Northern Trust, the presenting sponsor of Expo Chicago, “is fully committed to remaining independent, the bank said after the Wall Street Journal reported that Bank of New York Mellon had approached ...

Kunstmuseum Basel will adapt Wrightwood 659’s “The First Homosexuals” for an exhibition next spring to coincide with Art Basel, the institution announces. “Founded in 1661, Kunstmuseum Basel houses ...

The New York Times’ art critics pick eleven outstanding exhibitions from the first half of the year, including “Myth & Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia.” “Everything we ask of art is ...

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The camera obscura was a precursor to modern cameras. It projected the outside world upside down onto interior walls. Artists loved it because it helped them see reality ...

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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 ...

Today In Culture, Monday, June 23, 2025: Chicago Architecture Biennial Participants | Smoque vs. Weber | Nascar’s Chicago Swan Song? by Ray Pride | June 23, 2025 ...

While I ride CTA trains a few times a week, I was interested in getting a better sense of what conditions are like on the El at other times of the day. So I hung out on the Red and Blue routes from ...

Once you drive west beyond Bismarck, the state capital, you are struck by several things. One is the vastness of the sky and that the grasslands roll to the horizon, a simple beauty apart from ...

An accidental visit to the Wilson Men’s Hotel may scare off unsuspecting, if apocryphal, visitors today, but the Near West Side, Chicago’s legendary Skid Row, is no longer “Land of the Living Dead,” ...

What Brinkerhoff and Blauvelt saw that day—or what they said they saw—was the sea serpent that Chicagoans have reported spotting for more than a hundred years. Unlike the Loch Ness monster, this ...