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20/12/2024

Manual Cinema has long been expert at mixing old-time stage and movie craft with innovative modern stagecraft. Its "Christmas Carol" brings magic, and a magical aura to the stage in a show that seems as wondrous as theater can ever be.

Manual Cinema has taken the perilous path of adaptation, mixing a contemporary American storyline with an authentic period telling Dickens’ tale. Its "Christmas Carol" brings magic, and a magical aura to the stage in a show that seems as wondrous as theater can ever be.

20/12/2024

“Kiubo is the snowball effect of organic collaboration and ever-evolving ideas.”

“Kiubo is the snowball effect of organic collaboration and ever-evolving ideas.”

19/12/2024

"Be Kind, Rewind" series at Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Leos Carax's exhilarating "It's Not Me"; Barry Jenkins' mega-budget Disney outing "Mufasa: The Lion King"; and a Q&A with Chicago International Film Festival's Mimi Plauché.

Also: "Eno" will be streamed for twenty-four hours, and "Babygirl" and "Nosferatu" bump heads come Christmas Day.

"Be Kind, Rewind" series at Siskel; Leos Carax's exhilarating "It's Not Me"; Barry Jenkins' mega-budget Disney outing "Mufasa: The Lion King"; Q&A with Chicago International's Mimi Plauché. Also: "Eno" will be streamed for twenty-four hours. "Babygirl" and "Nosferatu" bump heads come Christmas Day.

19/12/2024

The paintings impose a sort of cultural membrane on the border of which we move between here and there, present and past. And on that edge is where the spirit of an entire milieu of youth could be disclosed.

The paintings impose a sort of cultural membrane on the border of which we move between here and there, present and past. And on that edge is where the spirit of an entire milieu of youth could be disclosed.

19/12/2024

Cameron Esposito has spent more than a decade making a unique splash in Hollywood, not only as one of the outest and proudest LGBTQ+ comics around, but also as a successful actress on major TV shows.

Cameron Esposito has spent more than a decade making a unique splash in Hollywood, not only as one of the outest and proudest LGBTQ+ comics around, but also as a successful actress on major TV shows.

19/12/2024

Surabhi Ensemble is an orchestra of transcultural collaboration, synthesizing Eastern and Western musical traditions. Carlo Basile discusses their current tour, the connection between American surf rock and classical Arabic music and much more.

Led by Saraswathi Ranganathan (on the veena, an Indian chordophone) and Carlo Basile (guitar), Surabhi Ensemble is an orchestra of transcultural collaboration, synthesizing Eastern and Western musical traditions in an effort to produce novel and borderless compositions. Carlo Basile discusses their....

19/12/2024

In his new book, Gayford looks back over thirty-five years of reading, looking and speaking with artists to provide an overall survey of the practice of painting. He begins, logically enough, with how a painter gets started.

In his new book, Gayford looks back over thirty-five years of reading, looking and speaking with artists to provide an overall survey of the practice of painting. He begins, logically enough, with how a painter gets started.

18/12/2024

New-wave Surrealism, the outlines of which are only dimly visible at this moment, may be uniquely suited to our current unsettled aesthetics, disorienting technological advances and dysfunctional politics.

On view at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit - MOCAD through February 23.

New-wave Surrealism, the outlines of which are only dimly visible at this moment, may be uniquely suited to our current unsettled aesthetics, disorienting technological advances and dysfunctional politics.

18/12/2024

Frederking has been capturing lightning in a bottle for over three decades, portraying, as he puts it, “dance artists at the moments when they are fully present with the energy of live performance.”

Frederking has been capturing lightning in a bottle for over three decades, portraying, as he puts it, “dance artists at the moments when they are fully present with the energy of live performance.”

17/12/2024

Paramount Theatre’s Midwest regional premiere production of Disney’s “Frozen: The Broadway Musical” is a must-see magical spectacle this holiday season.

Paramount Theatre’s Midwest regional premiere production of Disney’s “Frozen: The Broadway Musical” is a must-see magical spectacle this holiday season.

17/12/2024

The grand, intricate continent-and-era-spanning "The Brutalist" is a film about filmmaking itself, but fortunately, it's about many other things as well, an ambitious meditation on men and mentorship, about masses of money and stabs and swoops from pencil points.

17/12/2024

Ancevicius’ inspiring story of immigration led her to become an industrial designer at the iconic Marvin Glass & Associates toy design company in Chicago. Ancevicius was the firm’s first and only female designer in the “Mad Men” era.

There is something for everybody in the Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture exhibit “beLONGING: Lithuanian Artists in Chicago 1900 to Now,” that includes Ancevicius and runs through May 17. The more-than-one-hundred works in the exhibit, which features twenty-nine artists, include paintings, d...

17/12/2024

Joel Paterson has shown himself to be a master of Christmas music reinterpretations. See him perform around Chicago through the holiday season.

Having released two Christmas albums of his signature retro-jazz electric guitar wizardry, Paterson has shown himself to be a master of Christmas music reinterpretations.

17/12/2024

Anthropologist Robin Dunbar theorizes that most of us have limits to our social connections. Typically, our closest circle includes five loved ones. We may also have fifteen good friends, fifty fond allies, 150 meaningful contacts, and 1500 people we know.

SAGITTARIUS: I think the perfect gift I could offer you this holiday season is a large square black box.

16/12/2024

Drury Lane’s “Disney’s The Little Mermaid” is a lively homage to a treasured movie of childhoods and a warm addition to this holiday season of Chicago area theater.

Drury Lane’s “Disney’s The Little Mermaid” is a lively homage to a treasured movie of childhoods and a warm addition to this holiday season of Chicago area theater.

16/12/2024

Using their MRI scan images as material, Ouyang deploys a popular experimental film tactic—the creative misuse of 16mm’s optical soundtrack—to explore idiosyncratic translation between sound and images.

Using their MRI scan images as material, Ouyang deploys a popular experimental film tactic—the creative misuse of 16mm’s optical soundtrack—to explore idiosyncratic translation between sound and images.

16/12/2024

Maggie Umber’s latest graphic novel, “Chrysanthemum Under the Waves,” is a mood. A smoky and smeared collection, Umber’s comics are silent and sparse.

Maggie Umber’s latest graphic novel, “Chrysanthemum Under the Waves,” is a mood. A smoky and smeared collection, Umber’s comics are silent and sparse.

13/12/2024

By improvising with the painterly eventfulness of his paintings and refusing to settle into any artistic movement, the artist promises infinite possibilities for us to look, think and understand.

By improvising with the painterly eventfulness of his paintings and refusing to settle into any artistic movement, the artist promises infinite possibilities for us to look, think and understand.