Reviews

Firehouse and Jack Russell's Great White performed at the Gibson City Harvest Festival, and Sal shares his thoughts on the show.

Parkland’s art and design faculty capture the present moment in bold relief through color, landscapes, and even a few dirty rotten scoundrels.

Jeff attends the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra's return concert and shares his thoughts.

Of his assemblage work, the late Durango Mendoza said “the goal is to encourage people, as different as they are, to see the potential and hope that is intrinsic in all things, and embrace diversity, acceptance, and change.”

Roeing's technique is so well executed, that not only do I get an accurate sense of what that location looks like, but I also sense the artist’s feelings about the place.

A small exhibition at Krannert Art Museum offers an opportunity to ponder on what’s changed since the 1930s.

The opening reception of Around the Block III:  Artists from Our Neighborhood was an all too familiar affair in these times:  100% virtual.

As I planned my Boneyard weekend, I wondered “With everything that we've gone through these last 18+ months, would the work reflect grief, loss, rage, or metamorphosis? Would it inspire catharsis? A glimmer of hope? A path forward?”

Green screen technology does some incredible work for this opera, both practically and narratively.