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Jerron Herman rehearses for Kinetic Light's performance on April 22, 2022. "Wired" premieres May 5 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. (Herman is in a crawling position on stage, his right hand reaching forward with fingers spread. His head is up and his eyes are open and looking toward the camera. Textured green lighting illuminate him and the stage.)

Wheelchair aerial dance at center of ‘Wired’ at the MCA, a performance that centers disability

April 28, 2022 at 7:06 p.m.

Alice Sheppard does not shy away from a challenge. In devising her latest dance, "Wired," she and her Bay Area disability arts company Kinetic Light had to first write the...

Troup Bingo's Valeriia Koshova, from Kyiv, Ukraine, stretches backstage before a performance at Circus Vazquez in Schaumburg on April 22, 2022.

Troup Bingo of Circus Vazquez hails from Ukraine — one woman walked (and took trains and a taxi) to Poland in order to perform

April 27, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

"The show must go on" is an expression that originated with the circus a century or more ago, perhaps rarely used the same way as with Troup Bingo. The company...

Amare, 16, interacts with young visitors who were standing a few feet from his window at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago on April 13, 2022. The zoo says the young gorilla is being distracted by visitors and their smartphones.

A teenage gorilla at Lincoln Park Zoo is getting too much screen time; the zoo has taken steps to separate him from visitors’ phones

May 22, 2026 at 7:55 p.m.

Recent changes to Lincoln Park Zoo's gorilla exhibit are aimed at curbing a teenager's obsession with smartphones. Like many human teenagers, zoo officials say male gorilla Amare, 16, has been...

The exhibit "Frida Kahlo, Her Photos" is seen on display at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago April 1, 2022.

Frida Kahlo at home: Intimate photos from the artist’s personal collection have arrived at National Museum of Mexican Art

May 22, 2026 at 7:55 p.m.

When artist, political activist and cultural icon Frida Kahlo died in 1954, her husband, artist Diego Rivera, asked poet Carlos Pellicer to fulfill her request to turn La Casa Azul...

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Wheelchair aerial dance at center of ‘Wired’ at the MCA, a performance that centers disability

Troup Bingo of Circus Vazquez hails from Ukraine — one woman walked (and took trains and a taxi) to Poland in order to perform

A teenage gorilla at Lincoln Park Zoo is getting too much screen time; the zoo has taken steps to separate him from visitors’ phones

Frida Kahlo at home: Intimate photos from the artist’s personal collection have arrived at National Museum of Mexican Art

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