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Big Picture: A New View of Painting in Chicago at the Chicago History Museum thru 8/3.
"A tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities." So Carl Sandburg wrote of Chicago in 1916, exulting in the city's identity as a rough town built on industry and commerce. More... |
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Xiaoze Xie: Both Sides Now at Zolla/Lieberman Gallery thru 5/24
Recent work by Xiaoze Xie at Zolla/Lieberman Gallery is divided into three methods of handling, showing a variety of approaches and effectiveness. Both Sides Now presents images of newspapers: stacked, amassed, hoarded... More... |
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Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945 at the Milwaukee Art Museum thru 5/4. Featuring more than 165 original works of photographs and photomontage, Foto is an important documentation of the enthusiasm and variety with which European nations adopted photography as the new language of modernity after the great World War... More... |
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Tony Fitzpatrick: Portraits of a Remembered City at the Chicago Cultural Center thru 6/29.
Pictorial and poetic. Beautifully dense with symbols, scribbles and tiny, vintage images. Tony Fitzpatrick's work has long deserved a full-scale showing in Chicago and this 60-work exhibition of his drawing collages has been worth the wait. More... |
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Augustus Frederick Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits 1905-1920 at DePaul University Museum thru 6/13.
Between 1892 and 1954, Ellis Island processed over 12 million immigrants into the United States. Despite Emma Lazarus' romantic evocation of the U.S. as a place welcoming "your tired, your poor/ Your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free"... More... |
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Brad Temkin: New Pictures at the Chicago Cultural Center thru 6/29.
Thirty large-scale photos combine two recent, complementary bodies of work. In Relics (2006) they are of mysterious objects, mysteriously abandoned... More... |
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Michael Hoffman, Paul Hunter, Sandra Dawson at Byron Roche Gallery thru 6/12.
Visit Byron Roche Gallery's new space for a grouping of works by artists Michael Hoffman, Paul Hunter and Sandra Dawson. Dawson's paintings in oil combine richly-colored, textile-like backgrounds with... More... |
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Bill Frederick -- works from Lovely in the Distance: Works on Paper at Zg Gallery thru 6/12.
If you missed Bill Frederick's recent solo show Lovely in the Distance: Works on Paper at Zg Gallery, April 18 - May 31, 2008, be sure to take a look in the gallery's side room... More... |
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Kathleen Holder: New Work at Perimeter Gallery thru 6/12.
These moody oil pastels are rich with impressions of half-recollected and inexplicable forces. On a broad sheet of richly-colored paper, areas of pastel appear... More... |
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Manifest Destiny/Manifest Responsibility: Environmentalism and the Art of the American Landscape at LUMA thru 8/10.
Closely allied with American art's early attempts to establish a national identity was the idea of manifest destiny, the assertion that Americans were entitled by right to exploit the vast natural riches of the New World... More... |
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Design in the Age of Darwin: From William Morris to Frank Lloyd Wright at the Block Museum thru 8/24.
The effect of British naturalist Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory upon his contemporaries in the Arts and Crafts movement is the enticing premise of this exhibition... More... |
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American Art, American City: A Chicago Celebration. Discover new works, view special exhibits, renew a lively interest in long-time favorites. This yearlong, city-wide initiative features abundant programming focusing on American art in Chicago. From October 2007 thru December 2008, over 80 exhibitions, programs and collections will be featured at over 28 participating cultural institutions in and around the city. For details, visit AmericanArtAmericanCity.org. American Art American City is sponsored by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
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