For Creative Living speaker Riva Lehrer, art is powerful, radical, and political.“My art is about being enthralled with people being enthralled with who they are,” said the artist, author, curator, […]
As the AIDS epidemic swept through the United States in the 1980s, news coverage tended to focus on New York City and San Francisco. Largely ignored was the Chicago story, […]
On the same day that Zac Bleicher took the stage of the Woodstock Opera House to conduct audience members on a virtual tour of Chicago’s Glasner Studio, the Woodstock Fine […]
Zac Bleicher, executive director of the Edgar Miller Legacy, said he hears a common response after giving a presentation about the 20th century Chicago artist.“Miller’s work is so compelling,” they […]
A polygamist, a thief, and a cheat, James Strang proclaimed himself divine king of earth, heaven, and the 78-square-mile Beaver Island, Mich., before he was assassinated in 1856.“The most infamous […]
Author Stephen Coss calls the 2020 cancellation of the NCAA March Madness tournament his “Harvard commencement moment.”“Come again?” you say.Several months after it began its deadly course through 1721 Boston, […]
When Liesl Olson delivers her presentation on the Chicago Avant-Garde at the Jan. 20 installment of the Creative Living Series, she will tell the stories of five women from the […]
Jacqueline Saper remembers the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79 as “an absolutely chaotic time.”Just 17 years old when the uprising against the U.S.-backed Mohammad Reza Shah commenced in 1978, Saper was […]
As the COVID-19 pandemic seeped into the United States, the Chicago Tribune’s chief theater critic, Chris Jones, wrangled permission from his bosses to travel to New York to see the […]
Fine Arts Association plans four programs to run through April
Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news.
Janet Dovidio has been a freelance correspondent for The Independent for eight years.
Susan W. Murray wrote for The Independent, covering various beats, from 2005 to 2008.
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