
Scientific evidence points to St Olaf College’s Portrait of Eva Mudocci being the real deal, but scholars of the artist’s work are reserving judgement
A careful collector’s gift of African objects and Modern art is celebrated in Detroit
New exhibition is dedicated to Margaret Demant—a passionate booster of the Detroit Institute of Arts’ collection
Theaster Gates hits the floor at Park Avenue Armory
The Chicago artist will mill a portion of the period wood for the $4m project to replace the historic New York building's floor
Proposal for a Judy Chicago museum divides a New Mexico town
Some residents object to exhibition space, arguing that the artist’s work is pornographic
Public art advocates—and the artist himself—speak out against sale of Chicago library’s Kerry James Marshall mural
The work, commissioned in the 1990s for $10,000, is due to be sold at Christie’s, New York for an estimated $10m to $15m