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Art Institute taking its work outside this summer

June 17, 2018 at 3:38 p.m.

Washington crossing the Eisenhower? "Nighthawks" at the bus stop? Come August, American art will be meeting the public in public, with such possible combinations as Grant Wood's "American Gothic" on...

Art Institute taking its work outside this summer

November 3, 2021 at 8:36 p.m.

Washington crossing the Eisenhower? "Nighthawks" at the bus stop? Come August, American art will be meeting the public in public, with such possible combinations as Grant Wood's "American Gothic" on...

Art Institute taking its work outside this summer

December 23, 2018 at 5:20 p.m.

Washington crossing the Eisenhower? "Nighthawks" at the bus stop? Come August, American art will be meeting the public in public, with such possible combinations as Grant Wood's "American Gothic" on...

‘Railroaders’ at the Chicago History Museum

June 17, 2018 at 3:40 p.m.

Roundhouse worker William London is a sight: raccoon eyes, thanks to the goggles he had been wearing; soot on his face, thanks to his job amid coal-burning trains; and a...

Linsey Ralston, left, of Chicago, and Caroline Gray-Lyth, visiting from England, view photos by amateur street photographer Vivian Maier in the exhibit, "Vivian Maier's Chicago" at the Chicago History Museum in 2014.

Vivian Maier exhibit at Harold Washington Library

December 17, 2018 at 9:19 p.m.

For a woman of mystery, the late North Shore nanny Vivian Maier certainly is easy to find these days. The latest installments in the posthumous story of Maier and the...

‘Railroaders’ at the Chicago History Museum

August 24, 2021 at 10:37 p.m.

Roundhouse worker William London is a sight: raccoon eyes, thanks to the goggles he had been wearing; soot on his face, thanks to his job amid coal-burning trains; and a...

Vivian Maier exhibit at Harold Washington Library

August 24, 2021 at 10:38 p.m.

For a woman of mystery, the late North Shore nanny Vivian Maier certainly is easy to find these days. The latest installments in the posthumous story of Maier and the...

Can the arts get smart about the smartphone?

June 17, 2018 at 4:26 p.m.

Shulamit Ran likes her ring tone. "It's a harplike arpeggio going up and down," says the Chicago composer, who won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize in music for her "Symphony." "It's...

Can the arts get smart about the smartphone?

August 24, 2021 at 10:28 p.m.

Shulamit Ran likes her ring tone. "It's a harplike arpeggio going up and down," says the Chicago composer, who won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize in music for her "Symphony." "It's...

Survival, extinction at Notebaert Nature Museum

June 17, 2018 at 4:14 p.m.

The new exhibition at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum is like a roll call of lost, or nearly lost, species: the passenger pigeon, the American bison, the black bear in...

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