CHICAGO — Social history paints the 1950s as a time of comforting and stultifying convention. Men exchanged their military uniforms for gray flannel suits, women moved from the factory to the…
Art school is like an experimental science lab. Spring is MFA exhibition season in Chicago, and a chance to see some of the freshest, most inquisitive art in the city.…
WASHINGTON PARK — The University of Chicago celebrated the opening of its new Arts Incubator Friday morning in Washington Park, giving new life to a neglected building and new hope…
Straus pointed out that underinsurance was also a big problem, because plenty of people amass pretty large collections of art, antiques, jewelry or other collectibles, but relatively few have a…
A decade or so ago, executive and philanthropist John H. Bryan Jr., the former CEO of Sara Lee Corp., raised a broad swath of the roughly $475 million needed for…
By JOEL HENNING ‘I can remember the first time that a work of art knocked my socks off. It was Van Gogh’s ‘Peach Trees in Blossom,’” recalled Douglas Druick, the wiry,…
Chicago is losing its artists, to New York City and Los Angeles and San Francisco. This is admitted, from various members–with varying statures–of the art community, either begrudgingly or with…
In the last half-decade, no less than five “exchange exhibitions,” several fact-finding missions and study trips, and a graduate seminar that positioned the entire city of “Detroit as material,” have…
There’s an extra Chicago touch in the White House this holiday season, but it’s not from Obama. David Lee Csicsko was among several local artists and designers who helped created…
Art in Chicago 1945-1995 is 312 pages, and it depicts 50 years of Chicago art. This hardcover book consists of text and photos. Lynne Warren organized this book. Source: http://www.examiner.com/review/fifty-years-of-art-chicago?cid=rss
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