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- News & Politics, Feature Jan 6, 2021
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Inside the fight for racial equity at SAIC
Current and former students, staff, and faculty at the top-ranked art school describe microaggressions, discrimination, and a failed anti-racism campaign.
- News & Politics, Feature Aug 19, 2020
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The toll of coronavirus
Loved ones reflect on the loss of partners, parents, siblings, joy givers, caretakers, and secret keepers.
- Arts & Culture, Feature May 5, 2020
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Counting for culture
How the census impacts arts funding
- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Feb 4, 2020
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Elaine Kahn’s words cut like a knife
The Evanston native’s new book of poetry explores love, loss, and pain.
- Arts & Culture, Fashion Nov 13, 2019
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Vihanga has arrived
The handmade clothing line offers ethical and sustainable fashion for all.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Sep 24, 2019
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‘The Last Judgment’ brings catharsis to Little Village
Artist Adela Goldbard draws from Mexican traditions to address issues in the neighborhood today.
- Arts & Culture, Art Feature Apr 15, 2019
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Alberto Aguilar draws no distinction between art and life
Anything can become art by naming it so.
- Music, Music Feature Feb 6, 2019
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Learning to love Chicago with your ears
The Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology believes engagement with the sonic environment can help build more sustainable communities—and it’s demonstrating with a soundwalk in the Chicago Pedway.
- Music, Music Feature Oct 10, 2018
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Punk’s not dead—and it’s not white either
The Black, Brown, and Indigenous Crew connects underground music with radical politics to make a community with room for everyone.
- News & Politics, Feature Sep 21, 2018
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Once a street gang, then a political collective, the Young Lords celebrate 50 years with a symposium at DePaul
"We're not from Humboldt Park or Lincoln Park, we're Puerto Ricans."
- News & Politics, Feature Jun 13, 2018
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Chicago Dyke March returns after clash last year became international news
The alternative to the Chicago Pride Parade announces its solidarity with Palestine after a controversy broke out involving pro-Israel marchers in 2017.
- Arts & Culture, Art Feature Apr 25, 2018
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The American dream, in frosting: the art of Yvette Mayorga
Do immigrants really find a better life in the U.S., or is it just a fantasia of prosperity full of barely concealed threats?
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Jan 24, 2018
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For the People Artists Collective looks back on 100 years of police violence in Chicago
"Do Not Resist?" spreads its message throughout the city
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Nov 15, 2017
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The radical nature of Faith Wilding’s fantastical watercolors
Western Exhibitions puts on a compressed retrospective of the Paraguayan-American artist.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Nov 1, 2017
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A Black Panther Party retrospective eerily recalls the present day
An exhibit at the Westside Center for Justice demonstrates how little things have changed when it comes to racism and the surveillance state.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Sep 26, 2017
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Carrie Mae Weems reshapes history in her image at the Block Museum
The artist’s Ritual and Revolution places her in politically charged moments in time.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Aug 30, 2017
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‘Woman As Warrior’ works, but not because of its artworks
A new group show at Zhou B has something to admire, despite what’s on display.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Aug 2, 2017
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How Amanda Williams draws attention to the valuation of black neighborhoods
The local artist is the subject of a new exhibit at the MCA.
- Arts & Culture, Art Feature Jun 28, 2017
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David Leggett has the last laugh
A look at the rising local artist and his approachable, lively, and darkly humorous drawings and paintings
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Apr 5, 2017
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Trump can’t stop the National Museum of Mexican Art
With “Memoria Presente: An Artistic Journey,” the institution proudly and vibrantly celebrates its 30th anniversary.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Mar 21, 2017
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At the Art Institute, Hélio Oiticica is too organized
“To Organize Delirium” would benefit from more of the “creleisure” the Brazilian artist imagined.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Nov 24, 2014
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Trunk Show plasters artist-created bumper stickers to a gallery on wheels
A 1999 Ford Taurus serves as a vehicle for a curator couple's art shows.
- News & Politics, Zoom in Sep 13, 2014
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In employing pianists, Mariano's picks up where Nordstrom left off
James Callen and other in-house piano players jazz up the grocery shopping experience.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 30, 2014
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Reader's Agenda Sat 8/30: Artopia, Northwestern Wildcats, and Chicago Community Pet Coalition's Dance Party
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Saturday, August 30
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 23, 2014
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Reader's Agenda Sat 8/23: Threadless Family Reunion; Bacon, Sports & Beer; and Matthew Hoffman's Go For It
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Saturday, August 23
