Eco-Anxiety Through a Cultural Lens: A Review of “Periphery” at MAS Context
New Orleans-based photographer Virginia Hanusik provides perspective into a climate-altered future.
Design Top 5: May 2023
Exhibitions, talks, design markets and fashion shows.
Spreading Positivity Beyond Borders: You Are Beautiful Braille Stickers
Creating art and immersive experiences that center accessibility and build community.
Beauty or a Beast? What the Fight to Save a Building Means for the Future of Joliet—and for a Vital Architectural Movement Worldwide
The building that commands a low hill near the center of Joliet’s downtown stirs a mix of strong emotions among locals. Passions are especially high lately. A wrecking ball may soon swing through the now-empty 1969 courthouse, obliterating one of the region’s first Brutalist structures.
Paintings on the Wallpaper: Inside René Romero Schuler’s Collaboration with Erin Minckley’s Relativity Textiles
“There’s nothing more exciting than empowering an artist to share their talent with the world.”
Design Top 5: April 2023
Pop-up books, sci-fi, a spring handmade market and more.
The Other Side of the Screen: Unpacking Forty Years of TRON at Chicago Gamespace
Chicago Gamespace co-curators discuss ChatGPT, AI, robots and the forty-year legacy of “TRON.”
Plastic Wonders: The Sweet Smell of Mold-A-Rama at the Museum of Science and Industry
“Critical thinking is the goal, but we like to pave the way to that consciousness with colorful fun times.”
Beyond Hygge: Inside Milwaukee’s Scandinavian Design Exhibition
Tracing the roots of Scandinavian Design and the ways it shaped U.S. aesthetics.
Design Top 5: March 2023
Scandinavian Design, architects working toward a more diverse future and more.
