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Kanye West speaks onstage during the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles.

No plans to have Kanye West teach, says School of the Art Institute of Chicago

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

Sorry, School of the Art Institute students. It looks like Kanye West will not be teaching at the Chicago institution, despite the hip-hop artist’s assertion on Twitter to the contrary....

Restaurateur Jose Andres, actor Tom Hanks, Chicago photographer Tonika Johnson and historian Ron Chernow are part of this fall's Chicago Humanities Festival.

Tom Hanks and Abbi Jacobson are among Chicago Humanities Fest headliners

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

Chicago Humanities Festival this fall will feature Tom Hanks, “Broad City” creator Abbi Jacobson and writers Jill Lepore and Rebecca Traister among its slate of speakers, the organization announced Sunday....

Art on theMart illuminates the Merchandise Mart behind the Franklin-Orleans Street Bridge during a test of the system Thursday night. A configuration of 34 projectors producing more than 1,000,000 lumens will turn the building's south façade into a giant video screen, with projections from video artists for those on the riverwalk or Wacker Drive across the way, beginning Sept. 29.

Art on theMart first test lights up Chicago River with a million-lumen rainbow

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

The Merchandise Mart has begun trying on its new outfits, and it looks, frankly, fabulous. Violet is its color. But so is light blue. And don’t get us started about...

Jennifer Siegenthaler, of the Terra Foundation, at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art.

Behind the scenes at the Terra, Jennifer Siegenthaler has been shaping Art Design Chicago

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

By the time Art Design Chicago is over in December, it will have been responsible for more than 30 exhibitions, hundreds of events, and a major book and TV series...

David Hogg, Parkland, Fla., shooting survivor and activist, speaks to the news media before the 50 Miles More walk against gun violence in Massachusetts in August 2018.

Chicago Ideas Week speakers will include David Hogg, Amber Tamblyn, John Kerry

December 17, 2018 at 4:06 p.m.

Anti-gun activist David Hogg, actress and #MeToo activist Amber Tamblyn and former Sen. John Kerry are among the featured speakers at the upcoming 2018 Chicago Ideas Week event, the organization...

10 museum exhibitions to look forward to this fall

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

Much of Chicago’s cultural calendar this year has been shaped by Art Design Chicago, the massive multi-institution initiative led by the city’s Terra Foundation for American Art that probes the...

Ken Walczak of Far Horizons at the Adler Planetarium holds the helium balloon in place as other team members make final adjustments before launch from Kankakee River State Park in Bourbonnais on July 24.

Cameras in the corn: Adler space balloon project aims to map Chicago light pollution

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

The reasons to plunge into an unknown farmer’s cornfield in central Illinois in the middle of the night are not innumerable. 1. You really want some corn, and you’ve heard...

The renovated entrance foyer at the Newberry Library features a copy of a 16th century portolan chart.

Not just for scholars anymore? $12.7M Newberry Library rehab aims to be more inviting to the public

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

Yes, the venerable Newberry Library is making a bid to be more welcoming and relevant with its multimillion-dollar first-floor makeover, being unveiled over these late summer weeks. No, the new...

Sea lions at Lincoln Park Zoo, circa 1915.

Lincoln Park Zoo turns 150: How a small gift led to one of the best free zoos in the country

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

In August of 1868, the nation was just out of a wrenching Civil War. The Great Chicago Fire lay in wait, three years from igniting and reshaping the city. And...

Art on theMart announces artists who will turn Merchandise Mart into huge, riverwalk-facing video wall

May 22, 2026 at 8:18 p.m.

Art on theMART, aiming to enliven the Chicago Riverwalk with nightly video art shows projected onto the 2.5-acre front facade of the Merchandise Mart, announced its inaugural slate of artists...

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