EVANSTON, Ill. – If you drive too fast, you could miss it. But a chance turn into one alley just north of Chicago will transport you into a drive-thru art gallery. “I wanted to take this place this ...

When Evanston resident Teresa Parod takes out the garbage in the alley behind her house, she’s often greeted by people photographing her garage door. It’s adorned with a colorful mural that depicts ...

The Doors’ legacy has long been subject to disputes. For instance, drummer John Densmore refused to join the band’s early-’00s quasi-reunion when his former bandmates performed with the Cult singer ...

The history of 1112 Tower Ave. flows across the back door of the building. Bright colors and bold shapes pay homage to the businesses that once resided there -- a tea shop, a guitar store and, as ...

Cherie Nowlin McBride has painted many portraits in her lifetime, but the two-panel mural of fanciful dancers she created for Katy Visual and Performing Arts Center is one of the largest. "It took me ...

Chicago’s most Instagrammable alley, a new home development near the Illinois Medical District, is getting its second half, a row of lively garage-door murals facing the first half, which were ...

The first time you walk into the Back Door bar, you see them: a swarming crowd, an ocean of faces smiling at you. It's not a surprise party — or an intervention — but the walls themselves. A giant ...

In a pool of white thrown by three portable lights, Miguel Hernandez, 16, and Tyler Prehm, 18, were hunched beneath a scaffolding, wielding tiny paintbrushes to paint a very small portion of a very ...

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From Venice Beach comes a seemingly simple tale of art imitating art, complicated by the ghost of a rock ‘n’ roll legend. In early 1969, a pioneering Venice muralist thought it would be a kick to ...