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Outgoing MCA director Madeleine Grynsztejn, “who steps down at the end of the year, is believed to be the first chief of an American museum to pledge that half of all exhibitions, acquisitions and ...

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“Samantha Walton, a philanthropist whose family is behind the Walmart empire, is the new owner of Ravenswood’s Lillstreet Art Center,” reports Block Club. “Walton has been coming to Lillstreet since ...

The Art Institute’s rooftop terrace will host “Tony Cokes: On Boredom,” through March 14, 2027, announces the Art Institute. “This two-part installation turns the terrace windows facing Millennium ...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Before Aries-born Maya Angelou became a celebrated author, she was San Francisco’s first Black female streetcar conductor, a calypso dancer, a cook, a journalist in Ghana ...

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The beloved Chicago painter’s posthumous rise has been an unlikely story, and has just reached a new high-water mark: Last ...

Volume Gallery has announced that it now represents “Chicago-based artist Sung Jang. Originally from South Korea, Jang has studied art and design around the world and is known as an innovator who ...

It’s a Friday afternoon and two young men from the suburbs are looking for a place to crash later that night, after hitting up the bars in Andersonville and Uptown. A friend recommended The Lodge ...

It is two-thirty in the morning at Carol’s Pub. Most of the other bars in the neighborhood have closed, and customers of all ages—from twenty-one to sixty—file in to order more beer and whiskey, and ...