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Columns & Opinion, On Culture Sep 16, 2020
The modern home

Modern in the Middle champions Chicago’s hidden stock of midcentury houses.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: On Culture, Modern in the Middle, Susan S. Benjamin, Michelangelo Sabatino, Chicago History Museum, Hedrich-Blessing, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Farnsworth House, Elmhurst Art Museum, John W. Moutoussamy, Jean Wiersema Wehrheim, Keck & Keck, Maxine Weil, Sigmund Kunst, Housing Issue

Arts & Culture, Art Feature Jul 22, 2020
Looking to enjoy art offline?

These museums and galleries are reopening.
- By S. Nicole Lane
- Tags: Art Feature, galleries, museums, Dank Haus Gallery, Corbett vs Dempsey, Art Institute of Chicago, Silver Room AMFM, Elmhurst Art Museum

Columns & Opinion, On Culture Sep 26, 2018
Looking back at the Hairy Who, the 1960s Chicago art world’s greatest branding exercise

On the eve of the collective’s Art Institute retrospective, Suellen Rocca tells all. (Well, some.)
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: On Culture, Hairy Who, Art Institute of Chicago, Elmhurst Art Museum, Chicago Imagists, Jim Falconer, Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Karl Wirsum, Suellen Rocca, Hyde Park Art Center, Don Baum, Harry Bouras, Franz Schulze, School of the Art Institute, Ray Yoshida, Whitney Halstead

Blogs, Bleader Feb 13, 2018
Gertrude Abercrombie's self-portraits show an inner landscape of anxiety, fear, and loneliness

The “Queen of the Bohemian Artists” hung out with jazz musicians, but painted solitary chamber pieces.
- By Dmitry Samarov
- Tags: Arts, Jazz, Visual Art, Gertrude Abercrombie, Elmhurst Art Museum, Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie, Donna Seaman, Chicago painters, Hyde Park artists, Illinois State Museum

Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Sep 15, 2017
Ten best bets for fall visual arts
- By Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: Fall Preview, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Past Forward: Architecture and Design at the Art Institute, Chicago Cultural Center, Hebru Brantley: Forced Field, Elmhurst Art Museum, Jennifer Packer: Tenderheaded, Renaissance Society, Glenn Kaino: Sign, Kavi Gupta, Michael Rakowitz: Backstroke of the West, Enemy Kitchen, Museum of Contemporary Art, William Blake and the Age of Aquarius, Block Museum of Art, Tarsila do Amaral: Inventing Modern Art in Brazil, Art Institute of Chicago, Dapper Bruce Lafitte: Kingpin of the Antpin, New Orleans, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outside Art, Bill Walker: Urban Griot, Hyde Park Art Center, Herve Guibert, Iceberg Projects

Arts & Culture, Art Review Sep 15, 2016
Recommended
Giant inflatable bunnies invade Elmhurst!

Sort of. The Elmhurst Art Museum offers up a retrospective of an unusual creative movement.
- By Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: Art Review, inflatable art, Blow Up: Inflatable Contemporary Art, Lesher Center for the Arts, Elmhurst Art Museum, Jenny Gibbs, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Guy Overfelt, Trans Am, Smokey and the Bandit, Momoyo Torimitsu, Somehow I Don't Feel Comfortable, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Sep 2, 2016
The ten best bets for fall visual arts

Expo Chicago, "Tattoo" at the Field Museum, and more
- By Tal Rosenberg and Sara Cohen
- Tags: Fall Preview, Blow Up: Inflatable Contemporary Art, Elmhurst Art Museum, Ben Rivers, Urth, Renaissance Society, Every Building in Baghdad: The Rifat Chadirji Archives at the Arab Image Foundation, Graham Foundation, Tseng Kwong Chi: Performing for the Camera, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Expo Chicago, Navy Pier, Dateline: Bronzeville, Dorchester Art and Housing Collaborative Center, Heavy Sketches, Theaster Gates, Richard Gray Gallery, Moholy-Nagy: Future Present, László Moholy-Nagy, Art Institute of Chicago, Tattoo, Field Museum, Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination, Museum of Contemporary Art

Blogs, Bleader May 6, 2016
“Playboy Architecture,” Mother’s Day movies, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

Chicago Beer Classic, the Seldoms' RockCitizen, and more happenings from May 6-8
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Mother's Day, Trash Movie Night, Emporium Arcade Bar, Playboy Architecture, Elmhurst Art Museum, Chicago Beer Classic, Soldier Field, Kerry James Marshall, Museum of Contemporary Art, RockCitizen, Storefront Theatre, Lise Heller Baggesen, Comfort Station, Hatorade Retrograde, Evanston Lit Festival

Arts & Culture, Feature Jun 16, 2014
Making art out of the data of everyday life

For followers of a growing self-discovery movement preoccupied with personal-data mining, the quantities in our lives can say a lot about its quality.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Feature, data, personal data, art, Eugene Granovsky, quantified self, self-knowledge, Gary Wolf, Kevin Kelly, Wired, lifeloggers, lifelogging, Mark Moschel, 1871, OK Cupid, Instagram, uncurated life, AskMeEvery, happiness, Stephen Cartwright, sculpture, Elmhurst Art Museum, EAM, Nadine Wasserman, Rachel Seligman, Carleton College, privacy, GPS, location, Staci Boris, Jennifer Dalton, appraisals, Christie's, value, John Peña, drawings, travel, Natalie Miebach, music, Suzanne Szucs, Polaroids, photography, film

Blogs, Bleader Jun 15, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Fri 6/15

What's on the Agenda for Friday, June 15, 2012
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Lanny Silverman, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Audrey Niffenegger, Richard Harris, Patton Oswalt, Eddie Pepitone, The Bitter Buddha, Gene Siskel Film Center, Just For Laughs Chicago, Anders Nilsen, Elmhurst Art Museum

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The modern home

Modern in the Middle champions Chicago’s hidden stock of midcentury houses.

Looking to enjoy art offline?

These museums and galleries are reopening.

Looking back at the Hairy Who, the 1960s Chicago art world’s greatest branding exercise

On the eve of the collective’s Art Institute retrospective, Suellen Rocca tells all. (Well, some.)

Gertrude Abercrombie's self-portraits show an inner landscape of anxiety, fear, and loneliness

The “Queen of the Bohemian Artists” hung out with jazz musicians, but painted solitary chamber pieces.

Ten best bets for fall visual arts

Recommended
Giant inflatable bunnies invade Elmhurst!

Sort of. The Elmhurst Art Museum offers up a retrospective of an unusual creative movement.

The ten best bets for fall visual arts

Expo Chicago, "Tattoo" at the Field Museum, and more

“Playboy Architecture,” Mother’s Day movies, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

Chicago Beer Classic, the Seldoms' RockCitizen, and more happenings from May 6-8

Making art out of the data of everyday life

For followers of a growing self-discovery movement preoccupied with personal-data mining, the quantities in our lives can say a lot about its quality.

The Reader's Agenda: Fri 6/15

What's on the Agenda for Friday, June 15, 2012

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Modern in the Middle champions Chicago’s hidden stock of midcentury houses.

These museums and galleries are reopening.

On the eve of the collective’s Art Institute retrospective, Suellen Rocca tells all. (Well, some.)

The “Queen of the Bohemian Artists” hung out with jazz musicians, but painted solitary chamber pieces.

Sort of. The Elmhurst Art Museum offers up a retrospective of an unusual creative movement.

Expo Chicago, "Tattoo" at the Field Museum, and more

Chicago Beer Classic, the Seldoms' RockCitizen, and more happenings from May 6-8

For followers of a growing self-discovery movement preoccupied with personal-data mining, the quantities in our lives can say a lot about its quality.

What's on the Agenda for Friday, June 15, 2012

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