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Confronting artist Kara Walker
Kara Walker will be difficult. This gets whispered to you by enough people in the art world and you start to believe it: She's humorless! Confrontational! Intimidating! David Mamet intimidating! And this week, before the Thursday opening of “...
Tags: David Mamet, Artists, Woody Allen, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Slavery
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Art Institute review: When Picasso met Chicago
In 1913, the Art Institute did something astonishing. It opened its hallowed halls to an exhibition so radical that it would forever alter the course of art-making in the United States. The event was the International Exhibition of Modern Art, better...
Tags: Painting, Marcel Duchamp, Artists, Michigan Avenue, Material Science
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Citywide Expo Art Week announced
Tribune reporterSeveral of the city's major cultural institutions announced plans Tuesday to join together this fall for a "citywide celebration of arts and culture." Dubbed “Expo Art Week,” the event is set to encompass museum and gallery exhibitions,...Tags: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Culture, Cultural Development, Artists, Entertainment Events
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Adult studies programs keep minds sharp, satisfy curiosities
Always wish you had studied architecture? Wonder if you would be better at science if you learned what interested you rather than what was required? Do you wish you better understood today's political issues more clearly or wish you could find others...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Artists, Adult Education, Teaching and Learning, Students
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Detroit art museum to display van Gogh painting
DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Institute of Arts will display a famous Vincent van Gogh work later this month. "Bedroom in Arles" is on loan from the Musee d'Orsay in Paris. It'll be on view at the DIA from Feb. 19 to May 28. The painting will be...
Tags: Artists, Arts
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Fleming, Graham charm Lyric audience with rare duo recital
Lyric Opera patrons attending the duo recital by soprano Renee Fleming and mezzo-soprano Susan Graham Thursday night at the Civic Opera House probably did not expect they would be getting a guided tour of belle epoque Paris along with an exquisitely...
Tags: Fine Artists, Artists, Entertainment Events, Poetry, Civic Opera House
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Cathy Marie Buchanan on 'The Painted Girls'
In “The Painted Girls,” a carefully researched, deeply imagined historical novel by Canadian writer Cathy Marie Buchanan, the Belle Époque comes to vibrant, often aching life. It follows two real-life destitute sisters, Marie and Antoinette...
Tags: USA Today, Entertainment Events, Fiction, Personal Service, Sculpture
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Lower prices make winter a great time to visit the Windy City
CHICAGO - It's sleek, shiny and sensational. But let's add two more words to describe Chicago for tourists: darn expensive. On Feb. 1, admission to the Art Institute of Chicago jumped to $23 for out-of-state visitors. In the past month, a host of...
Tags: Restaurants, Chicago Hotels, Cloud Gate, Rentals, Navy Pier
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Looking at Picasso from Chicago's angle
The funny thing is, Pablo Picasso never even set foot in Chicago, let alone anywhere else in the United States. That untitled 50-foot-tall sculpture in Daley Plaza, the city's most iconic piece of public art as well as Picasso's only work of its kind?...
Tags: Painting, Artists, Fine Artists, Sculpture, France
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Shedd says it draws most visitors of any U.S. aquarium
Tribune reporterThe Shedd Aquarium reclaimed its attendance title among the nation’s major non-profit aquariums after trailing the relatively new Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta for the last five years. Nearly 2.17 million people visited the Shedd in 2012, a 2 percent...Tags: Brookfield Zoo, Humboldt Park, Museums, Museum of Science and Industry, Arts
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Smorgasbord for the soul
Lately I've been having some excellent lunches downtown. One day I had a fabulous repast of Poulenc and Prokofiev. Another time, I enjoyed several delicious servings of Georgia O'Keeffe. And on Friday, I chewed over some Heidegger. I've been on a kick...
Tags: University of Chicago, Culture, Chicago Cultural Center, Music, Music Industry
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Working Hollywood: Tattoo artist Dickcherry has lasting influence
The artist and graphic designer known as Dickcherry doesn't sport any real tattoos, but he makes temporary ones for characters in the supernatural thriller "Mama," the action movie "The Last Stand," and "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters." "I can't even...
Tags: Adidas AG, Painting, Artists, John Carter (movie), Mama (movie)
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