The Art Institute of Chicago is now open on Wednesdays, 11am-5pm, they announce in their newsletter. “That’s one extra day to explore our collection and special exhibitions, drop in for a tour, visit ...

I met James Elder in the early 1980s when he was a creative writing student at Columbia College Chicago, who was well known as a gifted writer. Many years later, in the middle of my first interview I ...

In its annual North American Design series, Dezeen picks eight independent design studios, featuring “a wide range of material and aesthetic sensibilities in the city on the shore of Lake Michigan.” ...

“There was a heated debate about the First Amendment and whether a politically charged piece of artwork titled ‘U.S.-Israel War Machine’ should be displayed on city-owned property, the Chicago ...

Get Chicago & Midwest culture news sent to your inbox every weekday morning. Subscribe to Newcity Today here. ART Roger Brown Study Collection Sold To Kohler Foundation “The School of the Art ...

Artist, educator and activist Nelson Stevens, an early member of the Chicago collective AfriCOBRA, was eighty-four, reports Culture Type. “He contributed to a ‘radical Black aesthetic that asserted ...

Expo Chicago has announced curatorial initiatives for its eleventh edition, at Navy Pier’s Festival Hall, April 11-14. In partnership with Independent Curators International (ICI), Expo Chicago will ...

Spoiler alert: the Fine Arts Building was not sold to a developer and demolished. On June 7, 1978, it was designated a Chicago Historic Landmark. And the following year, it fell into the hands of its ...

In the early twentieth century, Samuel Insull was the most powerful man in Chicago. During his rise, he had been smitten with an actress, the possibly teenage ingénue Gladys Wallis, who he had first ...

GEMINI: give yourself a congratulatory gift, dear Gemini.Free Will Astrology: Week of June 20, 2024 by Rob Brezsny | June 18, 2024 ...

Today In Culture, Friday, January 5, 2024: Unrest at WTTW | John Manion’s South American Redux | Howlin’ Wolf’s Home by Ray Pride | January 5, 2024 ...

David Perry, director of the Great Cities Institute at the University of Illinois Chicago for nearly twelve years, “was also an urban planning and policy professor at UIC and served as associate ...