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Wrightwood 659 Presents Shahidul Alam: We Shall Defy
New works by one of Bangladesh’s most prominent photojournalists, writers, and activists are now on view at the Chicago art space.
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Art
Adventure and Spirituality Collide in Joseph E. Yoakum’s Visionary Art
Yoakum had said repeatedly that the drawings were “spiritual unfoldments,” meaning that faith guided his patterns and passages.
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Jordan Casteel, Nicole Fleetwood, and Daniel Lind-Ramos Named MacArthur "Genius" Fellows
Each of the 25 winners will receive a no-strings-attached $625,000 stipend, paid out over five years.
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Wrightwood 659 Conjures Long-lost Icons of American Architecture
Romanticism to Ruin: Two Lost Works of Sullivan and Wright memorializes Chicago’s Garrick Theatre and Buffalo’s Larkin Building, which were razed to build a parking lot and a truck stop.
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Group of Black Women Artists Withdraws From Chicago Architecture Biennial
In an open letter, they alleged "a lack of honest investment" and "patterns of entitlement to Black women’s labor" plaguing the show.
Art
The Art of Not Communicating
Caroline Kent’s installation practically vibrates with the energy of near-connection and near-signification.
Interview
How Ashley O’Shay Uplifts Black Female Activists Without Deifying Them
The filmmaker tells Hyperallergic how she spent over four years within Chicago’s movement for Black lives making the documentary Unapologetic.
Art
The Triumphant Tangles of Christina Quarles’s Canvases
In Quarles’s paintings, boundaries dissolve as the artist grinds up the fixed binaries of Black/white or male/female.
Art
Move Over, New York; Chicago Comics Affirms a Vibrant Local Legacy
Immersive and vast, the exhibition showcases the breadth and depth of the city’s rich comics history.
Art
Frank, Greek, and Gay: Modernist Painter Yannis Tsarouchis Is Finally Getting His Due
Dancing in Real Life makes a strong case for recognizing the Greek painter as a pioneer of queer art.
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Theaster Gates Finds Community in Labor
Gates joins ideas of labor, function, and property with aesthetic and art historical concerns.
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A Major Greek Artist Gets His First US Retrospective at Wrightwood 659
A broad survey of Yannis Tsarouchis’s intimate, contemplative oeuvre is on view at the Chicago art space through July 31.