Kyle MacMillan - For the Sun-Times

“Chryssa & New York” is the first museum show in North America in more than four decades to spotlight the artist. It also highlights her strong ties to Chicago’s art world.

Despite its familiar-seeming title, this piece has no connection with Shakespeare. Instead, it goes its own distinctive direction, paying homage to the summer solstice and the centuries-old Scandinavian Midsummer holiday.

Stunning and much-deserved, it’s the largest and most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to the Chicago artist’s work.

Amy Hall Garner’s “Century” and Elizabeth Roxas-Dobrish’s “Me, Myself and You” elicited great cheers from the audience Thursday night at the Auditorium Theatre.

The newly appointed music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has a graceful style of conducting with easy-to-follow stick technique, using abundant facial expressions and subtle movements like leaning in and out and crouching to convey a point, but not to distraction.

Succeeding Riccardo Muti, the Finnish conductor will be 31 when he begins the position in September 2027 with an initial contract of five years.

In its Arts of the Americas gallery, the Chicago museum has been acquiring more works by women artists, making surprising discoveries and shining a light on some more-obscure items already in its collection.

The iconic company arrives with a 35-piece orchestra and more than 60 dancers for five performances at the Harris Theater.

Chicago will join just four other locales outside of New York, including London and Copenhagen, in honor of NYCB’s 75th anniversary. The Harris Theater is celebrating its 20th year as a cultural arts hub in the city.