Alan Artner

Two Chicagoans are among the 35 artists who have received 1999 awards from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation in New York. They are painter/photographer Gaylen Gerber and Helen Mirra, who...

Movies - "American Beauty" has gathered extraordinary pre-release acclaim and juicy buzz. And in many ways, "American Beauty," which was the favorite at the recent Toronto International Film Festival, is...

Summer seduces. Even those who profess to hate it -- and in putting together this special issue we have learned that many people moan about summer's heat, its traffic and...

Welcome to the last installment of our admittedly Eurocentric, somewhat Anglophiliac, U.S.-heavy and Chicago-focused chronicle of the most important cutural events of the last 1,000 years. (Movie) 1968. "2001: A...

1914-World War I, which will destroy a large percentage of the young artists of Europe and will drastically affect the creative thinking of those who live through it, begins. (Visual...

(Visual art) 1946-Detroit photographer Harry Callahan comes to Chicago to teach at the Institute of Design and embarks on a series of masterpieces that becomes chamber music for the eye....

Last Sunday we began the daunting chronicle of the pivotal cutural events in the last 1,000 years. What follows is Part 2 of our admittedly Eurocentric, somewhat Anglophiliac, U.S.-heavy and...

(Music) 1889-The "divine" Claudia Muzio, one of the most celebrated dramatic sopranos of the first half of the 20th Century (especially in Chicago, where she reigned supreme from 1922 to...

Each year, at this traditional time of review, it has been the pleasure of the Arts & Entertainment staff of the Tribune to single out those individuals in the arts...

Classical: Lyric Opera will open its 44th season with a gala performance of Ponchielli's "La Gioconda," starring Jane Eaglen, Johan Botha, Robynne Redmon, Nikolai Putilin and Nancy Maultsby, with Bruno...