MCA’s ‘Police State’ is a lesson in resistance from a founding member of Pussy Riot
Dissident Nadya Tolokonnikova talks to the Tribune about the installation that re-creates a Russian prison cell inside the museum.
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Walking in the Loop? Look down. You may be passing new markers of city’s Race Riot of 1919.
Brick markers identify where Chicagoans were slain, with 19 of the 38 planned bricks installed to date.
Review: A guitar concerto throwback enlivens Riccardo Muti’s CSO fall residency
Performances by soloist Pablo Sainz-Villegas were the highlight of Muti’s two-week autumn residency, now customary for the CSO’s music director emeritus.
Art Institute announces $50 million conservation center, with the public welcome to watch the work
The Grainger Center for Conservation and Science, due to open in 2027, will occupy prime real estate in the museum's former Regenstein Hall.
With its own home base, Asian Improv Arts Midwest and its jazz festival are here to stay
If a building represented Tatsu Aoki’s life, it would look like the Asian Improv Arts Midwest dojo, on Elston Avenue. After years of renting space from the Japanese American Service...
Review: Haymarket Opera and Newberry Consort link up for a rare ‘Euridice’
Jacopo Peri’s “Euridice,” composed for a Medici court wedding in 1600, holds the title of the oldest extant opera.
Review: Back and bigger than ever, 2025’s Ear Taxi is a smooth ride
Against all odds, the Ear Taxi Festival is back — and how.
Meet La Caccina, the choir celebrating strong women — and, this Halloween, witches
The treble choir’s witch-themed “Weird Sisters” stretches from Devon Cole’s viral pop hit from 2022 “W.I.T.C.H.” to Swedish composer Arne Mellnäs’ 1969 piece “Aglepta.”
Review: CSO and Mäkelä present a theatrical ‘Harold in Italy’ that the composer would have loved
Hector Berlioz, you would have loved Thursday’s Chicago Symphony concert.
Review: In Sun Ra tribute, pianist Sullivan Fortner launches the Logan Center into orbit
His memorable concert Friday at the University of Chicago was joined by the “Galactic Friends,” as Fortner calls this septet, including some Arkestra veterans.