Kyle MacMillan

1 month ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Kyle MacMillan

El mejor lugar para cobertura de noticias y cultura latina en Chicago. | The place for coverage of Latino news and culture in Chicago. A veces, lo bueno viene en envases pequeños. Ese es sin duda el caso de “El mes de Frida Kahlo en París: Una amistad con Mary Reynolds”, una nueva exposición que se exhibe hasta el 13 de julio en el Instituto de Arte de Chicago.

1 month ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Kyle MacMillan

Sometimes good things do come in small packages. That is certainly the case with “Frida Kahlo’s Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds,” a new exhibition that runs through July 13 at the Art Institute of Chicago. This smart, compact show offers a fascinating, highly focused look at an all-but-unknown moment in art history — 4½ weeks or so in February and March 1939 that Kahlo spent with American book artist Mary Reynolds in Paris, then the epicenter of the art world.

1 month ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Kyle MacMillan

Raw and riveting, discomfiting and relentlessly contemporary. “The Listeners” is all that and more. The 2½-hour work, which opened Sunday afternoon at Lyric Opera of Chicago and runs through April 11, is Missy Mazzoli’s fourth work in the form, and it definitively establishes her as one of the major operatic composers of our time.

1 month ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Kyle MacMillan

Operas have long confronted issues that were both timely and universal: Political persecution in Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” Romantic obsession in Bizet’s “Carmen.” Imperialist indifference in Puccini’s “Madam Butterfly.”In the same way, Missy Mazzoli, one of this country’s leading operatic composers, writes works in the form that are relentlessly of their time, including her fourth, “The Listeners,” which deals with the lure of cults, epidemic of loneliness and need to belong.

1 month ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Matt Moore |Mitch Dudek |Kyle MacMillan |Erica Thompson

Grant DePorter has shared big news with us before. There was the time in 2004 when, in an attempt to break the Cubs’ World Series “curse of the Billy Goat,” the P.T. Barnumesque owner of Harry Caray’s restaurant bought the infamous Bartman ball for $113,824.16 and exploded the thing before a live television audience. Or the time he offered a $50,000 reward for the safe return of the missing puck Patrick Kane shot across the goal line to win the 2010 Stanley Cup.