“What is art for?” asks art historian Katharine Kuh in the introductory wall text of the Smart Museum’s ambitious rehang of their entire gallery space. The question was likely at least partly ...

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Founders, friends, and affiliates of Chicago hip-hop label Closed Sessions use its 15th anniversary to reflect on the ...

A sturdy exhibition of photographs and objects born of the sprawling practice of Frank Lloyd Wright has opened at the ...

Since opening the first Semicolon bookstore in 2019, Danielle Moore has dedicated her business to closing the literacy gap.

Shedd Aquarium is the ninth Chicago-area cultural institution to unionize with AFSCME Council 31 in the past three years. Now ...

South Side Impresarios stresses Price was almost certainly not the only composer of their race, gender, and time to write ...

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Coalesce’s music feels like a bitter black mass whose apocalyptic textures are countered only by the band’s dark humor.

Works by artist vanessa german on view at the Logan Center aim to transport viewers into a space of vulnerability, curiosity, ...

This revival succeeds on all levels, delivering a show that puts the sparkle back in Irving Berlin’s tunes and works as an ...