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Several images from Simmons' Fake Fashion series are on display as part of the exhibition "Big Camera, Little Camera."

Laurie Simmons talks about her MCA photography show and how daughter Lena Dunham helped her explain her work

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

The images bring both pleasure and a sense of dislocation. A housewife at her counter, holding it together. Cowboys riding through a meadow, seeking that happy trail. Doe-eyed young women...

"Little Arturs," one of six "Troll Hunt" wooden sculptures by artist Thomas Dambo at the Morton Arboretum on Jan. 28, 2021.

Trolls triumphant! Morton Arboretum set an attendance record in 2018, DuSable was up 31 percent during a generally down year for Chicago’s museums

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

A posse of grand-scale wooden troll sculptures carried Morton Arboretum to the highest attendance in its 97-year history during 2018, as 1.276 million people visited the west suburban nature park....

Shedd Aquarium assistant animal care specialist Corine Gilbert works with sea otter Luna at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago.

Want to meet Luna? Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium announces a new, $110 sea otter experience

May 22, 2026 at 8:14 p.m.

A sea otter’s fur is much softer than you might expect. It looks sleek in the water, or just out of it, and you hear about them having a dense...

Animal care specialist Alicia Grano gently caresses Valentino, a baby African antelope born at Brookfield Zoo on Valentine?s Day. The tiny male calf weighed just over 23 ounces, zoo officials said.

Brookfield Zoo euthanizes tiny baby antelope Valentino born on Valentine’s Day due to birth defect

May 22, 2026 at 8:14 p.m.

Brookfield Zoo medical staff yesterday had to put down a tiny African antelope born on Valentine's Day due to a severe birth defect that meant it would not have survived,...

Art on theMart announces new videos for spring — part of Year of Chicago Theatre

May 22, 2026 at 8:14 p.m.

Art on theMart, the fledgling video projection project on the south facade of the Merchandise Mart, is celebrating Chicago theater with the second round of video art it will display,...

‘Purchased Lives’ at Holocaust Museum tells America’s tale of human trafficking — after overseas slave trade ended

May 22, 2026 at 8:14 p.m.

“Purchased Lives,” the new exhibition about the slave trade within America at the Illinois Holocaust Museum, has dozens of ways to break your heart and dozens more to boil your...

Museum staffers pose during wndr museum's opening week in the infinity mirror room, "Let's Survive Forever," an installation by artist Yayoi Kusama.

Instagram-friendly wndr museum moves from pop-up to permanent

May 22, 2026 at 8:14 p.m.

Wndr museum, the Instagram-friendly West Loop interactive art experience, may be short on vowels and capitals, but it has not been short of visitors. That popularity is at the core...

Perfume Genius performs Feb. 17, 2019, during Midwinter at the Art Institute of Chicago.

It’s a Midwinter wrap, as Pitchfork and the Art Institute merged, the music (mostly) won

February 18, 2019 at 9:20 a.m.

Online music zine Pitchfork and the Art Institute of Chicago’s ambitious, collaborative music and art exhibition Midwinter took over a number of the museum’s galleries and auditorium spaces from Friday...

How Pitchfork’s Midwinter fest, indie tunes at the Art Institute, worked: ‘But it’s so much money.’

February 17, 2019 at 1:05 p.m.

With its first two nights in the books, taste-making music platform Pitchfork and the Art Institute of Chicago’s collaborative, curated event Midwinter moves into its final day, Sunday. Just don’t...

The Paphiopedilum Hybrid/Tropical Lady's Slipper Orchid is on display in The Orchid Show at the Regenstein Center of the Chicago Botanic Garden.

Snow? What snow? 5 balmy things to know about the annual Orchid Show

May 22, 2026 at 8:14 p.m.

Last night, it literally stormed ice. As I write this, there is fresh snow on the ground. A space heater blows warmed air onto me, and my feet are wrapped...

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