Louvre Museum’s director resigns in wake of jewels heist in Paris By Thomas Adamson February 24, 2026 at 3:36 p.m. French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday accepted the resignation of the Louvre Museum’s director. She...
On a tour in Chicago, state reps hear from museum leaders in an uncertain cultural funding landscape By Hannah Edgar October 11, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. Rep. Kimberly DuBuclet organized the Thursday tour, which began at the DuSable Black History Museum,...
Fall 2025 in Chicago: Everything you need to know for books, theater, movies and more By Kayla Samoy October 22, 2025 at 8:22 a.m. The Tribune's writers and critics have assembled their guides for fall arts and entertainment in...
Workers at Museum of Science and Industry vote to authorize a strike By Angela Mathew September 23, 2025 at 2:09 p.m. Members of the union representing Museum of Science and Industry workers voted to authorize a...
Giant penguins and the world’s longest snake: Field Museum digs into the era that followed the dinosaurs By Fauzia Arain McGuire September 10, 2025 at 9:16 a.m. We know the dinosaurs of the Mesozoic era and the woolly mammoths of the ice...
Column: The Art Institute defends the title of ‘Gustave Caillebotte: Painting His World.’ A catalog contributor is skeptical. By Hannah Edgar August 3, 2025 at 11:01 a.m. The artist best known in Chicago for his “Paris Street; Rainy Day” is getting a...
Prison bars fashioned into sonic sculpture for musical performance at Gallery 400 By Cam'ron Hardy July 22, 2025 at 11:01 a.m. The performance will use a sonic sculpture — made partly of glass rods cast from...
What if you could see inside machines? ‘Art of X-rays’ opens at the Griffin MSI By Cam'ron Hardy July 18, 2025 at 5:15 a.m. Photographer Andrei Duman uses X-rays to create the images in "Beyond the Surface." The objects...
Bachelor gorillas, endangered spider monkeys make debut with Brookfield Zoo Chicago’s new primate habitat By Cam'ron Hardy July 15, 2025 at 12:35 p.m. The three-acre, $66 million Tropical Forests habitat opened Friday after more than two years of...
‘Reptiles Alive!’ is now open at the Field Museum, changing the way you look at snakes, lizards and even birds By Hannah Edgar July 9, 2025 at 5:45 a.m. Legless lizards, anyone? Breaking down assumptions about reptiles has been the life’s work of associate...
Column: 20 years ago, UChicago’s Jacqueline Stewart went hunting for home movies. She found pure Chicago history. By Michael Phillips July 10, 2025 at 1:04 p.m. Returning to UChicago after the Academy Museum in Los Angeles, Jacqueline Stewart celebrates a singular...