The Block Museum’s “Woven Being” is expansive yet concise, not so much a group exhibition as a mapping of diverse but related Indigenous art.

On April 1, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office began shuttering one of the country’s largest and most restrictive electronic monitoring programs.

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The artistic director's newest show, Scary Town, draws on family secrets and the anthropomorphic storybook style of Richard Scarry.

The theme of the Chicago edition of Mubi Fest 2025 is Lost In Translation. The weekend’s diverse, carefully curated film selection explores the universal experience of not quite connecting with others ...

Pictoria Vark celebrates the release of the project's second full-length, Nothing Sticks, with an Empty Bottle show on Sunday.

Marie Davidson is a techno trickster. Electronic-music lovers have been grooving to the Quebecois artist for a minute, especially after Pitchfork chose her third album, Adieux au Dancefloor, as one of ...

At an April 5 meeting of the Seventh Police District Council, member Dion McGill called on the state’s attorney’s office to immediately suspend the program, conduct a comprehensive racial equity ...

MFnMelo is a Pivot member. Poem curated by Frsh Waters. Frsh Waters from Chicago's Westside is a writer, performance artist, & community outreach coordinator for Chicago youth arts non-profit John ...

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Murs is a prolific proletarian artist who’s given us heartfelt, earnest verses since he began rapping professionally in the mid-90s. Born Nicholas Carter, the veteran Los Angeles MC is an indie rap ...

Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas emerged from different corners of Chicago’s music scene, but the commonalities between the two ensembles made their collaborations feel inevitable.