This is an edited version of my clips from the past four years. Additional archives from Gapers Block are available below. Please contact me if you’d like to see more.

Selected essays

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Revitalizing Chicago

“French Cuts” by Wendy White and “Multistable Picture Fable” by Dan Gunn

“Bad Boys” by Noelle Mason at Thomas Robertello Gallery

Picturing the Studio at Sullivan Galleries (SAIC)

Nicholas Frank at Western Exhibitions

Exquisite corpse exhibition at Alan Koppel Gallery

On Prince

Tumblr, Teens, and Identity

My Pitchfork Itinerary: Britt Julious

“Sunday, 12:46AM”

“Sunday, 3:24PM”

“Sunday, 3:49PM”

“Sunday, 5:00PM”

A pity party

No loafing around

Ralph, it’s your life!

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On apartment galleries

Kairos

“I refuse to see Titanic, ever!”

On Matias Aguayo

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(complete archive of my work for Gapers Block)

Dan Gunn: Multistable Picture Fable @ Lloyd Dobler Gallery

Wendy White: FRENCH CUTS @ Andrew Rafacz

Alma Weiser of Renovar at Heaven Gallery

Hungry and Driven: Unearthing the Emerging Chicago Fashion Community

One-Stop Pop-Up Shop: DRUNK MALL

Deciphering the Chicago “Look”

Nicholas Knight: Declaimed

The Merry Production

Reconstructing Storytelling with Mordine & Company

When Art Meets Hops

Here is Where: New Works at Sullivan Galleries

Dance, Dance, Revolution

River North Remixed, Renewed

Spectacle and Science: The Matter of Origins at the MCA Chicago

Memory and the Memorable

danc(e)volve: New Works Festival

Dance Theater Receives an Upgrade

Love and Obsession: Carmen for the 21st Century

The red, black and GREEN Movement

Subterranean Experiments

A Mini MALL

Body Works

Closing a One of a Kind Season

Tele Vision Personalities

High Design

These (Art) Moments

Hot Pockets

Dance Works

EXPO CHICAGO Top Picks

Joffrey Ballet: Human Landscapes review

A Return to Form

On the Origin of Design

High Design for the Right Now

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Strange Rags (on “misfit” clothing, personal style, and cultural aesthetics)

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Big Bold Bites

Worn Out

We Dance to the Beat

Step by Step

My Many Selves

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I Love My … Power-Shoulder Blouse

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The Lure of an Untold Story: An Interview with Fatima Al Qadiri

Black by Distribution: A Conversation with Martine Syms

A Crash Course in Post-Punk

STUDIO - for the Studio Museum in Harlem

“Intangible Communities and Visual Art”

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The New York Review of Hooks #6

The New York Review of Hooks #5

The Play of Selves

Felt Works

The New York Review of Hooks #4

Six Months of Sequins

The New York Review of Hooks #3

Ripped Bodice

The New York Review of Hooks #2

The New York Review of Hooks #1

Last Dance (on Party Girl)

Cover Art (on Whitney Houston)

When Will You Come Home? (on gentrification, part 2)

Most Mornings (on gentrification)

That Girl is Poison (on sexiness and the body)

Our Novels, Ourselves

The Return (on Quiet storm music)

“And the Divine” (on Black women and the media)

Familiar Contortions (on New York No Wave)

More Talented Than Jane Birkin (on Francoise Hardy)

Reading Ishiguro in Chicago (on Kazuo Ishiguro)

So Summer (On summer songs)

A Spike Lee Grew in BK (on Do the Right Thing)

A Sound Once Forgotten (On nu disco)

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A cure for the summertime group show blues?

Feminist Interrogations asks tough questions

Outside the MCA, Peace Salon gave customers a buzz

WBEZ Tumblr archive

WBEZ site archive

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