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“In an exception to the usual paintings-heavy blockbuster exhibitions, the Art Institute of Chicago is presenting the masterful drawings of Willem de Kooning,” reports the New York Times (gift link).

“Beginning in 2028, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will own the Neue Galerie’s Fifth Avenue home and the prestige collection of twentieth-century Austrian and German art built by Ronald S. Lauder,” ...

Nathaniel Mary Quinn has been commissioned to create artwork for the cover of the Rolling Stones’ latest album, “Foreign Tongues,” alerts his gallery, Gagosian. “Quinn created ‘Stones Trinity’ (2025), ...

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Both Bad Bunny and Chicago artist Edra Soto grew up in Puerto Rico, and “Soto now intentionally repurposes objects and designs from her childhood into pieces of art that represent life on the small ...

Grain elevators were the city’s first skyscrapers, rising up as high as fifteen stories along the Chicago River and Sanitary and Ship Canal from downtown to the South Shore, supplying the nation’s ...

As I make my way through the blizzard to the Blue Line’s Logan Square stop, seven pigeons are huddled on Evelyn Longman’s giant eagle sculpture atop the Illinois Centennial Monument. It’s a Thursday ...

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 ...