Steve Johnson – Page 44

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Lester Holt back in Chicago Wednesday to anchor ‘Nightly News’

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Ai Weiwei a Chinese contemporary artist and activist photographed in Chicago on Monday.

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Curator meets artist: Picking pieces for Richard Rezac’s solo show

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Theaster Gates gives a tour of the Stony Island Arts Bank on Tuesday.

Theaster Gates proudly shows off new Stony Island Arts Bank on the South Side

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For Chicago artist and community developer Theaster Gates, the next handful of months, he said, will represent a kind of coming out for his Stony Island Arts Bank, the stately...

New MCA prize for Middle Eastern artists goes to Sophia Al-Maria

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The MCA Chicago is starting a new art prize, the Dunya Contemporary Art Prize, and its first winner is Sophia Al-Maria, a Qatari-American artist living in London. The biennial honor,...

Former FBI Director James Comey poses for photographs as he kicks off his book tour at a Barnes & Noble bookstore in New York City on April 18, 2018.

James Comey, in Chicago with ‘A Higher Loyalty,’ wins over crowd with plea for American values

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The essence of former FBI Director James Comey's book tour appearance in Chicago on Friday night came down to his description of the Donald Trump presidency as "a forest fire."...

Art Institute lands largest announced cash donation, $70 million in total

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The Art Institute of Chicago publicly revealed the largest announced monetary gift in its history Tuesday, an unrestricted $50 million donation from trustee Janet Duchossois and her husband, Craig Duchossois,...

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