ART
Critic's Choice
Published May 25, 2007

MARK DI SUVERO/MILLENNIUM PARK:

A belated solo exhibition in Chicago presenting five large outdoor sculptures of steel; through April 1.-Alan Artner. MillenniumPark North and South Boeing Galleries; 312-742-1168.

MCA EXPOSED: DEFINING MOMENTS IN PHOTOGRAPHY, 1967-2007:

The opening salvo in the museum's 40th anniversary celebration brings together works by more than 50 artists-not lensmen; through July 29.-A.A. Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago Ave.; 312-280-2660.

PERPETUAL GLORY: MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC CERAMICS FROM THE HARVEY B. PLOTNICK COLLECTION':

105 exquisite pieces from a local collection, one of the finest in the world; through Oct. 28.-A.A. Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan Ave.; 312-443-3600.

RUDOLF STINGEL RETROSPECTIVE:

The first survey in an American museum for a shrewd conceptual artist who often presents works of unusual materials to explore present-day ideas about painting; through Sun.-A.A. Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago Ave.; 312-280-2660.

CARLA AROCHA, STEPHANE SCHRAENEN INSTALLATION, PHOTOGRAPHS:

Mirrored surfaces are agents of disorientation in a free-hanging curtain-like installation that nods toward Op Art and groups of landscape and still life photographs that sometimes edge into geometric abstraction; through June 2.-A.A. Monique Meloche Gallery, 118 N. Peoria St.; 312-455-0299.

DANNIELLE TEGEDER INSTALLATION, WORKS ON PAPER:

A somber unified project related to systems of mapping, this time of unexplained disappearances and unsolved crimes in the Chicago area; through June 16.-A.A. Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, 119 N. Peoria St.; 312-492-7261.

DAVID PACKER SCULPTURE, DRAWINGS:

Elegies for the optimism once inherent in American industry, macho and poignant at once; through Sat.-A.A. NavtaSchulz Gallery, 1039 W. Lake St.; 312-421-5506.

KIM CURTIS PAINTINGS:

Landscapes reduced to their geometric essentials, seen as if flashes of peripheral vision; through Sat.-A.A. Kasia Kay Art Projects, 1044 W. Fulton Market; 312-492-8828.

LUCAS SAMARAS PASTELS, PHOTOWORKS AND A CONSTRUCTION:

A small survey of the expressionism of one of the most individual figures in the last half century of contemporary art; through June 9.-A.A. Russell Bowman Art Advisory, 311 W. Superior St.; 312-751-9500.

MOLLY SPRINGFIELD DRAWINGS:

Painstaking pencil drawings of photocopies of covers and pages of books that have special meaning to the artist, sometimes with clear relations to the texts, sometimes not; through June 2.-A.A. Thomas Robertello Gallery, 939 W. Randolph St.; 312-421-1587.

WAFAA BILAL INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE:

The Iraq-born, Chicago-based artist undergoes a 42-day endurance test by living in the gallery while being shot at with paint balls controlled by viewers on the Internet; the war in Iraq is not only "over there"; through June 15.-A.A. Flatfile Galleries, 217 N. Carpenter St.; 312-491-1190.

GALLERY OPENINGS-CITY

(Most galleries are open from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. or 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Phone galleries for specific times).

OSSIA SPACE:

Untitled, a group show; through June 23. 6-10 p.m. Fri. 410 S. Michigan Ave., ste. 537;773-220-2356.

ROWLAND CONTEMPORARY:

Diana Puntar sculpture, Brian Collier installation; through June 23. 6-9 p.m. Fri. 1118 W. Fulton St.;312-421-6275.

GALLERIES-CITY

TRIANGLE:

Norman Baugher; through Wed. 1763 N. North Park Ave.;312-337-1938.

WESTERN EXHIBITIONS:

Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger, Vincent Como; through Sat. 1821 W. Hubbard St., ste. 202;312-307-4685.

YOUNG:

Andrew Lord sculpture; through June 2. 933 W. Washington Blvd.;312-455-0100.

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