Tickets to Wingfest are now on sale. A reminder that Andy Warhol's "Empire" will be projected onto Aon Tower tonight. more ›

Andy Warhol's film Empire will be projected on the side of the Aon Building this Friday night. more ›

Andy Warhol’s Shadows—a series of whimsical, abstract paintings (“disco décor” as the American artist once dubbed them)—are making their Chicago debut mere steps from the hustle and chaos of the strip-mall that is the Magnificent Mile. (We pause to briefly consider what the king of pop art, in his trademark shades, white fright-wig and sunglasses would make of the brassy, cheap-chic of Forever 21 or the stone and glass monolith that is the Apple store.) more ›

When Mark Kostabi was vacuuming up press attention in the boom art market of the 1980s with his schtick as a sensationalizing salesman of secondhand Andy Warhol ideas, the question seemed to be whether or not he was the next terrifying stage the art world's progress towards a complete self-absorption with its own compromised nature. Unfortunately for him, mocking the compromised relationship between art and commerce became a lot less relevant when the bottom fell out of the market. 20 years later, Con Artist: The Story of Mark Kostabi, an entertaining documentary on Kostabi having its Chicago premiere on Friday at Facets shows him to be both pioneer and harbinger of one of the 21st century's most thriving species: the fame whore. more ›

"Modern music begins with the Velvets," Lester Bangs once wrote, "and the implications and influence of what they did seem to go on forever." Any footage of the Velvet Underground in their prime should be considered of major interest; but footage shot and manipulated by their legendary "impresario" Andy Warhol can only be called priceless. more ›

We’ll just come out and say it, cliché and all: Berlin artist Matt Saunders’ exhibition Parallel Plot at The University of Chicago’s The Renaissance Society is one of those rare displays of an artist who manages to successfully convey ideas through a smart, graceful, and meaningful convergence of form and function. more ›

From 1964-1966, Andy Warhol used a 16mm Bolex camera, a chair, and his eccentric friends of the New York art scene to create Screen Tests—nearly 500 silent, black and white film portraits. Members of the art star’s entourage were told to just sit still and try not to blink while the camera rolled. more ›

The Reeling Film Festival is in its last days, but there's still time to catch what's sure to be one of the most fascinating movies in the program. Quearborn & Perversion, a new documentary by Columbia College alum Ron Pajak, tells stories of lesbian/gay Chicago life spanning the years 1924-1974. It's surely a beautiful irony of history: what is today the epicenter of the Viagra Triangle was, in the 50's, the epicenter of gay life;... more ›

A few days ago we unwittingly created a monster when we expressed our frustration about having to wait to see the schedule for this year's Chicago International Film Festival, which runs October 4-17. Well, we finally have a copy of said schedule in our hot little hands. What follows is a very brief, cursory summary of what you can expect this year (the full schedule will be online within the next few days). Regardless of... more ›

There’s been a lot of ink spilled about Chicago’s cornucopia of music events this summer, but yesterday’s RedEye also clued us in to several film festivals that are happening in the next three months, including ones we’ve covered like the Silent Film Festival and the Chicago Outdoor Film Festival as well as upcoming events we haven’t like Reeling’s Gay Games fest, the Onion City Experimental Film Festival and the Chicago Underground Film Festival. Here are... more ›

Few artists inspire as much delight and wrath from even the most casual art observer as Andy Warhol. You love/hate how he made accessible/denigrated his work by putting it on soup cans, how his 8-hour shot of the Empire State Building blew your mind/messed with your mind, how he took silver balloons and made them art, how he captured Marilyn Monroe’s essence over and over again. Starting this weekend, the MCA exhibits many shades... more ›

An exhibit that makes you laugh sounds good enough. But we grew skeptical about the Chicago Cultural Center’s Situation Comedy: Humor in Recent Art, after reading this description from Cultural Affairs’ monthly e-newsletter: These works employ various strategies involving text and image using parody, satire, slapstick and practical jokes to inject humor into the normally staid art environment. We dreaded the prospect of seeing mildly funny work paired with belabored explanations draining what little humor... more ›