Newcity Chicago

Arts and culture of Chicago & the Great Lakes, monthly in print and daily online. Since 1986.

[Blair Kamin @BlairKamin]

Great to see Lee Bey and Edward Keegan jrecognized in Newcity’s Design 50. “The voices of the two architecture critics are torches illuminating good design, accessibility and the effective vernacular amidst costly and feckless design of modern developers.” https://t.co/zOzp4zVgJQ

[Danny Postel @DannyPostel]

Veteran @newcity film critic Ray Pride previews this Saturday’s event with documentary film curator/author @thompowers in the @newlinesmag + Nighthawk series Juxtapositions. Join us if you're in Chicago! Free & open to the public. Details on Eventbrite ⏬

https://t.co/lw4e6W5KD0

[Lynn Becker @LynnBecker]

While nothing can replace Rizzoli, the Prairie Avenue Bookshop, or the shuttered big room at the Art Institute, New City's Joseph Cothrel profiles a surprising large list of Chicago bookstores offering major selections in art and Architecture.
https://t.co/xZGy5OLivv

[SoManyBooks @SoManyBooks24]

“It is funny and bleak, written in a typically confounding way, and ultimately a thought provoking book.”
In @newcity, Brendan Tynan Buck reviews Antoine Volodine’s newly translated novel, “The Monroe Girls” - https://t.co/IaJySSbedi

[Asian Review of Books @BookReviewsAsia]

“The Memory Museum” by M Lin reviewed in @newcity https://t.co/RlBEslQ4Lu

[Newcity Chicago @newcity]

A look at the highly recognizable movements, collectives and developed aesthetics from the city.

https://t.co/66W0uWX1Eu

[Newcity Chicago @newcity]

Photographer Sandra Steinbrecher on two years inside a landmark’s transformation.

https://t.co/MXjMtuaa3R

[Newcity Chicago @newcity]

Magnum, the Lyric's general director, president and CEO, and Mazzola, the Lyric's music director, discuss what's in store for the opera company in the year ahead.

https://t.co/7LSyHHhSzv

[Newcity Chicago @newcity]

Plus: Bob Odenkirk as an unlikely action hero, Gaspar Noé is part of a Facets double-bill and "The Weather Man," penned by Chicago's Steven Conrad.

https://t.co/1AotS6txJu

[Newcity Chicago @newcity]

HPAC is one of Chicago’s earliest and most influential alternative art spaces. For eighty-six years, it has served as a community hub, offering classes, exhibitions, panels and events to Hyde Park residents and the greater city.

https://t.co/RC9rlTDAdB

[Newcity Chicago @newcity]

The British singer-songwriter will bring her signature blend of soul, jazz and pop to the city later this month.

https://t.co/rfI3Hv0utS

[Newcity Chicago @newcity]

Archipelago Books has published a new translation by Alyson Waters of his 2021 book.

https://t.co/9ncB2Xk0sV

[Newcity Chicago @newcity]

All six women have ties to the Caribbean and offer diverse modes of photography. Each uses photography to tell stories of the diaspora and their own place within it.

https://t.co/G3qzfP66J9

[Newcity Chicago @newcity]

Like marriage itself, the play is not for the faint of heart, but is a journey well worth undertaking.

https://t.co/leRT4Xb5WK

[Newcity Chicago @newcity]

Poets laureate are ambassadors not just for poetry but for arts and culture in general. Being a poet has, historically, meant gathering people.

https://t.co/DPPPnJZvEP

[Larry O. Dean @larryodean]

Bob Odenkirk and Derek Kolstad on "Normal" @newcity https://t.co/VqAIQjDucp

[Newcity Chicago @newcity]

The veteran Chicago punk band releases their first new album in sixteen years.

https://t.co/cw4DBx4o8Z

[Newcity Chicago @newcity]

Bob Odenkirk and Derek Kolstad found "Normal" to be a suitable setting for a dark night of the soul, or at least dark nights of the upper Midwest.

https://t.co/50E0Vd88mg

[Newcity Chicago @newcity]

On view at Bodenrader, the selective body of five pieces are spaced with breathing room that allows the gallery structure itself to become an imperative context.

https://t.co/Of363kSaCR

[Newcity Chicago @newcity]

Long championing the creative power of Latina women, the company's evening-length work is inspired by Chilean poet, journalist and diplomat Gabriela Mistral.

https://t.co/jEw4ReAtoR