2025

All my works are haunted: Isabelle Frances McGuire takes over the Ren—and then some (Chicago Reader)

Visible Labor: Andi Crist’s “Office Hours” presents work and studio detritus as fine art (Chicago Reader)

2024

The sprawling practice of Frank Lloyd Wright (Chicago Reader)
Being Called In: Philanthropy in the Times of Crisis (Grantmakers in the Arts)
The Zero-Sum Game Is Not The Answer: New Models for BIPOC-Led Media and Cultural Power Building (Grantmakers in the Arts)
Funding Native Futures: The Work Continues (Grantmakers in the Arts)
Transformation Requires Embracing Collective Spirit (Grantmakers in the Arts)
Shaping Bold Futures: Advancing Justice & Healing with Government (Grantmakers in the Arts)
Against domestication: D Rosen exposes the false binary of violence and care. (Chicago Reader)

Art 50: Chicago’s Visual Vanguard 2024 Anastasia Karpova Tinari, Jordan Martins + Kitty Rauth, Aaron Rodgers + Jen Tremblay Chambers + Mariela Acuña, Myriam Ben Salah + Karsten Lund (Newcity)

No dust to shake off: Sandra Binion at Experimental Sound Studio (Chicago Reader)

Breakout Artists 2024: Chicago’s Next Generation of Image Makers Nyeema Morgan (Newcity)
Jessi Woska creates one-of-a-kind chain stitched pieces (Chicago Reader)
Murmuration lets artists take flight (Chicago Reader)

It’s OK to laugh: High Energy News Music at Elastic Arts (Chicago Reader)

Best dairy-free, usually plant-based precolonial Mexican food and packaged goods pop-up (Chicago Reader)
Does our hair keep growing after we die? Exhibition Essay for Nancy Lu Rosenheim (Epiphany Center for the Arts)

2023

Samantha Irby is midwest fancy: The irreverent author returns with new essay collection, Quietly Hostile. (Chicago Reader)

Backyard bacchanal: Inside TXA TXA Club, one of Chicago’s hottest (and hardest to get) reservations. (Chicago Reader)

Top 5 Booths at Barely Fair 2023 (Newcity)

2022

We keep us safe: At Gallery 400, Chicago artists and collectives explore forms of care. (Chicago Reader)

Modeling vulnerability: Fatimah Asghar’s debut novel explores how grief impacts a family. (Chicago Reader)

Healing Compositions: Audio Artist Kikù Hibino Pairs Memory With Sound (Newcity)

The Things We Carry: A Review of Flattened Flora at Roots & Culture (Newcity)

Breakout Artists 2022: Chicago’s Next Generation of Image Makers (Maryam Faridani) (Newcity)
The best laid schemes of mice and men / Often go awry: On Kushala Vora for Bird Show (Bird Show)

Earthly Delights: A Review of Dan Gunn at Monique Meloche Gallery (Newcity)

2021

Reviewing Romanticism to Ruin: Two Lost Works of Sullivan and Wright (Newcity)

Gregory Bae In Memoriam: A Blueprint for an Artistic Life (Newcity)
What is Graphic Recording? For Kiyomi Negi-Tran, Service Art That Soars (Newcity)
Breakout Artists 2021: Chicago’s Next Generation of Image Makers (Max Guy) (Newcity)
A Respite From The Waking Nightmare: A Review of Western Exhibitions Drawing Biennial (Newcity)

2018

Exhibition Essay: The Art of Being Dangerous (Hyde Park Art Center)
Breakout Artists 2018: Chicago's Next Generation of Image Makers (Melissa Leandro) (Newcity)
The Bloom of the Present Moment, Chicago Works: Paul Heyer (Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago)

2017

Breakout Artists 2017: Chicago’s Next Generation of Image Makers (Paul Heyer) (Newcity)

2016

Breakout Artists 2016: Chicago’s Next Generation of Image Makers (Myra Greene) (Newcity)
Ten questions from Erin Toale for Ethan Rose regarding his exhibition "Slant" (Regards)
Exhibition Essay: Daniel Bruttig's Singles, Duets and Sets (Firecat Projects)

2015

Don’t Call Us An Art Museum: Pitchfork at the MCA (Newcity)
Review: Cosmosis/Hyde Park Art Center (Newcity)
Breakout Artists 2015: Chicago’s Next Generation of Image Makers (Jessica Campbell) (Newcity)
Review: Eric Ruschman/Circa Modern (Newcity)
The Bomber’s Life: Steppenwolf’s “This Is Modern Art” Looks at the Graffiti Artist (Newcity)
Review: DOGS CHASE BALLS/Carrie Secrist Gallery (Newcity)
Eye Exam: The Freakiest Show (Newcity)

2014

EXPO Dispatches: Stick to the Perimeter (Newcity)
EXPO Dispatches: Your Fair Survival Guide and Must-See Itinerary (Newcity)
Art 50 2014: Chicago’s Artists’ Artists (Michelle Grabner, Chris Ware, William Pope.L, Lou Mallozzi) (Newcity)
Portrait of a Gallery: Comfort Station (Newcity)
Review: We do what we like and we like what we do/Western Exhibitions (Newcity)
Review: Murmurs/Regards (Newcity)
Review: Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo/Museum of Contemporary Art (Newcity)
Architecture Shake-Up: How Los Angeles Got Loose (Newcity)