Author: Isaac Jacobs

Food

Chicago’s Taste of Greektown Festival Returns September 6-8, 2024

Opa! Greektown Chicago’s popular Taste of Greektown festival returns for its 34th year with the city’s largest celebration of Hellenic cuisine and culture, the weekend after Labor Day on Friday, September 6 through Sunday, September 8, 2024, along Halsted Street from Adams to Van Buren. The neighborhood’s acclaimed Greek restaurants are the stars of the show, along with live music and entertainment, Greek dancing, unique shopping and retail, family friendly activities and more.

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MuseumsSummer 2024

The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry presents “007 Science,” Uncovering the Tech and Innovation Behind the World’s Greatest Spy

Get ready to delve into the fascinating world of James Bond like never before. The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry presents 007 Science, the first-ever official exhibition to focus on the science and technology behind the world’s longest-running movie franchise.

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ArtMuseumsWinter 2024

A Sound Inspiration

Music has, for centuries, inspired design across the spectrum of art creation. Have you ever thought about the kind of visual output the music of jazz legedn John Coltrane might inspire? Well, Norman Teague has, and his visionary exhibition on the subject is set to launch at the the Elmhurst Art Museum this January. Entitled A Love Supreme, this solo exhibition inspired byColtrane will accompnayan adjoining group exhibition in the famed Mies van der Rohe’s McCormick House featuring over 30 Chicago-based artists who identify as Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC). The companion show is entitled A Love Supreme: McCormick House Reimagined. 

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ArtSummer 2023

Picasso 50 Years Later, A View to a Legacy

Any artist, poet or musician worth their weight in salt aims to do much more than just create. Certainly, expression is a passionate part of their journeys, but if meaningful expression is to come to its greatest fruition, it must leave an impression. Every artist understands that. A lasting impression is really the point of that expression. That lasting impression is likely a touchstone for the most iconic artists. It certainly is the case for Pablo Picasso. After his death a half century earlier, his legacy leaves an indelible mark today. 

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ArtSpring 2023

Museum of Contemporary Art to Present “Garry Simmons: Public Enemy”

This summer, The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago  will present Gary Simmons: Public Enemy, a survey of artist Gary Simmons’s work, organized by James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator René Morales and assistant curator Jadine Collingwood on view from June 10, 2023, through October 1, 2023. It will be presented in the Griffin Galleries of Contemporary Art. The exhibition is the most comprehensive look at Simmons’s work to date, covering 30 years of Simmons’s career and featuring approximately 70 works. 

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