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Jason Moran builds a bigger bandwagon
Theaster Gates and Ken Vandermark join pianist Jason Moran in an oral history of their evolving Chicago collaboration Looks of a Lot.
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A tale of two minstrel shows
A teacher at West Chicago High School said he’d planned a student minstrel show to start a conversation about racism. Was he serious?
Posted inArts & Culture
Blacks and blackface
A new book on blackface parses the queasy appeal of minstrelsy