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Outgoing MCA director Madeleine Grynsztejn, “who steps down at the end of the year, is believed to be the first chief of an American museum to pledge that half of all exhibitions, acquisitions and ...

“Samantha Walton, a philanthropist whose family is behind the Walmart empire, is the new owner of Ravenswood’s Lillstreet Art Center,” reports Block Club. “Walton has been coming to Lillstreet since ...

The Art Institute’s rooftop terrace will host “Tony Cokes: On Boredom,” through March 14, 2027, announces the Art Institute. “This two-part installation turns the terrace windows facing Millennium ...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Before Aries-born Maya Angelou became a celebrated author, she was San Francisco’s first Black female streetcar conductor, a calypso dancer, a cook, a journalist in Ghana ...

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The beloved Chicago painter’s posthumous rise has been an unlikely story, and has just reached a new high-water mark: Last ...

The David Amarri Foundation, created to honor the young Chicago photographer and creative who was killed in 2024, will present A Day for David with Recycled Modern in Hyde Park this October. “The ...

Art Institute president James Rondeau announced that “the museum is returning Jean Metzinger’s ‘Woman with a Fan’ to the family of Jewish art collector Emanuel Lewenstein (1870–1930),” the museum ...

“A New York judge has temporarily barred Chicago dealer Kavi Gupta and his gallery from selling or marketing a collection of artworks at the center of an increasingly messy dispute with a company that ...