Art
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Legendary Outsider Artist Lee Godie’s Work Is for Sale—at a State Unclaimed Property Auction
The late, beloved Chicago outsider artist has been featured in the Art Institute and the Smithsonian, and now she headlines an auction by the Illinois State Treasurer.
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Ivan Albright’s ‘Seductive and Repellent’ Art Draws Viewers In
A new exhibit of the late artist’s work opens at the Art Institute this month.
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Jessica Campbell Turns High-Tech Moments into Carpet Paintings
The Humboldt Park artist’s new solo show opens this week.
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The Key to Virgil Abloh’s Cool? Architecture.
Before he was a consultant to Kanye West, a collaborator with Nike and Ikea, and now art director of menswear at Louis Vuitton, he was getting his master’s degree in architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology. And he’s carried that education into the peak of high fashion.
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Q&A: Yesomi Umolu, Artistic Director of the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial
She has a global history and resume, born in Lagos and raised in London. She’s also a local, as a curator at the University of Chicago. She’ll bring both experiences, along with her curator’s eye, to the CAB.
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Spectacular Images from Chicago’s Turn-of-the-Century Design Bible
‘The Inland Printer’ taught generations of printers the tricks of the trade, while spreading the gospel of Art Nouveau to America—and previewing the sleek modernist revolution to come.
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A New Exhibit Spotlights a Rarely Seen Keith Haring Mural
The Chicago Cultural Center displays one of our city’s most impressive public artworks in March.
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Picasso’s Disappearing Dad
Hidden figures, it turns out, aren’t uncommon for Picasso.
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Radiation Underfoot
Deep beneath a Cook County forest preserve rest relics of the atomic age. A local artist captures the energy still emanating from them.
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