Art Institute of Chicago News

Next week The Donald M. Ephraim Sun & Stars International Film Festival© (SASIFF) will be hosting a special summer screening of BELLA!, an award-winning documentary about trailblazing Congresswoman Bella Abzug, on the 104th anniversary of her birth: July 24 at 4 pm at Cinemark Boynton Beach 14.

Van Alen Institute launches 'With Your Voice,' a public art project showcasing site-specific installations in Gowanus, highlighting the neighborhood's changes due to rezoning. Learn more!

BeauTown Cabaret brings back the FOLK AN' SPOKE FESTIVAL from August 10 to September 1, featuring a diverse lineup of performances and events celebrating folk music and spoken word artistry.

Discover the Art Institute of Chicago's exciting exhibitions for July-December 2024, featuring a diverse range of art and cultural showcases to close out the year.

Court Theatre will present the Spotlight Reading Series, featuring works authored and inspired by Lorraine Hansberry. This year's series will explore her literary and political voice as a playwright, an activist, and a queer author from Chicago's South Side.  

The Art Institute of Chicago collaborates with Thailand to return a historic pilaster to its original location at Phanom Rung Temple, enhancing cultural heritage and international cooperation.

Prepare for an evening of dance works that collectively explore periodicity, repetition, revolution, redefinition, and revisiting. 'Cycles' features works by four Chicago dancemakers: Gabriela Chavez, Ginger Farley, Carrie Hanson, and Rigo Saura, and is set to take the stage at The Ruth Page Center for the Arts.

Combining drag, storytelling, song and physical comedy, NOT AMERICAN is a tour de force performance. In the span of 90 minutes, writer, director and performer Benjamin Larose portrays seven different characters, each one more unhinged than the previous.

Explore the solo exhibition 'Cultivars' by Kelly S. Williams, the 2024 Visual Artist-in-Residence at Chelsea Music Festival. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Elysia Borowy has been appointed as the new Executive Director of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation.

Explore the upcoming exhibition of Laura Letinsky at Yancey Richardson. Learn more about the artist and see how to purchase tickets.

Explore 95 works from four iconic Chicago artists, Theodore Halkin, Evelyn Statsinger, Barbara Rossi, and Christina Ramberg at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Charlotte Street has announced its 2024 The Guest Curator lecture series featuring Taylor Jasper, Assistant Curator of Visual Arts, Walker Art Center; Jadine Collingwood, Associate Curator, MCA Chicago; and Carlos Quijon, Jr., Curator, Philippine Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale and C-MAP Fellow for Southeast and East Asia, MoMA.

Join South Street Seaport Museum and Lenora Lee Dance for Convergent Waves: NYC, an immersive multimedia free dance event abroad the 1885 tall ship Wavertree!

Explore the world of renowned photographer Joel Meyerowitz at the Howard Greenberg Gallery, opening April 20.

Experience the Chicago premiere of Roger Q. Mason's LAVENDER MEN presented by About Face Theatre. Learn when and where you can see the production, and learn how to purchase tickets.

Crescent Heights, one of the nation's premier urban multifamily developers, has announced the commencement of an extraordinary art project in the heart of Edgewater neighborhood.

Explore the latest exhibition, THE WAREHOUSE, presented by MATERIALS FOR THE ARTS and created by their artist-in-residence, Woomin Kim. This immersive experience showcases the transformative power of art.

Remy Bumppo Theatre Company will present “Punch-Drunk Love Song: Romance on Stage, Screen, and Beyond,” Saturday, March 9, at 8 p.m. Learn more about the event!

Ford Foundation presents a $1.1 million gift to support the US Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale, featuring an exhibition by artist Jeffrey Gibson.