Our events guide for Chicago’s big week, from shows that embrace politics to local joints where you can hide from it all.
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Category: Arts
‘Gilded Agility’ at the International Museum of Surgical Science captures Black dancers’ bodies in 14K gold
Local artist D. Lammie-Hanson’s exhibit has a series of images created with metalpoint.
Museums closed Native American exhibits 6 months ago. Tribes are still waiting to get items back
The Field Museum established a Center for Repatriation after covering up cases dedicated to ancient America and peoples of the coastal Northwest and Arctic.
‘Not the end point’: Markers commemorate lives lost in Chicago Race Riot of 1919
More than 100 years after the riots, the first five of 38 planned commemorative glass markers — one for each person killed — will be unveiled.
White Sox are rolling out concert-style posters in another crossover of art and Chicago sports
Working with a local art gallery, the White Sox are rolling out 28 concert-style posters this season that were created by a total of 12 artists in Chicago and a couple more major league cities.
Grad student uses animation to create an online community for abuse survivors
Nitya Mehrotra uses her skills as an animator to create more than just art — she’s building a community. The East Lakeview grad student is the founder of an online platform called Stories by Strangers that supports the physically and mentally abused. Mehrotra, 23, created the safe space for abuse survivors to anonymously share their struggles […]
Paris puts Park Ridge artist’s statue of Lincoln on display near Champs Elysee
Usually the well-worn path is one-way, from France to the United States, for high culture and haute cuisine alighting here via the Statue of Liberty, art galleries, fancy restaurants and bakeries. But when the course was reversed, in this instance from Park Ridge to the streets of Paris, there was cause for celebration on Saturday, June 15, via French champagne, charcuterie trays and macarons at the local Kalo Foundation for the most all-American of symbols – a bust of Abraham Lincoln. Park Ridge art patrons gathered at a white-painted converted home just northwest of downtown to hear a story that […]
Ahead of Season 3, ‘The Bear’ food tour serves fans a taste of the action: ‘you can practically taste the food when you watch’
A traditional Chicago sandwich shop may seem like an unconventional excursion. But since “The Bear” debuted, tourists have flocked in droves to Mr. Beef, which opened in River North in 1963.
A real-world ‘Sesame Street’: Lawndale Pop-Up Spot puts art, storytelling in the hands of the public
With rotating exhibits, the museum housed in a shipping container lets community members dictate what they want to see and do.
There’s no beat, no lyrics. You can’t dance to it. But cicada music is the coolest music you know
You can’t dance to it, and there is no melody nor any lyrics. But the sounds of cicadas are music — music that buzzes, whines, thrums and fizzes.