Looking at Suh’s relentlessly flat installation from this perspective, the portraits read less like innocuous Benday Dots and more like pixels on a massive screen projecting uniformity, monotony and opacity.

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May dance highlights include Chicago stalwarts Hubbard Street, Cerqua Rivera, Chicago Repertory Ballet, Lucky Plush, and Winifred Haun & Dancers and the Chicago Movement Collective.

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“Throughout the novel, her prose movingly expresses the grief, fear, longing, horror, and incomprehension that accompany the end of days.”
In Newcity Chicago, Patrick Roberts reviews Mary Shelley’s newly reissued novel, “The Last Man” - lit.newcity.com/2024/04/11/the…

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Izzard’s dazzling performance holds up a mirror not just to nature, but to ourselves.

On stage at @ChicagoShakes through May 4.

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A delightful, imaginative and playful respite, 'Variety Show” is as exciting and fun as it is steeped in compelling consideration of systematic thinking.

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I reviewed Luca Guadagnino's CHALLENGERS for Newcity Chicago. While it's a good showcase for the acting talents of Zendaya, I found the drama unconvincing and character motivation murky: newcityfilm.com/2024/04/23/thr…

Suzanne Vega, an excellent singer-songwriter before the term was coined, has come to represent New York and should be regarded as a national treasure for her talents, rather than just “the lady who did 'Luka.'”

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Bordering the Pacific Ocean for a thousand miles, Chile’s Atacama Desert is a place of stark and startling beauty. Unfortunately, its pristine landscape is also a dumping ground for vast amounts of discarded clothes.

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“Challengers,” the first studio film by Italian writer-director Luca Guadagnino, sets a love triangle in the men's professional tennis circuit equivalent of the minor leagues.

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Eisenman’s predilection for the expansive, the possibility of a person possessing alien texture, supernatural color, engorged cartoon limbs, or dripping eyes and outsized features, lends itself to the immensity of her first major museum survey at MCA.

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The best element of this production is the dancing, wonderfully choreographed by Dan Knechtges.

Through June 9 at Drury Lane Theatre.

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Ari Berman’s important and readable new book is a guide to how and why the stakes got to be this high.

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Hilma’s Ghost's exhibition is part of a two-year experimental study of artists Dannielle Tegeder and Sharmistha Ray influenced by the works and practice of Hilma af Klint. They are a call in response to sidelined communities and a call to a cosmic force.

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A retrospective providing a glimpse into the work of one of the most influential graphic designers of the twentieth century.

On view at the Instituto Cervantes Chicago through June 15.

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The juxtaposition of brutal historical awareness with comedy makes “The Thanksgiving Play,' which will be presented at Steppenwolf Theatre, such a unique experience.

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Searches for Taiwanese food in Chicagoland often turn up restaurants, usually Chinese, that have one or two Taiwanese items on the menu. But there are a few places with a true Taiwanese focus, and they are worth seeking out.

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Chicago's got the filmmakers: now for the films and the finance to fund several local, even hyper-local portraits like Minhal Baig's third feature, 'We Grown Now.'

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Twenty-five years since their original release, these sixty-nine pieces have come to be seen less as love songs, and more about love songs.

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Dolson is suggesting that we are, collectively and culturally, in a trance. Only humane and handmade art that answers the questions of being can rouse us from this slumber. To paint is a creative act. To decide to paint is a radical and revolutionary one.

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