Art

Art installations, exhibits, galleries and shows around Chicago.

A Grinch musical, a hip-hop ‘Nutcracker’ and holiday concerts from jazz, blues and CSO musicians are among the highlights of the week ahead.
Artist Shawn Michael Warren previously completed a giant mural featuring Oprah Winfrey in the West Loop.
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‘Lost and Found’ will be presented at Gallery 6 in Logan Square Thursday.
You might not need the city to do your daily business, but it still offers a portal to the unexpected.
A Doja Cat tour stop, Cirque du Soleil’s holiday show and several ‘Nutcracker’ productions are among the entertainment highlights of the week ahead.
The Joffrey ‘Nutcracker,’ Holiday Magic at Brookfield Zoo, the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball, and a Pre-Kwanzaa Marketplace are among the highlights in the week ahead.
A revival of ‘The Wiz,’ a Pentatonix holiday concert and the Chicago Thanksgiving Parade are among the entertainment highlights of the week ahead.
Carlos Tortolero and five other staffers from Bowen High School were disgusted with how Mexican culture was taught in Chicago public schools. So they did something about it.
“Boop! The Betty Boop Musical,” the City’s official tree lighting ceremony, and the Magnificent Mile Lights Festival area among the cool things to check out in the week ahead.
“Sé que a quien contratemos llevará al museo a un nuevo y mejor lugar”, dijo Carlos Tortolero, que dejará el cargo el 31 de diciembre.
“I know whoever we hire will take the museum to a new and higher place,” said Carlos Tortolero, who’ll step down Dec. 31.
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The exhibit at the Art Institute offers a compact yet impressively thorough overview of the main phases of the Spanish artist’s career, one that should appeal to those familiar or unfamiliar with his work.
The presentation contains nearly 150 objects, including paintings, drawings, original prints, quilts, sculptures and mixed-media works as well as archival photos and materials related to her activism.