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• Dance Theatre of Harlem returns to the Auditorium after a ten-year hiatus

  20-10-2026 20:43 via Chicago Reader
  
  On October 17, Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH) returned to Chicago for the first time in a decade, with a mixed bill featuring artistic director Robert Garland’s Return, George Balanchine’s Donizetti Variations, and John Taras’s Firebird. Founded in 1969 by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the company […]
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• Sen Morimoto grounds their new album in sure-handed gentleness

  20-10-2026 19:09 via Chicago Reader
  
  Chicago artist Sen Morimoto perpetually tinkers with and reinvents their sound. No matter what instrument they play—saxophone, guitar, keyboards, drums—they use a measured hand that imbues their music with calm. Even when they use odd meters or erupt into intense outbursts, their songs sound as though they’re meant to soothe. The careening art-rock on their […]
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• Deep listening

  20-10-2026 15:58 via Chicago Reader
  
  In the project 60 wrd/min art critic, writer Lori Waxman explores how art writing can serve an expanded field of artists—including those incarcerated, trying to gain visas, working to establish themselves professionally, or just wanting feedback for a secret hobby. For this iteration, Waxman reviews recent work by SAIC alum Hui-Lin Wu, also known as […]
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