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Spring Quarter Reviews and Features
Posted 6/16/2020
The Plague Review
K.A. Letts examines the first issue of The Plague Review, an online publication by Rotland Press devoted to the artistic response to the cornavirs pandemic.
Posted 6/5/2020
Covid-19 vs. The Art Field
Phil Barcio examines the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the the alternative arts scene in Chicago. (feature)
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Posted6/12/2020
Culture in Quarantine: Seven Interviews from Chicago
Evan Carter interviewed seven Chicago art world members about being confined due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Below are the first three. the next four will appear next quarter.
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) 
Posted 1/29/2020
“Decorientations”
At Siblings, Chicago, from December 13, 2019 through January 18, 2020. Matt Morris, curator. (review)
IN PRINT REVIEWS
Summer Quarter 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.
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
September/October 2019
July/August 2019
"Joel-Peter Witkin: From the Studio" at Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago
May/June 2019
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