The oldest garment on display in “Dressed in History: A Costume Collection Retrospective” dates from the 1770s, while the most recent dates to last year.
“Haunted History” tours are held at the zoo in October — past dark, of course — and blend historical records and anecdotes about what may be one of the most haunted places in the city.
In a strongly worded letter to Valparaiso University’s Board of Directors, Richard Brauer demanded his name be removed from the Brauer Museum of Art if any of three cornerstone paintings are sold to fund dorm renovations, and called the move to sell the paintings by José Padilla, the university’s president, a “desperate action by a desperate man.”
The Chicago-based nonprofit 3Arts has presented this year’s 3Arts Awards, with a total of $620,000 in unrestricted funds going to 26 local artists. Along with 10 recipients of $30,000 grants for 2024, previously announced, the organization presented six $50,000 Next Level Awards in a ceremony Monday evening at the Harris Theater in Chicago. An additional 10 artists received $2,000 Make a Wave Awards. Winners of the newly announced Next Level Awards include: Rozalinda Borcilă, a Romanian immigrant, artist and activist whose work explores settler colonialism. She developed the experimental seminar, video and walking project “Underlying Miami: Sea Level Rise and Settler […]
On Oct. 21, 1959, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Guggenheim Museum opened in New York.
Representations of Day of the Dead, a celebration in Mexico and Latin America, are popping up around Chicago. Here’s the meaning behind them.
The Grand Egyptian Museum will open 12 halls with exhibits about ancient Egypt in its main galleries starting this week in a trial run ahead of the still-unannounced official opening, officials said Tuesday
In Art Martin’s driveway sits a 1947 Chevy Fleetmaster, painted kandy brandywine. The curves go on for days. He put too much into that car, he says.
Former Bad Boy Radio DJ Victor Blackful is set to open his second season of booking shows at Nathan Manilow Theatre in Park Forest.
Twenty-two new geniuses were anointed Tuesday as the Chicago-based MacArthur Foundation announced the 2024 winners of its MacArthur Fellowship.