Essays + Reviews

Reawakening Kin: Blurring Boundaries through Techno-Animism

by Juleana Enright

July 25, 2025

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Essays + Reviews, Projects + Collaborations
Rojo y Verde

by Tianjiao Wang

July 22, 2025

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Artists, Bilingual, Essays + Reviews
Red & Green

by Tianjiao Wang

July 22, 2025

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Artists, Bilingual, Essays + Reviews
Cruising Eden Through a Glory Hole

by Noa Micaela Fields

July 19, 2025

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Archives, Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions
Crystal Z Campbell on the Material Presence of Absence

by isra rene

July 17, 2025

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Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions, Projects + Collaborations
En ausencia, hasta el presente.

by Merry Sun

July 15, 2025

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Bilingual, Essays + Reviews, Sixty Regional
To Seed, To Sow

by Caitlyn Lawler

July 13, 2025

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Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions, Sixty Regional
In Absentia, to the Present.

by Merry Sun

July 13, 2025

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Bilingual, Essays + Reviews, Sixty Regional
Pausing to Listen: Embracing the Collective Wisdom of the Midwest

by Jasmine Barnes

July 10, 2025

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Community, Essays + Reviews, Sixty Regional
ebere agwuncha’s cenobitic praise songs

by Camille Bacon

June 13, 2025

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Artists, Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions
THICK

by Corey Smith, Rachel Lindsay

May 27, 2025

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Essays + Reviews, Performance
Cosmic Docks

by Corey Smith, Rachel Lindsay

May 26, 2025

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Essays + Reviews, Performance
Artist Grants Give Communities Power

by Andrew Davis

May 23, 2025

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Community, Essays + Reviews
There are no dead people

by Sarah Skaggs

April 19, 2025

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Essays + Reviews, Performance
Apparitions and Unraveled Ecosystems: A Review of A Tale of Today: Materialities at the Driehaus Museum

by Kristie Kahns

April 17, 2025

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Art Design Chicago, Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions
Eternal Presence, Prismatic Tenses: The Frequencies of Dorothy Carlos’ Ear World

by Nadia John

April 3, 2025

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Archives, Essays + Reviews
Speculative Figuration: A Review of SK Reed’s The Unreal

by Brandan Griffin

March 20, 2025

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Artists, Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions
Bodies, Bodies, Bodies or A Year in the Life of Alexandra Barbier

by Courtney Becks

February 28, 2025

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Artists, Essays + Reviews, Performance
I am whispering to you

by Riley Yaxley

February 28, 2025

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Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions
A Review of Freedom in Form: Richard Hunt at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

by Troy Sherman

February 27, 2025

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Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions
The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige: A Reflection on Community, Glamour, and Style

by Jared Brown

February 27, 2025

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Art Design Chicago, Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions
Fucking Like a Girl

by Riley Yaxley

February 25, 2025

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Essays + Reviews, Literature
Typographical Scavenger Hunt: Using “Letters Beyond Form: Chicago Types” as a Framework

by Ally Fouts

February 24, 2025

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Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions, Photo Essay
Grounding, Advocating, and Experimenting with Craft: What I Learned From “AGENCY: Craft in Chicago from the 1970s–80s and Beyond”

by Xiao Faria daCunha

February 21, 2025

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Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions
序…/亦多滋多味的

by Tianjiao Wang

February 20, 2025

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Bilingual, Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions
Preface…/yet Flavorful

by Tianjiao Wang

February 20, 2025

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Bilingual, Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions
The Queer Metamorphosis in Chinatown

by Mian Chen

January 30, 2025

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Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions
Radical Craft: Firebird Community Arts and Red Line Service pick up the threads of Hull-House

by Amanda Dee

January 24, 2025

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Art Design Chicago, Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions
When We Hold Loss Together: A Reflection on Territory and People

by Rachel Lindsay

January 23, 2025

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Essays + Reviews, Performance
Indelible Origins: Space for Black Queer and Trans Creative Futures in Bronzeville

by Tonal Simmons

January 20, 2025

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Artists, Community, Essays + Reviews