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I really dig house museums. They’re like historical fiction rendered as physical space, a portal into the lives of other eras, made newly accessible across barriers of time, race, class, gender and ...

The Murphy Auditorium on Erie Street, built in 1926 as an opulent copy of a church in Paris, reopened today after an $8 million renovation by the Richard H. Driehaus Museum, the next-door neighbor ...

CHICAGO — If the new Wicked film was not enough, a museum in River North may be just the place to immerse yourself in the world of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The Richard H. Driehaus Museum looks to ...

A spate of acquisitions announced this week includes works by famed outsider artist William Hawkins and early 20th-century realist George Bellows.

The Driehaus Museum will present Brendan Fernandes: In the Round as the next iteration of its A Tale of Today series that places contemporary art in dialogue with the art, architecture, and design of ...

Animal screeches, eerie laughter and the work of 14 Midwest artists invite a new look at River North’s Driehaus Museum. Inside an imposing 19th-century mansion along Chicago’s Erie Street, privileged ...

The Driehaus Museum and Chicago Symphony Orchestra has announced a partnership on a new three-part chamber concert series in the historic Murphy Auditorium (50 East Erie.) Inspiring audiences to ...

CHICAGO, May 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Starting June 2023, the Richard H. Driehaus Museum will begin renovation work on the John B. Murphy Memorial Auditorium at 50 E. Erie, an important part of the ...

In an unusual coincidence, two Chicago art museums announced substantial acquisitions on the same day this week — a total of 98 works dating from 1880 to 2020 by such creators as famed outsider artist ...