We're billing this issue as a summer double issue. But the content has evolved. Where the arts used to take a three-month nap ...

“Scent designers” are working “with museums, heritage sites and other cultural spaces to create odors that can open an instant portal to the past,” writes Margaret Talbot at the New Yorker. One such ...

Today In Culture, Tuesday, July 15, 2025: Chicago Watch Company Reborn | Massimo Bottura Meets Cheddar | Physical Media Revival by Ray Pride | July 15, 2025 ...

From Chaos to Control: Ever’s Curtis Duffy Discusses His Memoir And Next Act Curtis Duffy “is quick to point out that ‘The Bear’… is not based on Ever and that he is not Carmy Berzatto, the tortured, ...

“Most summer shows don’t intend to remake the canon. What most of them do—quietly, imperfectly—is help galleries maintain visibility during a slow season, offer trial balloons for emerging artists, ...

CANCER: I suspect that in the coming weeks, your sweetness and bounty may thrive in unlikely structures.

The third annual Chicago Exhibition Weekend has been set for September 19-21. Presented by Gertie & EarlyWork, this edition of CXW will include partnerships with Independent Curators International, ...

The Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago has announced the fourteenth issue of Portable Gray. “Pope.L: The Chicago Years” is a hardcover edition of their ...

D. Lamar Preston’s “Gifted to Me” sculpture is on display at 62nd and Stony near the Hyde Park Academy High School, reports WBBM-TV. “Preston was selected for the Richard Hunt Award, which honors a ...

DINING & DRINKING Crust Fund Pizza Putting Caviar On A Special Pie “One of the city’s best pizzamakers is about to cross an unusual milestone and is celebrating with a wild pizza laced with ...

The Cleveland Museum of Art has acquired Giambologna’s 1572 “Fata Morgana,” “one of only two marble works by the revered Mannerist sculptor in a U.S. museum,” reports The Art Newspaper. The museum ...