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Obras de Luis Ortiz que forman parte de la exhibición 'Diseño Xicago' en el Museo Nacional de Arte Mexicano.

La historia del arte mexicano en Chicago es la historia del arte de Chicago

December 14, 2018 at 11:52 a.m.

Hay una especie de calidad Zelig en la nueva exposición "Arte Diseño Xicago", del Museo Nacional de Arte Mexicano (NMMA). Su subtítulo es "Inspiración mexicana de la Exposición Universal a...

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>

‘The Walking Dead’ Season 8 finale recap: An emotional end and a way forward

December 14, 2018 at 11:38 a.m.

I've got to confess: I teared up a little there. I'm not sure those tears were fairly won on Sunday's season finale of "The Walking Dead," an episode that gave...

A man stops to see the artwork of Luis Ortiz, now showing at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Pilsen, as part of "Arte Diseno Xicano," April 10, 2018.

Story of Mexican art in Chicago is the story of Chicago art

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

There's a kind of Zelig quality to the new "Arte Diseno Xicago" exhibition at the National Museum of Mexican Art. Its subtitle is "Mexican Inspiration from the World's Columbian Exposition...

Annie Leibovitz, in Chicago, talks Lena Waithe, the Women’s March and photographing the Trumps

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

"There are several creeps in the book," Annie Leibovitz is telling her Chicago audience, talking about her latest work, the massive "Portraits 2005-2016." She shows a picture of the Weinstein...

It’s baby penguin season across Chicago: Cuteness overload or something more?

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

Something of a soap opera played out last year among the African penguins newly situated at Lincoln Park Zoo. The institution's bird keepers were so struck by the animals' personality...

Negan cleans house: 5 thoughts recapping the season’s next-to-last ‘Walking Dead’ episode

December 14, 2018 at 10:35 a.m.

Is it almost over, this tribal battle between the people of Negan and the people of Rick, played out over the past two TV seasons at a profoundly deliberate pace,...

New blues exhibit at Chicago History Museum lets you play 12-bar blues and invent your own album title

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

The Chicago blues already had their rightful place in the Chicago History Museum. But the small section in the culture area of the history of Chicago exhibition tells just a...

New ‘Dishalicious’ cooking show delivers top Chicago chefs in fresh format

December 14, 2018 at 10:09 a.m.

It's not easy to make a compelling new cooking show these days. Chef's kitchen formats have been done. World cuisine tours have been done. Competition shows have been overdone to...

‘Walking Dead’: 5 thoughts recapping Season 8, Episode 14

December 14, 2018 at 9:37 a.m.

“Everybody turns,” Morgan shouted several times in Sunday’s “The Walking Dead” episode. He was talking about zombification — “turning” — as the explanation for his mantra that “I don’t die!”...

‘Walking Dead’: Hilltop battle leaves questions for all

December 14, 2018 at 5:30 p.m.

We don’t know, yet, the full extent of the damage that was done to the Hilltop community during the big battle scene in Sunday’s “The Walking Dead.” We do know...

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