Sitting outside the café replicated from Edward Hopper’s famous "Nighthawks" at the beginning of the second act, a wife asks her husband about the people inside the café. “Don’t you ever wonder about people here?” she asks, gesturing towards a visibly upset woman being consoled by her husband/boyfriend, “Maybe she’s dying.” Her husband, busy eating his green beans, doesn’t care to pry. “It’s creepy,” he says. It's a particularly urban voyeurism that is prevalent in many of Hopper’s paintings. more ›

At this point, most of us have graduated from decorating the walls of our humble abodes with the typical college posters of yesteryear. The dilemma then becomes a matter of how to display our personal sense of artistic style without succumbing to the availability of “artwork” sold at places like Bed Bath & Beyond, and without dropping vast amounts of money at the River North galleries or the summertime street art festivals. more ›

"Museum of Modern Ice", was officially unveiled in Millenium Park Friday. Canadian artist Gordon Halloran, who started as an abstract painter, created the work out of large pieces of colorful ice, and according to the Sun-Times, "he and a team of six have been working 12 to 14 hours a day since mid-December to ensure the project is complete [in time for its] unveiling." The exhibit stays up through the end of February. more ›