Major Theaster Gates exhibit to open at the Smart Museum this fall
Beginning Sept. 23, the Smart Museum of Art in will open a landmark mid-career show of Theaster Gates’ far-flung art practices.
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Column: How ‘Jaws’ changed our chumminess with swimming 50 years ago this summer
Inside a theater: Audiences floated at the lip of the ocean, the waves casually slapping at the bottom of movie screens, reminding them, without spelling it out, that something’s below.
Column: AC/DC and the underrated art of doing the same thing forever
There’s freedom, and a profound understanding of craft, in repetition.
Meet Jim Downey, the Joliet guy who had the secret sauce to transform 50 years of ‘SNL’
Bill Murray was his roommate. Dennis Miller says he shaped the show more than anyone except Lorne Michaels. Conan O'Brien says his signature style is “the comedy of over-explaining everything.”
Imaging the future of trans healthcare — and plastering it across the MCA
Edie Fake's mural, now on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art, is hard to pin down. Also, Edie Fake is hard to pin down.
Review: Charli XCX redefines in her Rosemont show what it means to play live today
The arena sang and bounced like this was the last concert they would ever attend. But was this even a concert? There was no band, no dancers, not even a...
Life after bandtime: The nine lives of Talking Head Jerry Harrison, in Skokie for ‘Stop Making Sense’
Nine things you probably didn't know about the guitarist and keyboardist for the Talking Heads and co-founder of the Modern Lovers.
Column: Why Star Wars spinoff ‘Andor’ is the 2025 protest art you’ve been waiting for
"Andor, which begins its second season Tuesday, is the most vital, resonant political parable being made right now.
Column: John Mulaney holds Netflix hostage: Week Six
Like on Letterman, there's a willingness to wander off the path of expectations in "Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney."
‘Breakfast Club’ is reuniting at C2E2. What do Gen-Zers at John Hughes’ school think of the Gen-X movie?
We asked some students at Glenbrook North, the school depicted in John Hughes’ movie, to watch it for the first time. SO MUCH in the film wouldn’t fly today, they...