ART
Art Institute of Chicago
As the earliest visual expression of rational and democratic ideals, the art of the Greco-Roman world was cherished by the European civilization that overran… More

FILM
Pickwick Theatre
Listed on the National Register of Historic Buildings, this art deco theatre has been thrilling a captive audience since it first opened in 1928. Head… More

MUSEUMS
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum 
Before it arrives on your plate, food takes a fascinating journey—and we don't mean from the freezer to the fryer to the kitchen floor to your plate.… More

MUSEUMS
Field Museum 
American museums once displayed rooms full of plaster casts of famous sculpture as a way to fulfill their original mission of bringing European high culture… More

ART
Art Institute of Chicago
Artist Kara Walker says the life-size, cutout silhouettes she creates function like stereotypes: "The silhouette says a lot with very little information."… More

ART
National Museum of Mexican Art
Vivid paintings of southern California life by John Valadez - For thirty-five years, John Valadez (born 1951) has depicted the people and places of Southern… More

ART
Hyde Park Art Center
It’s not all that surprising that a man whose work takes jabs at power symbols and the concept of reverence would have the chutzpah to bring live… More

ART
South Side Community Art Center 
A venerable South Side institution of which many Chicagoans may not have heard is the starting point for a three-stage investigation of the artists’… More

MUSEUMS
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College
In the world of sports, spectators are fanatics. And fanatics can only grasp the seemingly unexplainable psychical prowess of professional athletes as… More

ART
National Museum of Mexican Art
Chaz Bojorquez, born in 1949, was a cholo tagger in the 1960s, but he wasn’t just marking territory for street gangs in East L.A. He also developed… More