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GATESHEAD, UK — I've visited 35 states in the USA since I moved to Chicago ten years ago, and I've been struck many times by the presence of high-quality art museums in out-of-the-way places, but it'smore surprising to see a comparable art space in England. But the Baltic Mill Art Museum, in the nor
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BRISTOL, UK — Do you ever wake up in the morning and think: I must do something with that cow's head today? If so, you have something in common with artist Geza Szollosi.
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This week, studios in Austin, Brooklyn, Chicago and Miami.
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CHICAGO — On June 30, 2012, Governor Pat Quinn signed into law a state budget that includes a 9.4% cut to funding for the Illinois Arts Council. This was less than feared, but it will undoubtedly have negative implications for cultural organizations, underserved communities, and individuals and orga
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TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan — In the early part of the twentieth century, two emigrants from Armenia named Guleserian and Altoonjian arrived in Petoskey, in northern Michigan, and decided to go into business importing and selling “rugs and other novelty goods” in this remote but prosperous town.
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Artist studios in Venice, Nashville, Brooklyn and Seattle.
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CHICAGO — Of all the museums in Chicago, the one that keeps surprising me and making me go back is the Museum of Contemporary Art.
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CHICAGO — Artist studios from Oakland (California), NYC, San Francisco, Cambridge (UK) and Fremont (California).
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CHICAGO — “Color Jam,” a public art piece by Jessica Stockholder, was completed on Tuesday in the downtown Loop section of Chicago.
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LONDON — With all the fanfare and hullabaloo surrounding Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee (celebrating sixty years as the British monarch) wrapping up this past Tuesday, I was reminded of another ancient British tradition that is taking place now, too: the Royal Academy of Art's (RA) summer exhi
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CHICAGO — Featuring artists from Brooklyn, Buenos Aires, Delray Beach (FL) and Montreal.
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CHICAGO — The Roy Lichtenstein exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) is everything a retrospective should be. It takes an incontrovertibly significant artist, assembles art from all phases of his career, includes well-known and less well-known works and tries to make the case for an oeuvr