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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This Fall, the Driehaus Museum mounts Photographing Frank Lloyd Wright, the first exhibition to present the fascinating and unexplored topic of Wright’s own early photography as well as images by the leading photographers who documented his work.
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The ancient Greek poet Homer’s Odyssey is arguably considered the greatest adventure story ever told, inspiring many contemporary literary adaptations and films about heroes embarking on fateful and twisting journeys as they make their way home. On October 25 & 26, 2024, the National Hellenic Museum (NHM) and the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies will present their popular “Homerathon”, a reading of the Odyssey aloud in its entirety with public participation.
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This winter, the Elmhurst Art Museum will present Sustenance & Land: Five Artists Consider Our Relationship with the Earth, a group exhibition exploring human connection to the land and the many ways the earth sustains us.
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It’s that time of year again! Tickets for the holiday favorite 12th annual Illumination: Tree Lights at the Morton Arboretum,
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