By Emily Sandstrom May 30, 2025 All photos by Emily Sandstrom. WEDNESDAY 6:55 PM MAY 28, 2025 2025 MIDTOWN EAST Why does Adrien Brody’s art look like… that? It’s the first question that springs to mind when you see what one of the most gifted actors of our generation has been busy painting. The art pouring…

PDNB (Photographs Do Not Bend) Gallery has long been a trailblazer in whatever neighborhood it calls home. Founded in 1995, the photo-based gallery initially launched in Uptown before relocating to a series of spaces in the Design District — most recently at River Bend. But as rents soared and commutes grew more frenetic, co-owners Missy…

Biennale of Sydney Unveils New Details for 2026 Program The Biennale of Sydney has announced further details for its 25th edition, “Rememory,” scheduled to run from March 14 to June 14, 2026. Under the leadership of internationally acclaimed curator Hoor Al Qasimi, the event will feature an initial wave of 37 artists and collectives across…

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews. Popular Music The weight of history looms behind Julia Úlehla and Dálava’s interpretations of traditional songs from the Czech region of Moravia. An American whose family originated in the Czech Republic, Úlehla is…

Luiz Braga, “Netuno II,” 2020/Photo: Luiz Braga Luiz Braga is a visual poet. An unmistakable figure in contemporary Brazilian photography, the so-called “Amazonian photographer” is talkative, sharp-witted, generous, acidic, sensitive, humorous and keenly perceptive. Now sixty-nine and behind the lens since 1975, Braga still burns with the spark of curiosity more often found in the…

Sign up for our free newsletters to have Evanston news delivered directly to your inbox every weekday! The Evanston Arts Council announced $75,000 in awards Thursday, for 32 nonprofit arts organizations that applied for the group’s cultural fund grants.  The group received 40 applications for the program, but couldn’t expand funding offerings due to a…

It is a moment for quiet art in London: Hiroshige’s floating world at the British Museum, Victor Hugo’s shadowy drawings at the Royal Academy, the National Gallery’s Sienese devotional paintings, and now a pair of meditative, beguiling sculpture shows where in unexpected materials — rubbed graphite, coloured thread and polyester, soot and smoke — two…

From a delicate 13th-century clay figure to self-portraits by photographer Samuel Fosso, New York’s Metropolitan Museum reopens its African art collection on Saturday, exploring the “complexity” of the past and looking to the present.  After a four-year renovation with a $70 million price tag, the reopening of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing comes amid heated…

The city of Santa Clarita invites artists to submit artwork for consideration for the upcoming juried art exhibit, “In Orbit” which will be on view from July 7– Oct. 1, at the Newhall Community Center. Deadline for entries is Monday, June 23. This exhibit invites artists to explore the awe-inspiring beauty and mystery of the…