Sightings Articles
Smart Sightings | Embodying Religion in Rodin's "The Cathedral"
Time and again, my camera has taught me that religion is deeply enmeshed with the body and everyday lived experience. Rodin’s piece resonates similarly....
November 16, 2023
Redefining Redlining on Chicago’s Southside
The tulips in Amanda Williams' art installation enact for residents who live in or pass through the area that tenacious double effect of urban redlining: the mark of the past is never entirely erased....
June 15, 2023
The Christian Who Was a Church of One
In a world that seems to me to offer precious little of the mantle of prophecy, I offer you William Blake....
February 17, 2022
Creating a Just Memory of the Pandemic
The importance of community art for processing our collective trauma...
April 1, 2021
The Precariousness of Care
Attending to each other and our communities is costly, messy, exhausting — and vital...
October 22, 2020
We Need Art to Help Us Heal, Now More than Ever
An invitation to process pain and to heal through the viewing and contemplation of contemporary Black art...
June 4, 2020
Andy Warhol’s Iconicity
Exploring the religious dimensions of the exhibit, "Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again," currently on display at the Art Institute of Chicago ...
January 27, 2020
The Epistemology of Frida's Closet
Frida Kahlo is once again the subject of a major exhibition....
April 15, 2019
The Art of Prayer Meets the Prayer of Art
Both art and prayer invite us to assume unconventional or inconvenient postures that demand we orient ourselves differently. ...
October 18, 2018
Native Sons? Of Gilded and Guilty Ages in the Windy City
Ed. Note: Both the Monday and Thursday columns this week feature current and recent exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago. Stay tuned for Cynthia Lindner's reflections on the James Webb installation, "Prayer," currently on display at the Art In...