This pop-art gallery is pure fun, from the colorful, cartoony prints and paintings to the building's offbeat history (it was an egg factory and then a club where the Ramones played). Weird bonus: it sits atop an energy vortex.
Mars Gallery
Chicago
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1.75 MILES
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1.8 MILES
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Field Museum of Natural History
2.46 MILES
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2.42 MILES
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National Museum of Mexican Art
2.26 MILES
Founded in 1982, this vibrant museum – the largest Latinx arts institution in the US – has become one of the city’s best. The vivid permanent collection…
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Gupta represents contemporary, mid-career artists who work in various mediums, including painting, sculpture, collage and film. Intriguing new exhibitions…
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0.57 MILES
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4. Intuit: The Center for Intuitive & Outsider Art
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0.64 MILES
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Artist Claes Oldenburg – known for his gigantic shuttlecocks in Kansas City and oversized cherry spoon in Minneapolis – delivered this 96ft, baseball-bat…
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A Chicago fire survivor, this 1852 church is one of the city’s oldest. Old St Pat’s is best known for its World’s Largest Block Party, a weekend bash in…