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The Indian architect and urban planner's work and process is on display in a new retrospective.
On the second floor at Wrightwood 659, Sangath, Indian architect …
The virtual exhibit reached beyond Chicago to battleground states in the upcoming election.
In planning for its 2020 season, Weinberg/Newton Gallery owner and ex…
Rigoberto Saura's new piece for Hedwig Dances documents our current disorientation.
"I woke up"I took my costume, I took a bath. That day we were ready.…
Fire, break-ins, and COVID: the Motor Row drag palace has had a bumpy first year.
Like many drag queens, Chicago's Tori Sass has been through it this year. It st…
Eula Biss's new book looks at the omnipresence of money in our lives, from the perspective of an artist who has made it to the middle class.
It's possible we are…
Modern in the Middle is a groundbreaking compendium of Chicago's midcentury residential architecture.
Chicago's skyscraper modernism"the Hancock, Marina City, Se…
The neighborhood tavern may be closing, but it's forever a part of Chicago's boozy, haunted history.
When news broke in May that the California Clipper was perm…
The Pursuit of Happiness and Pride and Prejudice confront the limitations of Zoom culture with exhilarating results.
The age of Zoom has created a split-screen m…
Theatre Y turns Young Jean Lee's play into an elliptical but moving film project.
There's a video of Young Jean Lee performing her 2011 play We're Gonna Die on V…
Tonika Johnson's multimedia project expands with a new film.
"I'm sure you've heard the words to describe Englewood are 'Black, dangerous, poor, gun violence,'" …
Lyric hosts a free, multigenre online concert this weekend.
This weekend, just about the time when"minus the virus"we would have been plopping our posteriors int…
Yanira Castro and Meshell Ndegeocello create performance pieces for the at-home audience; Pride comes out of the closet with a new name.
The Museum of Contempora…
Sing-along Selichot and shofar pop-ups: how a "radically inclusive" Jewish community celebrates in a pandemic.
As a child, the High Holidays"Rosh Hashanah (the J…
A livestreamed multidisciplinary festival crosses a wishlist with a treasure hunt.
Along with every other performance venue in town, Links Hall went dark in Marc…
Their annual festival is on pandemic pause, but CLATA still celebrates the diversity of local theater companies.
When Myrna Salazar founded the Chicago Latino Th…
Local photographer Amy Boyle's new project, 52 Phenomenal Women, elevates the voices of women and reminds us there's power in sharing our stories.
On a recent ho…
This year's virtual festival of plays breaks through our global isolation.
When Patrizia Acerra founded the International Voices Project in 2010, she sought to c…
The Arts & Makers Community Business Academy is ramping up to launch its third cohort in September.
When Etiti Ayeni moved herself and her company to Chicago…
But the AIA board stays mum on the reasons for exec's abrupt exit.
The brief missive that appeared on the AIA Chicago website August 13 was mystifying. Posted by…
Free Street, Collaboraction, and TimeLine put young theater artists in the frame.
The long hot summer is winding down, according to the calendar, but youth theat…
Lincoln Square artist Lothar Speer said he'd restore his prominent German heritage mural. But as the neighborhood has become less German and more gentrified, he wonders if anyone really care…
Emmanuel Neal joins CHRP as interim managing director, but the founder's comments on Black Lives Matter spark outrage.
Add the Chicago Human Rhythm Project (CHRP…
How the class of 2020 learned to adapt for their final exhibition
I always leave the School of the Art Institute (SAIC) graduate opening reception sweating. With…
From digital performances to blinged out face masks, these queens are making it work.
On a scorching hot Sunday in early August, drag performers at Hamburger Ma…
The former Chicago Dancers United executive director raises a social media storm about the organization and its annual benefit.
COVID-19 couldn't stop the 2020 D…
