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Noah Berlatsky

Noah Berlatsky

Noah Berlatsky is a freelance writer in Chicago.

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Barry Avrich, a white man with a receding hairline (dark brown) leans on a bar wearing a brown leather jacket in a dark room

Barry Avrich Knows Everybody Loves a Fake

By Noah Berlatsky
A black and white linocut-style print depicts a man and a skeletal woman walking side by side on a path lined with more skeletons, with a McDonald’s sign faintly visible in the background.

Migration, Marginalization and Outsider Art Collide in Intuit Art Museum’s ‘Catalyst’

By Noah Berlatsky
A colorful architectural mural with many stylized windows

Artist Edie Fake Imagines a Gender Affirming Future at Chicago’s MCA

By Noah Berlatsky
A painting of a woman wearing a hat done in deep grays and blacks

“The First Homosexuals” Is a Dazzlingly Overwhelming Chronicle of Queerness in Art

By Noah Berlatsky

The 10th Anniversary of ‘Fury Road’ and the Road We’re On

By Noah Berlatsky
A gallery space includes pedestal displays of food-inspired sculptures, framed drawings of desserts on the wall, and a large arrangement of brightly painted circular plates in a triangular formation, all set against a red-and-white checkered pattern that resembles a picnic cloth.

Can Art Heal Our Relationship With Nature? “Sustenance & Land” Offers a Nuanced Response

By Noah Berlatsky
Panels of flimsy fabric hang from midway up a papered wall surrounding an art installation featuring yellow circles on a gray square

‘Materialities’ at the Driehaus Museum Finds the Ephemeral in the Solid

By Noah Berlatsky

Terry Gilliam’s ‘Brazil’ At 40: More Prescient Than Orwell

By Noah Berlatsky
A photo of a woman in a surreal costume, wearing a jug-like headpiece and holding a spray bottle, standing next to a TV screen in front of a vibrant pink and green background.

‘The Living End’ at Chicago’s MCA Celebrates the Relevance and Irrelevance of Painting

By Noah Berlatsky
A photo of a painting depicting a forest with lush green foliage, smoky mist, and bright orange hints of controlled fire, giving the scene an atmospheric and slightly surreal quality. The colors convey an interplay between natural beauty and destruction.

‘Positions: New Landscapes’ in Chicago Makes Space for Something Better

By Noah Berlatsky
Tenet Christopher Nolan Interstellar

Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’ Ten Years Later: Climate Change as a Hero’s Journey

By Noah Berlatsky
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