For the next ten days Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate sculpture and the AT&T Plaza on which it sits will be transformed after dark into a canvas of light and geometrical form, courtesy of a video and light installation from local artistic collective Luftwerk. more ›

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A recent article in The Guardian by music critic Alex Ross prompted a discussion between arts reporter Ben Schuman-Stoler and me in the Chicagoist HQ's Fine Arts Parlor (required for admittance: beret, loafers, air of condescension). The article's subject was why contemporary classical music is less popular than the contemporary works of other mediums, with Ross concluding that the culprit is classical music's "idolatrous relationship with the past." more ›

You don't have to break the bank to see live classical music, and with so much great free stuff going on, we're putting it all in one place so you can plan your week. more ›

Here at Chicagoist, our motto's always been "When it's right, it's right." This then raises the question: Why wait until the middle of the cold, dark night? That's the thinking of two Chicagoist faves, Anaphora and Third Coast Percussion, each of whom has scheduled some afternoon delight for this Sunday's day o' love. more ›

Harris Theater, 205 E. Randolph, Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., $25, $10 children more ›

Third Coast Percussion opens its season this Saturday at Roosevelt University with a program connecting music and architecture. The concert is an extension of the group's recent week-long residency at Taliesin, the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. Taliesin, located in Spring Green, Wisconsin, was Wright's summer home and started as a school in 1932 when the architect brought out twenty-three apprentices to study with him. TCP filled their week with outreach concerts, panel discussions, and a final concert, which will be replayed on Saturday night. more ›

Ah, the embarrassment of riches that awaits classical music fans this Tuesday. We told you earlier today about Anaphora's season opener, and there's another must-see show on the docket tomorrow night as local percussion quartet Third Coast Percussion performs for the finale of Rush Hour's tenth season. Rush Hour, the free summer concert series that you should've been going to for the past twelve weeks, has come up with a simple and successful formula: After you're plied with food and drink, talented musicians play short thirty minute concerts in the beautiful (on the eyes and ears both) St. James Cathedral, with everything free of charge and wrapped up by 6:15 p.m. more ›

Chicago's snowballing new music scene won't let summer - the usual downtime for musicians - slow it down. Tonight is the premiere of Dusk Variations, a new series of four free contemporary music concerts at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park. more ›

Third Coast Percussion wraps up their season tomorrow night at the Chopin Theatre with a concert featuring music with a political bent. more ›