929 E. 60th St.
Chicago, Illinois 60637
United States
The Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago is pleased to announce the release of the thirteenth issue of Portable Gray, a publication that draws on the work of the Gray Center, a research center for experimental collaborations between artists and scholars. The theme for our fall issue is The United States of Criticism, which covers a variety of forms of criticism from art criticism to music criticism; parafictional-art history to video game criticism; artists whose practices are a form of criticism to skateboard criticism; eco-criticism to the critical scene in Chicago today. This issue continues our reviews section, Portable Gray Review (PGR).
Editor’s Plaisance
Zachary Cahill
Chicago Critic’s Table
Adrienne Brown, Saroop Singh, Meralis Alvarez-Morales, Rikki Byrd, Zaria El-Fil, Britt Julious, and Regina Victor
Portable Gray Review (PGR)
John Boskovich: Rude Awakening at Bodenrader, Chicago
Thomas Love
Talking Shit and Making Meaning
Ted Barrow and Sam Korman discuss the role of criticism in skateboarding
Material Empathy
Joel Kuennen
Portable Gray Review (PGR)
Nicole Eisenman: What Happened at the MCA Chicago
Erik Wenzel
Two in One
Lauren O’Neill-Butler on Judgment and the Conversation that Takes Place in the Mind of the Art Critic
Zachary Cahill
Against the Written Word
Ian F. Svenonius in conversation with Stephanie Cristello
Portable Gray Review (PGR)
Fire! Testament, album from Rune Grammofon, 2024
Matthew Metzger
On Criticism: Studying How We Are Together
William Ayers, Adam Bush, Lisa Yun Lee, Fred Moten, and Michael B.
Art is a Tool to Confront Reality:
9 Questions for Thomas Hirschhorn on Art and Criticism
Zachary Cahill
Our Literal Speed
Our Literal Speed
Chicago, Mon Jardin d’Amour
Self-critical notes of a comparative critique
Paula Kamps, translated by Alta Price
Portable Gray Review (PGR)
Lanna in Motion: Spirit and Voice of Nature, performance at the Royal Thai Consulate-General Chicago
Regina Victor
Needle in a Haystack
Peter Margasak
Portable Gray Review (PGR)
Museum of Post-Punk and Industrial Music
Jennifer Smart
Gaming Islam
A conversation with Ghenwa Hayek and Alireza Doostdar
Ashlyn Sparrow
The Function of Bitching, at the Present Time
Dieter Roelstraete
Upcoming issue
Pope.L: The Chicago Years
Executive Editors: Leah Feldman and Seth Brodsky / Editor-in-Chief: Zachary Cahill / Senior Editor: Mike Schuh / Managing Editor: Naomi Blumberg / Contributing Editor: Sabrina Craig/ Editor-at-Large: Stephanie Cristello / Design: David Khan-Giordano / ISSN 2637-8361.
About the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
The Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry is a forum at the University of Chicago for experimental collaborations between artists and scholars. Gray Center activities take place all over campus (encompassing various divisions, departments, and programs), across the community, throughout the city, and beyond. Through its various programs—including the Mellon Residential Fellowships for Arts Practice and Scholarship, exploratory research initiatives, the monthly Sidebar conversation series, Gray Sound, an experimental music and sound performance series, international conferences, and institutional collaborations—the Gray Center seeks to foster a culture of innovation and experimentation at the intersection of arts practice and scholarship.
For press inquiries: Rebecca Daniel Mottley, rebecca [at] mottleypr.com.
Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
929 E. 60th St.
Chicago, Illinois 60637
United States
