Fall Arts Preview
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Our favorite things for fall arts, part two
Visual arts and architecture highlights break us out of our screen life.
Our favorite things for fall arts, part one
An overview of theater, dance, music, pop-up performances, and other artists and activists that you should know about—this season and year-round
With a little pluck
This fall, more than ever, the artists are helping us through.
Maura Walsh, creator of Tiny Guide to Chicago Arts
“Our city is just exploding with creativity and music and art, and all of these truly irreplaceable spaces are in danger of closing.”
Del Marie: locked down, but not out
The rapper-dancer-performance poet rolls with the pandemic punches.
CounterBalance brings accessibility to dance
Going online opens more opportunities in this year’s festival.
Will Silk Road still rise? Will we?
Jamil Khoury and Malik Gillani have been facing more than COVID closure.
Is a virtual arts degree worth it?
Chicago high school seniors prepare for collegiate arts programs amid pandemic
Black artistic leaders take charge at several Chicago theaters
“There is no other way forward”: reflecting on those who shaped them and the future they envision
It’s OK to laugh again
Comedians rally to offer outdoor and indoor shows with a pandemic twist.
Jennifer Kim’s pojangmacha and more food and drink to look forward to in the fall
Everything is terrible, but we’re not starving. Yet.
A Chicago International Film Festival unlike any other
The 56th annual celebration of cinema features nearly 60 films, seven of which are world premieres, online and at the drive-in.
My full interview with longtime Chicago film programmer Floyd Webb
The creator of Blacklight Cinema, a Chicago film festival that ran from 1982 to 1995, reminisces about the history of black underground filmmaking and his own “adventures in cinema.”
Getting personal in the theater, and the rest of this week’s movies
A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between September 13 and 19