Charles Storch

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $1.37 million in grants to scholars and humanities projects in Illinois, almost half of which, or $615,389, went toward a documentary film in...

On July 18, Tempo chronicled the struggle of Dr. May Weber to keep open a tiny Chicago museum she founded in September 1987, despite the increasing financial burden the museum...

More comings-and-goings at the Arts Club of Chicago: The club, a noted venue for contemporary art exhibitions, says that it has hired outsider Kathy Cottong to fill the vacant position...

National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman Sheldon Hackney wants to promote "national conversations" on the forces and issues that draw Americans together and apart but he's still searching for the...

Earthquake-damaged libraries, archives and museums in the Los Angeles area will be eligible for some of the $1 million set aside last summer by the National Endowment for the Humanities...

Expect the people of Decorah, Iowa, to be glued to their television sets during the Winter Olympics in Norway. After all, Decorah, population about 8,000, is such a hotbed, so...

As many as 1,000 arts administrators, artists and teachers from around the country are expected to descend on the Hyatt Regency Chicago Hotel for an April 14-16 conference sponsored by...

On Nov. 15, Tempo reported that museums across the country were in a panic trying to meet a deadline established by the 1990 Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act....

Donald Austin, the onetime barber who opened as many as 30 art galleries from Chicago's Magnificent Mile to San Francisco's Fishermen's Wharf, was convicted Monday of fraud for knowingly selling...

On Aug. 18, Tempo profiled Douglas Greenberg, who had been picked to be the new president of the Chicago Historical Society. Greenberg took over on Oct. 1, and his administration...