Episode 898: Wafaa Bilal and Bana Kattan

Episode 898: Wafaa Bilal and Bana Kattan


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This week. Dana’s back?

She and Duncan sit down with artist Wafaa Bilal and curator Bana Kattan to discuss Bilal’s powerful and deeply personal mid-career retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Known for his provocative, often participatory works that grapple with war, trauma, displacement, and surveillance, Bilal has long made the body both a site of resistance and a vessel of memory.

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TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (3/26-4/2)

TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (3/26-4/2)

1. Helen Geglio & Anders Zanichkowsky: GUARDIAN THREADS March 28, 6-9PM Epiphany Center for the Arts: 201 S Ashland Ave   2. Anke Loh: RenaisSENSES March 28, 6-8PM International Museum of Surgical Science: 1524 N Lake Shore Dr   3. Stacy Jo Scott: Writ...

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Episode 896: Beth Hetland and Kyle O’Connell


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In the final episode recorded live from Stitch and Staple: The Artist Book Fair, we’re thrilled to sit down with two incredible comic creators, Beth Hetland and Kyle O’Connell. This conversation dives deep into the world of comics and graphic narratives, with Hetland and O’Connell offering insights into their creative collaborations and shared comic interests.

Episode 893: Cecilia Beaven


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In this episode, we sit down with Cecilia Beaven, a dynamic Mexican-born artist, muralist, and illustrator whose work bridges the worlds of fine art and public spaces. Beaven’s pieces have graced both urban environments and galleries, transforming her surroundings with a unique blend of surrealism, humor, and critical commentary. Her work explores themes of myth, identity, and the fantastical, reflecting on the human experience through vibrant, intricate visual narratives.

TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (3/20-3/26)

1. Ruby Que and Raychel Carrión: It Comes to Pass March 23, 6-9PM Switch-Hook Projects: 3216 W Augusta Blvd, Chicago   2. Isaac Díaz: Cuscatlismo March 21, 6-9PM KIOSK: 3054 N Sheffield Ave   3. Erol Scott Harris: Harlequin Choreographies March 22, 12-3PM...

TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (3/6-3/12)

1.  Alana Ferguson: Thin Outer Layer March 7, 6-10PM Patient Info: 902 N Western Ave   2. Lehna Huie: In Remembrance of Us March 6, 6-9PM ACRE Projects: 2921 N Clark St   3. Nick D’Alessandro and Kai Jenrette: Sprocket March 8, 6-9PM LVL3: 1542 N Milwaukee...

Sub-Rural #47 Dieter Roth at the MCA

The Museum of Contemporary Art is currently exhibiting Dieter Roth’s “Balabild 5” in the McCormick Tribune Gallery. The assemblage/installation is a remarkable example of radical midcentury anti-aesthetics by one of the century’s phenomenal Neo-Dada polymaths, tat...

TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (2/27-3/5)

1.  Mariel Harari: The possibility of an expanse and what interrupts it February 28, 6-9PM Co-Prosperity: 3219 S Morgan St   2. Seonyoung Lee: Woven Emotions February 28, 5-9PM Art City: 1400 N Halsted St   3. Kalyn Fay Barnoski and Haley Greenfeather...

TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (2/20-2/26)

1.  Delisha McKinney: The Colorful Chaos February 21, 6-9PM Elephant Room Gallery: 704 S Wabash Ave   2. Light Preserver February 21, 6-9PM Joy Machine: 4148 N Elston Ave Work by: Moises Salazar, David Heo, Liz Flores, Peter Frederiksen, Danym Kwon, Lisa Congdon,...

TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (2/13-2/19)

1.  Palak Patel: Throw down February 15, 6-9PM Free Range: 3257 W Lawrence Ave   2. Melissa Grace Kreider: Worthy February 14, 5-9PM The Center for Mad Culture: 410 S Michigan Ave, Suite 419   3. VESNA JOVANOVIC: FLOSS WAGON February 15, 2-5PM Compound...

TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (2/6-2/12)

1.  chlee: OF GIRLS AND MEN February 7, 5:30-7PM Fourth Presbyterian Church: 126 E Chestnut St Work by: Candace Hunter (chlee). Curated by Monica J. Brown   2. Hal Shipman: Forbidden Love at the Desert’s Edge February 8, 5-7PM Gerber/Hart Library & Archives:...

Sub-Rural #46, Guy Whitney, 1949 – 2025

Guy Whitney, artist, School of the Art Institute graduate, founding member of N.A.M.E. gallery, skillful abstractionist, curator, and art handler passed away last week. Whitney was a graduate student at an opportune time in the  SAIC’s  history when the painting...

TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (1/30-2/5)

1.  Nina Chanel Abney: FLAGGED January 30, 5-8PM Anthony Gallery: 1360 W Lake St   2. Luis A. Sahagún: In the Gaze of Time: Ritual Portraiture January 30, 4-6PM Gordon Parks Arts Hall, The University of Chicago: 5815 S Kimbark Ave   3. Let’s Get It On: The...