Tattoo exhibition coming to The Field Museum
The Field Museum is getting inked. Its next major temporary exhibition, going up in October, is called "Tattoo," and it will feature more than 170 objects related to the worldwide...
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New carnivorous, short-forelimbed dinosaur discovered by Field Museum scientists
Field museum scientists have discovered a new carnivorous dinosaur that, like T. Rex, had mysterious short forelimbs. Gualicho shinyae, whose discovery was announced in a paper published Wednesday in the...
Chicago Maritime Museum tells the city’s story via its waterways
The new Chicago Maritime Museum may hold a special distinction among its peer institutions: greatest ratio of renown in its architecture to size and scope of the museum. The new...
Suddenly, it’s a Pokemon Go world, and we’re just living in it
At a minimum, Pokemon Go makes walking the dog more interesting. This morning, Hazel and I caught Kakuna in my alley, Pidgey in front of the nearby comic book store....
Joakim Noah’s farewell letter part of a noble tradition
It's hard to say goodbye in person. The stammering. The moment of hug or not-hug. The sort-of-important thing you think of at the last minute but then decide not to...
Audible tries ‘HBO for audio’ with new Channels service
It's worked for Netflix. It's worked for HBO. And now Audible, the place people go for what used to be called "books on tape," is betting that it, too, can...
Chicago billionaire funds Field Museum’s new ‘Antarctic Dinosaurs’ exhibit
"Antarctic Dinosaurs," a coming traveling exhibition from the Field Museum, has been funded by a new, $5.5 million gift from Chicago billionaire Kenneth C. Griffin, the museum announced Wednesday. Scheduled...
Good riddance, Garrison Keillor? Ira Glass, for one, disagrees
Garrison Keillor is finally retiring from "A Prairie Home Companion" after Saturday's show from the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, and this time he seems to really mean it. With...
Art Institute adds High Renaissance work to its collection
In anticipation of the opening next February of its redone medieval to Renaissance galleries, the Art Institute of Chicago Thursday announced the acquisition of a newly discovered painting by an...
What is a Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, anyway? The question George Lucas leaves behind
One way or another, George Lucas is going to get his museum. It won't be in those giant daubs of Marshmallow Fluff he wanted to occupy in Chicago, it turns...