Discover incredible art, history and culture all without spending a dime at these excellent free museums across the country.

Vote for the best art museum once per day until polls close on February 27 at noon ET. The 10 winners will be announced on March 6. Have questions? Read the official Readers' Choice rules. There's no ...

Thomas “Tom” Mapp, a transformative leader in arts education and administration at the University of Chicago, passed away on ...

With more than 300 works, a show at the Cleveland Museum of Art illuminates how the ever-innovative artist used paper as a medium and a material of seemingly endless applications.

Damon Lamar Reed, a 47-year-old acrylic painter living in South Shore who’s participated in the majority of mural restorations in Chicago over the last decade, was named the inaugural Artist of the ...

Painting and Other Technologies, 1970-2020” takes over the museum’s fourth floor. A lot of the work is ugly, plenty of it is ...

For such a storied reputation for meatpacking, Chicago isn’t known as a burger town. Sure, Ray Kroc opened the first McDonald’s franchise in the suburbs, but hot dogs and Italian beef ...

There are also wonderful, themed art installations by global artists in various mediums. It’s always innovative and inspiring, from the windows to the elaborately designed escalators. The entire store ...

CLEVELAND — An exclusive Pablo Picasso exhibit is now open at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Picasso and Paper is an exhibit with about 300 pieces of art highlighting Picasso's long history with ...

The American multimillionaire artist talks about why money is ‘a secondary thing’, his hero Picasso ... of Art in Baltimore, but switched to a more avant-garde course in Chicago after seeing ...

Kevin Hart: Need a jolt? Kick off the New Year with Kevin Hart’s brand of high-energy comedy as he brings his “Acting My Age” tour to the Chicago Theatre. 7:30 p.m. Jan. 3-4 and 7 p.m. Jan ...

In Chicago, 1,081 restaurants opened between January and September last year. That’s less than the 1,321 that opened during the same period in 2023, according to the most recent data available ...