Tag: art is always political
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life, quilted: Bisa Butler’s Portraits at the Art Institute of Chicago
The women in my mother’s family tie off their quilts. I’m not entirely sure where it came from, though I will confess I’ve wondered if we’re tying off and tying elfknots into our own work (rather than our hair: mine is too straight to elfknot anyway) as a good-luck charm, or maybe a ward. (It’s […]
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Chicago Humanities Festival’s Art in the Moment
I wrote about the Chicago Humanities Festival’s Art in the Moment panel, a co-production of the Terra Foundation for American Art’s Art Design Chicago Now and the CHF, for Third Coast Review. I did not, of course, mention there that I cried my way through the panel: it was, and is, deeply moving—perhaps especially to […]
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Art & Politics: An Introduction
Periodically, things go the rounds on social media, promising to break up the monotony of our dinners, or bad dates, or, now, our political postings, with art and music! Because who doesn’t want to see art and music in their timeline, amirite?! I mean, how could I argue with this? Art is beautiful! I have […]
Essentially a Nerd 