Jeremy Lybarger

Jeremy Lybarger has written for Artforum, Art in America, The New York Times, The New Republic, The Nation, and more. He lives in Chicago, where he is an editor at Poetry magazine and is working on a book about the artist Roger Brown.

Features, Reviews• July 25, 2024

Romantic and Brawling: On Four Chicago Artists

By Jeremy Lybarger

Chicago has never really recovered from Imagism. That local explosion—whose blast radius stretched from roughly the late 1940s through the mid-1970s—gave the city’s art…