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Smart Museum announces $5 million gift, new focus on U. of C. students

December 14, 2018 at 8:11 p.m.

The University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art announced Tuesday a $5 million donation that matches the largest gift in its history and boosts the museum’s endowment by 25 percent,...

Bottle Rack, one of Marcel Duchamp's "Ready Mades" has been acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago and will be on display Tuesday Feb. 13th in the Modern Wing among several Brancusi sculptures.

Art Institute wins global competition for modern masterpiece — a multimillion dollar bottle rack

December 17, 2018 at 4:28 p.m.

Perched in its new home on a stand by a window overlooking Millennium Park, the newest sculpture in the Art Institute of Chicago looked, well, ordinary. And in any number...

A detail from "Of Chinese Lions, Peonies, Skulls, and Fountains," on display in the new Takashi Murakami exhibit, "The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg," at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Led by MCA, Chicago museums set attendance records in 2017

December 14, 2018 at 7:19 p.m.

Blockbuster exhibitions steered some of Chicago's leading museums to attendance gains and records in 2017, most notably the MCA, which rode its most-popular-ever Takashi Murakami exhibit to a 49 percent...

2018 Super Bowl ads: 5 best and worst

May 13, 2019 at 10:44 a.m.

Dozens of ads aired during the 2018 Super Bowl, the great majority of them safe and competent rather than outstanding, risk-taking or appalling. There are the ten that really stood...

Sue the Tyrannosaurus rex, whose bones were found in South Dakota in 1990, has stood in the central Stanley Field Hall at the Field Museum since 2000. Dismantling of the fossil for a move upstairs in the museum began Feb. 5, 2018.

The dismantling of Sue

December 11, 2018 at 10:36 p.m.

The Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton we know as Sue exists somewhere on the spectrum between sculpture and erector set. Sue stands in the Field Museum's central Stanley Field Hall thanks to...

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>

Every 2018 Super Bowl ad, from best to worst

August 18, 2019 at 4:41 p.m.

In the Ad Bowl accompanying Super Bowl LII, there are some surprises this year: No Clydesdales from Budweiser, for one, and a spate of spots touting companies’ philanthropic efforts. That’s...

Blind spot: ‘Call Northside 777’

December 14, 2018 at 7:39 p.m.

Editor’s note: We asked Tribune writers to reflect on a piece of the larger cultural puzzle (a popular TV show, a movie, a book, etc.) they were missing — until...

Michigan meteorite lands in Field Museum laboratory: ‘It’s the poor man’s space sample return’

December 15, 2018 at 2:38 a.m.

The streak of light flashed downward through the night sky, visible across the Midwest and in Canada. Cameras captured the space oddity, and their owners posted the results to YouTube....

State of the Union comedy: Live skepticism, and Stormy Daniels too

December 15, 2018 at 2:36 a.m.

The state of the union is skeptical. That, at least, was the takeaway Tuesday from late-night TV, which reacted to President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address with...

‘SNL’ borrows Will Ferrell costumes from Chicago museum exhibit

December 15, 2018 at 1:57 a.m.

Some “Saturday Night Live” costumes went from museum pieces back into roles on TV, according to Chicago’s Museum of Broadcast Communications, which is presenting “Saturday Night Live: The Exhibit.” The...

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