Today In The Culture, May 15, 2023: Grant Park Music Festival Conductor Faces Allegations | Chicago Opera Theater New General Director | Links Hall Loses Executive Director by Ray Pride | May 15, 2023 ...

I met James Elder in the early 1980s when he was a creative writing student at Columbia College Chicago, who was well known as a gifted writer. Many years later, in the middle of my first interview I ...

Get Chicago & Midwest culture news sent to your inbox every weekday morning. Subscribe to Newcity Today here. ART Roger Brown Study Collection Sold To Kohler Foundation “The School of the Art ...

Expo Chicago has announced curatorial initiatives for its eleventh edition, at Navy Pier’s Festival Hall, April 11-14. In partnership with Independent Curators International (ICI), Expo Chicago will ...

Newcity published an annual summer guide for many years, which we subtitled a “user’s manual for sunshine.” We even had a summer website for a while. We love our middle months in Chicago. This issue ...

Today In The Culture, July 7, 2022: Victory Gardens Exodus | Documenters Win Big Award | Lightfoot Floats Soldier Field Dome by Ray Pride | July 7, 2022 ...

Today In Culture, Friday, January 5, 2024: Unrest at WTTW | John Manion’s South American Redux | Howlin’ Wolf’s Home by Ray Pride | January 5, 2024 ...

Today In Culture, Tuesday, June 10, 2025: Steppenwolf’s Big Night | America’s Most Vegan-Friendly City | Field Notes Hosts Film Festival by Ray Pride | June 10, 2025 ...

“The Union League of Chicago is selling its prized Monet painting, according to a letter sent to members” and published by Politico’s Playbook. “Funds from the sale will go toward renovating rooms, ...

The Art Dealers Association of America has announced the thirty-fifth edition of The Art Show, one of the longest-running art fairs in the country, for November 2-5 at New York City’s Park Avenue ...

Rago/Wright announced an outstanding result from their recent postwar and contemporary art auction, with Gertrude Abercrombie’s “Owl Trainer No. 2” notching $825,500, “marking the highest result ever ...

Hyde Park Art Center has announced the fifth phase of the Artists Run Chicago Fund, a regranting initiative providing financial relief for Chicago’s artist community since 2021. A total of $120,000 ...