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...
Chicago Board of Trade Building museum pays homage to city’s trading history, immortalized in movies like ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ By Brian J. Rogal July 8, 2025 at 1:22 p.m. The new museum, which opens Tuesday, is the latest step in an effort to revive...
Column: The new book ‘Sick and Dirty’ examines the not-so-hidden queerness of classic Hollywood By Michael Phillips June 27, 2025 at 5:30 a.m. In "Sick and Dirty," author Michael Koresky takes a clear-eyed look at golden age Hollywood's...
‘Winging It’ exhibit at Newberry Library shows humanity’s relationship to birds — dead and alive By Robert McCoppin June 23, 2025 at 2:26 p.m. Illinois' nearly extinct prairie chicken and Chicago's famous piping plovers, Monty and Rose, are among...
Newborn Brookfield Zoo dolphin calf dies suddenly By William Tong June 15, 2025 at 10:29 a.m. A bottlenose dolphin born recently at Brookfield Zoo Chicago died late Wednesday. The zoo said...
Summer 2025 in Chicago: All you need to know for movies, concerts, food festivals and more By Kayla Samoy June 11, 2025 at 12:58 p.m. Here are all of the Tribune's summer 2025 arts, entertainment and food guides.
At this museum, no one will shush you, and you can touch the objects By Jill Lawless June 9, 2025 at 6:16 p.m. The V&A is Britain’s national museum of design, performance and applied arts, and the storehouse...
Art for summer 2025: Top 10 exhibitions from Impressionists to protest art By Lori Waxman June 5, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. The Art Institute has a big summer show on Gustave Caillebotte, the Intuit Art Museum...
Chicago’s museums for summer 2025: ‘Reptiles’ at the Field, brews at the zoos and ‘Spider-Man’ the exhibit By Hannah Edgar June 4, 2025 at 10:19 a.m. Experiences, not exhibitions, are coaxing folks off their couches and into cultural institutions. Here are...
Spider-Man spins a complicated web. This new exhibit at Griffin MSI is just for fun. By Christopher Borrelli June 4, 2025 at 5:45 a.m. “Marvel’s Spider-Man: Beyond Amazing — The Exhibit” at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry...
Today in Chicago History: City’s first aquarium at Lincoln Park Zoo — and Shedd Aquarium, its second — opens By Kori Rumore May 31, 2025 at 4:00 a.m. Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on May 31, according...