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Exhibition Review: The Art and Impact of German Creatives

A look at ‘Power Frauen: German Women Who Dared to Dream’

Satire and the Serpent

Painter Robert Colescott at the Chicago Cultural Center.

A Living Legacy

What Amanda Gorman's inauguration performance means to me.

Self Portrait or The History of My Face

A poem by Ishani Synghal

Where Did Dalgona Coffee Come From? Not from TikTok

The whipped coffee fad has a history of class, race, and creature comforts.

Kairos Cowboy: Gettin’ the JOBS Done

Trina Nicolas' new series, Kairos Cowboy!

The Beautiful and Doomed

An essay on Connie Willis's science-fiction-historical classic.

Pride, Inc.

When a major corporation slaps a rainbow on its logo, what does it stand to gain? Here's a look inside the complicated nature of corporate support of Pride Month.

My Juneteenth

The history, legacy, and one woman's personal connection to the United States' other Independence Day.

Departmental Overview: Art Therapy

A brief history of art therapy as an academic discipline, and how it manifests at SAIC.

How The 1968 Democratic National Convention Changed The Way We Vote

Before 1968, primary elections looked very different.

Wouldn’t You Love To Have My Ratings?*

*Trump tweeted in 2012. But what are ratings, even?

Bleeding Hearts: How the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre Impacted American Crime

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre turns 90 this year, giving us an opportunity to re-examine the legacy of this historic (and notorious) event.

Witches Brew

A brief history of the alewife.

“Invisible Man”: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem

The Art Institute of Chicago places novelist Ralph Ellison next to photographer Gordon Parks for marvelously provocative results.