NEWCITY CHICAGO | Identity, Psyche and Gender Through the Black Body NEWCITY CHICAGO | Transcendent Humor: A Review of David Leggett at Shane Campbell Gallery NEWCITY CHICAGO | Metaphysical Pop: A Review of Rob Pruitt’s “The Obama Paintings” NEWCITY CHICAGO | Photographic Liberation : A Review of “Go Down Moses” NEWCITY CHICAGO | Potent Pigments: A Review of Wadsworth Jarrell at Kavi Gupta NEWCITY CHICAGO | Fading Site and Specific Lines: A Review of William Pope.L’s “Cliff” and “Better” NEWCITY CHICAGO | PRACTICE IN ACTION: A REVIEW OF THEASTER GATES AT RICHARD GRAY GALLERY NEWCITY CHICAGO | LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER: THE LAST CRUZE: LOST LABOR NEWCITY CHICAGO | Centering the Marginalized: A Review of David Antonio Cruz at Monique Meloche NEWCITY CHICAGO | Irregular Motion: A Review of Leon Polk Smith at Gray Warehouse NEWCITY CHICAGO | Cultural Heirlooms: A Review of Ashley M. Freeby at Hyde Park Art Center FAD MAGAZINE | TOP 5 GEMS AT EXPO CHICAGO 2019 NEWCITY CHICAGO | Magical, Mythical Portraiture: A Review of Ayana V. Jackson at Mariane Ibrahim NEWCITY CHICAGO | Acid Abstraction: A Review of Jeffrey Gibson at Kavi Gupta FAD MAGAZINE | IN CONVERSATION WITH AKSHITA GANDHI: LIGHT BREAKING SOCIETAL BOUNDARIES BINARY DETACHMENT: FLORINE DEMOSTHENE AT MARIANE IBRAHIM AFRICAN DIASPORA ARTISTS TAKE MIAMI BY STORM AT THIS YEAR’S ART BASEL IMMERSIVE COMMUNITY: MICKALENE THOMAS BRINGS WARMTH TO MIAMI’S BASS MUSEUM A Multiplicity of Narratives: A Review of The discovery of what it means to be Brazilian at Mariane A COLORFUL AFFIRMATION: IN CONVERSATION WITH BISA BUTLER A Multinational View: Designer Duro Olowu Boldly Mixes Art and Fashion at the MCA HARD SIMPLICITY: MÉÏR SREBRIANSKY ‘AGE OF RESIN’ AT 81 LEONARD GALLERY SKEWED REALITY: A REVIEW OF VANESSA MALTESE AND MICHELLE GRABNER AT MICKEY GALLERY ARTIST AND ARCHITECT, PAUL MOK’S TAKE ON DESIGN THEORY Paint the City Offers Visual Resistance Against Racism Normalcy: The Reality of Race in America Overdue: Street Art Helps Create a New and Necessary Conversation on Race Emotive States: A Review of Chase Hall and February James at Monique Meloche Intimacy Required: A Review of McArthur Binion at Gray Warehouse CLOTILDE JIMÉNEZ UNPACKS THE MULTI-FACETED UNDERSTANDING OF IDENTITY THROUGH COLLAGE AT MARIANE IBRA Vibrant Mark-Making: A Review of Amoako Boafo at Mariane Ibrahim Slow Down, See Deeply: A Review of Spencer Finch at Rhona Hoffman Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Review of Jake Troyli at Monique Meloche A Fantastical Take on the Blackamoor: A Review of Kajahl at Monique Meloche Don’t Stop: A Review of Deborah Kass at Kavi Gupta A Vibrant Perspective: A Review of Bisa Butler at the Art Institute of Chicago In Defiance of Time, Geography and Style: A Review of Raphaël Barontini at Mariane Ibrahim NEWCITY CHICAGO | Embodied Landscape: Brittney Leeanne Williams at Monique Meloche Taking Inventory: A Review of Theaster Gates at Gray Warehouse NEWCITY CHICAGO | Bloomed: A Review of The Obama Portraits at The Art Institute of Chicago NEWCITY CHICAGO | Continuous Movement: A Review of Alex Katz at Gray NEWCITY CHICAGO | Unapologetically Authentic: A Review of Peter Uka at Mariane Ibrahim NEWCITY CHICAGO | Critiquing the Spectacle: A Review of Jake Troyli at Monique Meloche NEWCITY CHICAGO | Interrogating Language: A Review of Bethany Collins at Patron CULTBYTES | To Bare, or Bear, Witness: Decoding Ebony G. Patterson’s Tapestries CULTBYTES | As Prices for Art by African-American Artists Rise, These Issues Need to be Addressed CULTBYTES | The Ins and Outs: Derrick Adams Unravels the Black Narratives of Chicago’s Landscape CULTBYTES | Using Processes of Embodiment Adebunmi Gbadebo Asserts Herself in Art and History CULTBYTES | On the Rise: Expo Chicago’s Artistic Director Stephanie Cristello CULTBYTES | An Overview of Virgil Abloh’s Work That Extends Far Beyond Fashion CULTBYTES | Kennedy Yanko Explores Shifting Identities Through Repurposed Metal CULTBYTES | An Important Role Model – Allison Glenn, Associate Curator at Crystal Bridges CULTBYTES | Quilted Portraits that Evoke the Racialized and Gendered History of Craft HYPERALLERGIC | Miranda Forrester’s Soft Portraits of Black Queer Women