by Caroline Picard | Oct 15, 2013 | Blog
The acclaimed mixed-media creator on colonialism, women warriors, and the consumerism that pays her bills. By Benjy Hansen-Bundy on Sat. October 12, 2013 3:00 AM PDT Wangechi Mutu Photo: Kathryn Parker Almanas “The power for me is to keep the story of the...
by Caroline Picard | Oct 14, 2013 | Blog
Polyvinyl Records and Joyful Noise Records recently announced the release of Testimonium Songs, a studio album composed by the iconic Chicago band, Joan of Arc, and performed live in Every house has a door’s latest performative work — debuting this week in...
by Jesse Malmed | Oct 14, 2013 | Blog
Is this ok? Is this a responsible use of this privilege? How much does Bad at Sports pay its writers? Its readers? I’m like you, reader. I’m in the weeds. I’m in the thick of it. Everyone is paying everyone else too much. Our government runs smoothly but we don’t have...
by Sara Drake | Oct 13, 2013 | Blog
Chicago-based artist and musician, Anya Davidson, has recently debuted her first full-length comic book, School Spirits. Up until now, her modest print editions make her work difficult to come by outside of the defiantly small world of alternative comics. Davidson is...
by Terri Griffith | Oct 12, 2013 | Blog
If we are lucky, our work becomes larger than we are and takes on a life of its own. Sometimes we know this at the outset and sometimes we come to know as the work moves forward. I’m thinking here of Walt Whitman and his Leaves of Grass, which started as a slim and...
by Guest | Oct 11, 2013 | Blog
Guest Post by Mark Sheerin Mark Sheerin is a writer and critic from Brighton, England. He is a regular contributor to Culture24, Frame & Reference and Hyperallergic. There are at least a million differences between Chicago, USA, and Birmingham, UK, but surely the...
