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Ten Great Things to Do in May

May 6, 2021 by Lynette Smith
Chicago Dance Month Kick-Off, ‘Becoming Jane: The Evolution of Dr. Jane Goodall,’ and ‘Yannis Tsarouchis: Dancing in Real Life’

Make the most of the spring weather this month: See an interactive exhibit exploring Dr. Jane Goodall’s life or exercise outdoors with PAWS Chicago.

Categories Culture & Travel Tags Culture 1 Comment

Chicago’s Arts Scene Has a Race Problem

May 11, 2021April 27, 2021 by Emily Johnson
Illustration of people standing at a fence in front of a muesum

Can a seven-year-old antiracism nonprofit solve it? The city’s biggest cultural institutions are betting heavily that it can.

Categories Chicago Magazine Tags Culture, Long Reads 9 Comments

Damon Locks and Black Monument Ensemble Make Music for the Moment

May 6, 2021April 14, 2021 by Lynette Smith
Damon Locks and Black Monument Ensemble

On their new album, the group channels a chaotic time of pandemic and protest through a dynamic sonic collage.

Categories Chicago Magazine Tags Culture 1 Comment

Ten Great Things to Do in April

April 14, 2021April 1, 2021 by Lynette Smith
‘In Between,’ chef-owner Diana Dávila, and ‘Sun Ra, The Substitute Words: Poetry, 1957–72’

You don’t have to go far to read intergalactic poetry and you can even stay home to go to Expo Chicago.

Categories Culture & Travel Tags Culture 1 Comment

The Lyric Brings the Ring Underground, Literally

April 1, 2021March 18, 2021 by Lynette Smith
Maria Novella Malfatti, Kathleen Felty, and Katherine Beck

The company puts a twist on Wagner in its first drive-through opera.

Categories Chicago Magazine Tags Culture

How Activist Bernard J. Kleina Documented the Fight for Fair Housing

March 18, 2021March 3, 2021 by Lynette Smith
Bernard J. Kleina

The life’s work of the photographer anchors an exhibition at the Elmhurst Art Museum.

Categories Chicago Magazine Tags Culture, Museums

Ten Great Things to Do in March

March 18, 2021March 2, 2021 by Lynette Smith

Chicago is slowly, kinda reopening: See comic book heroes at a museum or go jump in the lake (from the comfort of your own home).

Categories Culture & Travel Tags Culture

The Return of Ballet

March 3, 2021February 22, 2021 by Lynette Smith

After a year away, the Joffrey is back — online — with Bolero.

Categories Chicago Magazine Tags Culture, Dance 1 Comment

Why the Holocaust Museum Is Tackling Apartheid

February 26, 2021February 18, 2021 by Lynette Smith
An image from ‘Mandela’: Children taunting police during a 1991 African National Congress rally in Johannesburg

The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center continues to expand its purview with an exhibition devoted to the South African leader.

Categories Chicago Magazine Tags Arts & Culture, History, Museums

Ten Great Things to Do in February

February 24, 2021February 16, 2021 by Matt Pollock
Nelson Mandela, a Bisa Butler quilt, and Peter CottonTale

From a reopened Art Institute to a Children’s Choir concert featuring Chance the Rapper, Chicago’s cultural offerings are beginning to thaw out.

Categories Culture & Travel Tags Arts & Culture
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