ARIES (March 21-April 19): Greek philosopher Socrates declared, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” That extreme statement is a foundational idea of Western philosophy. It’s hard to do! To be ...

Edie Fake’s “radical vision of trans joy and abundant acceptance heralds the MCA’s ‘City In A Garden: Queer Art and Activism’ exhibition, which opens on July 5,” writes the Observer. “When you walk ...

“The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago announced William Silverstein as the new chair of the board of trustees,” reports Crain’s. “In a statement, the museum said Silverstein, who has been a trustee ...

Northern Trust, the presenting sponsor of Expo Chicago, “is fully committed to remaining independent, the bank said after the Wall Street Journal reported that Bank of New York Mellon had approached ...

The Cleveland Museum of Art has acquired Giambologna’s 1572 “Fata Morgana,” “one of only two marble works by the revered Mannerist sculptor in a U.S. museum,” reports The Art Newspaper. The museum ...

The New York Times’ art critics pick eleven outstanding exhibitions from the first half of the year, including “Myth & Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia.” “Everything we ask of art is ...

CANCER: identify the single desire that motivates you more than any other.

The Newtons were extreme collectors. During the early 1980s, I visited their four-story, eighteen-room house in Aurora filled with antiques. A secret bookshelf door in the basement opened to a ...

My first awareness of the Java Village resulted from a trip in 1989 to The Field Museum to cover the then-new exhibition, “Traveling the Pacific.” It would be wonderful to recreate the village with a ...

Chicago’s Peace Garden is not a particularly peaceful place. Located in Uptown next to Lake Shore Drive, just east of the Buena Avenue underpass, its tranquility is undermined by the constant roar of ...

The true Romani playing in Chicago include: Tony Bellog: A regular performer with Alphonso Ponticelli’s Swing Gitan at the Green Mill on Wednesday nights, Bellog is from a legendary family of gypsy ...

Grain elevators were the city’s first skyscrapers, rising up as high as fifteen stories along the Chicago River and Sanitary and Ship Canal.