Film Review: Starring Anton Yelchin, Porto Is Melancholy and Marvelous
Porto, the feature debut by former Chicago film critic Gabe Klinger (his follow-up to the engaging 2013 documentary Double Play:…
Specter of Housing Insecurity Exorcised in Theater Oobleck’s A Memory Palace of Fear
Rust Belt Chicago’s editor/writer Martha Bayne and artist Andrea Jablonski co-curate Theater Oobleck’s unique haunted house, tapping into fears about…
The Rise of Integrated New Media Installations: What It Means When Public Art & Architecture Go Digital
No new building in Chicago was as highly anticipated in recent times as the engineering marvel that is 150 N.…
Yvette Mayorga’s Artistic Contribution to the Immigration Conversation
Entering Yvette Mayorga’s exhibition, The Politics of Desire, at Chicago Artists Coalition is a deliberate, and thoughtful, experience of visual…
‘The Beginning and End of things’ Only Scratches Surface of Artist’s Potential
At the quaint gallery space of The Comfort Station, located at the heart of Chicago’s Logan Square, is Sae Jun…
Viviane Sassen’s UMBRA Is Illuminating Walk Through the Shadows
The walls at the Museum of Contemporary Photography are lit this evening by overhanging gallery lights. Photographs of shadows dancing…
Review: John Massey: Cartón de Venezuela at The Art Institute of Chicago
In 1953, as a senior at the Illinois Institute of Technology, a young John Massey offered to volunteer at the…
Interview with Chicago Artist Bailey Romaine in Berlin
By Vanessa Gravenor Bailey Romaine is a sculptor who has been based in Chicago for the last years. She completed…
Our Lovely Secret Wreck at HUME
It doesn’t take much digging to uncover one of the less acknowledged etymological roots of domesticity. The Latin domos points…
CST’s Doreen Sayegh Brings the Bard to the City of Big Shoulders with Shakespeare 400 Chicago
Doreen Sayegh has been a skosh busy. Playwright and quote-machine William Shakespeare died 400 years ago this year, and…
Interview with the Artists: Lauren Edwards and Eric Watts
In their recent exhibition Fanfare for the Times at Heaven Gallery, the Chicago-based artists Lauren Edwards and Eric Watts combined…
Sangria and Meryl Streep Close Relocating Techniques at Corner
Puerto Rican artist, Edra Soto’s recent exhibition at Corner, an experimental gallery space located in Avondale, has filled the windows…
