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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.
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Center Devoted to Artist Ed Paschke Coming to Chicago
A new center devoted to the late artist Ed Paschke will open later this month in Chicago, to coincide with what have been the artist's 75th birthday.
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Invoking the Absence at a Veterans Memorial
CHICAGO — At the eastern end of Diversey Avenue in Chicago stands an impressive classical-style rotunda, overlooking a short stretch of parkland that gives way to Lake Shore Drive and Lake Michigan.
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The Curious Thing about #Hashtags
The new web series #Hashtag follows the lives of young queer women in Chicago whose dating patterns and attractions are significantly affected by the technologies that they use and, at times, abuse.
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From Outside to Inside on Chicago's North Side
CHICAGO — Outsider art is an overused, perhaps even misused, term. By a strict definition it refers to someone who makes art outside the official and even unofficial milieu in which artists get training, education, and exhibitions.
Opinion
Demise of Landmark Hospitals Bodes Ill in Chicago
Few cities can rival Chicago for architectural masterpieces, but the past year hasn't been stellar for preservation. Destruction of the Brutalist Prentice Women's Hospital started in October, and last week a demolition permit was granted for the mid-century modern Cuneo Memorial Hospital.
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Making Art in the Midwest
CHICAGO — The Midwest is no place for haters, slackers, and anyone who can't admit that they secretly love hot dogs and regularly daydream about living on a farm, or at least somewhere in the woods.
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Sculptural Remnants and Re-creations of Jimmy Page
CHICAGO — Led Zeppelin, man — they were so before my time. Arguably the inventors of heavy metal, the band reached their height of fame in the early 1970s with the song “Stairway to Heaven” on their untitled fourth album. Through the works of artist Karolina Gnatowski, now on view in the artist's so
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Cursed Meteorite, Giant Octopus Models, and Other World's Fair Wonders
The Columbian Exposition of 1893 is almost impossible to imagine: a spectacle of 200 gleaming white neoclassical buildings on over 600 acres in Chicago, a temporary city whose main purpose was instilling a sense of wonder with the world.