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CHICAGO — Los Crudos, a much-lauded punk band from Chicago, has always been about community, so when lead singer Martin Sorrondeguy realized that 2016 marked the band’s 25-year anniversary, he knew the occasion called for more than a traditional music show.
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CHICAGO — When he studied art history in the 1970s in Los Angeles, Kerry James Marshall was struck by the absence of black artists in the "canon."
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CHICAGO — Confessions of an arts writer: my background is in theater design.
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EVANSTON, Ill. — A Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the Avant-Garde, 1960s–1980s, currently on view at the Northwestern University’s Block Museum, is a masterful (if only slightly overwhelming) orchestration of original artworks and archival materials that examines the legacy of avant-g
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CHICAGO — Three major exhibitions devoted to Pop art that opened last year broadened the purview of this movement as a primarily Western (American) phenomenon by unearthing lesser-known artists to provide a global view of art in the 1960s and ‘70s.
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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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PHILADELPHIA — What’s the best way to engage a person in caring for someone different from him/herself?
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For the grand reopening of New Capital, a well-loved art space that's been closed for two years, Chicago-based artist Rebecca Beachy has installed a wide-ranging bone collection.
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I think of the stage as a bridge upon which our imagination can be embodied.
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Tomorrow at noon, visual and performing artist Tony Orrico will sit down at an eight-by-eight-foot sheet of paper and begin to chew.
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CHICAGO — According to Jason Salavon’s “The Master Index (Semaphore),” we are all a little more interested in Kanye West than masturbation.
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Last week, a trio of late-19th-century Japanese sliding door paintings, originally believed to be missing or destroyed, finally emerged after years spent hidden in a Chicago Park District storage facility.