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Chicagoist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Special to Chicagoist from Betsy Mikel Now that we have crossed the threshold into the month of December, it is officially holiday season. Chicagoist plans to mail season's greetings to our friends and family as soon as we get around to it. We just need to get some stamps. And sift through past emails to relocate new addresses. Oh, and we need to buy some cards. Ideally our holiday cards this year...
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
No question about it: we love It's a Wonderful Life as much as the next person, but every December there are times when we desperately need to take a break from the omnipresent holiday cheer. And this year, with multiple Jim Carreys thrust into people's faces, it's more important than ever to have cinematic options that are devoid of yuletude. Here are some suggestions. Courtesy of The David Lynch...
Drawings and Notes (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Oyvind Fahlstrom Plan for World Trade Monopoly , 1970 Cut-and-pasted paper with synthetic polymer paint, ink, and colored pencil on paper, 42 x 35.3 cm Links: [website artist] [New York Times] [MoMa] [La Fondation Daniel Langlois] [Artnet] [Art Institute of Chicago] [Wikipedia] [the-artist.org] [Tate]
Grassroots Modern (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
I love this series of ceramic drinkware from Up In The Air Somewhere. The Dip Cups are quite lovely and unique – each earthenware vessel is hand-dipped in yellow rubber after being glazed in either a light grey or white glaze. Each piece from Up In The Air Somewhere is hand built and totally unique [...] Related posts: Circa Ceramics TOP Waste Management System Dado Cubes
Word on the Street (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
to carolEnjoy Caroling at Cloud Gate from 6 to 6:50 p.m. every Friday until Dec. 18 at Millennium Park. to shopGet 40 percent off your entire purchase Friday at Le Dress (1741 W Division St.) from 10 a.m. to noon....
Palm Sounds (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
News of an event early next year: Nicolas Collins + Oscillatorial Binnage + Paul B. Davis + Resonance Radio Orchestra Sunday 31st January 2010 Cafe Oto, 18 - 22 Ashwin Street, E8 3DL Time: 8.00pm Tickets: £6 available on the door or from www.wegottickets.com/event/65050 Nicolas Collins makes his first UK concert appearance since 2004's epic Feedback: Order from Noise tour. He performs three typically...
Selectism.com (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
German designer Konstantin Grcic is subject of a new exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago (which has been doing a lovely job titillating those of use with decorative arts and furniture interests lately). Known for logical design, honest treatment of material and simple solutions, Grcic has never before been examined within an American institution. [...] This article originally appeared on Selectism.com...
Gandalf's Gallery (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Edward Francis Paschke (June 22, 1939 - November 25, 2004) was an American painter. He was born in Chicago, where he spent most of his life. His childhood interest in animation and cartoons led him toward a career in art. As a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago he was influenced by many artists featured in the Museum's special exhibitions, in particular the work of Gauguin, Picasso...
Gandalf's Gallery (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Frederick Carl Frieseke (April 7, 1874 – August 24, 1939) was an American Impressionist painter. He was born in Owosso, Michigan and studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Académie Julian in Paris. Frieseke and his family resided for fourteen years in Giverny, which was also home to Monet. He had a great influence on the Americans at the colony there, many of whom...
The Pioneer Woman (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
1. On what date did the Great Chicago Fire begin? ANSWER: October 8, 1871 2. True or False: The Great Chicago Fire was started when a cow kicked over a lantern in a barn owned by Patrick and Catherine O’Leary ANSWER: False. A newspaper reporter made up the story. 3. What is the name used to describe the events of February 14, 1929—events that contributed to a decline in public opinion...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
CHICAGO, IL.- Italian born, Berlin-based artist Monica Bonvicini (b. 1965) creates videos, sculptures, installations, and drawings that explore the physical and psychological effects of institutional, particularly museum, architecture. The first focus contemporary art exhibition presented in the Art Institute of Chicago 's Modern Wing, Monica Bonvicini: Light Me Black--on view November 20, 2009 through...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
A new wing is giving the Art Institute of Chicago room to breathe.
Art (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
[ November 20, 2009 to January 24, 2010. ] Monica Bonvicini: Light Me Black Art Institute of Chicago November 20, 2009 through January 24, 2010 [ad#lb] Italian born, Berlin-based artist Monica Bonvicini (b. 1965) creates videos, sculptures, installations, and drawings that explore the physical and psychological effects of institutional, particularly museum, architecture. The first focus contemporary...
The Wooden Spoon (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
A new Art Institute of Chicago lecture by Helen Vendler on the late- or post-Modernist poet — who also happens to be one of my favorite poets — Robert Lowell, made available from The Poetry Foundation . Her lecture is, as her talks and writing always are, learned and thoroughly researched, giving it authority where it lacks some aspect of daring originality. She says, in contrast to the...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Real talk, people: With this dizzyingly great fourth episode of the season, it’s time to step up and call Friday Night Lights what it is: the Best Show (Almost) on (Network) TV. Mad Men and Breaking Bad are gone ‘till 2010, Lost is still months away. And don’t even get us started on Glee . Nothing currently on the air comes close to matching our friends in Dillon, Texas — we’re...
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sonupt5@gmail.com | 05/23/2009
Original works by Mary Cassatt available for purchase at art galleries worldwide This survey of Mary Cassatt's work included 46 paintings and 10 color prints. It was the first comprehensive showing of Cassatt's work since the National Gallery's 1970 exhibition. The showing in Washington included works from the Chester Dale collection, which, by terms of the Dale gift, can only be shown at the National
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