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- Arts & Culture, Feature Feb 23, 2021
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Celebrate everyday Black heroes with 28 Days of Greatness
Artist Brandon Breaux’s Instagram project highlights his peers, mentors, collectors, friends, and more throughout Black History Month.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Dec 23, 2020
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Retail, resistance, and rebirth in Wally World and Kickback
Christmas Eve goes to 11 in Isaac Gómez's workplace comedy; About Face celebrates Black queer lives, past and present.
- Music, Chicagoans of Note Oct 15, 2020
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Jumaane Taylor, tap dancer
“I’ve been on this journey to be able to present within the jazz community. . . . To be a union of creative beauty.”
- Arts & Culture, Art Feature Aug 31, 2020
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Rebuild Foundation and Sunshine Enterprise team up to train city’s creative entrepreneurs
The Arts & Makers Community Business Academy is ramping up to launch its third cohort in September.
- Arts & Culture, Dance Aug 12, 2020
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Torchy Brown lights way for Litany
Jenn Freeman (aka Po'Chop) probes femininity, gender, rage, and history in a five-part dance film.
- City Life, Public Service Announcement Aug 7, 2020
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Is your lovin’ worth two transfers?
What our listings coordinator is musing about this week
- Music, Gig Poster of the Week Jun 17, 2020
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A Juneteenth livestream for Black lives on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was created by Chicago designer Julie Yost, the programming director at Rebuild Foundation.
- Music, Chicagoans of Note Jun 9, 2020
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Olivia Junell, codirector of Experimental Sound Studio
“Right before the shelter-in-place got announced, we started thinking: OK, how can we help?”
- Music, Music Feature Mar 10, 2020
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D-Composed redefines classical music
This Chicago string quartet takes chamber music outside the institutions that have long excluded Black musicians and audiences.
- Arts & Culture, Fall Theater and Dance Sep 11, 2019
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Ayesha Jaco's Black Samurai celebrates her father's contributions to a vibrant community
Gregory Jaco's Tornado School of Martial Arts comes alive in a new dance performance developed through the Rebuild Foundation.
- News & Politics, News Jun 25, 2019
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The gazebo where Tamir Rice was shot by Cleveland police is now an outdoor memorial in Chicago
On what would have been Rice’s 17th birthday, we chart the journey of the structure that his mother can still picture him playing under.
- Music, Pitchfork Jul 12, 2017
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Solange supports black Chicago creatives at Pitchfork and beyond
Her Saint Heron collective’s festival installation and off-site events show off the depth and richness of the city’s black cultural expression.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Jun 20, 2017
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For Derrick Adams, black imagination is the future
In his solo show, the New York-based polymath artist uses installation, video, music, and collage to remix the archival holdings of the Stony Island Arts Bank.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 17, 2017
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Black Scholars Salon with Thelma Golden, WhiskyFest Chicago kick-off, and more things to do this week
Open Books and Laugh, Karaoke Night, and more happenings from April 17-20.
- Music, Gossip Wolf May 24, 2016
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Rapper and prison abolitionist Ric Wilson needs help replacing a stolen computer
Plus: Rock duos Pussy Foot and Drool pair up on a split cassette, and art-book shop Bing hosts a footwork-themed film screening, discussion, and performance.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Oct 9, 2015
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Can Chicago artists salvage Gary, Indiana?
A pair of cultural development projects, driven by artists Jan Tichy and Theaster Gates, look to reactivate one of the rust belt's rustiest cities.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Sep 30, 2015
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Theaster Gates's Stony Island Arts Bank opens for business
The 17,000-square-foot building is a laboratory to engage with the art and culture of the south side.
- Music, Music Feature Sep 22, 2015
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Frankie Knuckles's vinyl gets a permanent public home
Theaster Gates's Rebuild Foundation is about to open the Stony Island Arts Bank, whose collections will include 5,000 records the Godfather of House used in his world-changing mixes.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 25, 2014
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This Friday Black Cinema House presents its first 'Movies Under Stars' event of the summer
Noting a free outdoor program hosted by the South Shore arts organization
- News & Politics, Feature Jun 2, 2011
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Can artists save Grand Crossing?
Renaissance man Theaster Gates is fighting blight with artists in residence.