Ah yes, it is that time again: Thanksgiving. When we gather around the dinner table with family and friends eat far, far more than we should and reflect on what…
By Laura Hodes n Chicago, The Spertus Museum has just opened “Jewish Modernists in Chicago,” the seventh chapter in its eight-part series, “Uncovered & Rediscovered: Stories of Jewish Chicago.” This…
By Ellen Jean HirstTribune reporter 11:48 a.m. CDT, October 31, 2012 Ten million-dollar gifts aren’t exactly the norm for Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art — still, it just received its…
Would you like to meet people who are engaged in their communities, tolerant of others’ differences, and more willing than most to help out those in need? Try a…
Thomas Jefferson has not lacked for biographers and editors, or fans and detractors. Even though Jefferson meticulously saved his papers, he was singularly unlucky in his first editors. The…
ON A LEAFY, OVERLOOKED BLOCK in south Chicago, amid a patchwork of weedy lots and fixer-upper bungalows, Theaster Gates is redefining what it means to make art. When the recession hit…
The finalized Chicago Cultural Plan is out and it promises to take Chicago to the international level as a cultural hub and destination. I have been singing the praises of Chicago as…
A wide range of art dealers, advisors, collectors and academics spoke at Art Market Monitor’s Artelligence conference in New York yesterday, which was all about understanding art as an asset. Here is some of the…
When Alfonso “Piloto” Nieves Ruiz emigrated from Mexico in 1997, his great ambition was to be an American football player, but an accident banished him from the gridiron and turned…
The Art Institute of Chicago is selling $101 million in bonds to shore up its employee pensions. Moody’s Investors Service is giving the bonds an A1 rating, its fifth highest grade,…
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