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Adrien Pochel drums and sings outside the Field Museum during a land recognition ceremony.

Chicago’s Field Museum announces plans to revamp Native American Hall — with Native Americans as ‘partners’

May 22, 2026 at 8:16 p.m.

Field Museum will transform its aged Native North American Hall in the next three years, working to develop the new exhibits with Native Americans as “community partners,” the museum announced...

Download this painting, for free: Art Institute goes ‘open access’ with its collection

May 22, 2026 at 8:16 p.m.

Van Gogh’s “The Bedroom” is now the background image on my home desktop computer, and it not only looks beautiful in its high-resolution glory, it also subtly reminds me to...

Sommelier and restauranteur Alpana Singh is returning as host of "Check, Please!"

Dinner with Alpana Singh: She says she’s ‘comfortable’ back in the ‘Check, Please!’ host chair

December 12, 2018 at 10:24 a.m.

It turns out that when you are out to dinner with Alpana Singh, an evening that ranges across two restaurants, four appetizers, three main courses and a delectable glass of...

The "Fields of Battle - Lands of Peace: The Doughboys 1917-1918" exhibition is seen on the sidewalk outside of the welcome center at Navy Pier in Chicago.

World War I exhibit ‘Fields of Battle’ at Navy Pier tries to push forgotten conflict into public’s mind

May 22, 2026 at 8:16 p.m.

There is no national World War I memorial in Washington, D.C. And there was no high-level representative from the current presidential administration at the 2017 centenary event commemorating the U.S....

Anna Felicity Friedman, here in her home in Chicago's Austin neighborhood in 2005, is leading the Oct. 27 session "Tattoo History" for the Chicago Humanities Festival.

Chicago Humanities Fest is ready to school us once again with its big names (Tom Hanks!) and big ideas

May 22, 2026 at 8:17 p.m.

Ladies and gentlemen, the fall semester is almost in session. The Chicago Humanities Festival would probably recoil at its annual offerings being presented that way, as a version of adult...

A chromolithograph titled "The Dream City" is part of the exhibit "Pictures from an Exposition" at the Newberry Library in Chicago. The display of items from and about the 1893 World's Fair is one of the exhibitions in this year's citywide Art Design Chicago event.

We can’t stop thinking about the 1893 World’s Fair, as the Newberry Library’s new exhibit demonstrates

May 22, 2026 at 8:15 p.m.

Whatever budgetary qualms Chicago may have had about putting on the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, it is, by now, safe to say that the city got its money’s worth....

The blank wall at the top of the second-floor staircase where artist Kerry James Marshall's monumental canvas "Knowledge & Wonder" once hung at the Chicago Public Library's Legler Branch, shown Oct. 9, 2018.

Was Kerry James Marshall’s public library painting too valuable to stay in a library?

May 22, 2026 at 8:15 p.m.

On the one hand, the almost absurdly valuable painting is no longer displayed on an upstairs wall at a Chicago Public Library branch, where anybody could get close to it....

For ‘Walking Dead,’ the new season brings a ‘new beginning.’ Or does it?

December 12, 2018 at 4:07 a.m.

“The Walking Dead,” AMC’s zombie-apocalypse warhorse of a series, starts its ninth season proclaiming, in the first episode’s title, that it’s “A New Beginning.” But is it? As Sunday’s opener...

Here are 2018’s MacArthur ‘genius grant’ winners, including an Illinois legal scholar

December 17, 2018 at 4:03 p.m.

University of Illinois scholar Rebecca Sandefur’s work on bringing broader access to civil justice is the kind of in-the-weeds scholarship that can fuel a full and effective academic career, but...

‘Art and Design in Chicago’ brings city’s visual art worlds to your WTTW-TV screen

December 12, 2018 at 3:07 a.m.

Contrary to much of the Chicago art world, as it has developed, “Art and Design in Chicago” leans south. Titled “If You Build It …,” the first episode of the...

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