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Arts group seeks $15 million boost in cultural grants from city (opens the original)
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The statewide arts advocacy group Arts Alliance Illinois is calling on Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to boost cultural funding in the next budget. In an open letter to the mayor, the group says it wants the city to increase the grantmaking budget at the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, which gives funding directly to artists and arts organizations, by $15 million. How much cities and states contribute to the arts has become a key question among cultural leaders as federal fundi
Arts group seek $15 million boost in cultural grants from city (opens the original)
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The statewide arts advocacy group Arts Alliance Illinois is calling on Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to boost cultural funding in the next budget. In an open letter to the mayor, the group says it wants the city to increase the grantmaking budget at the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, which gives funding directly to artists and arts organizations, by $15 million. How much cities and states contribute to the arts has become a key question among cultural leaders as federal fundi
These Chicago chefs and restaurants are finalists for the Banchet Awards, the top local food honor (opens the original)
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Finalists for Chicago’s top local food honor, the Banchet Awards, were announced Wednesday morning. This year’s nominees range from casual spots like the Mayfair taco trailer No Pasa Nada and Albany Park’s Noodles Party to fine dining destinations like Avec. Throughout the day Tuesday, the Banchet Foundation’s Executive Director Michael Muser visited several of the restaurants on the list to deliver the news in person, including Asador Bastian, the River North steakhouse, which is up for Restaur
CSO debuts new logo, bold red usher uniforms in next-generation rebrand (opens the original)
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The nonprofit parent organization of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra announced a rebrand Thursday, meant to usher in a new era for the city’s preeminent classical music company. It features a new naming convention and, for the first time in 30 years, a new logo. Music fans will also notice updated red uniforms for the ushers who greet and seat guests. And while the rest of the changes are mostly subtle from the audience perspective, company leaders say the rebrand is meant to clarify the organiza
Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms return to Chicago this fall at Wrightwood 659 (opens the original)
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On the second floor of Wrightwood 659, sits a portal to another world. Or, rather, two portals. The boutique art museum in Lincoln Park is currently displaying two Infinity Mirror Rooms, the colorful, reflective and immersive artworks from the wildly popular Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who died in August at the age of 97. The show at Wrightwood, “Inner Worlds: Visions from the Hirshhorn Collection,” opens Friday and runs through Dec. 19. It is currently the only place in Chicago to experience
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