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The Museum of Science and Industry's "Robot Revolution" runs through Feb 4.

Museums cost too much? Chicago Museum Week offers bargains but no blockbusters

December 15, 2018 at 1:25 a.m.

Chicago Museum Week, which runs through Friday, won’t blow you away with its discounts or innovative cross-promotions or special events. With a couple of exceptions, the annual banding together of...

Sale of Chicago outsider art collection spotlights city’s pioneering role in the genre

December 15, 2018 at 1:55 a.m.

Friday morning in New York, a sizable chunk of Chicago art history will go under the auction gavel. The trove that Christie’s is selling spotlights 52 works from the outsider...

Sarah Grueneberg, second from left, hosts WTTW Chicago's new cooking show "Dishalicious" with special guests, Giuseppe Tentori, from left, Tony Mantuano and Leigh Omilinsky during its first taping in Chicago on Friday, Jan. 19, 2018.

‘Dishalicious’ aims to change the menu for cooking shows with top Chicago chefs on WTTW

December 15, 2018 at 1:38 a.m.

Chef Tony Mantuano is put out, or pretending to be. He’s loaded some butter into pans where country-style ribs are searing, and two other top Chicago cooks, Sarah Grueneberg and...

Terra Foundation re-emerges with Art Design Chicago event

December 15, 2018 at 12:29 a.m.

As the millennium turned in Chicago, the Terra Museum of American Art was on many people’s lists of favorite little places, an oasis of culture on crass North Michigan Avenue...

Winter museum preview: Mummies, Snoopy and the science behind Pixar

May 23, 2018 at 6:42 p.m.

Your resolution for 2018, perhaps, might be to become more cultured. Or just to make the effort to get out of the house a little bit more. The city's museums...

Hanging ‘plant clouds,’ pterosaurs to join crowd in Field Museum’s Stanley Field Hall makeover

December 17, 2018 at 4:33 p.m.

There are more changes ahead in the Field Museum’s cavernous central hall than just kicking Sue upstairs and bringing in the model skeleton of a titanosaur species, a plant eater...

A moment from a 2005 finale of "The Apprentice," featuring George Ross, left, and Donald Trump.

The Trump Show: Sprawling, nervous, must-flee TV

December 17, 2018 at 4:34 p.m.

Last Tuesday, the glow of the new year was fresh. It was a time, as early Januaries are, for reassessments and restarts, a time to put a fresh face on...

Madeleine Grynsztejn, Pritzker director of MCA Chicago, is not sitting still

December 17, 2018 at 11:16 p.m.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is a very different-looking institution as 2018 begins than it was in 2017. There’s a top-notch new first-floor restaurant, Marisol, plus cafe and plaza...

Emily Graslie, the Field Museum's chief curiosity correspondent, inside the museum's hyena diorama.

Emily Graslie does her work behind the scenes at the Field Museum

December 17, 2018 at 11:05 p.m.

You have to be lucky to spot Emily Graslie at the Field Museum. She does her work — producing engaging videos on topics of natural history, from the cultural import...

Chance the Rapper, from left, Emil Ferris and Mitch Trubisky highlight a list of top names in Chicago news for 2017.

Countdown: Top newsmakers of 2017

May 31, 2019 at 4:40 p.m.

Chicago had no shortage of newsmakers who put the city in national headlines. We count down the biggest names in Chicago-related news this year. 10. Sue the T. rex Sue,...

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