Chicago was famously the starting point of Route 66, and there's still one classic motel on the historic road that you can ...
Jim Falconer, Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Suellen Rocca, and Karl Wirsum's Hairy Who (1966) Credit: The Art Institute of Chicago, gift of Gladys Nilsson and Jim Nutt. Here are three things to ...
These days, the brand is an anchor in Chicago's vintage scene as the go-to destination for folks who like to make a splash in one-of-a kind vintage fashions. If you want mod, bohemian, tiki, or ...
WBEZ's food, culture and health reporter Monica Eng recently saw “La Havana Madrid,” a documentary theater experience based on the true story of a 1960s Chicago nightclub, La Havana Madrid, and the ...
Chronology -- Foreword / Sarah McCrory -- Chicago imagism : a style, a state of mind / Lynne Warren -- Who? How? What? / Rosie Cooper -- Roger Brown -- Sarah Canright ...
Figurative artist Karl Wirsum was one of the Imagists, a group in the late 1960s and early ’70s that served as a counterweight to the growing influence of modernism during that period. Wirsum, who ...