INTRO: Mitch Markovitz ends up exactly where he always wanted to be

For a South Side kid like Mitch Markovitz, trains were everything. Clattering in the distance and whistling through the night when you were falling asleep and marking off day parts when you were awake.

Trainspotting: How Mitch Markovitz ended up exactly where he always wanted to be

For a South Side kid like Mitch Markovitz, trains were everything. Clattering in the distance and whistling through the night when you were falling asleep and marking off day parts when you were awake.

Art Institute of Chicago opens major Picasso show

A century after the Art Institute of Chicago became the first American museum to show work by Pablo Picasso, the institution is celebrating the Spanish artist with a major exhibition featuring his art and its relationship with the city.

Interview with Diana of the Dunes

Sitting on a grassy sand dune one evening last summer, I was gazing over Lake Michigan at a sunset that brought to mind a 19th century religious painting: fat pink-and-gray rays shooting out from a small, tight, fiery hot-pink, ball of sun. The kind of sun that absorbs someone’s soul up to, …

Interview with Diana of the Dunes

Sitting on a grassy sand dune one evening last summer, I was gazing over Lake Michigan at a sunset that brought to mind a 19th century religious painting: fat pink-and-gray rays shooting out from a small, tight, fiery hot-pink, ball of sun. The kind of sun that absorbs someone’s soul up to, …

Chicago visit connects students to art and architecture

ST. JOHN | A field trip to Chicago enabled fifth graders at St. John the Evangelist School to make the connection between the classroom and the real world.

Don't blow a fuse over holiday decorations

Give them your tired, your tangled, your holiday lights with burned-out reds and greens.

Pre-Columbian Mexican art to be on display at Chicago Art Institute

CHICAGO | On the day that people in Mexico will celebrate the nation's Bicentennial of its independence declaration from Spain, a new exhibit will open that will show off the culture that existed in that land prior to the Spanish arrival in what is now North America.

Party arty

Collaboraction is a trippy, off-Loop theater with a growing reputation for staging "experiences" for private and corporate galas on the side. Clients include Jockey, Starcom and Heineken, but the Jeff-winning company is happy to crash smaller bashes.