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|  | llinois Holocaust Museum hosts talk on Stonewall and the LGBTQ-rights movement
2021-10-24
On Oct. 17, Skokie's Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center hosted a "Legacy of Stonewall and the LGBTQ Rights Movement" panel discussion to kick off its latest exhibit, "Rise Up: Stonewall and the LGBTQ Rights Movement." ...
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| | LGBT History Month: Staten Island museum throws open Austen's closet door
2021-10-22
It's been a long time coming, but officials at the Alice Austen House on New York's Staten Island have thrown open the closet door, now fully embracing the lesbian pioneer and photographer who lived in the ...
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| | Pandemic Pivot: Museum launches major digital exhibit for LGBT History Month
2021-10-05
"In Plain Sight' offers website visitors a digital timeline of LGBT achievements including 800 entries across 10 categories Visitors to the Stonewall National Museum and Archives (SNMA) in Fort Lauderdale, one of the largest LGBT lending ...
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| | Pritzker Military Museum, Library to screen TransMilitary doc, Q&A with special guests
2021-09-28
--From a press release - CHICAGO, IL (September 27, 2021) On Thursday, Sept. 30, at 5:30 p.m., the Pritzker Military Museum & Library will host the screening of the 2018 SXSW Audience Award Winner for Best Documentary TransMilitary. The program will ...
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| | Month-long Open House Chicago 2021 to feature in-person site visits Oct. 16-17
2021-09-25
--From a press release - (September 20, 2021) CHICAGO — Chicago Architecture Center (CAC) announced that Open House Chicago 2021 will again offer its popular in-person, indoor site visits, providing rare behind-the-scenes access to more ...
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| | THEATER REVIEW The Golden Girls: The Lost Episodes, Volume 5-SEX!
2021-09-24
Title: The Golden Girls: The Lost Episodes, Volume 5—SEX! Playwright: David Cerda At: Hell In a Handbag Productions at the Leather Archives and Museum. Tickets: $27-$45. Runs through: HandbagProductions.org It could almost be the premise for ...
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| | Art Institute workers forming union
2021-09-22
With backing for a majority of employees, organizers at the Art Institute of Chicago announced they are asking the museum to voluntarily recognize the first labor union at the cultural institution, The Chicago Tribune reported. The ...
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| | ARCHITECTURE Thompson Center Idea Competition winners named
2021-09-14
The Chicago Architecture Center and the Chicago Architectural Club announced the jury's selection of three winning designs for the Thompson Center Design Ideas Competition that represent three distinct, creative visions for the State of Illinois Thomp ...
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| | Illinois Holocaust Museum to show LGBTQ+ exhibit starting Oct. 17
2021-09-03
Starting Oct. 17, Skokie's Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center will host the exhibit "Rise Up: Stonewall and the LGBTQ Rights Movement," which explores the June 1969 police raid of the Stonewall Inn as the flashpoint ...
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| | MCA names Laura Herrera Senior Director of Communications and Content
2021-08-26
--From a press release - Madeleine Grynsztejn, Pritzker Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, announces the appointment of Laura Herrera as Senior Director of Communications and Content, a newly created position that advances ...
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| | ART 'Frida Kahlo: Timeless' extended to Sept. 12
2021-08-26
"Frida Kahlo: Timeless," hosted by the Cleve Carney Museum of Art (CCMA) and the McAninch Arts Center (MAC) at the College of DuPage (COD), has been extended an additional week to Sept. 12. To date, "Timeless" ...
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| | ART College of DuPage to showcase Tony Fitzpatrick's final exhibition
2021-08-17
The Cleve Carney Museum of Art (CCMA), at 425 Fawell Blvd. on the College of DuPage campus, will open its season with "Tony Fitzpatrick: Jesus of Western Avenue." This will be the final museum exhibition by ...
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| | 'Two Lost Works of Sullivan and Wright' opens Sept. 24
2021-08-08
Wrightwood 659, at 659 W. Wrightwood Ave., is presenting "Romanticism to Ruin: Two Lost Works of Sullivan and Wright"—a dual exhibition exploring two of these architects' long-demolished masterpieces. Said masterpieces ...
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| | Filmmakers debut Latinx-centered pandemic documentary
2021-08-06
Community members gathered at Chicago History Museum (CHM) July 22 for the debut of the locally produced documentary Seguimos Aqui: Pride, Pandemic and Perseverance as well as a conversation with that film's primary collaborators. Seguimos Aqu ...
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| | ATTRACTIONS Chicago's First Lady offers a premium architectural tour
2021-08-05
Recently, USA Today selected the Chicago Architecture Foundation's Chicago's First Lady cruise as the best boat tour in the country—and it's easy to see why. (By the way, it also was voted the top boat tour ...
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