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Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison’s Collaborative Visions of Harlem
CHICAGO — Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison, two of the 20th century's most celebrated artists, shared a vision of what it meant to be black in the US.
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Inside van Gogh's Bedroom
CHICAGO — On Monday, February 15, I slept in Vincent van Gogh's bedroom, the room from the Yellow House in Arles that he famously painted in 1888 and 1889.
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Rent a Re-creation of Vincent van Gogh’s Bedroom on Airbnb — Just Don’t Chop Off Your Ear
Now available for rent on Airbnb is a full-size, 3D replica of Vincent van Gogh's famous painting "The Bedroom" (1889), complete with rustic twin bed, pale violet walls, copper-green wood floor, and straw hat on a peg.
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Pop Irony’s Enduring Influence in the Art Institute of Chicago's New Contemporary Collection
CHICAGO — The Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago, which opened in 2009, has reinstated its contemporary collection after giving over most of the space in 2015 to a much-lauded retrospective of the American sculptor Charles Ray.
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An Ancient Indian Painting Tradition Dictated by the Seasons
One of India's most private religious communities, the Pushtimarg also developed one of the country's most unique artistic traditions.
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150,000 People Will Vote to Preserve or Pulverize a Picasso
Would you rather help donate an original Picasso to a museum, or keep a 1.5-square-milimeter scrap of it for yourself?
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A Photographic Portrait of Black Culture Around the Globe
CHICAGO — Deana Lawson’s photographs thwart easy notions of symmetry.
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Best of 2015: Our Top 10 Exhibitions Across the United States
We love NYC and LA and all the art they have to offer, but we know they're only two towns of many across the country mounting great exhibitions large and small.
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A Beautiful Monster Reborn: Francis Picabia in the Windy City
CHICAGO — “Paintings are made for dentists.” So goes one of the many acerbic lines in artist Francis Picabia’s freewheeling poems.
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Gallery Whispers and Lunch in the Cafe: Mapping Museums Through Their Sounds
"There are so many sounds in museums that we usually ignore that are absolutely engrossing once you take the time to focus on them," says artist John Kannenberg, who's been recording museum noise for 15 years.
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Edward Steichen's War Years
Edward Steichen was the first modern fashion photographer, best known for shadowy portraits of silver-screen stars like Gloria Swanson, Marlene Dietrich, and Louise Brooks. That the dark room master spent two years during World War I developing photographic surveillance techniques is less common kno
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Drawing Across Five Centuries
CHICAGO — In a 2004 address to London’s Royal Academy, critic Robert Hughes said that drawing “satisfies the desire for an active, investigative, manually vivid relation with the things we see and yearn to know about.” An exhibition of drawings currently on view at the Art Institute of Chicago exemp