April 2025 Issue: The Big Art Issue (Print Edition)
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Breakout Artists 2025
"I was in Brazil this February, talking to a prominent arts leader about the Newcity Breakout Artists list and I mentioned that our list started with about 330 names. Her jaw dropped, "In Chicago? Three-hundred-thirty artists?" Yes, Chicago has a jaw-dropping number of outstanding emerging artists, and getting the list down to the final ten we feature in this issue is an excruciating delight. Our process, which combines community input with research and our own critical and journalistic expertise, seems to work. It's a coincidence of timing, not acumen, that Rashid Johnson, one of our first Breakout Artists, from 2004, is opening a mid-career retrospective at the Guggenheim in New York this very month." (Brian Hieggelke)
The 2025 Breakout Artists
The List is Coming Soon!
After the Glitter Rain
Though the steel mills are long gone, the Southeast Side of Chicago still manifests a relentless spirit
"A stirring parable of Southeast Chicago can be told through the punk band Dead Steelmill. They formed in 1985 in response to the collapse of the local steel industry. All four members came from steelworker families and their ethos contains the neighborhood’s values of family, relentless spirit and rebirth." (Dave Hoekstra)
"Music is One of My Love Languages"
An Arnold Kemp listening session
"Stepping into M. LeBlanc gallery on a particularly frigid February evening, I was welcomed with hot tea and Arnold Kemp’s skeptical gaze. With raised eyebrows, he asked the first question. And suddenly, we are in Kemp’s world. Pilot, lighthouse and passenger, he propels his ship forward into foggy seas, taking pause to widen his perspective and clear a path forward, or sit with his ship amidst the odyssey." (Teddy Sandler)
Touched by the Spirit
Religiosity, rock ’n’ roll, and the art of Being Nick Cave
"No public figure has spoken as eloquently to the transformative experience of grief in the last decade as has Nick Cave, one of rock ’n’ roll’s most enduring and important artists. Frontman of the beloved Australian band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, the singer, songwriter, actor and author is these days perhaps equally well-known for The Red Hand Files, a digital dialogue through which he engages with an audience that is seeking answers to questions about everyday life, loss, mourning, music and faith." (Anne K. Ream and R. Clifton Spargo)
August Wilson's Man in Chicago
How Ron OJ Parson became the nation's foremost director of the late great playwright
"For some artists, recognition flares up for a hot season or two when they seem everywhere all at once, but then their sparkle burns off. Then there are folks like Ron OJ Parson. His brilliance sneaks up on you, not like a flashing meteor or a falling star that passes with few witnesses, but like the moon, they continuously emit a subtle shine." (Sylvia Ewing)
Love In Every Bite
How Colleen Taylor Sen became Chicago’s connection to the cuisines of South Asia
"Culinary luminary Madhur Jaffrey describes the book 'Feasts and Fasts: A History of Food in India' as one of the essential books on Indian food. Such high praise might lead one to wonder about the background of the creator of such a volume. It is unlikely that one would imagine the reality. " (Cynthia Clampitt)
Expo Chicago: Newcity's Unofficial Guide
Welcome to the Art Party+ Five Brazilian Gallery Exhibitions at Expo Chicago We're Excited About
+ Five Chicago Gallery Exhibitions at Expo Chicago We're Excited About
Who Wants to Run A Museum?How the Director's Summit is Shaping a New Generation of Leadership
Is the Best Art the Most Expensive?According to Larissa Buchholz, the answer is often no.
The Puckish Side of the Art MarketA conversation with Marion Maneker about "Wall Power"
How to ExpoCollectors, Curators and Art Advisors Share Their Insights Into Doing the Art Fair
Art for Art's Sake: How to Get the Most of Expo Chicago if you just love art
Arts & Culture
Art: The dream journey of painter Val Terrazas
Videobrasil starts a Chicago collaboration
Dance: Leaders respond to anti-DEI in federal funding
+ Mood: Design Objects
Lit : Elise Paschen explores her Osage ancestry
Music: Bach’s greatest work almost lights itself with Apollo’s FireStage: The story of the Kinks at Chicago Shakespeare
Reviews
Our biggest print selection yet
Poetry
"Return”: A new poem by Susan Hahn
156 pages
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