Essays + Reviews

my mother is a mixed metaphor: An Interview with Shivani Gupta

by Darshita Jain

May 25, 2026

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Book, Essays + Reviews, Interviews
Las Intervenciones de Joseph Josué Mora en el Minimalismo y la Autoridad

by Matthew Cortez

May 14, 2026

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Bilingual, Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions
Unsettling Sweetness: Magicfeifei’s Emancipation Park

by Jen Torwudzo-Stroh

April 21, 2026

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Artists, Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions
A gay sculptor is missing from the archives. I want to know why.

by Samuel Schwindt

April 17, 2026

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Essays + Reviews, Sixty Lit
What Do We Owe Each Other? A Review of “Charges (The Supplicants)” at Theatre Y

by Annette LePique

April 10, 2026

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Essays + Reviews, Performance
A Long Overdue Celebration

by Shivani Kumar

April 5, 2026

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Essays + Reviews, Sound, Film + Video
Finding Solace and Awe Along The Great Lakes: A Review of On an Inland Sea

by Emily McClanathan

March 11, 2026

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Book, Essays + Reviews
Codifying Reality: What is Spoken and What is Felt?

by Xiao Faria daCunha

March 5, 2026

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Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions
Encountering Digital Diaspora: A Review of “Close to the Clouds” at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts

by Amber Eve Anderson

March 3, 2026

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Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions
Bearing Witness Under the Big Top: Counterpublic’s Circus of Life in St. Louis

by Tonal Mondae

March 1, 2026

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Essays + Reviews, Sixty Regional
‘Find Your Genre’: Micro-Reviews from the 61st Chicago International Film Festival

by Elaine Schiff

February 28, 2026

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Essays + Reviews, Sound, Film + Video
Through the Looking Glass: Chicago, Change, and the Architecture of Instability

by Chenoa Baker

February 24, 2026

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Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions
(Arts) Writing as Exorcism

by Christina Nafziger

February 6, 2026

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Essays + Reviews
Reflecting on “Signal Overload” at Star Lite Drive-In in Bloomington, Indiana

by Ian Carstens

February 5, 2026

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Essays + Reviews, Happenings, Interviews
Una toxina amenaza, pero también invita

by Riley Yaxley

January 22, 2026

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Bilingual, Essays + Reviews
Tracing the significance of the Roger Brown Study Collection (1997-2025) within the midwest arts ecosystem

by Gabrielle Christiansen

January 9, 2026

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Archives, Essays + Reviews
Review: You will have revelations along felled branches and longer roots/routes

by Susannah Papish

December 9, 2025

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Artists, Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions
A Sticky End

by Riley Yaxley

November 24, 2025

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Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions
Hearing Space, Seeing Sound: A Review of Andy Graydon’s “Early Reflections”

by Amanda Hamilton

November 22, 2025

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Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions
What Lives In Us Is Never Lost—Review of “Black Defined 1: Ceramics”

by Nadya Kelly

November 21, 2025

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Essays + Reviews
“People like us do that”: A review of No Stars in Jefferson Park

by Emily McClanathan

November 19, 2025

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Essays + Reviews
The vessel as a nucleus: A review of Sacred Containers: Capsules, Conduits, and Other Stories

by Ally Fouts

November 19, 2025

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Artists, Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions
Dancing, Drifting, Dallying

by Sihan Wang

November 18, 2025

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Bilingual, Community, Essays + Reviews
游动乌托邦

by Sihan Wang

November 18, 2025

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Bilingual, Community, Essays + Reviews
Material Futures: Mapping A Closed Gallery’s History

by Samuel Schwindt

November 14, 2025

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Community, Essays + Reviews
家庭寻迹

by Reo Wang

November 13, 2025

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Artists, Bilingual, Essays + Reviews
Scavenging Queer (Dis)connections

by Reo Wang

November 13, 2025

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Bilingual, Community, Essays + Reviews
A toxin threatens, but it also beckons

by Riley Yaxley

October 29, 2025

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Essays + Reviews
In Service of Liberation: An Arts Journalist Attends the 2025 Socialism Conference

by Mrittika Ghosh

October 22, 2025

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Essays + Reviews
Patient Xerox: A Review of Katz Tepper’s Pharmacy Receipts

by Noa Micaela Fields

October 21, 2025

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Essays + Reviews, Exhibitions