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A Poor Man’s Kapoor: China Unveils Knockoff of Chicago’s Bean
An immense sculpture in China is nearing completion, and it bears a striking resemblance to Chicago's most famous work of public art.
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Fabrics Stained with Colonial Blues
CHICAGO — It is the duality of indigo's beauty and its intimate connection with human degradation that artist Jovencio de la Paz explores in his current exhibition of batik works.
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A Woman's Holography Museum Is Saved from Destruction
Destruction or piecemeal sale seemed the ultimate fate of Chicago's hologram museum, until the announcement on June 7 that its entire holdings were acquired by Chicago Holography Museum Rescue Mission through an anonymous benefactor.
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Painting with Toxic Sludge
To experiment with an alternative method for remediation, a scientist and an artist are collaborating on turning the acid runoff from Ohio's abandoned coal mines into pigments.
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Obama's Presidential Library May Gobble Up Historic Chicago Parkland
Is it wrong to commandeer space intended for public enjoyment to bolster a political legacy?
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Is the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Really Giving Kanye West an Honorary Doctorate? [UPDATED]
In a recent interview with the French design blog Clique, noted college dropout Kanye West claimed that he is "getting an honorary doctorate on May 5th from the Art Institute of Chicago."
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Reading Between the Lines
CHICAGO — The first thing that strikes you about Randi Russo’s show of paintings at Thomas Masters Gallery is the lines, swirling and looping around every canvas like an automatic drawing taken to an extreme degree.
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Chicago Park Advocates Fight 'Star Wars' Museum with the Force (of the Law)
"The Preservationists Strike Back" could be the title for the latest episode in the saga of Star Wars director George Lucas's planned $300 million Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts on the Lake Michigan waterfront in Chicago.
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A Postal Approach to Abstraction
CHICAGO — Jordan Scott makes pictures by collaging thousands of vintage postage stamps onto panel and canvas and coating the surface in resin.
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Encounters with an Artist Who Paints in Public
CHICAGO — Artist Audrey Ushenko literally makes public art.
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Wandering Through the Refuse
CHICAGO — Judith Mullen’s new work consists of sculptures and paintings that look like detritus, like the sort of thing that accumulates in rivers or forest floors after heavy storms: swirls of leaves, bark, wood chips, pine needles, things discarded by humans, whipped together by wind and rain to f
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An Artist Grows a Seed in the Palm of His Hand
CHICAGO — Joshua Kent stands barefoot, his palm outstretched and relaxed, in it a mid-size rose quartz crystal nuzzled against a loose pod of soil.