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Oct 30, 2023 · Arts and culture of Chicago & the Great Lakes, monthly in print and daily online. Since 1986.
Editor’s Letter: November 2024 | Newcity
12 hours ago · Depending on when you read this, we’ll have a newly elected president of the United States, or we’ll be on the verge of electing one. And depending on the outcome, we’ll be really giving thanks at Thanksgiving, or we’ll be back to figuring out which uncles we really need to avoid at turkey dinner.
Newcity Digital Editions
The August 2021 Issue. Newcity’s August edition features “On Vacation”—essays, ruminations and meditations on getting away. Also included in the issue: author Elly Fishman discusses her upcoming book “Refugee High,” a look at how Vivian Maier’s photographs tell stories of an earlier Chicago, a feature on the Enchanted Highway – a series of seven roadside sculptural ...
Best of Chicago 2021: David Hammond’s Personal Best - Newcity
Nov 5, 2021 · Newcity invited fourteen writers to share their "personal Best of Chicago”—a collection of voices expressing their city in their own very personal ways, that together offer universal insights into what we all cherish about our life in this place.
Editor’s Letter: April 2024 - Newcity
Apr 2, 2024 · Borrowing a motif from Virginia Bell’s poem in April’s issue, April is for Art. With Expo Chicago debuting its first edition as part of the Frieze family of global art fairs, the expectation is that an already-powerful locus of focus in …
Editor’s Letter: November 2022 | Newcity
Nov 1, 2022 · This issue of Newcity is a reflection of where we are going in several ways, from Emeline Boehringer’s art-saturated look at the legacy of the late Gregory Bae, to David Hammond’s exploration of regional culture manifest in our profile of the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, to Dave Hoekstra’s deep and definitive dive into the legacy of a very special bar in Chicago, Weeds.
Editor’s Letter: September 2023 - Newcity
Sep 5, 2023 · Once again, our September print edition is the biggest Newcity issue ever in thirty-seven years. We cover a lot of ground, yet we barely skim the surface of the remarkable range of Chicago's cultural life.
Editor’s Letter: June 2022 | Newcity
May 27, 2022 · BRIAN HIEGGELKE. Look for Newcity’s June 2022 print edition at over 300 Chicago-area locations this week or subscribe to the print edition at Newcityshop.com.. IN THIS ISSUE
Editor’s Letter: September 2021 | Newcity
Aug 30, 2021 · Resisting Marginalization: Jeffrey Gibson reconsiders the cultural representation of indigenous people Transformations: Fall Arts Preview 2021 Myriam Ben Salah brings global focus to the Renaissance Society Red Clay plants a seed in Woodlawn University of Chicago’s Booth School opens Mindworks as a downtown place to learn about how and why Restaurateur Donnie Madia says “we are in a ...
Editor’s Letter: March 2022 - Newcity
Mar 7, 2022 · This is the ninth edition of Newcity’s Design 50, and of the previous eight, three names have dominated the top spot on the list: architects Jeanne Gang and Helmut Jahn, and fashion designer Virgil Abloh have each held the number-one spot twice. Needless to say, the untimely deaths of Abloh and Jahn in 2021 were devastating blows to the design community in Chicago but also around the globe ...