
Sympathetic Models
On some level, everything in charcoal becomes a Memento Mori.

Quarantine Comics by Allie Drew Caesar
We are delighted to share Lumpen Comics contributor Allie Drew Caesar’s new comic for Quarantine Times.

Neobeat Sundays on Lumpen Radio Twitch - Sunday, May 17
Join us on Twitch for one of Chicago’s only live music concert series. Curated by Drew Ryan

Are You A Foreign Artist? - Round Two
“Are You A Foreign Artist?” is series of reviews written by art critic Lori Waxman, in during her solo exhibition DISCOmbobulation at Co-Prosperity Sphere.
The following reviews were written between 3 and 9pm on Saturday, February 15th, 2020.

Organized Protest in the Pandemic Era
We were told by Governor Pritzker to stay home and practice social distancing. When the pandemic hit hard and the courts closed down and prisoners started getting infected and dying we had to do something. On Monday, April 20, 2020, we organized a car caravan protest of 100 cars circling the Thompson Center.

Wednesday May 13, Lumpen Radio Concerts at ESS
We are honored to present a concert Quarantine Concert program with Experimental Sound Studio, the first venue in Chicago to present live streaming concerts to the public after the stay at home order was put in place back in March.

Attention Chicagoland Artists! Artist support available
Artadia is a national non-profit organization that identifies innovative visual artists and supports them with unrestricted financial awards and connections to a network of opportunities.

PSA: Juntos Sanaremos / Together We Will Heal
Juntos Sanaremos / Together We Will Heal is a public service announcement to remind our people that we deserve mental wellness. This campaign is my response as an undocumented queer artist to other Black and Latinx folk dealing with mental health.

Quarantine Comics: Days 50-55
Quarantine Day 50-55 in the life of artist Grant Reynolds.

Live Concerts on Lumpen Radio
For the past few weeks Quarantine Times has been presenting live streaming concerts on it’s Twitch channel and live over the airwaves on Lumpen Radio, WLPN-LP , 105.5fm, Chicago. Here are this weekend’s archived shows..

Interview with Friistyle's Corey Gilkey
Corey Gilkey is one of those entrepreneurs who seem to stay ahead of the curve on every venture he gets involved with.

REVERY ALONE
Artist Lise Haller Baggesen engages the Rebirth Poetry Ensemble to reflect on the poetry of Emily Dickinson, quarantine life, the fifth mass extinction, and REVERY ALONE.

Quarantine Times: Saturday May 9 Live Concerts
QT is pleased to present our weekly Saturday Night concert series on our Lumpen Radio Twitch Channel.

Sofia Moreno + Quarantine Times Instagram Takeover
My name is Sofia Moreno @sofia________moreno , and I’m a mixed media and curator at @aesthetic_disorder_ currently living and working between Chicago and #cdmx. Now it’s my turn to take over this account this weekend ... hot!

The Deal Of The 14th Century
QT presents a recently discovered script of a press conference during the bubonic plague in Wawel castle in Krakow.

Dark and Light Matters: On Proximity, an Arts Magazine from a Previous Crisis
Just before the pandemic, I volunteered to help archive Proximity, a slickly designed arts magazine by some of the folks behind the Quarantine Times. I initially expected it to be a somewhat chaotic exercise in nostalgia for decade old art hipster culture. Then the Covid-19 crisis made Proximity seem immediate, because 2008 was another moment when all masks came off the capitalist death spiral, and it shaped the sensibility of the magazine. The nature and severity of the housing crash was different but not separate - instead, it flows from then to now.

MUAs Deconstructed
Chicago based sound artist and DJ Ariel Zetina re-envisions her recent album, MUA's at the End of the World two ways to reach through the isolation of quarantine.

Quarantine Comics: Days 44-49
Quarantine Day 44-49 in the life of artist Grant Reynolds.

of sapphire folk & what is airborne
Because of who we are here, it's important to connect today to history, to remember we're not the first to walk into a mess like this. We're not the first to see power like that. And yet, also because of who we are, we feel loneliness and horror in new ways very specific to this time. In his new chapbook, of sapphire folk and what is airborne, written and designed for Quarantine Times, the legend avery r. young does both.

A Quarantine Times Poster by Ryan Duggan
Ryan Duggan is an artist and printer living in Chicago where he operates Paper Hat—a print shop/art gallery with his partner Elizabeth Kovach. He made a special print for the Quarantine Times.