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Kerry Reid

In England, they have Boxing Day. In America, the day after Christmas — heck, the entire week between Christmas and New Year's — can feel like the aftermath of a holiday bout. Between running to the mall to return that terrible sweater (what were they thinking?) and figuring out how...

News
Millionaires with museums? Chicago's had a few
A millionaire — an iconoclastic, private collection — a plan for a museum in a city park.
Arts & Entertainment
Chicago's best visual art in 2014
This has been a year of bittersweet goodbyes, as some of the brightest curators in Chicago have left for Toronto, Philadelphia, Kassel, Germany, and beyond. 2015 will fill those Lucite platform shoes with who-knows-who, but in the meantime, here's what we do know:

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Shedd reveals winning name of rescued sea otter pup
And she shall be "Luna."
News Columnists
Art Institute's exhibit on cities offers striking insight on today's unrest
Buildings going up in flames. Militarized police forces. Demonstrators disrupting routines of city life.

Arts & Entertainment
Gang studio selected for NYC museum design expansion
Chicago architect Jeanne Gang and her firm, Studio Gang Architects, have been selected to design a major expansion of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
Museums
Museum stores for holiday shopping
Thanksgiving weekend used to be so simple — some food, some family time, some football for those so inclined. But then Black Friday busted down the door, marring the traditional kickoff to the season of goodwill with grim stories of consumers fighting over merchandise. (Don't even get...

Museums
Talking to Lonnie Bunch about his Smithsonian-size task
Lonnie Bunch had a good thing going in Chicago. He was running the Chicago Historical Society, helping to guide its transition to eventually becoming the more outward facing Chicago History Museum. Chicago's community of civic leaders had welcomed him into their ranks, asking him to help woo...
Museums
Museum of Contemporary Art: An easy-to-like place for difficult art
A recent visit to Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art discovered in its galleries:

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Shedd opens contest to name sea otter pup
The sea pup polls are open.
Museums
Adler's Doane Observatory reopens to public
With an Adler After Dark event last week, the Adler Planetarium's Doane Observatory quietly reopened for public use after a renovation that improved access to the building's 20-inch mirrored telescope, put in a lakeside ground-floor classroom/meeting room, and added heat, restrooms and windows.
Museums
At the Adler, paintings that fired outer space imaginations
His name sounds like one you'd give a character in a parody of patrician privilege.
Breaking News
Judge: Court must act before work starts on Lucas museum site
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered that no physical changes be made to the proposed site for George Lucas' museum without approval from the court, which is hearing a lawsuit brought by open-space advocates who oppose locating the "Star Wars" creator's museum on the lakefront.

Museums
DuSable Museum names interim head
Chicago businessman Robert Blackwell is taking over as interim president and CEO at the DuSable Museum of African American History, but he intends to be an “activist” in the role, he said.
Museums
Season of lights, lights and more lights: 'Illumination,' MSI and others
These days, the main floor of the Museum of Science and Industry is a little bit like a Christmas tree lot, but without the smell of evergreens, the giant ball of twine or the sketchy dude in the Carhartt jacket. In a long-running holiday tradition, the museum's "Christmas Around the World" has...
Arts & Entertainment
American Indian museum celebrates Thanksgiving
November is Native American Heritage Month. November also is the month of Thanksgiving, and the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian in Evanston is celebrating both with special activities over Thanksgiving Week.
Business
Lucas Museum hires Don Bacigalupi as president
Don Bacigalupi is going from helping one billionaire debut an art museum to another.
Museums
Baby orangutan Kecil gets a mother at Brookfield Zoo
For a 10-month-old orangutan, Kecil is a pretty well-traveled guy.

Museums
Chicago History Museum: Telling the essential stories of our American city
On weekends, the Chicago History Museum is not stuffed to bursting with newcomers to the city, but it ought to be. One of the highest best uses of the information-rich institution at the south end of Lincoln Park is its ability to ground people in the lore of the metropolis. In a place with...
Breaking News
Parks group suit: City, Park District can't OK Lucas Museum for lakefront
Open space advocates made good Thursday on their promise to go to court to block the proposed site for George Lucas’ museum, asserting in a federal lawsuit that the city of Chicago and the Park District overstepped their authority in offering a lakefront location to the “Star...
Arts & Entertainment
'Rainforest Adventure' opens at the Notebaert
Who among us, as the winter freeze settles in, wouldn't like to visit a rainforest about now? Second best is "Rainforest Adventure," a new exhibit at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Lincoln Park. Along with a full educational dose about the ecosystems of these all-too-distant places, the...
Breaking News
Group to sue over lakefront site for Lucas Museum
Opponents of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plan to allow George Lucas to build his museum on the lakefront will file a lawsuit in federal court on Thursday, the group told the Tribune.
Breaking News
Aging lioness Myra euthanized at Lincoln Park Zoo
The Lincoln Park Zoo’s lioness, Myra, had to be euthanized Tuesday at age 18 after going into declining health recently, the zoo announced.

News Columnists
George Lucas' museum proposal is needlessly massive
I think I can explain the widespread public revulsion toward the just-released design for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. This isn't the typical shock of the new. People are mad because they instinctively get that this cartoonish mountain of a building would be glaringly out of place amid...
News
Shedd Aquarium takes in orphaned sea otter
The Shedd Aquarium has announced the arrival of its newest inhabitant: a southern sea otter pup.
Museums
Guide to Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum: Nature just might get back to you
I thought I had finally gotten over my — let's not sugarcoat it — revulsion at being in butterfly gardens.
News Columnists
Lucas Museum design an architectural mountain on city's lakefront
If you expected filmmaker George Lucas to give Chicago a low-slung museum that would slip quietly into the fiercely contested ground of the city's lakefront, I have news for you: You expected wrong.
Life & Style
Museum of Science and Industry opens holiday exhibit Nov. 13
People around the world celebrate the upcoming holiday season in myriad ways. The Museum of Science and Industry salutes that diversity with its colorful dual celebration, "Christmas Around the World" and "Holidays of Light."

Museums
Guide to Morton Arboretum: Seeing the forest and the trees
Along one of the miles and miles of footpath at The Morton Arboretum, I stopped on a recent Monday to soak in the scene. The forest floor was a bright yellow carpet. Above me, more leaves, yellow and orange and green, still clung to their makers. The sunlight filtered through like a...
Museums
Monsters arrive at the Hellenic Museum
Illustrations from a book about monsters of Greek mythology have come to life — or rather, to large-scale sculptural form — at the National Hellenic Museum in Chicago.
Museums
Images from concentration camps on display at Polish Museum
"Forbidden Art" is a new exhibit at Chicago's Polish Museum of America, with photos of artworks created by Holocaust survivors.
Museums
Field invites top natural history museums to Chicago summit
In a new initiative in its industry, the Field Museum of Natural History plans to host representatives of fellow leading natural-history museums at a meeting in the spring of 2015, Field president Richard Lariviere said in an interview.
Museums
Inside the Field Museum's hidden flesh-eating beetle room
The scariest room in the Field Museum just might be a back room full of flesh-eating beetles, used by the museum to prepare bones for research.

Theater Loop
DuSable Museum chief to retire
Carol Adams, president and CEO of the DuSable Museum of African American History, will retire on Dec. 31, according to an announcement from the museum. Adams joined the institution on Nov. 9, 2009.
Museums
Review: 'Vodou: Sacred Powers of Haiti' opens at Field Museum
The first striking thing in "Vodou: Sacred Powers of Haiti," the haunting, otherworldly new temporary exhibition at the Field Museum, was the smell.
Museums
George Lucas museum to feature more than 'Star Wars'
Yes, “Star Wars” creator George Lucas is building a museum on Chicago's lakefront. But it will not be a “Star Wars” museum, the filmmaker said in Chicago Friday, calling that an idea that has been “blown all out of proportion.”
Arts & Entertainment
Dark side of history: Celebrating Halloween at the museums
"From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us," goes a traditional Scottish prayer. But at this time of year, a lot of people savor the possibility of a good fright. Several museums and other cultural attractions offer their...
Arts & Entertainment
DanceWorks, Field Museum among Chicago groups getting MacArthur grants
DanceWorks Chicago, eighth blackbird and Walkabout Theater Company are among 12 Chicago arts organizations receiving grants for international collaborations from the Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

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