The Intuit Museum embodies Chicago’s longstanding appreciation for self-taught and outsider art.
Making Faces
Federal American Vernacular Portraits, 1790s to 1840s.
From a Chain Gang to Art Museums
Overcoming extraordinary adversity, self-taught artist Winfred Rembert preserved his fraught past in words and in startling images made of tooled and painted leather.
Personal space: One Artist’s Notes on Visiting an Art Fair
Laurene Krasny Brown shares her seven notes on attending an art fair.
Editor’s Letter: July/August 2023
Editor-in-Chief Gregory Cerio discusses the duties and perks of attending art and antique fairs.
Feast for the Eyes
The food paintings of the seventeenth-century Dutch artist Clara Peeters helped bring the still life into maturity as a genre.
Watercolors at Harvard and MoMA
Two summer exhibitions explore works in the most elusive yet expressive of mediums
Shop talk: Second Time Around
Why some antiques and art dealers love it when works they sold once before return to their galleries.
Curator’s pick: A Winged Wineglass at Winterthur
Curator Leslie B. Grigsby describes the wineglass that stole her heart.
Editor’s Letter: May/June 2023
Editor-in-Chief Gregory Cerio discusses the creation of the May/June 2023 issue and remembers past culinary-inspired covers in the latest editor’s letter.