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Summer Quarter (Jul./Aug./Sep.) 2020 Reviews
Luis Martin looks at the work of Moreno with an eye to its political significance in the LGBTQ community.
Nathan Worcester reviews the writings of the late Palestinian artist and activist Kamal Boullata.
"Blackbird and Paloma Negra: The Mothers"
K.A. Letts reviews prominent Detroit artist Sabrina Nelson's recent exhibition.
IN PRINT REVIEWS
Spring Quarter (May/June) Reviews
Posted 5/27/2020
Virtual Visual Culture
Emelia Lehmann examines the effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on three major chicago institutions. (feature)
Posted 5/23/2020
“Desmadre Berlin”
Norbert Bisky
At Galerie Templon, Paris
(online exhibition review) 
Posted 5/22/2020
“Legacy of Decency. Rembrandt, the Jews and the Danes”
At Elverhøj Museum of History and Art, Solvang, CA. (review)
Posted 4/28/2020
Human or Man-Made Material: “The Allure of Matter” Visits Chicago
At Wrightwood 659 and the Smart Museum, Chicago. (review) 
Posted 4/12/2020
“Chicago Streets and Ways”
At Hofheimer Gallery, Chicago, through April 25, 2020. William Dolan and Karen Perl. (review)
Posted 4/9/2020
Artoma: The Art of Cancer
At Chicago Art Department, Chicago. Michael Gallagher, Eileen Powers, Nancy VanKanegan, Barbara Youngquist,, Richard Zeid. (review)
Posted 4/52020
Different for Girls: “Touch Your Mirror” Reflects on Female Adolescence
At EXTRA Projects, Chicago. Jessica Frances Martin and Taylor Morgan.
Posted 4/5//2020
Walls of Prophecy and Protest: William Walker and the Roots of a Revolutionary Public Art Movement
by Jeff W. Hubner, Northwestern University Press. Book Review. (review) 
March/April 2020
Point, Line, and Plane: Andrea Zittel's Spatial Investigations
At Carnegie Mellon's Miller Institute of Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh
Palette & Chisel Academy of Fine Arts—Faculty Showcase
At Palette & Chisel Academy of Fine Arts, Chicago
At Crossman Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Crossman Gallery, Whitewater, Wisconsin
Rumor Gives It: Encountering the Museum of Jurassic Technology in the Capitalocene
At the Museum of Jurassic Technology, Culver City, California
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January/February 2020
"Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again"
Art Institute of Chicago
Creativity and Intellectual Process
Nirmal Raja at The Alice Wild, Milwaukee
Lari Pittman's Declaration of Independence
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
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Materials" Holes, Emotion, and Water
Whitney Museum & MoMA, NYC
"Real Estate Row"
Downtown St. Louis
November/December 2019
Objects Redux: 50 Years of Craft Legacy
Racine Art Museum, Racine Wisc.
A Dreamer in a City of May Dreams
Matthew Rachman GAllery, Chicago
21st Century Surrealism: "Tetsuya Ishida: Self-Portrait of Other"
Wrightwood 659, Chicago
September/October 2019
Tetsuya Noda:
Soft and Simple Depth
Andrew Bae Gallery, Chicago
"Figures of Speech"
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Childhood Mythologies
form & concept, Santa Fe, New Mexico
A Day of Introspection for the Late Photographer Barbara Crane
July/August 2019
The Importance of Small Moves
James Nares at the Milwaukee Art Museum
"Time Share" and "Warm Welcome"
at Monaco Gallery, St. Louis
Encountering "William Counter:
Simple Spells"
at Firecat Projects, Chicago
"Joel-Peter Witkin: From the Studio" at Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago
"Legendary"
at Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago
May/June 2019
Theaster Gates: "Every Square Needs a Circle"
Gray Warehouse, Chicago
A Blueprint for Our Future Selves
Wrightwood 659, Chicago
Something New from a Hairy Who Karl Wirsum at
Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago
"Andy Paczos: The Eye and
the Hand"
Ed Paschke Art Center, Chicago
Siblings Has a Kindling Feeling
Siblings (formerly the Condo Association), Chicago
Autumn Quarter (Oct./Nov./Dec.) 2020 Reviews
Ongoingness in the Los Angeles Piñata District through Dulce Soledad Ibarra’s “9th to Olympic”
"Graft" Edra Soto at the MCP
FRANCINE ALMEDA reacts to
Edra Soto’s “Graft,” an exhibition
at the Museum of Contemporary Photography.
Three Detroit Latina artists.
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