At The Metropolitan Museum of Art, she rose from curator of American art to deputy director.” “After hiding in plain sight on ...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Archaeologists studying ancient wells have discovered that some weren’t finished in a single effort. Communities might dig to the current water table, use the well for years ...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The interesting struggles you’ll wage in the coming weeks will require your vulnerability: showing up exactly as you are when you might rather fight or escape. Your warrior ...

When Ted Erikson passed away earlier this year, he left behind a legacy of swimming accomplishments. He also took a bit of Chicago history with him. Ted was a fixture among the swimmers at Promontory ...

A “nineteenth-century Halsted Street building” in Lincoln Park “was Imagist painter Roger Brown’s residence and studio,” marks Block Club. A push to landmark the building began after the School of the ...

It is two-thirty in the morning at Carol’s Pub. Most of the other bars in the neighborhood have closed, and customers of all ages—from twenty-one to sixty—file in to order more beer and whiskey, and ...

While I ride CTA trains, mostly the Red Line, a few times a week, I was interested in getting a better sense of what conditions are like on the El at other times of the day. So I hung out on the Red ...

It’s a Friday afternoon and two young men from the suburbs are looking for a place to crash later that night, after hitting up the bars in Andersonville and Uptown. A friend recommended The Lodge ...

Grunts Rare Books closed its Pilsen brick-and-mortar store, they relay on Instagram. The project opened in October 2024, described as “art-centric bookstore and project space at 1500 South Western.” ...

“Workers at the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio have complained to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration about headaches, nausea, and dizziness thought to be caused by a chemical sealant ...

What Will Become Of DePaul’s Art Collection? DePaul’s plans to close its museum “raises questions about the fate of its collection, which contains around 4,000 works including paintings by artists ...

Art Basel Awards Include Theaster Gates, Barbara Kruger, Hilton Als Thirty-three recipients will be celebrated at Art Basel in Switzerland this June, records Artnet. It’s the “second edition of its ...