In his first year as a resident at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago-based artist Tongji Philip Qian is rethinking the order of the studio. The artist has just launched his State VIII Project (八棱角空间), ...

Folly Group’s “Paying the Price” is one of the best electronica-infused postpunk songs about shame, and it’s only a B side.

A longtime fringe favorite gets a festival of her two-character plays in Hamburgers & Disappointment with Sweetback ...

When the Reader checked in with local noisemaking polymath Seb Alvarez in 2022, he’d turned his creative focus away from his ...

Psych-poppers Plastics Hi-Fi tried mainstreaming their trippy “bathtub symphonies” and ended up disbanding with their final ...

Playing at Constellation, Marisa Anderson and Jim White's collaboration is a mix of abstract exploration and gentle folk ...

Giggs’s self-released debut full-length, Walk in da Park, is a landmark album in UK hip-hop history, and almost 16 years ...

Since entering SAIC’s MFA sculpture program, Galen Odell-Smedley has produced a body of work conceptually astute and ...

Eiko Ishibashi brings her taut and richly layered music to Logan Center for the Arts for her most recent Hamaguchi ...

They draw us in without having to overplay the tics and tropes written into this early Simon comedy.

“The Lute is Eternal” proclaims the text that concludes the ten-minute video to Jozef van Wissem’s recent single, “The Call ...

It has been more than ten years since the last of the Cabrini-Green high-rises—housing complexes that were built in 1942 to ...