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Tribune critics review "Don't Worry Darling," "Abbott Elementary" and The Omakase Room at Sushi-San, plus regional apple orchards and kosher wines for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.
THIS PAST SUMMER, denizens of and visitors to Chicago had the opportunity to engage with three extraordinary modes of Black feminist curatorial practice that spanned the breadth of the city. At the South Side Community Art Center, zakkiyyah najeebah dumas o’neal and LaMar R. Gayles Jr. mounted the revelatory “Emergence: Intersections at the Center”; at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Naomi Beckwith, deputy director and chief curator of New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, unveiled her superb retrospective of queer Chicago artist Nick Cave, “Forothermore”; and at Northwestern Un...
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Highlights include “Capturing Louis Sullivan: What Richard Nickel Saw” at the Driehaus Museum and “Citing Black Geographies” at Gray Chicago.
The 60s and early 70s were a particularly chaotic time with rapid changes for both society and art, and it’s only been over the past few years that we’ve really been seeing the creative input from different countries in response to the art movements that were popular back then. The Block Museum’s…
With more than 250 sculptures from cultures across the continent, it is the largest show to date to explore the aesthetic appreciation of these objects through the eyes of their African makers and users and to make clear that their appearance is intimately tied to their function.