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10 key works from the $400 million donation to the Art Institute

April 5, 2019 at 11:27 p.m.

Amid the excitement over the news Tuesday that the Art Institute of Chicago will receive its largest-ever art gift, $400 million worth of postwar works donated by Chicago philanthropists Stefan...

New glass and new life at the Garfield Park Conservatory

April 5, 2019 at 11:27 p.m.

One of the many destructive things that happened when a hailstorm hit Garfield Park on a late June day in 2011 was that a giant shard of glass plummeted down...

Chicago Botanic Garden breaks ground on new $26 million campus

April 5, 2019 at 11:27 p.m.

Turning over earth is one of the most ordinary things that happens at the Chicago Botanic Garden. But sticking shovels into ground to get started on a new, 25,000-square-foot building...

Art Institute of Chicago gets its largest gift ever, including 9 Warhols

April 5, 2019 at 11:26 p.m.

A major private contemporary art collection with a value estimated at $400 million is being donated to the Art Institute of Chicago by local philanthropists Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson,...

Garfield Park Conservatory to reopen in full on Earth Day

June 15, 2018 at 6:34 p.m.

Four years after its antique glass roof was devastated by a powerful hailstorm, Garfield Park Conservatory will reopen in full to the public Wednesday with an Earth Day celebration. The...

Chicago's Hellenic Museum hosts the controversial, timely exhibit "The Street Is My Gallery," about street art and graffiti as a social response to current and longstanding Greek austerity measures and lack of opportunity.

Graffiti in the ‘Gallery’: Show about street art a bold choice for Hellenic Museum

April 5, 2019 at 11:20 p.m.

"Read the walls!" says one of the works of Greek street art on display in "The Street Is My Gallery," now up at the National Hellenic Museum. "It's your children...

‘Mission Moon’ at Adler: Capt. Lovell helps tell human side of space race

April 5, 2019 at 11:15 p.m.

It is, perhaps, too easy to forget about the moon program and its decade-plus of sacrifices and successes. These days, private companies are providing space services, and the exploration talk...

Shedd president and CEO Ted Beattie in his office at the Shedd Aquarium April 9, 2015. Beattie will be stepping down after 21 years.

Shedd Aquarium president Ted Beattie is stepping down

April 5, 2019 at 11:14 p.m.

Ted Beattie, who guided the Shedd Aquarium through major expansions and maintained its strong popularity and profitability in the past two decades, will retire once a successor is in place,...

Unfrozen in time: New life, and crowdfunding, for dioramas at Field Museum

April 5, 2019 at 11:13 p.m.

There is a masterpiece in the Field Museum. Walking by, though, you might not know it. You might look at the four room-size display cases showing white-tailed deer in each...

Leticia Gonzalez from Indianapolis enjoys dioramas at the Field Museum in Chicago.

Preserving specimen collections the goal for museum group formed at Field

June 15, 2018 at 8:55 p.m.

The Field and 11 other leading natural history museums are forming a new group focused primarily on managing their invaluable specimen collections, Field president Richard Lariviere said Friday afternoon, following...

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