In this day and age, it can be difficult to even define what’s considered weird anymore. Societal norms change all the time, and new technology makes things that would have seemed crazy a decade or ...

Things are not as they seem inside the Art Institute of Chicago’s new exhibition. On view since October 4, 2025, Strange Realities: The Symbolist Imagination displays a series of late 19th-and early ...

The Oddities and Curiosities Expo is a place for lovers of the strange and unusual. Michelle Cozzaglio, the event’s co-creator, said the expo began in 2017, stemming from a desire to trade in all ...

It was this self-portrait that kick-started art critic Laura Cumming’s fascination with the genre as a child. Never before had she felt that a painting of a person could feel like looking at a real ...