Artists

Cars.com has teamed with Pandora internet radio on three all-new stations for drivers and anyone who loves the open road. "Road Trip" An eclectic mix of Southern and classic rock, with a little bit of country thrown in. Sample artists......

At 6 tonight, Bravotv.com will debut a new web series featuring the cast of the popular show "Work of Art: The Next Great Artist." Over the course of eight weeks, the cast members will try to design the trophy for......

Matthew Taylor, 43, Vero Beach. Photo: U.S. Department of Justice, courtesy Federal investigators and the Los Angeles Police Department are seeking information about the man picured above: Matthew Taylor, 43, an art dealer from Vero Beach, Florida....

Although the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's birth won't arrive until 2020, George Lepauw isn't about to wait eight years to celebrate the German composer's titanic musical achievement, or the profound influence his music has exerted on the...

It's astonishing the way the award-winning Chicago sculptor Richard Hunt makes stainless steel seem light and fanciful. His sculptures appear to defy gravity as they soar into the heavens. Hunt's large-scale public art projects can be found throughout...

Ludwig van Beethoven was forever pushing boundaries, and the annual Chicago festival that bears the composer's name continues to do the same, even more so than in the past. “Beethoven Festival: LOVE 2013,” as the third edition is titled,...

Let's raise a glass to Bob Koester, the single-minded Chicagoan who this weekend celebrates a remarkable anniversary: 60 years of producing jazz and blues recordings. Koester's Delmark Records may not be the biggest indie in the country – or...

For ages, mankind has been fascinated by rivers, not simply as natural resources and avenues of commercial conveyance, but also as symbols, metaphors and ideas. Countless artists, composers, writers and thinkers have pondered the significance of these...

The Rohrersville Cornet Band of Washington County will open its 277th season Sunday, May 19.   The spring concert in the band hall on Main Street in Rohrersville  will begin at 3 p.m.  Holly Feather will direct the band as it performs concert favorites...

I've been going to the monthly First Fridays at FAVO since its inception in 2011, and it has now grown to 19 once-upon-a-time-motel rooms full of artists. The quality of work has increased, too, with some professional artists in the lineup now. This month...

Sean Susanin believes he is about to set a record price for a painting at a Chicago auction. On Dec. 1, Susanin Auctions will auction "Willie Gillis, Package From Home," the first of 11 Willie Gillis paintings Norman Rockwell painted for the cover of...

"Charlie Brown and the Great Exhibit" is a big, reasonably well-stuffed celebration of one of the great achievements in American popular culture, the "Peanuts" newspaper comic strip by lachrymose Minnesotan Charles Schulz. In section after section of...