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Arts & Culture, Feature May 5, 2020
Counting for culture

How the census impacts arts funding
- By Kerry Cardoza
- Tags: Feature, census, National Museum of Mexican Art, Block Museum, Carlos Tortolero, Mark Kelly, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Toni Preckwinkle, National Endowment for the Arts, Illinois Arts Council Agency, Poetry Out Loud, One State Together in the Arts, Edra Soto, Chicago Cultural Center, "GRAFT", Community Arts Access program, "Caravans of Gold", Lisa Graziose Corrin, Ellen Philips Katz, National Endowment for the Humanities, Joshua Davis-Ruperto, Shirley Madigan, Michael Madigan, Illinois Complete Count Commission, Cook County Complete Count Census Commission, Kristin Abhalter Smith, "Antecedent"

Music, Concert Preview Mar 6, 2020
Recommended Video
The Sor Juana Festival shares vintage vibes for cruising in hot rods, warm summer nights, and nonstop dancing
- By Catalina Maria Johnson
- Tags: Concert Preview, Sor Juana Festival, National Museum of Mexican Art, rockabilly, Latinx, Monica Rocha, Cota, Joey Cota, Gizzelle, Kevin O'Leary, Mario Perea, Victor Mendez, lowriders, Recommended, Video

Arts & Culture, Art Feature Feb 25, 2020
Recommended
The mix master

Nigerian-born, London-based fashion designer Duro Olowu curates one of the MCA’s largest shows ever filled with local treasures.
- By Isa Giallorenzo
- Tags: Art Feature, Duro Olowu, Seeing Everything, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Naomi Beckwith, Ikram Goldman, Sally Singer, Michelle Obama, Art Institute of Chicago, Block Museum of Art, South Side Community Art Center, National Museum of Mexican Art, DuSable Museum of African American History, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Henri Matisse, Rene Magritte, David Hammons, Barbara Kruger, Ana Mendieta, Fred Wilson, Dawoud Bey, Simone Leigh, Kerry James Marshall, AfriCOBRA, Chicago Imagists, Duchamp, Girogio de Chirico, Salvador Dali, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Calendar Feb 14, 2020
Odd Pleasures: A Queer Valentine’s Day Event, the Half-Court Classic 3v3 Invitational, and more to do this weekend

Arts and culture happenings from Fri 2/14 to Sun 2/16.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Calendar, Bonny Nahmia, Ground Level Platform, Violet Surprise Theater, The Martin, Lez Beaus, Anti-Valentine's Day, National Museum of Mexican Art, Love Is Stronger Than the State, Marz Record Fair, Marz Brewing, Angela Kenyatta, The Witch Project, Den Theatre, Half-Court Classic 3v3 Invitational, Super Tasty, Constellation, Roman Susan, The landscape reels back, The Second Annual Dave Fest, The Empty Bottle

Arts & Culture, Art Feature Dec 17, 2019
Six visual art shows that made 2019 bearable

2020 has some big shoes to fill.
- By S. Nicole Lane
- Tags: Art Feature, Zakkiyyah Najeebah, Adds Donna, "A Different Kind of Love Story: For Us", Alice Walker, womanism, "Still Here: Torture, Resiliency and the Art of Memorializing", Arts Incubator, Juan Chavez, Chicago Torture Justice Memorial, Sonja Henderson, Patricia Nguyen, John Lee, Leather Archives & Museum, Guest Artist Gallery, Andrew Bearnot, Chuck Renslow, Robert Gaylor, "Fruiting Bodies", National Museum of Mexican Art, "Peeling off the Grey", Sam Kirk, Sebastián Hidalgo, Virgil Abloh, "Figures of Speech", Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, "Church & State", "Sex Militant", Jex Blackmore, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Year in Review 2019

Arts & Culture, Art Review May 21, 2019
Photographer Laura Aguilar invited viewers to take a long, hard look at all her imperfections

A career retrospective at the National Museum of Mexican Art shows an artist dealing with the complexities of her identity.
- By Ionit Behar
- Tags: Art Review, Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell, Laura Aguilar, National Museum of Mexican Art, Nature Self Portrait, Mexican artists, Vincent Price Art Museum, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, Sybil Venegas, East Los Angeles Community College, Chicano art, Latina Lesbians, How Mexican is Mexican, Three Eagles Flying, Nature Self Portrait #4, Cesáreo Moreno, Luis Alfaro

Music, Music Feature May 23, 2018
Video
Mariachi Herencia de Mexico turns Chicago schoolkids into chart-busting stars

The Mariachi Heritage Foundation has partnered with CPS to create a student band that’s already played Kennedy Center, toured internationally, and opened for the likes of Lila Downs and Los Lobos.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music Feature, Mariachi Herencia de Mexico, Nuestra Herencia, Herencia de la Tierra Mía, mariachi, Mariachi Heritage Foundation, MHF, CPS, Chicago Public Schools, Cesar Maldonado, banda, norteño, White Sox, Vicente Fernandez, Lila Downs, iTunes Latino Albums, Ravinia, Kennedy Center, Grammys, WFMT, Mexican Independence Day, Cinco de Mayo, Miguel Gonzalez, IMG Artists, Javier Limón, Aida Cuevas, Selena, Bryana Martínez, National Museum of Mexican Art, Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School, traje, Brighton Park, Los Panchos, Eydie Gormé, Charles Scholarship, Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan, Mariachi los Camperos, Mariachi Cobre, Roberto Martinez, Joaquin Rodriguez, Mariachi Sol de Mexico, Remix Project, José Hernández, Back of the Yards College Prep, Carlos Arruza, Ivan Velasco, Jarocho I, Veracruz, Durango, Eric Nieto, Curie Metropolitan High School, Video

Columns & Opinion, On Culture Oct 11, 2017
A Chicago theater veteran’s view from Puerto Rico

Longtime Theater Oobleck ensemble member Dave Buchen sees hurricane devastation from his house on a hill in San Juan.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: On Culture, Santurce district, San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, hurricanes, Hurricane Maria, Hurricane Irma, Theater Oobleck, Dave Buchen, hurricane relief, The Puerto Rican Arts Alliance, National Museum of Mexican Art, fundraising, Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center, Puerto Rican Agenda, Teatro Breve, Juan Pablo Díaz, artists, Puerto Rican artists, Radio Vieques, Taller Salud, colonialism, natural disasters, Mexico, debt

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Oct 4, 2017
Becky Shaw, Fun Home, and nine more notable new stage shows

A black comedy at Windy City Playhouse and a black musical at Victory Gardens are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Gina Gionfriddo, Becky Shaw, Windy City Playhouse, Scott Weinstein, Rock of Ages, Hell in a Handbag Productions, Bewitched, Bewildered, Ron Weaver, Aaron Benham, Brigitte Ditmars, Fun Home, Victory Gardens Theater, Alison Bechdel, Gary Griffin, Lisa Kron, Jeanine Tesori, Danni Smith and Sage Elliott Harper, Stella Rose Hoyt, Hannah Starr, Sage Elliott Harper, Rob Lindley, McKinley Carter, Akvavit Theatre, Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts & Zombies, Ibsen's Ghosts, Gustav Tegby, Breahan Pautsch, Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Amber Sallis, Michael Woods, David Belew, Monster Club, Annoyance Theatre, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Dutch East Indies, Mary Wollstonecraft, The Rocky Balboa Picture Show, Cornservatory, Corn Productions, Rocky IV, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Allison Reinke, Tony n' Tina's Wedding, Paul Stroili, The Trojan Women, Euripides, Three Crows Theatre, Troy, Hector, Battle of Troy, Cassandra, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ronald Duncan, Judith Laughlin, Selena Lopez, Andromache, Worst of All/Peor de Todas, Water People Theater, National Museum of Mexican Art, Juan Jose Martín, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Iraida Tapia, Raquel Rios, Rebeca Alemán, Chicago International Latino Theater Festival, You're a Good Man, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, The Vampyre, John William Polidori, Maureen Monahan, Mark Walsh

Blogs, Bleader Sep 22, 2017
Hideout Block Party, Splatter Theater, and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend

Shen Wei at the Auditorium Theater, Dia de los Muertos celebration at the National Museum of Mexican Art, and more happenings from September 22-24
- By Steve Heisler
- Tags: Arts, Do This, shen wei, rites of spring, splatter theater, annoyance, monarch butterfly, hideout block party, sparkfest, erasing the distance, steve albini, man or astroman, sreaming females, dianogah, national museum of mexican art, chicago architecture biennial, breathe, brennen reeves, io theater, garfield park

Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Sep 13, 2017
Where does the Chicago Architecture Biennial go next?

The current edition of the festival poses two possible directions its organizers can take.
- By Anjulie Rao
- Tags: Fall Preview, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago Architecture Biennial 2017, John Mead Howells, Raymond Hood, Chicago Tribune, Tribune Tower, Make New History, Chicago Cultural Center, Sharon Johnston, Mark Lee, Johnston Marklee, Vertical City, Todd Palmer, Chicago Public Schools, Tower in the Park, Plan for Transformation, Dan Ryan Expressway, Daniel Kay Hertz, Jack Guthman, Expo Chicago, DePaul Art Museum, DuSable Museum of African American History, National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture, National Museum of Mexican Art, Beverly Arts Center, Hyde Park Art Center, Humboldt Park Stables and Receptory, Billy Ocasio, Swedish Museum, Polish Museum of America, DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, Lee Bey, Obama Library, Southern Exposure, Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Mies van der Rohe, Zip Zap Circus, James Gorski, Rebecca Healy, Amanda Williams, Sara Black, Raewyn Martyn, Roundhouse DuSable, Marshall Brown, Blair Kamin, Chicago Park District

Blogs, Bleader Aug 28, 2017
Chicago police have solved less than 20 percent of the murders committed in 2017, and other news

Also, 12 museums are offering free admission for CPS students this week.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago Police Department, gun violence, murders, Illinois General Assembly, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Public Schools, Bruce Rauner, Toni Preckwinkle, sweetened beverage tax, soda tax, pop tax, Cook County, Little Village Chamber of Commerce, immigration issues, Breitbart, Joe Walsh, Adler Planetarium, Field Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Shedd Aquarium, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago History Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture, Lincoln Park Zoo, DuSable Museum of African American History, National Museum of Mexican Art, Lady Gaga, the Crib, homeless shelters, Wrigley Field, Cynthia Germanotta, Born This Way Foundation

Blogs, Bleader Aug 1, 2017
Video
The second annual Chicago Poetry Block Party proves that poetry belongs to everyone

Founded by Chicago-based poets Eve L. Ewing and Nate Marshall, the Chicago Poetry Block Party proves that "poetry is not a luxury."
- By Morgan Elise Johnson
- Tags: Music, Poetry, Chicago Poetry Block Party, Crescendo Literary, Eve Ewing, Nate Marshall, festivals, poetry, arts, Chicago, Pilsen, National Museum of Mexican Art, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 28, 2017
How museum curators deal with the issue of race

At the Humanities Fest, three museum directors and curators discuss how to navigate a changing culture.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Arts, Books, Science, Visual Art, Chicago Humanities Fest, museums, Carlos Tortolero, Chip Colwell, David Pilgrim, National Museum of Mexican Art, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Jim Crow Museum

Arts & Culture, Art Review Apr 5, 2017
Recommended
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.
- By Kerry Cardoza
- Tags: Art Review, National Museum of Mexican Art, NMMA, Memoria Presente: An Artistic Journey, Alberto Aguilar, Carlos Tortolero, Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Cesareo Moreno, Dolores Mercado, Ricardo X. Serment, Ivan Lozano, Javier Sicilia, Yvette Mayorga, Georgina Valverde, Harrison Park, Eric J. Garcia, Recommended

Music, Gossip Wolf Nov 15, 2016
CHI PRC celebrates Chicago’s rich history of punk and hardcore

Plus: Quimby’s hosts a talk on documenting DIY culture, and supporters of the Standing Rock Sioux hold a march and fund-raiser in Pilsen.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Chicago Publishers Resource Center, CHI PRC, Flyerside, Flyerside: A Chicago Punk Scene Exhibition, HeWhoCorrupts Inc., Young Chicago Authors, Brown and Proud Press, No Delusions, zines, Quimby’s, Quimby’s Bookstore, Punk Then, Punk Now, Punk Forever: Documenting DIY Culture, Daniel Makagon, Underground: The Subterranean Culture of DIY Punk Shows, David Ensminger, Out of the Basement: From Cheap Trick to DIY Punk in Rockford, Illinois, 1973-2005, Los Crudos, Limp Wrist, Martin Sorrondeguy, NDAPL, Standing Rock Indian Reservation, Standing Rock Sioux, benefit, fund-raiser, National Museum of Mexican Art, Red Line Drum, Speakeasy Press, Karakol Screen Printing Collective, Quese IMC

Blogs, Bleader Nov 11, 2016
Chicago Book Expo, Pop-Up Magazine, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

Fun Home, Handmade Market Chicago, and more happenings from November 11-13.
- By Isabel Ochoa Gold
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Alison Bechdel, Fun Home, Out of This World, Circus, Chicago Book Expo, Jonathan Giles, Revival, Pop-Up Magazine, Robert J. Gordon, Handmade Market Chicago, Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov, National Museum of Mexican Art, Yollocalli, Chill Set

Blogs, Bleader Oct 28, 2016
Things to do in Chicago on Halloween 2016 weekend

Day of the Dead Chicago, Little Bash of Horrors, and more happenings from October 28-30
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Little Bash of Horrors, Bottom Lounge, Whores of Horror, Uptown Underground, Giordano Dance Chicago, Fall Series, Harris Theater, Malika Ameen, Read It & Eat, 203 Fear Street: All Saints + Souls, Commons Club, Bowie Night 2: Son of Bowie, Crown Liquors, Bric-a-Brac's Halloween Brunch, Empty Bottle, Andersonville Dessert Crawl, Day of the Dead Chicago, National Museum of Mexican Art

Arts & Culture, Calendar Oct 24, 2016
More than three dozen of the best Halloween 2016 events

A ghoulish brunch, a costume parade, and more spooky things to do.
- Tags: Calendar, Halloween 2016, Another 90s Halloween Party, Beauty Bar, Bowie Night 2: Son of Bowie, Crown Liquors, Bric-a-Brac’s Halloween Brunch, Empty Bottle, Bye Bye Liver: Drink or Treat, Public House theatre, Carmine's Friday Fright Fest, Carmine's, Dia de los Muertos, Chicago Sinfonietta, Symphony Center, National Museum of Mexican Art, Day of the Dead, Death Toll, Cornservatory, The Fame Monster Mash, Berlin, Glitter Ghoul Halloween, Late Bar, East Room, Beat Kitchen, Rachal Duggan, Comfort Station, Untitled Supper Club, Hallowzine, Chicago Publishers Resource Center, Cafe Brauer, Haunted Hotel, Emporium Arcade Bar, Evanston History Center, Heltrap Nightmare, Hideout, Fabulous Ladies of Fitness, Cole's, Hog-lloween, Frontier, Howl-o-ween, Sit Social, La Casa de Santanas, Little Bash of Horrors, Bottom Lounge, Mama's Boy, A Memory Place of Fear, Silent Funny, Nightmares on Lincoln Ave., Northalsted Halloween Parade, Pay 2 Slay, Peek-A-Boo, Uptown Underground, Porn and Chicken, Halloween Banger, Evil Olive, Race of the Dead 5K, Scare You Very Much, Chicago Art Department, Spooky Zoo Spectacular, Lincoln Park Zoo, Too Much Fright Makes the Baby Go Blind, Whores of Horror

City Life, Space Jul 7, 2014
Video
Keep your eyes peeled on Pawn Works Sticker Club's studio

The attic of Nick Marzullo's Humboldt Park apartment is sticker heaven.
- By Andrea Bauer
- Tags: Space, Nick Marzullo, Humboldt Park, Pawn Works Sticker Club, Pawn Works Gallery, Seth Mooney, National Museum of Mexican Art, Yollocalli Arts Reach, 25th Ward, Art in Public Places, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 27, 2014
Squaring a debt to Elena Poniatowska

Elena Poniatowska speaks in Chicago after winning Cervantes Prize.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News, Elena Poniatowska, King of Spain, Cervantes Prize, National Museum of Mexican Art, Mexico, Mexico City Olympic Games, 1968 massacre in Tlatelolco, Spain, Luis Echeverria, Guillermo Haro, Carlos Tortolero

Blogs, Bleader Sep 13, 2013
Video
Reader's Agenda Fri 9/13: Dia de los Muertos opening, Fall Open House, and Cafe Tacvuba

What's on the Reader Agenda for Friday, September 13
- By Jillian Sandler
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Dia de los Muertos, National Museum of Mexican Art, José Guadalupe Posada, North Carolina, Torry Bend, Scotty Iseri, Paper Hat Game, Cafe Tacvuba, Aragon Ballroom, Video

Arts & Culture, Culture Vultures Jan 25, 2013
This week's Culture Vultures recommend:

Grime Time, Actors Training Center, and The Talent Code
- By Katie Kather, Janey Lee, and Meg Pier
- Tags: Culture Vultures, Dave Mata, Grime Time, outsider art, zine, Quimby's, Chaz Boriquez, National Museum of Mexican Art, Howard Street Gallery, Evanston, Hugh Iglarsh, Actors Training Center, Wilmette, Cliff Colnot, DePaul University, The Talent Code, Daniel Coyle, New York City, Quimby's Bookstore

Arts & Culture, Culture Vultures Jul 28, 2011
Culture Vultures: Cirque du Soleil's Ovo, Man U versus Chicago Fire, and more

In-the-know Chicagoans tell the Reader what they're watching, reading, and seeing
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Culture Vultures, Culture Vultures, Jazz, Ken Burns, Daniel Duffy, Handshake Magazine, Dubhe Carreno, Elsa Munoz, National Museum of Mexican Art, Pilsen, Dorrie Moreau, Field Museum, Cirque du Soleil, Ovo, J.C. Gabel, Stop Smiling, Love Goes to Buildings on Fire, Will Hermes, Retromania, Simon Reynolds, Manchester United, Chicago Fire, Soldier Field, Jessica Linker, Pitch Perfect PR

Columns & Opinion, On Culture May 26, 2011
Adios, Radio Arte?
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: On Culture, Radio Arte, National Museum of Mexican Art, Yollocalli Arts Reach, Carlos Tortolero, Latino Media Cooperative, media, Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago, Silvia Rivera, Chicago Public Radio, Vocalo, Chicago Public Media, Torey Malatia, Salvador Jimenez, Stephanie Manriquez

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