Chicago | smithsonianmag.comhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/rss/tag/chicago/RSS feed for ChicagoenWed, 23 Sep 2026 20:18:46 +0000This Cubist Painting With a Mysterious Provenance Hung in the Art Institute of Chicago for Decades. Now, the Museum Will Return It to Its Rightful Jewish Heirshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-cubist-painting-with-a-mysterious-provenance-hung-in-the-art-institute-of-chicago-for-decades-now-the-museum-will-return-it-to-its-rightful-jewish-heirs-180989553/Infrared imaging links the 20th-century Jean Metzinger work to a collector whose pieces were forcibly auctioned under Nazi orders during World War IIWed, 23 Sep 2026 20:18:46 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-cubist-painting-with-a-mysterious-provenance-hung-in-the-art-institute-of-chicago-for-decades-now-the-museum-will-return-it-to-its-rightful-jewish-heirs-180989553/Bought for $30 at an Estate Sale, This Long-Lost Gertrude Abercrombie Painting Could Now Fetch $250,000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bought-for-30-at-an-estate-sale-this-long-lost-gertrude-abercrombie-painting-could-now-fetch-250000-180989513/The Chicago-based Surrealist created the piece in 1951, then gave it to a doctor in exchange for medical servicesThu, 17 Sep 2026 18:02:16 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bought-for-30-at-an-estate-sale-this-long-lost-gertrude-abercrombie-painting-could-now-fetch-250000-180989513/What If Emmett Till Had Lived? A New Exhibition Imagines an Alternate Future for the Murdered Black Teenagerhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-if-emmett-till-had-lived-a-new-exhibition-imagines-an-alternate-future-for-the-murdered-black-teenager-180989498/Featuring photographs by more than 110 artists, the show honors Till’s memory by inviting viewers to contemplate the person he might have become had he made it to adulthoodTue, 15 Sep 2026 16:01:58 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-if-emmett-till-had-lived-a-new-exhibition-imagines-an-alternate-future-for-the-murdered-black-teenager-180989498/World’s Largest Collection of Serial Killer ‘Murderabilia,’ From John Wayne Gacy to H.H. Holmes, Opens in Chicagohttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/worlds-largest-collection-of-serial-killer-murderabilia-from-john-wayne-gacy-to-hh-holmes-opens-in-chicago-180989461/More than 2,000 items belonging or connected to some 150 serial killers from around the globe feature in a chilling new exhibitionWed, 09 Sep 2026 14:24:18 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/worlds-largest-collection-of-serial-killer-murderabilia-from-john-wayne-gacy-to-hh-holmes-opens-in-chicago-180989461/