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Chicago’s Newberry Library picks Holocaust Museum historian as new leader

May 22, 2026 at 8:12 p.m.

The Newberry Library’s next president and librarian will be Daniel Greene, a United States Holocaust Memorial Museum historian and curator who previously worked at the Newberry, the Chicago independent research...

Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams is one of the presenters in the Chicago Humanities Festival's 2019 spring lineup.

Stacey Abrams, Bill McKibben, Melinda Gates among speakers for Chicago Humanities Festival’s Springfest 2019

May 22, 2026 at 8:12 p.m.

Rising Democratic Party star Stacey Abrams, novelist Jennifer Egan and climate-change activist Bill McKibben will be among the speakers in the Chicago Humanities Festival’s 2019 spring lineup, the organization announced...

Nigerian-British artist Yinka Shonibare's "Party Time: Re-imagine America" (2009) in the former dining room at the Driehaus Museum in Chicago.

It’s ‘Party Time’ at the Driehaus with an exuberant show from Yinka Shonibare

May 22, 2026 at 8:13 p.m.

The mansion housing Chicago’s Driehaus Museum is one of the great relics of the Gilded Age, that period when the city was flush with new capital its holders wanted to...

Elizabeth Glassman, president and CEO of the Terra Foundation for American Art, poses with paintings in the Terra's vault in Jan. 2018.

Elizabeth Glassman will step down as president of Chicago’s Terra Foundation

May 22, 2026 at 8:13 p.m.

Elizabeth Glassman, longtime president and CEO of Chicago’s Terra Foundation for American Art, will step down by the end of the year, the foundation announced Wednesday. Glassman joined the Terra...

Announcing Water Tower Arts District: New Chicago coalition forms to spotlight the culture amid the shopping

May 22, 2026 at 8:13 p.m.

The area around Chicago’s historic Water Tower wasn’t always known primarily as a destination for handbag and clothing purchases, followed by lunch. It was once a thriving, faintly bohemian arts...

DuPage gallery to expand ahead of Frida Kahlo exhibit

May 22, 2026 at 8:13 p.m.

In advance of the largest exhibition of Frida Kahlo paintings in the Chicago area since 1978, College of Du Page plans to expand and upgrade the exhibition’s host space, the...

The opening-night party of "Saturday Night Live: The Experience" at the Museum of Broadcast Communications was in Oct. 2017.

Chicago’s Museum of Broadcast Communications will downsize in overhaul

May 22, 2026 at 8:13 p.m.

Chicago’s Museum of Broadcast Communications will undergo a shrinkage and a major overhaul intending to put it on firm popular and financial footing, the museum announced Thursday. The museum dedicated...

Thomas D. Mangelsen – A Life in the Wild at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.

Nature loves a lens: Wildlife photography is on display at both Notebaert and Field Museum in Chicago

May 22, 2026 at 8:13 p.m.

The wildlife of Illinois isn’t as varied or as powerful as it once was. Outside the gallery at the Notebaert Nature Museum showing Thomas D. Mangelsen’s stunning wildlife photography retrospective...

Chicago’s MacArthur Foundation has a new president: Digital scholar John Palfrey

May 22, 2026 at 8:13 p.m.

Chicago’s MacArthur Foundation has named as its new president John Palfrey, an educator, author and scholar with a focus on digital technology and a history of working with MacArthur, the...

Sherrie Westin from Sesame Workshop meets the Muppet Tonton voiced by Deena Al Saleh as four finalists vied to win the MacArthur Foundation's initial 100&Change price onstage at Chicago's Loews Hotel in Dec. 2017.

MacArthur Foundation announces second $100 million grant competition

May 22, 2026 at 8:13 p.m.

Chicago’s MacArthur Foundation will conduct a second round of its innovative $100 million grant competition 100&Change, the organization announced Thursday. From April 30 to August 6, the charity will accept...

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