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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: Museums, Government Postal Delivery, Mail Order Industry, Christmas, William H. Keeler
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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: Brain, Poetry, History, Larry Rivers, Hospitals and Clinics
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Being numb to it all no longer big shock
Sometime in the next few weeks, if you're walking down Fullerton Avenue around DePaul University and have 15 minutes to spare, duck into the tidy brick building alongside the CTA station. Here you will find the DePaul Art Museum, an institution so...
Tags: Millennium Park, Museums, Joffrey Ballet, Killer Joe (movie), Fine Artists
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St. Louis Art Museum expansion brings national attention to all of area's visual arts venues
St. Louis Post-DispatchThe $162 million expansion of the St. Louis Art Museum has already drawn national attention to St. Louis. Art critics and travel writers love major projects such as these whether they are built in New York or Bentonville, Ark. Add a high-profile name,...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Fine Arts, Museums, Architecture, Music
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Classical Corner
Access Contemporary Music: Resident ensemble Palomar is joined by Strawdog Theatre Company actors to present "1,001 Afternoons in Chicago," a play for voices and instruments based on legendary Chicago journalist Ben Hecht's newspaper columns. 7 p.m....Tags: 2001: A Space Odyssey (movie), Michigan Avenue, Colleges and Universities, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Culture
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Book sheds light on muralist whose work is featured at St. Kate's
The Santa Fe New MexicanPeter E. Lopez was introduced to the work of Edward O'Brien four years ago, when he visited the abandoned main building of the St. Catherine Indian School campus. Lopez, a santero who lives in Montezuma near Las Vegas, N.M., made arrangements to get...Tags: Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Mexico, Real Estate, Arts
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Pre-Raphaelite art is a reminder of Mom's influence
chrisc@herald-mail.comMy mother made me a journalist. And a musician, an artist, a poet and a playwright. I realized this recently while taking in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. —“The Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design,...Tags: Artists, Customs and Tradition, Fine Artists, Music, England
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'The Cooked Seed' details Anchee Min's fraught immigrant saga
By the time Anchee Min made it to America in 1984, she was "considered a 'cooked seed' — no chance to sprout." As she explains in her new memoir, "I was 27 years old and life had ended for me in China. I was Madame Mao's trash, which meant I wasn'...
Tags: China, Migration, Chinese Restaurants, Literature, The Washington Post
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CSO series explores connections between nature and culture
For ages, mankind has been fascinated by rivers, not simply as natural resources and avenues of commercial conveyance, but also as symbols, metaphors and ideas. Countless artists, composers, writers and thinkers have pondered the significance of these...
Tags: Concerts, Festive Events, Michigan Avenue, Fine Artists, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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Picasso and Dali on walls in Lake County
Viewing "Modern Masters," a revelatory collection of bold masterworks by pioneering artists of the 20th century, may be the only occasion in which a visit to the Lake County Discovery Museum can aptly be described as a surreal experience. Through Aug....Tags: Ansel Adams, Artists, Wauconda, Museums, World War I (1914-1918)
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"A Nearly Perfect Copy" by Allison Amend
In the gifted hands of Allison Amend, the international art world is so full of intrigue and makes for such a smart page turner that when one is finished with the delicious novel "A Nearly Perfect Copy," a trip to the Art Institute of Chicago is in order....Tags: Manhattan (New York City)
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