A judge in New York ruled on Wednesday that the Art Institute of Chicago must surrender a 1916 drawing by Egon Schiele to investigators who plan to return it to the heirs of a Jewish cabaret entertainer from Vienna who was murdered in a Nazi concentration camp in 1941.
“For only $25 a year, you can protect Black history,” Rev. Otis Moss III of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago told his church.
Thousands expected for Art in Wilder Park presented by the Elmhurst Art Museum, this year featuring Chicago artist Bernard Williams.
Neighbors have raised $20,000 to reopen Greenstone Church in Pullman, which has been shuttered for years because of unpaid bills.
Resistance takes many forms, said one filmmaker featured at the 24th annual event, and “one of the more impactful ways is film.”
The letter, posted to Instagram Wednesday as a petition people can sign, harshly criticizes Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events Commissioner Clinée Hedspeth.
The exhibit at the Newberry Library has everything from “Star Wars” clips to Polaroid pictures, showing through pop culture how Native stories are still being created. “We’re still here”
The exhibition will open here next fall, coming to Chicago from the Tate Modern in London, where it reportedly set attendance records.
Weather permitting, the celestial show will peak in the early hours of March 14 as a moon passes through the Earth’s shadow.
After debuting in New York last summer, the exhibition “Constructing Hope: Ukraine” has opened in Chicago.