We're billing this issue as a summer double issue. But the content has evolved. Where the arts used to take a three-month nap ...

“Pouring, Spilling, Bleeding: Helen Frankenthaler and Artists’ Experiments on Paper” opens at The Block Museum of Art on September 17. “The exhibition focuses on the pioneering print practice of Helen ...

“Scent designers” are working “with museums, heritage sites and other cultural spaces to create odors that can open an instant portal to the past,” writes Margaret Talbot at the New Yorker. One such ...

Get Chicago & Great Lakes culture news sent to your inbox every weekday morning. Subscribe to Newcity Today here. ART How Galleries Approach The Doldrums Of Summer “Most summer shows don’t intend to ...

Today In Culture, Tuesday, July 15, 2025: Chicago Watch Company Reborn | Massimo Bottura Meets Cheddar | Physical Media Revival by Ray Pride | July 15, 2025 ...

From Chaos to Control: Ever’s Curtis Duffy Discusses His Memoir And Next Act Curtis Duffy “is quick to point out that ‘The Bear’… is not based on Ever and that he is not Carmy Berzatto, the tortured, ...

D. Lamar Preston’s “Gifted to Me” sculpture is on display at 62nd and Stony near the Hyde Park Academy High School, reports WBBM-TV. “Preston was selected for the Richard Hunt Award, which honors a ...

CANCER: I suspect that in the coming weeks, your sweetness and bounty may thrive in unlikely structures.

An accidental visit to the Wilson Men’s Hotel may scare off unsuspecting, if apocryphal, visitors today, but the Near West Side, Chicago’s legendary Skid Row, is no longer “Land of the Living Dead,” ...

By John Greenfield 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 ...

His thrice-yearly World Explorer magazine describes itself “Strange Tales of Discovery…and More Far-Out Adventures in Faraway Places.” A recent issue features a long story by Childress on Borobudur, ...