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Willa Lang, Chicago Park Foundation Executive Director, speaks at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Aids Garden Chicago on June 2, 2021, in Chicago.

5 facts about that giant Keith Haring sculpture on lakeside AIDS garden site

May 22, 2026 at 8:06 p.m.

Five quick facts about the giant new Keith Haring sculpture installed on the North Side lakefront over the weekend: 1. It will be a focal point of the forthcoming AIDS...

People walk through the "Singing Trees" at the Chicago Botanic Garden's Lightscape installation, Nov. 21, 2019.

A guide to the biggest holiday lights shows in the Chicago area, including Zoolights and a brand new look for the Chicago Botanic Garden

May 22, 2026 at 8:07 p.m.

It was probably inevitable that Chicago Botanic Garden would join its fellow area nature parks in mounting a holiday lights display. These outdoor homages to the allure of artificial light...

A 17th-century atlas Is part of the new Chicago's Night Sky exhibit Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, at Adler Planetarium in Chicago.

Thanks to light pollution, you probably can’t see Chicago’s night sky. New Adler exhibit explores it

May 22, 2026 at 8:07 p.m.

"Chicago's Night Sky," the first Adler Planetarium update of its permanent exhibitions in almost five years, almost sounds like it's trying to be ironic: When you go out in the...

Elizabeth Glassman, CEO of Chicago's Terra Foundation, poses in December, 2018 in the Art Design Chicago-sponsored "Modern by Design: Chicago Streamlines America" exhibit at the Chicago History Museum.

Art Design Chicago celebration of city’s visual arts to return in 2024

May 22, 2026 at 8:07 p.m.

Art Design Chicago, the yearlong 2018 event that sponsored dozens of exhibitions and public events related to the city's visual arts legacy, will return in 2024, the organizing Terra Foundation...

In this photo from about 1945 Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954) sits with her arms folded, looking down, in front of one of her paintings and a wooden bird cage.

Online tickets to ‘Frida Kahlo 2020,’ Chicago area’s largest Kahlo show in decades, to go on sale Dec. 10

May 22, 2026 at 8:07 p.m.

Tickets go on sale online Dec. 10 to "Frida Kahlo 2020," the most comprehensive exhibition of Kahlo's work in the Chicago area since 1978, the College of Du Page announced...

A painting called "Prisoner" by the Japanese cult artist Tetsuya Ishida, part of a solo exhibition of his work called "Self-Portrait of Other" at the gallery Wrightwood 659.

Japanese ‘cult’ artist Tetsuya Ishida depicts Japan’s relentlessly conformism and technology’s control at Wrightwood 659

May 22, 2026 at 8:07 p.m.

When the largest western exhibition of Tetsuya Ishida's paintings went on display at Madrid's Museo Reina Sofia, it was "extremely popular, especially with young people," said Teresa Velazquez, the exhibition's...

Andy Warhol's "Triple Elvis" is part of "Andy Warhol – From A to B and Back Again" at the Art Institute of Chicago.

The first big Andy Warhol retrospective in decades is now at the Art Institute of Chicago

May 22, 2026 at 8:07 p.m.

It would not be wrong to begin your visit to the big new Andy Warhol exhibition in the place where the licensed Andy merch is sold: Enter through the gift...

Sharyne Moy Tu of Chicago takes pictures at the McCormick Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum during one of the first autumn raisings of the massive DuSable Bridge on Michigan Avenue.

Hurried Chicagoans hate it when the river bridges open. The Chicago River Museum sells tickets.

May 22, 2026 at 8:07 p.m.

Usually when Chicagoans encounter the bridges over the city's namesake river in a temporarily vertical posture, it is a source of annoyance: We all have to wait here so that...

The Museum of Science and Industry, pictured here in 2018, is an iconic fixture on Chicago's South Side lakefront.

The Museum of Science and Industry is getting a new name after Chicago billionaire Ken Griffin donates $125 million

May 22, 2026 at 8:08 p.m.

The Museum of Science and Industry will rename itself after Chicago philanthropist Ken Griffin, who is making the largest donation in the institution's history, the museum announced Thursday. The sprawling...

Stefan Edlis poses for a portrait April 21, 2015, in Chicago. Edlis and his wife, Gael Neeson, donated more than 40 masterpieces to the Art Institute of Chicago.

11 big recent cultural gifts, by Ken Griffin and others in Chicago

May 22, 2026 at 8:08 p.m.

These are some of the major donations made by Chicago hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin, along with some of the major Chicago cultural gifts by others in recent years. They...

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