The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA) has received an anonymous $10m gift to support its performance programme. The gift, which will allow the museum to establish a Performance Fund ...

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A comprehensive exhibition of Yoko Ono‘s art, “Music of the Mind,” will open at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in October. The institution will display more than 200 pieces ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's romance with a North Shore debutante provided fodder for "The Great Gatsby," which this year turned 100.

The Art Institute of Chicago is returning the 12th-century sculpture Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda to Nepal. Art Institute of Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago is returning a ...

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The Art Institute of Chicago announced recently that it had returned to Nepal a sculpture that had been in its collection for at least a quarter century. Conspicuously left out of the press ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- Houston ISD's Shearn Elementary students are decorating their first art car. The students voted that soccer would be the theme. Teacher Nicole Witt is leading the project.

A Chicago artist who has survived two types of cancer, melanoma and Stage 3 rectal cancer is using her talent to educate others. Iona Woolmington is helping to spread the word about the signs of ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago museums have announced free-entry days for some groups. The museums involved include the Art Institute of Chicago, Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, Griffin Museum of Science ...

Information about homicides is released daily by the city of Chicago. The release of homicide victims’ names is delayed by two weeks to allow time for the victims’ families to be notified of a ...