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- Arts & Culture, Art Review Mar 22, 2021
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The midwestern decadence of “Indiscriminate Sincerity”
Patrick Wilkins’s exhibit celebrates humanity’s simplest pleasures with a perverse twist.
- Music, Music Feature Mar 3, 2021
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Azita has more to say and more ways to say it
For Glen Echo, her first album in more than eight years, she played and recorded every instrument herself.
- Music, Music Feature May 27, 2020
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Where indie music meets indie gaming
Chicago video-game composers talk about how they found their way into this strange and difficult business.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Feb 18, 2020
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Drummer Jeremy Cunningham releases a dense but delicate jazz record to honor his late brother
Plus: The Black, Brown, and Indigenous Crew rocks the Vaginal Davis exhibit at the Art Institute, and Chicago songwriter Wyatt Waddell plays Behind the Scene at Schubas.
- 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.
- Arts & Culture, Art Feature Dec 12, 2018
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Inside SAIC’s Bio Art Lab, where art is life—literally
In a basement below Michigan Avenue, poetry turns into viruses and yeast into music.
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Sep 26, 2018
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Looking back at the Hairy Who, the 1960s Chicago art world’s greatest branding exercise
On the eve of the collective’s Art Institute retrospective, Suellen Rocca tells all. (Well, some.)
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Aug 14, 2018
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Chicago artist Mika Horibuchi paints oil trompe-l’oeil replicas of her grandma’s watercolors
The result is an experiment in looking at the world through someone else’s eyes.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 12, 2018
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Profiles abuse scandal inspires new magazine examining Chicago theater
"The reason I came to grad school was to ... create a revolution through theater," the editor of Chicago Theater Now says.
- Arts & Culture, Art Feature May 18, 2018
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Ivan Albright’s meticulous attention to the human body continues to be an inspiration to young artists
“Flesh” celebrates the centennial of the Chicago artist’s first exhibition at the Art Institute.
- Arts & Culture, Art Feature Jan 29, 2018
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Chris Ware talks about higher education, creating art as a Chicagoan, and making peace with self-doubt
In Monograph, the artist looks back on his life in comics.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Dec 6, 2017
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Protest fashion is all the rage
Is the revolution in clothing design a sign of a bigger revolt to come?
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 12, 2017
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Professional look, video-game style
This Chicagoan's sartorial strategy? "To always feel like I'm a video-game character".
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 4, 2017
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SAIC fashion professor wears the same outfit every day
Abigail Glaum-Lathbury promotes conscious fashion with her unisex and multipurpose jumpsuit, a special edition of which will soon be made from discarded Ivanka Trump-brand garments.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 18, 2017
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‘The Serenity of Madness’ showcases the brilliance and wonder of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s art
An exhibit of the acclaimed Thai filmmaker's photography and video work is currently on display at the School of the Art Institute's Sullivan Galleries.
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Jul 5, 2017
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Comics and outsider art expert Michael Bonesteel blasts ‘Title IX abuse’ at SAIC
Longtime adjunct professor quits, calls out hostile PC environment.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 1, 2017
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‘Schizo’ outfits stole the show on the SAIC runway
A review of the best SAIC 2017 fashion show collection, presented by junior student Dayra Cardoze.
- Blogs, Bleader May 24, 2017
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Some of the most stylish attendees at the SAIC 2017 fashion show
Street View, featuring fierce shoes and more
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 18, 2016
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Swimming in the Chicago River might be possible in 15 years, and other news
Also, a new book on the history of Steppenwolf, from Gary Sinise to Tracy Letts.
- Blogs, Bleader May 2, 2016
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The Chicago Improv Fest, Cinco de Mayo, and more things to do this week
One-Minute Play Festival, Wine and Wildlife at the Lincoln Park Zoo, and more happenings from May 2-5
- Arts & Culture, Art Feature Sep 25, 2015
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A conversation with Jeff Koons: 'For me art has never been about money'
The SAIC alum discusses balloon dogs, art forgery, and exploring Chicago's low life with Ed Paschke
- Blogs, Bleader May 26, 2014
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Reader's Agenda Mon 5/26: Irish Fest, "Yes, You're in Heaven," and Victor Wooten
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Monday, May 26
- Blogs, Bleader May 19, 2014
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Reader's Agenda Mon 5/19: Paris Street; Rainy Day, Jessye Norman, and Elbow
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Monday, May 19
- Arts & Culture, Art Review May 19, 2014
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"Yes, You're in Heaven" spotlights young, ascending Chicago artists
The Gold Coast pop-up exhibition engages both a viewer's eyes and his sense of humor.
- Film, Movie Review May 14, 2014
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The where and why of the Hairy Who
A new documentary revisits the art and times of the Chicago imagists.