Ten Things to Do in Chicago This Week
Fennesz, Decadence/Chicago, The Lady From the Sea, Daniel Beltrá: The Amazon, Apsáalooke Women and Warriors, and more
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A Sculptural Sleight of Hand
Inspired by Royal Copenhagen dinnerware, Dabin Ahn’s sculptures aren’t always what they seem.
History Lesson
Nina Sanders’s Apsáalooke Women and Warriors opens at the Field as the museum grapples with its legacy of Native erasure.
Brian Balcom Wants Accessible Theater Onstage and Off
Paraplegic since a 1993 spinal cord injury, the 39-year-old director advocates for people with disabilities both onstage and in the audience.
Chicago’s Most In-Demand Set Designer
Yu Shibagaki has already worked on three plays opening here this year, with more to come. Her goal? That you don’t think about the set.
Andrea Coleman’s Family Photos Have Secrets
The 25-year-old artist’s digital collages ask: If memory could speak, would it?
Finally, A Book Club on the Same Page As You
These four reading groups do away with the boxed wine and awkward prompt questions.
Inside the VR “I Have a Dream” Exhibit
The March opens at the DuSable Museum February 28.
Jane Byrne’s Cabrini-Green Stunt Gets a Theatrical Treatment at Lookingglass
Photo: Johnnyboy Photography J. Nicole Brooks has written a play about female freedom fighters in Liberia and reimagined a Greek tragedy by setting it in Haiti. For her latest, opening February 26 at Lookingglass, the Washington Park native sticks closer to home. Her Honor Jane Byrne tackles the mayor’s 1981 publicity stunt of moving into … Read more
Mikki Kendall on the Failures of Feminism
The author of the new book Hood Feminism on Lori Lightfoot, civility discourse, and why the women’s empowerment effort has fallen short