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Why wasn’t more done? No easy answers in new ‘Americans and the Holocaust’ exhibit in Washington, D.C.

May 22, 2026 at 8:19 p.m.

What did Americans know about the Holocaust, and when did we know it? Those essential questions are at the core of a powerful new exhibition at the United States Holocaust...

Two girls look at a video in the special exhibit "Watching Oprah: The Oprah Winfrey Show and American Culture" on July 10, 2018, at the National Museum of African American History & Culture.

Smithsonian’s ‘Watching Oprah’ a powerful reminder of why we miss her

May 22, 2026 at 8:19 p.m.

All of the greatest hits are reprised in “Watching Oprah,” a new exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History & Culture. There’s “Favorite Things.” “Remembering Your...

A blacktip reef shark swims in the Shark Reef exhibit at the Shedd Aquarium in 2014. The Shedd has a new campaign to "Keep Sharks Swimming," timed for the latest "Shark Week."

Shedd jumps in for ‘Shark Week’ with 360-degree video and Keep Sharks Swimming campaign

May 22, 2026 at 8:19 p.m.

The relationship of shark experts to “Shark Week” is, well, complicated. On the one hand, they can use Discovery Channel’s annual rite of cartilage, which starts its 30th edition Sunday,...

Instagram-friendly ‘wndr museum’ is coming to Chicago, tickets on sale Tuesday

May 22, 2026 at 8:19 p.m.

The forthcoming Chicago pop-up called wndr museum may be all lower-case and a few vowels short of standard in its official spelling. But the first-of-its-kind attraction is aiming to provide...

Furniture and statues are among the artifacts from the Johnson publishing collection on display in the Stony Island Arts Bank.

‘Johnson Publishing’ exhibit shows off company’s design flair — without a plexiglass museum case

May 22, 2026 at 8:20 p.m.

In the title of “A Johnson Publishing Story,” the new exhibition looking at the longtime powerhouse of African-American print media, the indefinite article is key. This does not purport to...

Sebastian Oter, 15, observes Tabita Razaire's "Premium Connect" at the Museum of Contemporary Art's new exhibit "I Was Raised on the Internet."

MCA’s new ‘I Was Raised on the Internet’ exhibition asks what the web has done to us

May 22, 2026 at 8:20 p.m.

It is fitting that the first thing you see, approaching the MCA’s new “I Was Raised on the Internet” exhibition, is an array of computers on a tabletop. These, of...

A worker guides in a piece of the Field Museum's new 122-foot-long titanosaur skeleton named Maximo on May 23, 2018.

With a skeleton and megaplanters, the Field Museum fleshes out its main hall

May 22, 2026 at 8:20 p.m.

Stanley Field Hall, the central, connecting space in the Field Museum’s massive wedding cake of a building, has been many funky things over the years. It has borne a hokey...

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

‘Troll Hunt’ is here! There are trolls amid the trees at Morton Arboretum — one of them 50 feet long

May 22, 2026 at 8:20 p.m.

The troll dubbed Joe peers out over the Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway and the suburban sprawl beyond, one hand shielding his brow as he scans the horizon, the other holding...

Raymond "Shaq" McDonald stands with a model airplane he was given as a child and which now hangs in the exhibit "History Lessons: Everyday Objects from Chicago Public Housing."

A sweater, a Pyrex dish: ‘Everyday Objects’ get put on a pedestal by Chicago’s public housing museum

May 22, 2026 at 8:20 p.m.

The Pyrex baking dish is the kind of thing you might see at a garage sale for a buck or two. If you didn’t have one in its size or...

Visitors to the Field Museum preview the exhibit, "Antarctic Dinosaurs," which features a model of the cryolophosaurus genus nicknamed "Elvisaurus" due to its pompadourlike crest.

‘Antarctic Dinosaurs’ bring new ice age to Field Museum

May 22, 2026 at 8:21 p.m.

The exhibition is called “Antarctic Dinosaurs.” But the first artifact you see isn’t the femur of a Jurassic-era top predator or a sauropod egg preserved in stone. Nor is it...

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