Though it wasn't planned this way, there's a thread through most of the feature stories in this issue that's personal for me, ...

Roeper accepted a buyout from the Sun-Times in March 2025 after thirty-seven years. “Roeper first met Roger Ebert at the Sun-Times in the 1980s, and the two developed a friendship that led to their on ...

Keir Graff has turned his Newcity story on the history of the Fine Arts Building—our longest feature ever published—into a book published by Trope, coming this June. He’ll celebrate its release at the ...

The MCA has announced “City in a Garden: Queer Art and Activism in Chicago,” opening on July 5. “The exhibition highlights Chicago’s essential yet often overlooked role in the stories of queer art and ...

“After fourteen remarkable years as a driving force behind the fair, Tony Karman will step back from his role as director of Expo Chicago at the end of June. He will continue as president of the fair, ...

The Chicago Public Art Group has announced the appointment of Janice Bond as its new executive director. “A celebrated cultural architect, strategist and arts leader, Bond steps into this role with a ...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The strongest, most enduring parts of China’s Great Wall were the 5,500 miles built during the Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644. One secret to their success was sticky rice, an ...

“It is with mixed emotions that I share that today is my last day at the MCA Chicago,” Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator Carla Acevedo-Yates posts on Instagram. “It’s not easy to close such an ...

One Friday night on the Northwest Side of Chicago, in a tiny strip mall with a faux-limestone facade, I find myself eating venison sausage and drinking plum brandy, trading stories of long-ago war ...

Grant For Edra Soto Installation At Cleveland Sculpture Center Erased The National Endowment for the Arts has terminated The Sculpture Center’s grant to support Edra Soto’s “La Casa de Todos | ...

“A significant, large-scale work by the late artist Sol LeWitt vanished from the exterior of a federally owned downtown building—and the government agency in charge of the piece had refused to say why ...