Susan Bee Tames the Beast

The artist’s playful paintings of medieval women saints fighting monsters and dragons have a Jewish angle.

A Living History of Black Queer Miami

“Give Them Their Flowers” pays homage to Miami’s Black queer history by merging historical research, archival imagery, artifacts, and oral histories.

On the Sacred Magic of Writing

With “Dark Illuminations” artist Kenturah Davis creates opportunities for us to see the sacred and meditative in the words we write.

15 Art Shows to See in New York This Month

Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art exhibitions this April, including Shellyne Rodriguez, Susan Bee, Mandy Al-Sayegh, Corydon Cowansage, and more.

How Do Artists Combat Propaganda?

The works in Language in Times of Miscommunication prompt viewers to question and resist propaganda in its many forms.

In Celebration of Unloveliness

We go to Raphael for idealized beauty. But what if a painting were the opposite of beautiful, and utterly arresting for that very reason?

Required Reading

This week, the death of handwriting, how to spot far-right imagery, queerness is African, and is breakfast a colonial construct?

Art for the End of Time

There are no common moves among artists in The Chicago Cli-Fi Library, except environmental grief as expressed through art-making.