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The Walters puts its own stamp on Christmas
The Walters Art Museum has been putting its stamp on the nation for more than 77 years — but never in quite the way that it's doing this holiday season.
The museum's "Madonna of the Candelabra," a painting by Raphael with a romantic past, has...Tags: U.S. Postal Service, Walters Art Museum, Arts, Holidays, Christmas
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If Georgia O'Keeffe had a barbacoa joint
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A Colorful Life
Sun reporterWhen Grace Hartigan was a little girl, she was bewitched by gypsies. In the 1930s, the Travelers still roamed the countryside in nomadic caravans, and young Grace would shinny up the apple tree in her parents' backyard in Newark, N.J., to spy on them....Tags: Arts, Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg, Guggenheim Museum, Brain
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Spring brings new crop of salad offerings
Unbeknown to many, including a small sampling of Chicago chefs, May is not only National Salad Month, but also the annual tribute to salads launched by the Association for Dressings and Sauces. Today, the traditional Caesar, Cobb and Waldorf salads have...Tags: Salads, Gemini Bistro, Monroe (Fairfield, Connecticut), Dining and Drinking, Cucumbers
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Pick of the week
"Entre Nous: The Art of Claude Cahun," is the first U.S. exhibition devoted to Cahun, known for her self-portraiture, photomontages and prose texts made between 1920-1940. Her work is considered a precursor to feminist exploration of gender and identity...Tags: Michigan Avenue
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Photography shows are all the rage in Chicago
Special to the TribuneWhen the photograph first began to work its way into museums and galleries, it was a hotly debated art form. What makes it so special? What makes it art? Those questions have been answered over the decades thanks to photographers whose artistic visions...Tags: Irving Penn, Arts, Walker Evans, Salt, Photography
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Festival keys in on piano music
Music festivals typically invite listeners to regard familiar pieces in different contexts and perspectives, seek out musical connections between scores, and discover new things about works they may have long taken for granted. That is as good a...
Tags: Arts, Yale University, Concerts, Emanuel Ax, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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2 more NATO protesters charged with felonies
Two more people have been charged with felonies stemming from NATO protests over the weekend. Christopher French, 21, of Wisconsin, was charged with aggravated assault of a police officer for trying to break through a line of officers on bicycles at...
Tags: Lawyers, Prosecution, Trials, International Organizations, Activism
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Protesters rally outside Art Institute
Hundreds of protesters gathered outside of the Art Institute of Chicago on Michigan Avenue late Sunday night. They started gathering around 8:30 p.m. Some sat down in the middle of the street. Meanwhile, First Lady Michelle Obama was holding a NATO...
Tags: Activism, Chicago Fire Department, NATO, Michelle Obama, Michigan Avenue
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Trying to go about their business
While police and protesters kept wary eyes on each other on the eve of the NATO summit, people around Chicago tried to go about pursuing their own agendas. There were lifelong commitments to be made, baseball scores to settle, sights to see and fish to...Tags: Arts, Chicago White Sox, Labor Legislation, U.S. Secret Service, Architecture
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NATO weekend calendar
SUNDAY •First day of NATO summit at McCormick Place. •Anti-war protesters to rally at Petrillo Music Shell and then march to McCormick Place. Adler Planetarium, Shedd Aquarium, Field Museum and Art Institute of Chicago closed through...Tags: Arts, Adler Planetarium, Metra, NATO, McCormick Place
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Making Chicago more than a dateline
Thousands of journalists from around the world have swept into Chicago to cover the NATO summit, putting the host city atop the international news headlines for the weekend. But for many of the 2,200 or so credentialed journalists, Chicago is merely a...
Tags: Mark Rutte, NATO, Pizzas, McCormick Place, Afghanistan
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