Claire Voon

Claire Voon is a Chicago-based arts journalist and critic who has contributed to publications including the New York Times, ARTnews, and The Brooklyn Rail.

September 12, 2023
A love letter to Bed-Stuy.” That’s how OlaRonke Akinmowo first framed the mobile book-sharing project she began in 20
August 19, 2021
Audrey Niffenegger was fifteen when she first entered the Harley Clarke Mansion, an English Tudor-style edifice that abuts a picturesque beach in Evanston, Illinois.
February 22, 2021
Gilberto Cárdenas was a college student in Los Angeles when El Movimiento, or the Chicano Movement, took shape in California.
November 13, 2020
For millennia, artists around the world have illustrated the endless creative possibilities of humble paper. The ancient Chinese, who were the first to pound bark fibers into flexible sheets, …