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Fabrizio Barozzi, left, and Alberto Veiga of the Barcelona architectural firm Barozzi/Veiga stand outside the Art Institute of Chicago on Sept 9, 2019.

The Art Institute announces plans for a major makeover of its sprawling campus — but the lions will stay on Michigan Avenue

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

The Art Institute of Chicago has hired a Barcelona architectural firm to craft a master plan that could bring profound transformation to the Michigan Avenue museum in coming years. For...

Fall preview: Andy Warhol and the first Botanic Garden holiday lights fest make for an exciting season at Chicago-area museums

May 22, 2026 at 8:09 p.m.

Probably the biggest deal in Chicago museums this fall is the major Andy Warhol show coming up at the Art Institute, and the big news is that the Chicago Botanic...

David Weinberg, owner of the of Weinberg/Newton Gallery, across from his gallery along Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago.

David Weinberg of Weinberg/Newton Gallery has a new Chicago space, with room enough for both art and activism

May 22, 2026 at 8:09 p.m.

There are scores of galleries in Chicago. There is one, Weinberg/Newton Gallery, that specializes in merging art and social justice. For founder David Weinberg it's been a revelation, both as...

LaToya Ruby Frazier is seen on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019, at The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago where her exhibition of photos "The Last Cruze" will be shown. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

LaToya Ruby Frazier photographs the Rust Belt in search of social change

August 29, 2019 at 9:59 a.m.

LaToya Ruby Frazier has been teaching and working out of Chicago, the city she felt destined to live in, for almost six years now. Since 2013, the photographer focused on...

Bartlett native Chris Bukowski (left) chatted with show host Chris Harrison in the premiere of Season 6 of "Bachelor in Paradise."

Chicago restaurateur hands out a meaningful rose to end ‘Bachelor in Paradise’ triangle

August 27, 2019 at 8:13 a.m.

Warning: Spoilers ahead. The tease on Monday's "Bachelor in Paradise" was that Chicago restaurateur Chris Bukowski was not going to give the rose to Katie Morton, the California sales rep...

Cassano's Pizza Pepperoni the Clown doll, circa 1960s, is on display at the United States Pizza Museum in Chicago.

Chicago beat New York to open a pizza museum. Now it’s closing.

May 22, 2026 at 8:09 p.m.

Say it ain't so, Papa Joe. The U.S. Pizza Museum south of the Loop, which gave Chicago a controversial claim to primacy over New York in the perhaps nonexistent pizza...

Images in the exhibition "Figures of Speech" by the artist and designer Virgil Abloh is seen at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago on June 4, 2019.

MCA extends popular Virgil Abloh streetwear exhibition by a week

May 22, 2026 at 8:09 p.m.

The Virgil Abloh exhibition is staying in Chicago for another week. The MCA plans to extend the run of "Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech," one of its most popular shows...

These cameras, owned by Vivian Maier, were recently donated to University of Chicago.

Exclusive look at new photographs by Vivian Maier: U. of C. gets thousands of never-before-seen-prints made by famed photographer

May 22, 2026 at 8:09 p.m.

There are thousands of previously unseen pictures taken and printed by Vivian Maier in the new donation made to the University of Chicago Library. Yes, they are new images from...

Vivian Maier timeline: Breaking down the years-long battle over the photographer-nanny’s work

May 22, 2026 at 8:09 p.m.

To the extent people know Vivian Maier, they tend to know the broadest outlines of the story: North Shore nanny who took lots of photos but rarely printed them and...

Liz Phair performs on the first day of Riot Fest at Douglas Park in Chicago in 2018.

Samantha Power, Liz Phair and Eve Ewing lead field of Chicago Ideas Week speakers

May 22, 2026 at 8:09 p.m.

Chicago Ideas Week this October will once again feature a diverse range of speakers, melding business leaders, artists, journalists and athletes in on-stage conversations about what it deems pressing ideas....

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