Ruth Lopez

2 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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.

2 months ago | 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.

Jan 25, 2025 | elprogreso.es | Ruth Lopez |Roberto Lourido |Carmen Uz |Kari Acebo

Muere un vecino de Lugo y cuatro personas resultan heridas en un grave accidente en Xermade En el siniestro, que pudo producirse a causa de una fuerte granizada, se vieron implicados dos vehículos ► Tres de las víctimas resultaron heridas de gravedad y una de ellas fue evacuada en helicóptero al hospital de A Coruña Pisos sin calefacción, ventanas sin sellar o polillas: el edificio pesadilla que vendió la Sareb en Lugo El bloque, con 32 pisos ya escriturados, está en Serra de Ancares y los...