Kunstmuseum Basel will adapt Wrightwood 659’s “The First Homosexuals” for an exhibition next spring to coincide with Art Basel, the institution announces. “Founded in 1661, Kunstmuseum Basel houses ...

It is two-thirty in the morning at Carol's Pub. Most of the other bars in the neighborhood have closed, and customers of all ages—from twenty-one to sixty—file in to order more beer and whiskey, and ...

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,” ...

I’ve been swimming at the Point since I moved to Chicago over twenty years ago, but I only became a regular, a true Point Swimmer, about a decade ago.

While I ride CTA trains a few times a week, I was interested in getting a better sense of what conditions are like on the El at other times of the day. So I hung out on the Red and Blue routes from ...

Grain elevators were the city’s first skyscrapers, rising up as high as fifteen stories along the Chicago River and Sanitary and Ship Canal.

ART Chicago Artist Selva Aparicio Wins Burke Prize From Museum of Arts and Design New York City’s Museum of Arts and Design has announced Selva Aparicio [Newcity Art 50 and Breakout Artist] as the ...

Get Chicago & Great Lakes culture news sent to your inbox every weekday morning. Subscribe to Newcity Today here. ART Goldfinch Gallery Announces Closing “It is with some sadness but mostly, a deep ...

“To drive through Detroit is to move through a landscape shaped by both its storied industrial legacy and its long-standing creative community, where generations of artists have turned the city’s ...

Today In Culture, Tuesday, January 21, 2025: Chicago Theater Family Matriarch Joyce Piven Passes | “Chicago-Style” Bagels In West Loop | Architecture & Design Film Fest by Ray Pride | January 21, 2025 ...

“The architecture team of MAS Studio and Future Firm, along with Ellipsis Architecture, was commissioned to renovate two apartments in Chicago’s Marina City towers, originally designed by architect ...

The building itself is actually 138 years old, opening its doors in 1885 as the Studebaker Brothers’ Lake Front Carriage Repository. But they quickly outgrew their showplace. When the Fine Arts ...