Was Buying Frieze A Good Deal For Dealmaker Ari Emanuel? “What is the value of an art fair? According to the Hollywood super-agent Ari Emanuel, who on May 1 announced he will buy Frieze from his ...

Barbara Kruger’s Prescient Mural Acts As Backdrop To Los Angeles ICE Protests “As protesters swarmed downtown Los Angeles to denounce ICE raids in their communities and the deployment of the National ...

Though it wasn't planned this way, there's a thread through most of the feature stories in this issue that's personal for me, ...

“The Sea and the Sky, and You and I,” an art exhibition on display through August 30 at the Shepherd, is inspired by Detroit’s landscape, reports the Detroit Free Press. The exhibition features twenty ...

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Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency has announced the purchase of 137 Center Street in Douglas, Michigan. The former site of the Douglas library will become the permanent home of Ox-Bow House, ...

While I ride CTA trains, mostly the Red Line, a few times a week, I was interested in getting a better sense of what conditions are like on the El at other times of the day. So I hung out on the Red ...

It is two-thirty in the morning at Carol’s Pub. Most of the other bars in the neighborhood have closed, and customers of all ages—from twenty-one to sixty—file in to order more beer and whiskey, and ...

A growing group of artists “have benefited from what could be called the ‘rediscovery industrial complex’: a cottage industry within the art market that looks to the past to find figures—often women ...

Grain elevators were the city’s first skyscrapers, rising up as high as fifteen stories along the Chicago River and Sanitary and Ship Canal from downtown to the South Shore, supplying the nation’s ...

It’s a Friday afternoon and two young men from the suburbs are looking for a place to crash later that night, after hitting up the bars in Andersonville and Uptown. A friend recommended The Lodge ...

Roeper accepted a buyout from the Sun-Times in March 2025 after thirty-seven years. “Roeper first met Roger Ebert at the Sun-Times in the 1980s, and the two developed a friendship that led to their on ...