I’ve spent the past two decades professionally immersed in folk and outsider art. My love for the material began long before. Between the city's two biggest museums, you have a full day of art; from ...

Wesley Willis sits at a computer and adjusts his ever-present headphones, pushes them up against his ears, turns up the volume of the music. He’s frustrated because he still can’t hear his beloved ...

Last summer, Intuit began exhibiting nearly a dozen Wesley Willis drawings as part of “Chicago Calling: Art Against the Flow” in conjunction with Art Design Chicago, an expansive, yearlong celebration ...

Documentary about the late Chicago artist and musician Wesley Willis. Filmmaker Daniel Bitton follows Willis throughout the Chicago area, riding the bus, talking to friends and strangers alike, ...

Once known as the hairy grandaddy of whatever it is people consider the “lowbrow art” movement, Ron English was most identifiable this year as the agit-pop provocateur behind that vaguely ...

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Between the city's two biggest museums, you have a full day of art; from there, you'll have to choose from among the more niche cultural institutions scattered across neighborhoods. Starting a busy ...

Singer-songwriter Wesley Willis, a 300-pound diagnosed schizophrenic who went from street performer in Chicago to cult hero during the 1990s, died Thursday after a long battle with chronic myelogenous ...