Few things leave themselves open to expansion and clarification quite as much as history. Those mandatory studies of the past we took in school amount to tiny and often highly skewed slivers of what happened when. Compared to the enormity of events that comprise the whole of human history, they are but droplets on a …
Inspirations, even when they spring from nowhere, can still end up remarkable artistic creations. To hear playwright Brian Yorkey tell it, his Tony award winning Next to Normal now playing at the Writers Theater in Glencoe was just a “what about a play about” idea. Astonishing that a mere whim could carry such force. The …
Museums can sometimes act as portals to rich and complex worlds. The Museum of Contemporary Art’s Figures of Speech, a retrospective on the work of 38-year-old Virgil Abloh, manages to reveal as much about one of the cornerstones of our culture, fashion, as it does about the prolific creative output of a gifted artist. Because …
There was no master plan. When the creators of the wildly successful musical Six came up with their concept to reintroduce the world to Henry the VIII’s many wives, their goal was simply to create a work that made women the centerpiece of the story and let them to flaunt their talent as if it …