{"product_id":"may-2026-issue-art-water-digital","title":"May 2026 Issue: Art + Water (Digital Edition)","description":"\u003ch2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDispatches from Diaryland\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBetsy Rubiner looks at the hows and whys of journaling\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003eRevisiting that diary many years later, Rubiner found a page labeled “IDENTIFICATION,” with fill-in-the-blank lines for name, address, phone and so on. One blank was for weight. There was a scribble on the line, followed by “59” written in pencil. Looking closer at the scribble, Rubiner found that she had originally written “60” and crossed it out. “I smile, recognizing my lifetime habit of fudging my weight,” Rubiner writes in “Our Diaries, Ourselves.” “This is me.” (\u003cstrong\u003eMary Wisniewski\u003c\/strong\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDear Mary, For Chicago, Sincerely Nathaniel Mary Quinn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe artist explores his public housing heritage\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\"On the corner of Taylor and Ada Street where the very last portions of the historic Jane Addams Homes stand is the permanent location of the National Public Housing Museum. A product of remodeling by the museum’s architect Peter Landon and his team, the institution is a sprawling series of histories on a single site.\"\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-84e59e24-7fff-0924-4161-b0d739fd412a\"\u003e (\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-c9465555-7fff-7840-3a59-db2f41a13647\"\u003eLucas Gómez-Doyle)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eArt Buzz\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMuseu Vassouras restores the glamour to the town once known as Brazil’s Coffee Princess\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003eIn the heart of Brazil’s historic Vale do Café (Coffee Valley), cultural energy is stirring, led by a new museum and one of the country's most compelling teams. Thirty-three-year-old Catarina Duncan, a graduate from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a rising star on Brazil’s art circuit, has traded the metropolitan galleries of MoMA and the São Paulo Biennial for a project with deep territorial roots: the artistic directorship of Museu Vassouras, inaugurated in August 2025, in the town with the same name.\" \u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-b6c166b3-7fff-e5f9-aef5-500337d01969\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Cynthia Garcia)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSigns of Life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist Donnie Carter's seventy years of being a tourist in Chicago\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003eDonnie Carter is an eighty-six-year-old artist and sign painter who is always on the move. He lives in a small, one-bedroom apartment in the Chicago Housing Authority’s Mahalia Jackson Apartments, 9141 South South Chicago. His dimly lit living room is filled with his colorful work: kids with balloons, a nude black velvet piece from the 1960s, and posters of a painting he created of Dr. Margaret Burroughs, one of his teachers. It is challenging for visitors to find a place to sit down.\"\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-d14262e6-7fff-f714-4cf9-aefb5f39316f\"\u003e (Dave Hoekstra)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLake Effect\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExploring the maritime wonders of Chicago\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"It’s as blue and vast as the Atlantic or the Pacific. It’s so big that you can’t see\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eto the other side. When people look at Lake Michigan for the first time they can be surprised by its vastness. More than a few doubt that it is even a lake. “Are you sure it isn’t an ocean?” someone once asked me. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThey can be excused for their confusion.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLake Michigan is the second largest of the five Great Lakes by volume and third largest by surface area. Its deepest spot is 923 feet; it is 307 miles long by 118 miles wide. Hydrologically speaking, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are the same body of water—really one big lake—and, thus, the largest freshwater lake in the world. Of the five Great Lakes, Lake Michigan is the only Great Lake located entirely within the United States.\" (\u003cstrong\u003eJune Sawyers\u003c\/strong\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e \u003cb\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArt\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChelsea Bighorn on earrings and architecture\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e+ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChristine Sun Kim transforms language at the Walker Art Center \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDance\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe evolution of Chicago Danztheatre's “Architecture of Memory”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDesign\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNoel Mercado's time travel at Farnsworth\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e+ \u003cstrong\u003eMood\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: Planters\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLit\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRachel León and “How We See The Gray”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMusic\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGia Margaret is “Singing” again\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTimeLine makes a future in Uptown\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e \u003cb\u003eReviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt's a great time in the art world, at least\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"News Sonnet Report\":\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA new poem by Ed Roberson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003ch2 dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\" class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e100 pages\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-c155ffbe-7fff-87fd-896f-25644aad53ad\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eTo subscribe to our print edition and never miss an issue, \u003ca style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"Subscribe to Newcity!\" 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