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Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Nov 9, 2018
Art in Chicago may not be able to distill 150 years of history into one volume, but it sure looks good trying

Anyone involved in that history may be distracted by the gaps and omissions.
- By Dmitry Samarov
- Tags: Lit Feature, Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now, Terra Foundation Art Design Chicago, Maggie Taft, Robert Cozzolino, Wendy Greenhouse, Art Institute, Samue Marden Brookes, Jennifer Jason Marshall, Armory Show, Picasso, Aaron Bohrod, Archibald Motley, Leon Golub, László Moholy-Nagy, Chicago Imagists, Hairy Who, Rebecca Zorach, Wall of Respect, Jenni Sorkin, Chris Ware, John Corbett, art history

Arts & Culture, Art Feature Apr 24, 2018
What ever happened to the King Memorial Mural at 43rd and Langley?

The artist, Eugene "Eda" Wade, wants to know, but nobody seems to have any answers.
- By Jeff Huebner
- Tags: Art Feature, King Memorial Mural, Eda Wade, Wall of Respect, mural, public art, Martin Luther King Jr, Chicago Council on Fine Arts, Eugene Wade, Black Arts movement, Organization of Black American Culture, Margaret Burroughs, Georg Stahl, Harold Haydon, porcelain enamel, vitreous enamel, enamel painting, Artist-in-Residence Program, Department of Human Services, Bronzeville, Daniel Schulman, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Koehnline Museum of Art, Will Burns, Toni Preckwinkle, Pamela Cummings, Marko Mihajlovich, Geraldine McCullough, Our King, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Living Memorial, Inner-City Muslim Action Network, Sonja Henderson, John Pitman Weber, Marquette Park, King Community Service Center, Bonheur Development Corporation, Perkins McDowell

Arts & Culture, Art Review Nov 22, 2017
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Bill Walker, Dapper Bruce Lafitte, and the virtues of angry art

A review of two concurrent, improbably similar solo shows of artists working in different time periods and locations
- By Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: Art Review, Bill Walker, Bill Walker: Urban Griot, Dapper Bruce Lafitte, Dapper Bruce Lafitte: Kingpin of the Antpin, New Orleans, Hyde Park Art Center, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outside Art, Wall of Respect, Recommended

Columns & Opinion, On Culture Aug 2, 2017
The Chicago Picasso isn’t the only public artwork worth celebrating

The Wall of Respect is gone, but its impact shouldn’t be forgotten.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: On Culture, Chicago Picasso, Pablo Picasso, Wall of Respect, Studs Terkel, Gwendolyn Brooks, The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago, Northwestern University Press, Abdul Alkalimat, OBAC, Organization of Black American Culture, Romi Crawford, Bob Crawford, Rebecca Zorach, Conrad Kent Rivers, Hoyt Fuller, Visual Arts Workshop, Bronzeville, William Walker, Sylvia Abernathy, COINTELPRO, Eugene "Eda" Wade, AfriCOBRA, African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists, Chicago Public Art Group, Haki Madhubuti

Columns & Opinion, On Culture Nov 22, 2016
How did an academic administrator become the new city arts czar?

A conversation with Mark Kelly
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Mark Kelly, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Cultural Center, Year of Public Art, Quigley South, DCASE, John Carroll University, Columbia College, Manifest Urban Arts Festival, Wabash Arts Corridor, Muddy Waters mural, Halloween Gathering, Cultural Mile Association, 50 x 50, Wall of Respect

Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Sep 12, 2013
Art by and about black men

"Maleness to Manhood" continues a year of rich south-side art programming.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Fall Arts, Fall Arts 2013, Maleness to Manhood, Heather Robinson, South Side Community Arts Center, Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, Raymond Thomas, Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Sherman Beck, Dayo Laoye, Wall of Respect, Logan Center, DuSable Museum, Margaret Burroughs Gallery, South Side Community Art Center

Arts & Culture, Art Review May 23, 2013
Recommended
AfriCOBRA when it was poised to strike

The first of three exhibitions in a series looks at the prehistory of the famous south-side arts movement.
- By Claudine Isé
- Tags: Art Review, Haki R. Madhubuti, South Side Community Art Center, AfriCOBRA: Prologue—The 1960s and the Black Arts Movement, Logan Center for the Arts, DuSable Museum of African American History, Third World Press, Tommie Smith, John Carlos, Mexico City, Peter Norman, Jeff Donaldson, Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Gerald Williams, Robert Black, Martin Luther King Jr., John Sibley, Malcolm X, Alonzo Parham, Wall of Respect, Muhammad Ali, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Archibald J. Motley, Georges Seurat, Claudia McNeil, Stokely Carmichael, the Marvelettes, Sunday in the Park, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Harlem Renaissance, Recommended

News & Politics, Our Town Feb 26, 1998
Wailing Walls

Mitchell Caton's murals had the string and swing of great jazz.
- By Jeff Huebner
- Tags: Our Town, Mitchell Caton, mural movement, Another Time's Voice Remembers My Passion's Humanity, Builders of the Cultural Present, Wall of Daydreaming, Man's Inhumanity to Man, Theodore Burns Mitchell, Sun Ra, Art Taylor, Al Jarreau, Oscar Brown Jr., Robert Sengstacke, Chicago Mural Group, Chicago Public Art Group, School of the Art Institute, Universal Alley, Wall of Respect, Rip-Off, Calvin Jones, A Time to Unite, Art in Chicago: 1945-1995, Nii-Oti Zambezi, C. Siddah Webber

News & Politics, Feature Aug 28, 1997
The Man Behind the Wall

Thirty years ago Bill Walker helped start an art revolution. Why are some people trying to paint him out of the picture?
- By Jeff Huebner
- Tags: Feature, Bill Walker, murals, Wall of Respect

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Art in Chicago may not be able to distill 150 years of history into one volume, but it sure looks good trying

Anyone involved in that history may be distracted by the gaps and omissions.

What ever happened to the King Memorial Mural at 43rd and Langley?

The artist, Eugene "Eda" Wade, wants to know, but nobody seems to have any answers.

Recommended
Bill Walker, Dapper Bruce Lafitte, and the virtues of angry art

A review of two concurrent, improbably similar solo shows of artists working in different time periods and locations

The Chicago Picasso isn’t the only public artwork worth celebrating

The Wall of Respect is gone, but its impact shouldn’t be forgotten.

How did an academic administrator become the new city arts czar?

A conversation with Mark Kelly

Art by and about black men

"Maleness to Manhood" continues a year of rich south-side art programming.

Recommended
AfriCOBRA when it was poised to strike

The first of three exhibitions in a series looks at the prehistory of the famous south-side arts movement.

Wailing Walls

Mitchell Caton's murals had the string and swing of great jazz.

The Man Behind the Wall

Thirty years ago Bill Walker helped start an art revolution. Why are some people trying to paint him out of the picture?

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Anyone involved in that history may be distracted by the gaps and omissions.

The artist, Eugene "Eda" Wade, wants to know, but nobody seems to have any answers.

A review of two concurrent, improbably similar solo shows of artists working in different time periods and locations

The Wall of Respect is gone, but its impact shouldn’t be forgotten.

A conversation with Mark Kelly

"Maleness to Manhood" continues a year of rich south-side art programming.

The first of three exhibitions in a series looks at the prehistory of the famous south-side arts movement.

Mitchell Caton's murals had the string and swing of great jazz.

Thirty years ago Bill Walker helped start an art revolution. Why are some people trying to paint him out of the picture?

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