Alternating Currents and Quad City Arts have selected artists from ninety-two submissions for the AC Mural Fest, taking place across five locations in downtown Davenport, Bettendorf and Rock Island.

Monumental works from artist Tyree Guyton’s Detroit-based Heidelberg Project will be showcased outside of their original setting at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, alongside ...

Today in Chicago culture: Tuesday, August 5, 2025.DINING & DRINKING Bocadillo Market Comes To West Town Bocadillo Market “brings unique sandwiches and more to West Town” pictures Eater Chicago.

Get Chicago & Great Lakes culture news sent to your inbox every weekday morning. Subscribe to Newcity Today here. ART Sol LeWitt’s Missing Loop Sculpture Needs Rebuilding “A celebrated sculpture by ...

Today in Chicago culture: Monday, August 4, 2025.Ear Taxi Music Festival Returns Ear Taxi Festival, the Midwest’s largest celebration of new and experimental music, returns this fall for the first ...

“To drive through Detroit is to move through a landscape shaped by both its storied industrial legacy and its long-standing creative community, where generations of artists have turned the city’s ...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Tagalog word gigil refers to the urge to squeeze or pinch something adorable. It’s an ecstatic tension that verges on overflowing the container of decorum. In the coming ...

“The architecture team of MAS Studio and Future Firm, along with Ellipsis Architecture, was commissioned to renovate two apartments in Chicago’s Marina City towers, originally designed by architect ...

MUSIC The Age Of Klaus Mäkelä “Not even thirty, Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä is already the buzziest name in classical music. Now he’s set to usher in a new era at the helm of the Chicago Symphony ...

Newcity published an annual summer guide for many years, which we subtitled a “user’s manual for sunshine.” We even had a summer website for a while. We love our middle months in Chicago. This issue ...

From Chaos to Control: Ever’s Curtis Duffy Discusses His Memoir And Next Act Curtis Duffy “is quick to point out that ‘The Bear’… is not based on Ever and that he is not Carmy Berzatto, the tortured, ...

“Times Square is about to get a sugar rush. Yvette Mayorga [Art 50 2023], the artist best known for her pink-hued, frosted confections, is unveiling her largest public artwork at the New York ...