Ruth Lopez

3 weeks ago | elprogreso.es | Ruth Lopez

Lilibet, la hija menor del príncipe Harry y Meghan Markle, cumplió este miércoles 4 años y su madre lo ha celebrado con un regalo muy especial: compartiendo cuatro fotos inéditas de la pequeña, incluida la primera en la que se le ven los ojos desde hace tres años. En una de las instantáneas más significativas, aparece el príncipe Harry sosteniendo a su hija recién nacida, envuelta en una manta ajustada, mirándose ambos con ternura.

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Ruth Lopez

After a two-year, $10m renovation, the Intuit Art Museum (formerly known as Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art) will open for a public preview on 25 April during Expo Chicago, then officially on 23 May for a grand reopening. Intuit was launched in 1991 by a group of passionate volunteers who were collectors, including the artists Roger Brown and Don Baum. The centre took over the old Randolph Street Gallery on the first floor of a 150-year-old brick building west of downtown.

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Ruth Lopez

Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE ) is in disarray. At least 18 staff members—around 25% of the department—have left since Mayor Brandon Johnson appointed a former legislative aide, Clineé Hedspeth, to replace ousted Cultural Commissioner Erin Harkey last year.

Mar 11, 2025 | theartnewspaper.com | Benjamin Sutton |Jason Kaufman |Ruth Lopez |Helen Stoilas

The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA) has received an anonymous $10m gift to support its performance programme. The gift, which will allow the museum to establish a Performance Fund endowment to support live art programming, comes shortly after the museum hired Moira Brennan, the former director of the Map Fund at Creative Capital, to be its new director of performance and public programmes.

Jan 30, 2025 | theartnewspaper.com | Elena Goukassian |Benjamin Sutton |Ruth Lopez

With a new executive order this week titled “Celebrating America’s 250th Birthday”, US president Donald Trump is bringing back his first-term plan to create a “National Garden of American Heroes”. The garden is to be completed “as expeditiously as possible” for the US’s semiquincentennial in 2026. The order further stipulates that the number of “heroes”—among them politicians, musicians, scientists, inventors, Hollywood actors, athletes and activists—total 250 for the occasion.