In Chicago Tree Project, a second life as sculpture
As Kara James turns the group of dead trees in a public park near Foster Avenue Beach into art, pretty much everyone who walks by has something to say, she...
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Art Institute of Chicago: Veer off the masterpiece path at AIC
The challenge in visiting the Art Institute of Chicago is to get beyond the obvious. Easier said than done. You could spend your time cruising from one iconic work to...
China exhibit hall coming to Field Museum
For the next addition to its permanent exhibitions, Chicago's Field Museum is looking far to the East. The Cyrus Tang Hall of China, showcasing some 350 artifacts from the museum's...
Chicago Humanities Festival releases fall schedule
Click "I'm a Book Nerd. What's for me?" on the website of the Chicago Humanities Festival, and 36 programs from the schedule for autumn 2014 fill the screen. That's about...
Art Institute painting gets postage stamp treatment
Being enshrined on a postage stamp is not what it used to be in the days when people would argue vigorously over which pop-culture figures were or were not appropriate...
Chicago Botanic Garden: All the pathways are yours
It isn't easy to find all of the serene nooks and calming crannies at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Some of the paths at the park seem perfectly content to go...
How Discovery Channel’s Shark Week didn’t (quite) bite the Shedd
Discovery Channel's Shark Week will never be mistaken for the video version of a scientific journal. Tales of monster sharks and killer sharks and legendary, probably non-existent sharks predominate —...
Lincoln Park Zoo sets new kiddie train opening date
Lincoln Park Zoo on Oct. 2 will open the new Lionel Train Adventure children's train ride, part of its big current improvement project, the zoo announced. The $3 ride on...
2014 Humanities Festival full schedule is announced
Even before Tuesday, a handful of speakers at this fall's Chicago Humanities Festival had been announced: comedian Paula Poundstone, writer Colm Toibin, former Brown University president Ruth Simmons, rocker-poet-autobiographer Patti...
Adler hosts meteor shower viewing in Wheaton
Proposed: The best kind of outdoor shower is a meteor shower. And to let you test that proposition, Chicago's Adler Planetarium is hosting its annual viewing party for the Perseid...