Patron’s second solo exhibition with conceptual photo-based artist Carmen Winant opens this weekend. “Manuals for Living” brings together two tenets of her practice: “instructional pictures as an ...

“The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum and a global symbol of art, beauty and endurance, has withstood war, terror and pandemic—but on Monday, it was ...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries writer Joseph Campbell was a world-renowned mythologist. His theories about the classic hero archetype have inspired many writers and filmmakers, including “Star Wars” ...

“We are facing tough times,” Chicago arts institution Roots & Culture shares on Instagram. “Our top funder dropped us last year to ‘invest in more pressing concerns than the arts’ and like many others ...

Gray has named Valerie Carberry the president and chief executive officer of the gallery. Carberry has worked alongside Paul Gray as a partner since 2015, and will head the gallery as Gray assumes the ...

“Over the past five years, a wave of risk-taking, sharp-eyed galleries have opened around the world,” introduces Cultured magazine with a list of twenty-three gallerists. “Young dealers play an ...

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 ...

Act One of a ten-part series. Read the Intro here with links to the entire series. The building itself is actually 138 years old, opening its doors in 1885 as the Studebaker Brothers’ eight-story Lake ...

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 ...

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 ...

I’m a longtime bike commuter, and a fan of Chicago’s bike-share program, Divvy, with its big, blue, heavy, classic pedal-powered bikes. They’ve been a great option for getting around—it’s like having ...

Once you drive west beyond Bismarck, the state capital, you are struck by several things. One is the vastness of the sky and that the grasslands roll to the horizon, a simple beauty apart from ...