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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>

Alison Cuddy promoted to Chicago Humanities Festival artistic director

December 17, 2018 at 4:56 p.m.

Alison Cuddy is the new artistic director of the Chicago Humanities Festival, the arts organization announced Thursday. Cuddy replaces Jonathan Elmer, who resigned in late June after two-and-a-half years to...

‘Bill Graham’ rock and roll exhibit at the Holocaust Museum is a hit

December 17, 2018 at 4:56 p.m.

Having a rock music exhibition in a Holocaust museum does not seem like the most natural fit. But "Bill Graham and the Rock and Roll Revolution," newly opened at the...

Linsey Ralston, left, of Chicago, and Caroline Gray-Lyth, visiting from England, view photos by amateur street photographer Vivian Maier in the exhibit, "Vivian Maier's Chicago" at the Chicago History Museum in 2014.

Hundreds of new Vivian Maier prints donated to U. of C.

June 1, 2019 at 6:55 a.m.

Almost 500 never-before-shown Vivian Maier prints have found a new home at the University of Chicago Library, the university announced Wednesday. Maier, the Chicago-area nanny who has become famous posthumously...

‘Game of Thrones’ returns with murder and intrigue: A recap

August 18, 2019 at 4:20 p.m.

It's the middle of summer in America, and winter is finally here. More than a year after we last saw our favorite TV corps of quasi-medieval, often-mystical, perpetually feuding crown...

Why it’s ‘cool’ to be at a museum after hours

December 17, 2018 at 4:56 p.m.

The Field Museum, on this particular weeknight, was hopping — at least in the section of it that had been transformed into a cocktail lounge decorated with stuffed and mounted...

Murakami merch at the MCA: Lines, limits and lots of fan love

December 17, 2018 at 4:57 p.m.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago store knew there were going to be merchandising opportunities associated with the museum's big new retrospective of the work of Takashi Murakami, the Japanese...

Navy Pier adds new waterfront performance venues

December 17, 2018 at 4:57 p.m.

The people backing Navy Pier's new outdoor performance venues want them to enrich the cultural life of the city while adding to the increasingly sophisticated entertainment options at the pier....

Henry Darger was a solitary Chicago janitor who became an icon of outsider art after his death. He spent most of his adult life in a one-room apartment in Lincoln Park, a neighborhood much less tony in his time. When he died in 1973, his landlords and neighbors, who were virtually his only friends, discovered in the apartment a riot of creative output: a 15,000-plus-page novel, typewritten, and his sprawling watercolor landscapes, mostly extensions of or improvisations on the quasi-Civil War "child slave rebellion" he depicts in the novel. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-40-great-museum-objects-20170706-story.html" target="_blank">Read more.</a>

Thousands of treasures lie in wait at the Field Museum

December 17, 2018 at 4:58 p.m.

On one level, Sue the T. rex is one of the most famous and significant dinosaur skeletons in the world. On another, the menacing-looking denizen of the north end of...

Chicago artists share their great objects

December 17, 2018 at 4:58 p.m.

Artists see the world differently. With that in mind, we asked five Chicago creators what their single great object was. Michelle Grabner Michelle Grabner, artist and professor, sits on "Seating...

Take some history home from the Field Museum

June 3, 2018 at 10:23 a.m.

There's this old joke, or there could be: How many art teachers does it take to load a life-size T. rex skull into the back of a rented pickup truck?...

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