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-Snow

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
A Critical Genealogy

by Yonci Jameson

January 14, 2025

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Columns + Series, Essays + Reviews, Sixty Regional
East St. Louis Ekphrasis: A Meditation on the Meaning of “City,” “Abandonment,” and “Pollution”

by Treasure Shields Redmond

January 14, 2025

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Columns + Series, Essays + Reviews, Sixty Regional
Rewilding History: A Review of Myth of the Organic City

by Mrittika Ghosh

January 13, 2025

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Art Design Chicago, Essays + Reviews
Vests Power into Power: Chess as Anti-Colonial Warfare

by Chenoa Baker

January 10, 2025

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Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions
The Day We Are All Included

by Jessica Zi Chen

January 8, 2025

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Artists, Bilingual, Essays + Reviews
当我们都被安放的那天.

by Jessica Zi Chen

January 8, 2025

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Bilingual, Essays + Reviews, Photo Essay
Among the Bushes

by Emrys Brandt

January 7, 2025

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Essays + Reviews, Sixty Lit
Creating Justice Art and Revolution: Vol 1

by Chierophant

December 10, 2024

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Essays + Reviews
Yashira Davalos Goes for Gold with “Allegories of Inertia”

by Nasir Anthony Montalvo

November 25, 2024

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Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions
Prayers Through the Ruins: A Review of Sayeda Misa Sourour’s “Al-Atlal”

by Gordon Fung

November 16, 2024

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Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions
Traversing Time: A Review of Tizita

by Caiden Cawthorn

November 14, 2024

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Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions
Returning for the Harvest

by Jasmine Barnes

November 12, 2024

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Essays + Reviews, Sixty Lit
From Chicago to Montgomery: Connecting the North and South

by Jehoiada Zechariah Calvin

November 11, 2024

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Archives, Essays + Reviews, On Archives
Acuerdate de mi, acordandome de ti: Una reseña de “Querido Abuelo” y “Reflexiones de una Mujercita”

by Cristobal Alday

November 1, 2024

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Artists, Bilingual, Essays + Reviews
Remember Me, Remember You: A Review of “Dear Grandpa” and “Reflections of a Young Woman”

by Cristobal Alday

November 1, 2024

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Artists, Bilingual, Essays + Reviews
Inside the Genocide House

by Annette LePique

October 15, 2024

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Book, Essays + Reviews