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- 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, Calendar Sep 19, 2019
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Feast your eyes on these art exhibitions
This fall has plenty to offer from spaces big (Navy Pier) and small (Pilsen's Baby Blue Gallery).
- Arts & Culture, Architecture Sep 18, 2019
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Power, violence, and the Chicago Architecture Biennial
This year may end the unstoppable homage to dead white men and narratives that neglect how architecture has victimized communities of color.
- Arts & Culture, Architecture Sep 18, 2019
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South-side champion
Writer-photographer Lee Bey’s new book Southern Exposure showcases architectural masterworks on the typically neglected south and west sides.
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Jan 3, 2018
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Amazon won’t save the Thompson Center, but Nathan Eddy might
The Berlin-based documentary filmmaker hopes to rescue a building in danger of destruction.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 24, 2017
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National Public Housing Museum’s new show informs, memorializes, but doesn’t point fingers
The museum, slated to open on the west side in 2018, gives audiences a taste of its curatorial approach at Archeworks
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Sep 27, 2017
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The Chicago Architecture Biennial: Hard to understand but easy to enjoy
You’ll need as much assistance as the CAB provides to fully experience the Cultural Center show.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 25, 2017
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The premiere of The Opposition With Jordan Klepper, and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week
Wicker Park Bucktown Fall Dinner Crawl, the Chicago Architecture Biennial's "Sight Six," and more happenings from September 25-28
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 22, 2017
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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
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 15, 2017
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Expo Chicago at Navy Pier, and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend
Frank Lloyd Wright building tours and more happenings September 15-17
- Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Sep 15, 2017
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Ten best bets for fall visual arts
- Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Sep 13, 2017
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Where does the Chicago Architecture Biennial go next?
The current edition of the festival poses two possible directions its organizers can take.
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Sep 12, 2017
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Expo is a little smaller than last year but bigger than ever
The annual art fair is deliberately overlapping with the Chicago Architecture Biennial.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Apr 20, 2016
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Turning McCormick Place’s Lakeside Center into the Lucas Museum could be the boldest adaptive reuse project on the planet
George Lucas has the chance to save a piece of Chicago's modernist architecture that deserves landmark status.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 27, 2015
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Long reads from the Reader archive for your long Thanksgiving weekend
Sink your teeth into these favorite Reader features.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Nov 10, 2015
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Architecture and comics unite at the Biennial with 'Imaginary Worlds'
Edie Fake and Keiler Roberts discuss how they use space and design in their work.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 6, 2015
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'Architecture performance' Superpowers of Ten is a bizarre and refreshing addition to the Architecture Biennial
An adaptation of an experimental 1977 film attempts to explain architecture's relationship to society and the universe.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 5, 2015
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Fanciful flights of the imagination abound at Architecture Biennial
At the Chicago Cultural Center, hub of the city's first architecture biennial, not all structures exist to solve practical problems.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 2, 2015
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The Chicago Architecture Biennial opens this weekend
The inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial opens Saturday; here's a glimpse of what you'll see.
- Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Sep 9, 2015
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The first Chicago Architecture Biennial brings the world to the lakefront and environs
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Jul 29, 2014
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Meet the city's new arts initiatives—and add your two cents' worth
Here come the Chicago Architecture Biennial and the Fifth Star Awards.
