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Between the architecture, sculptured landmarks, museums, and galleries, Mexico City is a living, breathing work of art year round.

DuPage County tourism officials expect that nearly $8 million will be infused into the local economy during the three-month run of a Frida Kahlo exhibition ordinarily seen in a big-city museum.

Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images When word comes of a big art exhibition traveling to the Chicago area, most people probably expect it to be shown at one of the big, widely recognized institutions like the Art Institute of Chicago or Chicago Cultural Center. But when a major Frida Kahlo exhibition opens June 5, it will go on view more than 25 miles west of Chicago’s downtown in a somewhat smaller, suburban venue — the College of DuPage’s recently renamed Cleve Carney Museum of Art in ...

1K Share Vance Kirkland’s original studio inside the Golden Triangle neighborhood’s Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art. The museum was allowed to reopen last week under amended Level Red coronavirus rules. (Joe Amon, Denver Post file) Update 12:25 p.m. Dec. 17: Denver’s Clyfford Still Museum will reopen on Jan. 5 and extend its current exhibition, “The Late Works: Clyfford Still in Maryland,” through March 21, 2021. Tickets are on sale now. Metro-area museums that had plan...