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Zhou B traces the New Chinese Contemporary Landscape

“In traditional Chinese art, negative space plays an important role,” says Siyang Li, assistant curator of “New Contemporary Chinese Landscape,” as he walks through the show’s opening at Zhou B...
Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Throughly post-postmodern architecture

If your plans include "Housing as a Human Right," Archeworks and the National Museum of Public Housing's addition to the Chicago Architecture Biennial, it's worth brushing up on some art...
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12 podcasts to get you through a breakup

So, you got dumped. Or, maybe, you did the dumping. Or, maybe, you both cried your way to a healthy-sounding conclusion, as Chet Baker played in the background and the...
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Lesbian curation at Reunion Chicago

Lesbian curation at Reunion Chicago In the wake of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting, Michael Barbaro wrote in The New York Times, “It was a gay bar that had liberated...
Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

No one rides for free at Tiger Strikes Asteroid

David Shields' "Life Story" — known in undergrad creative writing courses everywhere as "the bumper sticker essay" — is a collage of adages found on the back ends of cars....