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Jonathan Katz, curator of, "About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and New Queer Art," poses for a portrait on Thursday, May 23, 2019 at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago. (Kristen Norman/ for the baiduhai)

Queer art celebration honors Stonewall anniversary by looking beyond the binary

May 22, 2026 at 8:10 p.m.

Update: This exhibition has been extended through August 10. The original closing date was July 20. People seeing the title of "About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and New Queer Art," the...

Lonnie Bunch, the founding director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, in Chicago in 2014.

Lonnie Bunch, former Chicago History Museum director, is new leader of the Smithsonian

May 22, 2026 at 8:10 p.m.

Lonnie Bunch, the founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture and former director of the Chicago History Museum, has been named the 14th Secretary of...

From left, a peachbloom-glazed domed waterpot from 1662-1722. (Est. $80,000-$120,000.) A Wucai garlic-mouth vase from 1573-1619. (Est. $200,000-$300,000.) And yellow-enameled stem bowl, Qianlong six-character seal mark from 1736-1795. (Est. $60,000-$80,000.)

Art Institute will sell 300 ancient Chinese artworks via auction

May 22, 2026 at 8:10 p.m.

The Art Institute of Chicago is selling — "deaccessioning," in museum terms — more than 300 Chinese artworks through a Christie's auction in New York in September. "The selection represents...

Here’s the best of what’s new at Chicago-area museums this summer

May 22, 2026 at 8:10 p.m.

From John James Audubon to Edouard Manet to contemporary queer art, from streetwear in the gallery to pizza artifacts in a museum devoted to the savory pie, a wide range...

Baby rhino alert: Rare eastern black rhinoceros is born at Lincoln Park Zoo

May 22, 2026 at 8:10 p.m.

The baby began standing less than an hour into its life. That's good even for a newborn rhinoceros, according to Lincoln Park Zoo, which announced the Sunday birth of the...

‘Game of Thrones’ finale recap: 5 thoughts on that satisfying (sort of) ending

May 20, 2019 at 11:50 p.m.

Well, that was... satisfying intellectually, I guess, sort of. But Sunday's big series finale of "Game of Thrones," which saw -- spoiler alert -- all manners of justice meted out,...

Mother Rollie and her baby in the Regenstein Center for African Apes at Lincoln Park Zoo on May 14, 2019. The western lowland gorilla was born May 12.

Baby gorilla born on Mother’s Day at Lincoln Park Zoo

May 22, 2026 at 8:11 p.m.

The Mother's Day surprise awaiting Lincoln Park Zoo curator of primates Jill Moyse was fitting. Overnight Sunday in the zoo's Regenstein Center for African Apes, Rollie, a female gorilla born...

‘Game of Thrones’ Season 8, Episode 5 recap: 5 thoughts on who died Sunday and who really won the fiery battle in the streets

May 13, 2019 at 2:19 p.m.

So it turns out a one-dragon lead is more than enough. In the world-changing second-to-last episode of "Game of Thrones" Sunday night (spoiler alert), a temperate city was taken, an...

A rendering released by Lincoln Park Zoo showing how the redone Kovler Lion House will look.

New $35 million Lincoln Park Zoo lion house to include food zipline but not the current lions

May 22, 2026 at 8:11 p.m.

Lincoln Park Zoo's new Kovler Lion House will allow visitors to be amid the animals' habitat — from behind see-through walls, of course. That immersive quality is one of the...

In new ‘Klepper,’ Chicago-trained comic kisses sincerity (and he likes it)

May 8, 2019 at 1:40 p.m.

"I used to be behind a desk," Jordan Klepper says in his new and surprisingly affecting Comedy Central series, which debuts Thursday (10:30 p.m.). The name is "Klepper," but it...

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