Jon Bonfiglio speaks to Dr. Jacqueline Lazú about the history of the Young Lords in Chicago, a group which was initially a street gang and evolved in a seminal civil rights organization.

For more information on the work of Dr. Lazú: https://jlazu.com/

To read the article by Jon Bonfiglio on the Young Lords in Chicago exhibition at DePaul Art Museum: https://art.newcity.com/2025/10/29/young-lords-in-chicago-reminds-us-the-struggle-for-social-justice-only-ends-if-we-concede/

The murals of Brazilian artist Carybé at Miami International Airport, gateway to Latin America and the Caribbean.

Youtube link to view the murals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=68&v=dNNGteCIM9M&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.miami-airport.com%2FSite%2520Specific_South%2520Terminal.asp&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY

The bust at San Souci palace also exists in an abandoned palace, within Haiti, a country which also has been discarded, abandoned. 

Different to forgotten. 

It’s a wilful act. It didn’t fall overboard, it was pushed. 

The complexity, in all of this, is the intent. 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-Souci_Palace

If you come across work by Frida Kahlo, try to make it a surprise, try to go alone. Print out a painting on bad paper, only when your printer’s ink cartridge is running out, and go to a park with it. 

Take nothing else. Forget that it’s a piece by Frida Kahlo. Go and spend some time with it, as you might a new friend, and see what it has to say, by itself, in the silence, in the park, on a Tuesday morning, on a surprisingly warm - out of season - day. And as you get to know each other, vow never, NEVER to visit the Casa Azul, or stand in line to watch art, ever again. 

Questioning what is radical, American Artist draws on Octavia Butler's prescient vision of humanity to explore racial capitalism, technology and notions of humanity. 

https://artsfuse.org/319285/visual-arts-review-a-glitch-in-the-system-american-artists-homage-to-octavia-butler/

In coversation with Candace Locklear of Good Chaos, discussing the wide-ranging work of Latinx artist Yvette Mayorga. 

Recent reviews of Mayorga's work by Jonathan Bonfiglio are linked here: 

https://glasstire.com/2025/10/14/more-than-bubble-gum-pink-press-ons-yvette-mayorgas-pop-up-nail-alon/

https://art.newcity.com/2025/07/11/pink-and-violent-a-review-of-yvette-mayorga-at-monique-meloche-gallery/

The first Midwest solo show by Lagos-based artist Temitayo Ogunbiyi brings together whimsical and playful work that's hard to pin down.

https://art.newcity.com/2025/10/23/the-work-of-earthy-unruly-art-faerie-at-the-arts-club/

As a physical reaction, an art review, like a poem, should make the reader stop, take a breath or a moment, and look out of the train window at the passing landscape. 

Even if the reader is not on a train, able to stop and look out, this should be the metaphysical effect that is generated. When we read a well-written review, we should all find ourselves on that train carriage, taking that moment, sitting with a thought or an idea, as the world happens around you.

A new exhibition at Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago conveys the universal human act of grasping at wisps, distilled through a palette of earthy colors.

https://art.newcity.com/2025/10/20/luke-agadas-paintings-are-spectral-depictions-of-time/

Jonathan Bonfiglio considers the depth behind Yvette Mayorga's “Pop-Up Nail $alon,” a temporary immersive installation at Ballroom Marfa.

https://glasstire.com/2025/10/14/more-than-bubble-gum-pink-press-ons-yvette-mayorgas-pop-up-nail-alon/