They’re not Nazis. They just play them on weekends, at reenactments. Is this really teaching history? By Christopher Borrelli November 6, 2022 at 5:01 p.m. Someone has to play the bad guy. Someone has to play the Nazi. Otherwise, how...
Artist Nick Cave tackles a new challenge: Making tiny, artful cheesecakes with Eli’s Cheesecake By Rick Kogan November 2, 2022 at 5:00 a.m. The medium may indeed be the message, as Marshall McLuhan once told us, but what...
As Filipino American History Month comes to a close, take a peek inside the Field Museum’s Philippine Heritage Collection By Kayla Samoy May 22, 2026 at 7:53 p.m. In the Field Museum's archives, about 8,000 miles away from the sprawling tropical islands of...
Climate protesters throw mashed potatoes at Monet painting By Associated Press May 22, 2026 at 7:53 p.m. Climate protesters threw mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet painting in a German museum to...
DuPage Children’s Museum beckons kids to step into art By Jeff Banowetz October 19, 2022 at 2:08 p.m. The DuPage Children's Museum has an idea of how to make art more accessible to...
Review: Block Museum’s must-see ‘Abstraction from the Arab World’ proves modern art wasn’t just a Western thing By Lori Waxman May 22, 2026 at 7:53 p.m. "Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s-1980s" at the Block Museum offers so much...
Dispatches from the Sahara: Exploring Gadoufaoua, known as ‘the place where camels fear to go’ By Paul Sereno May 22, 2026 at 7:53 p.m. Petrified tree trunks jut from the desert floor, and fossil jaws and bones of nameless...
Climate protesters throw soup on Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ hanging in London’s National Gallery By Associated Press May 22, 2026 at 7:53 p.m. Climate protesters threw soup over Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" in London's National Gallery on Friday...
Photos: “‘Untitled’ (Portrait of Ross in L.A.)” at the Art Institute By Contributed Content October 6, 2022 at 6:06 a.m. A conceptual work by the late Cuban American artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres is displayed in the...
Twitter called a change to an AIDS-era artwork at the Art Institute a ‘desecration.’ The reality is more complex. By Hannah Edgar May 22, 2026 at 7:53 p.m. Following social media outcry, the Art Institute of Chicago amended the descriptive label to one...