Window Shoppers

Window Shoppers

Soho is empty of shoppers on a Sunday morning, and as I walk leisurely with Andrew Blackley through the intersection of Prince and Broome Street, we stop in front of the Pleats Please boutique window. Few pedestrians carry either gym clothes or paper coffee cups past...
Top 5 Weekend Picks! (5/8-5/10)

Top 5 Weekend Picks! (5/8-5/10)

1. After Today at Gallery 400 Work by Lorelei Stewart and featuring artists Marianne Fairbanks, Fultonia, 96 Acres, Jason Lazarus, Cauleen Smith, Jan Tichy, and Amanda Williams. Gallery 400 is located at 400 S. Peoria St. Reception Friday, 5-8pm. 2. Song of the Summer...

Everything is Fucked.

Everything is fucked. We’re all so busy burning the land and boiling the sea that the new Mad Max movie looks less like an escapist fantasy and more like a preview of what the world’s going to look like in a generation or two. The huge populations of the...
Kochi Biennale Connects Cosmopolitan with Cosmic

Kochi Biennale Connects Cosmopolitan with Cosmic

  Flying away from wintry Chicago in early February to be embraced by Kerala’s tropical night air is sensory jailbreak. And the heat gets hotter as soon as the sun rises. Kerala has a long history of foreign arrivals, of cosmopolitan culture. For millennia...
Art and the 2015 UK General Election

Art and the 2015 UK General Election

Something is happening in UK politics and conviction is giving way to self-expression. The Labour Party has drifted so far to the centre that tribal supporters are at least free to vote with their hearts. And if they live in Surrey Heath (Southern England) or Hackney...