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Carlos Tortolero, the founder and outgoing president of the National Museum of Mexican Art in Pilsen, Dec. 11, 2023.

Chicagoan of the Year for Museums: NMMA founder and outgoing president Carlos Tortolero rethought what a museum could be

May 22, 2026 at 7:49 p.m.

Carlos Tortolero has officemates. Seventeen of them, actually. A former high school history teacher, Tortolero, 69, "love(s) ancient México." If he's not at the National Museum of Mexican Art, which...

Klaus Mäkelä conducts members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a performance of López Bellido's "Aino" at the Symphony Center on Feb. 16, 2023, in Chicago.

Best of classical music and jazz 2023: It’s always sunny in Chicago

December 12, 2023 at 5:45 a.m.

The best thing about 2023, 'round these parts? It got me excited for 2024, and 2033. The prognosis for the performing arts at large, still limping after the pandemic, is...

After its arrival in Chicago, Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center found ways to augment "I'll Have What She's Having" with relevant Chicago-area history.

‘I’ll Have What She’s Having’ at the Holocaust Museum celebrates the sticking power of Jewish delis, with heaping sides of local history

May 22, 2026 at 7:49 p.m.

Since originating at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles last year, "I'll Have What She's Having: The Jewish Deli" has bounced around Jewish educational institutions and history museums across...

Chicago Opera Theater's music director Lidiya Yankovskaya.

With ‘The Nose,’ transformative music director Lidiya Yankovskaya departs Chicago Opera Theater. What’s next for the company?

December 5, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

"The Nose" wasn't planned as Lidiya Yankovskaya's swan song from Chicago Opera Theater, the company she's led as music director since 2017. But Dmitri Shostakovich's absurdist political satire, composed when...

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Chicagoan of the Year for Museums: NMMA founder and outgoing president Carlos Tortolero rethought what a museum could be

Best of classical music and jazz 2023: It’s always sunny in Chicago

‘I’ll Have What She’s Having’ at the Holocaust Museum celebrates the sticking power of Jewish delis, with heaping sides of local history

With ‘The Nose,’ transformative music director Lidiya Yankovskaya departs Chicago Opera Theater. What’s next for the company?

Review: With Michael Tilson Thomas, music is easy and sweet at CSO

Review: Stepping in for Barenboim at Symphony Center, Hru a’s pinch-hit with Staatskapelle Berlin is a grand slam

Mars Williams, free-jazz musician and saxophonist for the Psychedelic Furs, dies at 68

Review: Cast lights up Lyric’s especially bleak ‘Jenufa’ — and that’s saying something

Mars Williams’ sax was everywhere, from free jazz projects to the Psychedelic Furs. Then came cancer.

A percussionist comes home, with tenure and a world premiere