SOFA 2012

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SOFA Chicago is back again this year with the opening preview night last night, Thursday November 1st. Over the next three days visitors can see some of the best work from Chicago and the Midwest. The … [Read more...]

Big Draw Chicago 2012

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This year, this month, and all this week are events for Big Draw Chicago for some of Chicago's best museums! Here's the calendar listing! The listing is in alphabetical order. See if your favorite … [Read more...]

Art Institute passes up Frank Lloyd Wright Collection

The Frank Lloyd Wright Collection once housed in Talisen West in Arizona will be moved to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. See why the Art Institute passed on the collection!  To see full … [Read more...]

Vivian Maier’s Chicago — New Exhibition September 8th

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Vivian Maier known today as the nanny photographer. She worked for North Shore families beginning in 1956 and quietly processed and took thousands of photos of the Chicago streets without ever … [Read more...]

Heaven + Hell plus the self-taught artist

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The Heaven + Hell exhibition will be ending soon on June 30th at two smaller art museums in Chicago, the Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA) and the Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider … [Read more...]

Lichtenstein at the Art Institute

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Welcome to the dot matrix of Pop Culture! The world renowned artist, Roy Lichtenstein has come to Chicago's Art Institute through September 3rd. The exhibit displays how the conventional idea of a … [Read more...]

Re: Chicago – Depaul Art Museum and current exhibitions

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Re: Chicago, the inaugural exhibit of the reopening of the Depaul Art Museum was a spectacular accumulation of Chicago's artists who are up and coming, have celebrity status, and who use to be. Some … [Read more...]

Milwaukee Art Museum and the Free First Thursday

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Every first Thursday of every month the Milwaukee Art Museum is free and open to the public. The parking is eight dollars, but a short side trip to the north can take those rainy, cold, snowy, grey … [Read more...]

Decorating Ancient Pottery at the Oriental Institute

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Calling all adults with a child like wonderment for the simple pleasure of painting and drawing. For on Sunday December 4th, the Oriental Institute featured a workshop of  painting ancient Egyptian … [Read more...]

A New Type of Art Museum?

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In River East’s upscale Streeterville neighborhood lies a small art museum, The Museum of Private Art Collections: Featuring the Work of Dali and Lamb opened its doors to the public last spring and … [Read more...]

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