Profiles + Features
- Elaine Kahn’s words cut like a knife, Chicago Reader
- Vihanga has arrived, Chicago Reader
- Alberto Aguilar draws no distinction between art and life, Chicago Reader
- Learning to love Chicago with your ears, Chicago Reader
- Once a street gang, then a political collective, the Young Lords celebrate 50 years with a symposium at DePaul, Chicago Reader
- Still Women Strong After All These Years, Newcity
- Shifting Power: A Feminist History of Alternative Spaces in Chicago, Newcity
- Chicago Dyke March returns after clash last year became international news, Chicago Reader
- Students Push for Restorative Approaches to Campus Sexual Assault, Truthout
- The American dream, in frosting: the art of Yvette Mayorga , Chicago Reader
- Artists 2018: Angela Davis Fegan, Newcity
- For the People Artists Collective looks back on 100 years of police violence in Chicago , Chicago Reader
- The Punk “Radiance and Rage” of Fuck U Pay Us, Bandcamp Daily
- A Black Panther Party retrospective eerily recalls the present day, Chicago Reader
- How Amanda Williams draws attention to the valuation of black neighborhoods, Chicago Reader
- Spreading Wings and Taking Flight: Rashid Johnson Soars at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Newcity
- David Leggett has the last laugh, Chicago Reader
- Breakout Artists 2017: Jacquelyn Carmen Guerrero, Newcity
- Trump can’t stop the National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago Reader
- At the Art Institute, Hélio Oiticica is too organized, Chicago Reader
- Trump’s Draconian Budget Deals a Blow to Appalachia, Truthout
- “Show Up for Immigrants With Love”: Communities Fight Back Against ICE Raids, Truthout
- The Rise of Administrator-Led Cheating: A Battle Over School Control in Pasadena and Beyond, Truthout
- Renters Unite to Demand Affordable Housing, Truthout
- Breakout Artists 2016: Alex Bradley Cohen, Newcity
- A bigger, better Medium Cool returns, Chicago Reader
Interviews
- Liz Phair’s Time in Chicago Wasn’t All Horror Stories, Chicago Magazine
- A Leap Into Darkness: An Interview with Amina Ross on the Second Eclipsing Performance Festival, Newcity
- Pure Joy: Bridge-building between arts nonprofits and the punk community in Chicago, The Media
- Jessica Hopper Recalls When Rent Was $250 in Wicker Park, Chicago Magazine
- Respite From Total Boredom: An Interview With gSp, The Media
- Live Your Life Like a Work of Art: An Interview with Jean Smith of Mecca Normal, The Media
Art Criticsm + Reporting
- A Feminist Art Collective Gets a Historic Home, Hyperallergic
- ‘The Last Judgment’ brings catharsis to Little Village, Chicago Reader
- How Photographer Laura Aguilar Uplifted Queer, Chicano Identities, Chicago Magazine
- Seeing Womanism Through the Artists’ Lens, a Review of Zakkiyyah Najeebah at Adds Donna, Newcity
- The Black Panthers’ Local Legacy – in Art, Chicago Magazine
- Partake In A Queer, Anti-Capitalist Conspiracy: A Review of Ruby T At Randy Alexander Gallery, Newcity
- Jessica Campbell Turns High-Tech Moments into Carpet Paintings, Chicago Magazine
- Beauty And War In Screenshots From Before: A Review of Howardena Pindell At Document, Newcity
- A Timeless Dedication to the New: 100 Years of the Arts Club, Newcity
- Heavy Traffic Ahead: A Year of “Concrete Happenings” in Hyde Park, Newcity
- Making Mystery with Sound: Jeff Kolar in Profile, Newcity
- Nothing to Lose but our Chains, Newcity
- Art and Survival on the U.S.-Mexico Border, The Borderland Collective in Profile, Newcity
- Portrait of a Gallery: Trunk Show, Newcity
- Portrait of the Artist: Barbara Kasten, Newcity
- Portrait of the Artist: Chances Dances, Newcity
- The radical nature of Faith Wilding’s fantastical watercolors, Chicago Reader
- Carrie Mae Weems reshapes history in her image at the Block Museum, Chicago Reader
- Photos of the Capitalistic Imagery that Overwhelms Beirut’s Landscape, Hyperallergic
- Silence Still Means Death: The DePaul Art Museum Refocuses the History and Present of the Ongoing AIDS Crisis, Newcity
- An Important, If Incomplete, Intervention: A Review of “Riot Grrrls” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Newcity
- What is a Feminist Social Practice? Newcity
- Trunk Show plasters artist-created bumper stickers to a gallery on wheels, Chicago Reader
Music Criticism + Reporting
- Best of Punk monthly Bandcamp column
- Ice Cream’s Cool Pop Bites Back, Bandcamp Daily
- Punk’s not dead – and it’s not white either, Chicago Reader
- Album of the Day: Lithics, “Mating Surfaces,” Bandcamp Daily
- A Latino Punk Band Looks Back on 25 Years of Music, Art, and Activist Resistance, Hyperallergic
Etc.
