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Museum Dives Into Its Collection and Pulls Out A Winner
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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Poets, Painters, Cartoonists and Moonlighters
CHICAGO — The Center for Book and Paper Arts in Chicago is currently showing a fascinating series of collaborations between visual artists and writers such as Robert Creeley, Philip Guston, Larry Rivers, Karen Randall and Jim Dine. Poems and Pictures: A Renaissance in the Art of the Book (1946-1981)
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Ackermann and Guston Go Toe-to-Toe, One Loses
Franklin Parrasch Gallery’s exhibition Rita Ackermann + Philip Guston is the third in a series of two-artist, cross-generational shows. Included in this show are two works on paper by Guston (dating from 1966 and 1971), and a new painting by Ackermann (2012).
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The Overlooked Prints of the Abstract Expressionists
Tomorrow, Swann auction house will be presenting a sale, "Atelier 17, Abstract Expressionism & the New York School," which showcases the prints of the Abstract Expressionist era that are often overlooked because the larger, flashier paintings inevitably grab the spotlight. The sale has a particular
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Play a Giorgio de Chirico-Inspired Surrealist Video Game
Artist Patrick Smith's Windosill, a Flash-based video game that's playable in your internet browser, is a fascinating work both for its slow, subtle game play and its visual inspirations, namely proto-Surrealist Giorgio de Chirico's empty landscapes and Philip Guston's still-life paintings.
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Gallery Hangings Gone Wrong at Boston MFA's New Wing
At the Boston Museum of Fine Arts' new Wing of the Americas, the story of American art is told over the course of four floors, ranging from colonial and indigenous art through modernism. Stopping before contemporary, the third floor above ground level is the home of American modernism. The opening g