A “solo show” of Alberto Aguilar’s work in the People’s Palace makes perfect sense as he seldom works alone.

Like so much of the best art, the works here by Kazuhito Tanaka are an exercise in, and a reward for, looking.

Jazz photo exhibit “Tangible Sound” brings animated images, interactive visuals, and live music to the Chicago Cultural Center.

The exhibition’s curatorial statement says that the array of nearly 40 works by a multigenerational group of 29 artists “charts a provisional history of art during the span of the Obama presidency.” ...

New publications like Gab, Write That Down, the pub, The Issue, and more are invoking the long history of creating outside mainstream media.

In 2025, Lila Iké released her debut full-length album, Treasure Self Love, where she processes her past and embraces her journey toward self-acceptance.

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

This idea of rupture, spiritual penetration, functions as an apt descriptor of “Organgrinder,” Pfeiffer’s show now up at M. LeBlanc.

Photos from the Chosen Few Picnic, a celebration of house music where fans and artists build a joyous combination of concert and cookout ...

While Morgan Garrett is an experimental singer-songwriter and Gloorp (aka Garrett Burke) is a dance-music producer and percussionist (he’s drummed in Mothers and Of Montreal), they’ve found common ...

Director Seph Mozes and actor Zoë Christine Rutherford talk about bringing Oscar Wilde's symbolist tragedy to a church sanctuary.

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