Photos: Met Gala 2025 celebrates Black style By Chicago Tribune May 5, 2025 at 8:25 p.m. This year, the dress code is about tailoring and suiting as interpreted through the history...
Today in Chicago History: 8,000 people attend opening of Field Museum By Kori Rumore May 2, 2025 at 9:59 a.m. Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on May 2, according...
Your museum’s federal grant has been terminated. Best wishes, Keith E. Sonderling. By Tess Kenny April 30, 2025 at 1:50 p.m. Dozens of Illinois museums expected federal funding this year. The Trump Administration is now rescinding...
Art Institute of Chicago told to surrender drawing to heirs of man killed in Nazi concentration camp By The New York Times News Service Syndicate April 24, 2025 at 4:23 p.m. A judge in New York ruled on Wednesday that the Art Institute of Chicago must...
Black churches back embattled Smithsonian African American history museum after Trump’s order By Peter Smith April 23, 2025 at 9:00 a.m. “For only $25 a year, you can protect Black history,” Rev. Otis Moss III of...
Artists rip Mayor Brandon Johnson’s arts commissioner, department ‘dysfunction’ in letter By Jake Sheridan April 10, 2025 at 11:03 a.m. The letter, posted to Instagram Wednesday as a petition people can sign, harshly criticizes Department...
National Public Housing Museum opens in Chicago, the first of its kind, with residents’ stories at its heart By Hannah Edgar April 4, 2025 at 8:01 p.m. Free to visit and located in the last surviving building of the former Jane Addams...
Chicago historian Shermann ‘Dilla’ Thomas planning future with DuSable Museum after being laid off by ComEd By Shanzeh Ahmad March 22, 2025 at 6:54 p.m. Thomas is starting to settle into a new role as the brand ambassador and chief...
With a major new donation, the MCA will ramp up live performance in its theater By Chris Jones March 11, 2025 at 8:00 a.m. Thanks to a $10 million gift from an anonymous donor, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art...
Chicago Humanities Spring Festival boasts Leslie Odom Jr., Eve Ewing and Paul Reiser — because culture isn’t dead yet By Christopher Borrelli March 11, 2025 at 7:05 a.m. Chicago Humanities Spring Festival has always been a festival of ideas, never more appreciated than...