Chicago’s acclaimed Trinity Irish Dance Company (TIDC), announced the launch of its 35th Anniversary season at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in May 2025. The milestone season will include other special local events and performances across the country yet to be announced.
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Chicago’s Hyde Park Art Center recently announced the promotion of Mariela Acuna to Director of Exhibitions and Residency Programs. Acuna’s promotion was announced at the Art Center’s 85th Anniversary Gala held on November 15, 2024. Acuna will assume her new role on November 25, 2024.
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Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium recently announced the opening of an enhanced entry experience that greatly improves the physical accessibility of the historic building, while providing guests with more choice on how to begin their journey to the aquatic world. The transformed entry is part of a new Welcome Plaza that will include more activated garden space, pop-up programming for Museum Campus visitors and a new external ticketing pavilion.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago announced the return of the On Stage performance series. Since 2022, the On Stage series has focused on a curatorial theme that rotates annually. This spring, On Stage takes Lineages as its guiding concept, featuring four separate artist works that explore notions of identity and shared history from both inside and outside of the art world.
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The Elmhurst Art Museum announced the appointment of Allison Peters Quinn to Executive Director and Chief Curator. An established curator, educator, and art writer based in Chicago, Peters Quinn will spearhead the Elmhurst Art Museum’s mission to spark cultural enrichment and serve as “a creative space where art is for everyone.”
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Hailed as one of the best winter light shows in the country by U.S. News and World Report and USA Today, The Morton Arboretum’s 12th annual celebration of trees in winter, Illumination: Tree Lights at The Morton Arboretum, will run for seven weeks from November 16, 2024 through January 4, 2025.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Greek American novelist Jeffrey Eugenides will speak at the National Hellenic Museum(NHM)in Chicago’s Greektown neighborhood on Thursday, December 5, 2024, from 7;00-8:30 p.m.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA) will present a talk with street art luminary Lee Quinones and his recent collaborator, Creative Director of New Era and streetwear designer Dao-Yi Chow, for the Chicago launch of Quinones’s monograph, “Lee Quinones: Fifty Years of New York Graffiti Art and Beyond.”
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Chicago’s Roosevelt Collection Shops, 150 W. Roosevelt Rd., recently announced a new opening within the South Loop retail, entertainment and lifestyle center. Play Street Museum, an interactive children’s museum and indoor play area, will open this November, serving as Illinois’ first location of the franchise concept.
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Asian Improv aRts Midwest (AIRMW) and Tsukasa Taiko, with director, multi-instrumentalist and media artist Tatsu Aoki, celebrate a decade of “Reduction” concerts with “Reduction 10” at the Edlis Neeson Theater at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 220 E. Chicago Ave. at 7 p.m., Saturday, December 14, 2024.
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