News
Forensic Architecture has partnered with Chicago's Invisible Institute to mount a counter-investigation into the official police narrative surrounding the death of Augustus. Their findings could change the way city policing works.
Interview
In their latest site-specific project, the collective probes histories of migration in a pan-American context.
Art
The history of the Medu Art Ensemble reminds us of the role artists play in making the aims of revolutionary thinking tangible.
Art
Inka Essenhigh's futuristic Uchronia is a pastoral place where what was once work is now play.
In Brief
The font "Gerry," created by two Chicago-based digital creatives, renders maps of gerrymandered districts into letters of the alphabet as a commentary on the "eroding of democracy."
Art
Jonathas de Andrade explores the inequities and societal pressures on marginalized Brazilian communities, but he also challenges his audience to consider solutions.
Comics
It makes sense that artists would return to New Age strategies in the age we live in. Still, I’m not sure these methods provide much more than temporary soothing.
Art
Images of Americans in these prints tell us a great deal about the local culture as it met the West. They tell us, specifically, about what many Japanese feared, and desired, from the encounter of cultures.
Performance
Imhof's performance Sex is dramatic, even melodramatic, yet its drama is not sensual; it removes bodily urges from the mix.
In Brief
The police found Kapoor's "Cloud Gate" sculpture at the city's Millennium Park covered in graffiti.
News
Samaria Rice has partnered with artist Theaster Gates to rebuild the gazebo as a temporary meeting place for those affected by racially motivated killings and police brutality.
Art
The collection of never-before-showcased objects materialize the underpinnings of urban livelihoods: commerce, culture, ancestry, trauma, which, particularly for Black Americans, are inextricably entwined.