April 2026
April 2026 at a glance: 3 exhibitions opened, 0 closed, and 3 more were on view across the city.

Richard H. Driehaus Museum
The museum's first artist-in-residence turns the 1926 Murphy Auditorium into a site for sculptural installation, sound and dance, unfolding as episodic performances through 2026.

Chicago Architecture Center
Six decades of the CAC, from fighting to save historic buildings during urban renewal to shaping design education and advocacy across Chicago. In the Orientation Space.

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Dance as protest, rhythm as power: the exhibition traces the global impact of Caribbean sound and movement, from Jamaican dancehall to reggaetón.

Field Museum
A rotating Comer Gallery series profiling Field Museum scientists — currently Lesley de Souza and Sara Ruane — following their research journeys, passions and personalities.

Art Institute of Chicago
A 21-panel painting over 100 feet wide carries viewers from the nocturnal solitude of the artist's Kashmiri childhood through the frenzy of the Western art world to a fragile, renewed dawn.

Field Museum
What happened once the dinosaurs were gone: plants and animals reshaped Earth into a lush tropical world of new giants and tiny survivors, told through fossils, touchable casts and immersive media.
A short note now and then when something new opens worth your time.