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The artist Theaster Gates, seen here speaking at the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago, will organize an exhibition on Johnson Publishing as part of Art Design Chicago.

Art Design Chicago adds field trips, two exhibitions

December 17, 2018 at 12:54 p.m.

Field trips to cultural destinations for some 4,500 Chicago Public Schools students are part of a new funding initiative for next year’s Art Design Chicago event, organizers announced Wednesday. Additionally,...

‘Race’ exhibition at Chicago History Museum challenges what we think we know

December 17, 2018 at 12:55 p.m.

The provocative “Race” exhibition that opens Saturday at the Chicago History Museum has been around for a decade now. But it’s a pretty safe bet that this nation will keep...

‘The Walking Dead’: It’s a man’s world on Sunday’s episode

December 17, 2018 at 12:23 p.m.

What is left in this world, Rick asks a young man he is trying to talk into surrendering, but a man’s word? And so Rick gives the guy his solemn...

Aged female giraffe dies at Brookfield Zoo

December 17, 2018 at 11:50 a.m.

Brookfield Zoo has euthanized Mithra, its 27-year-old female giraffe, the zoo reported Thursday. The animal, which had been at Brookfield for 25 years, had shown signs of progressive “degenerative changes”...

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>

Putting video games on gallery walls

December 17, 2018 at 11:38 a.m.

If you're like most people I know, you think of video games as the thing you try to keep your kids from playing so much — and then you muddle...

Arms for hostages? 5 thoughts recapping ‘The Walking Dead’s’ second episode

December 18, 2018 at 1:07 a.m.

In an all-out war, people will die, and not only the ones aligned with the forces of evil. That was one of the lessons from Sunday’s “The Walking Dead,” a...

At Lincoln Park Zoo in 1977, Miki-Luk is always eager for a tussle. But Marge is growing reluctant for such pastimes as the bear nears maturity. Marge and others fed the infant as often as seven times daily, and she was kept in the relatively germ-free environment of the birdhouse. This was because she lacked the antibodies that she normally would have ingested from her mother's milk.

Polar bear death at Lincoln Park Zoo shines spotlight on the species

December 18, 2018 at 1:03 a.m.

At the beginning of polar bear breeding season this year, both Brookfield and Lincoln Park zoos were full of hope. Each had a new female to complete a potential breeding...

‘Walking Dead’: 5 thoughts on the incendiary Season 8 premiere

December 18, 2018 at 12:12 a.m.

'The Walking Dead" is back on the air and, after Sunday's first episode of Season 8, we now know how producers spent the off season: stocking up on every fake...

Live from State Street, ‘SNL’ exhibit delivers laughs, lore

December 18, 2018 at 12:21 a.m.

Hearing about "Saturday Night Live: The Experience," it wasn't certain that the metaphor of guiding a visitor through a week in the life of the show would work. But now...

Author Marilynne Robinson fears the fear in our country

May 9, 2019 at 6:43 p.m.

In her essay "Fear," Marilynne Robinson writes of America as a Christian country having lost its way. "My thesis is always the same, and it is very simply stated, though...

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