Episode 901: Florencia Rodriguez and CAB 6
In this episode, we sit down with architect, editor, and curator Florencia Rodriguez, Artistic Director of the Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) 6. We dig into the ideas shaping this year’s edition—titled “Shift: Architecture in Times of Radical Change”—and her approach to curating a biennial that centers transformation, public space, and critical imagination.
Sub-Rural #49, Caroline Kent
Art language and its framing is an asymmetric consolidation between principal hemispheric archives and their constituent artists and crafters. Place introduces alternative possibilities for visual fluency and it sanctions regional myths, schedules, and texts. Official...
Episode 900: Robert Pruitt
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For our milestone 900th episode, we headed to Houston and sat down with the brilliant Robert Pruitt, live at the Cats Conference: Comics Sans Frontières—a gathering of artists, thinkers, and cultural workers reshaping the future of comics, narrative, and speculative visual worlds.
Episode 899: Jessica Snow & Liga Spunde
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Gremlins, Borders, and Recipes for Resistance
This week we’re joined by Jessica Snow and Liga Spunde, two artists navigating the world through comics, street theater, and occasionally letterpress and photoshop.
Episode 898: Wafaa Bilal and Bana Kattan
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.
Episode 897: Architecture, Documentaries, and Changing Minds with Kyle Bergman and Ashley Lukasik
In this episode, we talk Architectural Doucmentaries, Graphic Design, the cross over of the art and design audiences, and whether or not social practice could be a job
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.
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (5/1-5/7)
1.Chang-Ching Su: A Dream Cast in Dormancy (Even Shadows Glow in the Dark) May 3, 5-8PM Murmuration: 2846 W North Ave 2. How to See in the Dark May 2, 7-10PM Co-prosperity Sphere: 3219 S Morgan St Work by: Alberto Ortega Trejo, Dakota Gearhart, Eva Davidova,...
TOP V FROM EXPO CHICAGO 2025
Welcome to this week’s TOP V from EXPO CHICAGO at Navy Pier. Also, don’t forget to check out our TOP V from BARELY FAIR and this week’s TOP V for a selection of provocative programs being exhibited in spaces both large and small around Chicago this weekend. 1. Claire...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (4/24-4/30)
1. Amanda Rice: From Sunlight to Extinction April 25, 7-8PM 4th Ward Project Space: 5338 S Kimbark Ave 2. Irene Wa.: where i seek i find April 27, 5-8PM .liminal.projects.: DM for address 3. Anaïs Morales and Dom Smith: Fly by Night April 26, 7-9PM...
TOP V FROM BARELY FAIR 2025
Welcome to this week’s TOP V from BARELY FAIR in the Mckinley Park neighborhood. Also, don’t forget to check out this week’s TOP V Thursday morning a selection of provocative programs being exhibited in spaces both large and small around Chicago this weekend. 1....
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (4/17-4/23)
1. Curtis Anthony Bozif and Shona Macdonald: The Vapours So Whiten and Thicken the Air April 19, 5-8PM Studio Break Gallery: 1N046 Ridgeland Ave, West Chicago 2. Joanne Greenbaum: Lucky 13 April 19, 5-9PM Hans Goodrich: 1747 S Halsted St 3. What...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (4/10-4/16)
1. karolina gnatowski: Never, Again! April 11, 5-9PM Color Club: 4146 N Elston Ave 2. Hannah Gebhart: Tension & Release April 12, 5-9PM Izora Contemporary (Pop Up): 1002 W Leland Ave, (Remedy Physical Therapy and Wellness) 3. Slipcover April 11,...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (4/3-4/9)
1. Cam Collins: Copper Odyssey 2: Museum of Miracles April 4, 5-9PM The Center for Mad Culture: 410 S Michigan Ave, #419 2. Travis Donwarner and Brooke Raven: CORN BRED April 4, 6-11PM Hexx Gallery: 943 N Spaulding Ave 3. We Are All ARTISTS! April 5,...
Sub-Rural #48, Craig Drennen at The Suburban
Craig Drennen modifies critical modern paint protocol with some serious extracurricular counter-encryption at “The Suburban” in Milwaukee. He composes fresh content for the stylistic offspring of 20th century painting by tapping his memory and our collective history...
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...