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    Apr 26, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  1. "A Nearly Perfect Copy" by Allison Amend

    In the gifted hands of Allison Amend, the international art world is so full of intrigue and makes for such a smart page turner that when one is finished with the delicious novel "A Nearly Perfect Copy," a trip to the Art Institute of Chicago is in order....

    Tags: Manhattan (New York City)

    2. Apr 18, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  2. 'Oklahoma!': Gemze de Lappe here to bring out true colors

    “It's not ‘rah, rah, rah,'” Gemze de Lappe says in explaining how you sing “Oklahoma!”
    “It's not ‘rah, rah, rah,'” Gemze de Lappe says in explaining how you sing “Oklahoma!” The 91-year-old de Lappe hops up from her chair and stoops, bowing low and dusting the air with her hands as if foraging through...

    Tags: Entertainment Events, Music Theater, Carnegie Hall, Theater, John Philip Sousa

    3. Mar 31, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  3. 10 things you might not know about razed Chicago

    Ever since the Great Fire of 1871, a cycle of destruction and rebuilding has been central to the Chicago story. This month, Northwestern University secured a permit to tear down Prentice Hospital so that it can build a biomedical research facility. Also this month, speculation arose (and was quickly squelched) about tearing down Wrigley Field's iconic scoreboard. And today is the 10th anniversary of one of the most unusual acts of demolition in city history — Mayor Richard M. Daley's middle-of-the-night destruction of Meigs Field.
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    Ever since the Great Fire of 1871, a cycle of destruction and rebuilding has been central to the Chicago story. This month, Northwestern University secured a permit to tear down Prentice Hospital so that it can build a biomedical research facility. Also...

    Tags: Frank Lloyd Wright, Al Capone, Arts and Culture, Gold Coast, Midway

    4. Apr 2, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  4. FlySpace looks to pool resources, brains

    The practical challenges of a small modern dance company are ever formidable: a struggle to finance productions and attract an often elusive audience.
    The practical challenges of a small modern dance company are ever formidable: a struggle to finance productions and attract an often elusive audience. Whining gets you nowhere, while action talks. In that vein, four venerable Chicago companies have come...

    Tags: Entertainment Events, Environmental Issues, Arts and Culture, Michigan Avenue, River North

    5. Feb 28, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  5. Readers share ratings, quibbles

    The awards season has run its course. It's always a relief to see it in the rearview mirror. Even the winners feel that way.
    The awards season has run its course. It's always a relief to see it in the rearview mirror. Even the winners feel that way. Many of the award-winners qualifying for very goodness and even greatness fed an ongoing debate about historical fiction on...

    Tags: Lincoln (movie, 2012), Steven Spielberg, Robert Aldrich, Arts and Culture, Les Miserables (musical)

    6. Feb 25, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  6. New Deal-era mural restored for Park Ridge Library

    After being saved from an attic where it was stored for 38 years and a four-year fundraising effort to pay for restoration, a Depression-era mural was unveiled Saturday in its new home at the Park Ridge Public Library.
    After being saved from an attic where it was stored for 38 years and a four-year fundraising effort to pay for restoration, a Depression-era mural was unveiled Saturday in its new home at the Park Ridge Public Library. Calling it the second of Park...

    Tags: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Arts, Arts and Culture, Renovation, Libraries

    7. Feb 20, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  7. Confronting artist Kara Walker

    Kara Walker will be difficult. This gets whispered to you by enough people in the art world and you start to believe it: She's humorless!
    Kara Walker will be difficult. This gets whispered to you by enough people in the art world and you start to believe it: She's humorless! Confrontational! Intimidating! David Mamet intimidating! And this week, before the Thursday opening of “...

    Tags: Artists, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Mark Twain, Gold Coast, Arts and Culture

    8. Feb 20, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  8. Art Institute review: When Picasso met Chicago

    In 1913, the Art Institute did something astonishing. It opened its hallowed halls to an exhibition so radical that it would forever alter the course of art-making in the United States.
    In 1913, the Art Institute did something astonishing. It opened its hallowed halls to an exhibition so radical that it would forever alter the course of art-making in the United States. The event was the International Exhibition of Modern Art, better...

    Tags: Artists, Arts and Culture, Michigan Avenue, Miami Beach, Studs Terkel

    9. Feb 19, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  9. Citywide Expo Art Week announced

    Several of the city's major cultural institutions announced plans Tuesday to join together this fall for a "citywide celebration of arts and culture."
    Tribune reporter
    Several of the city's major cultural institutions announced plans Tuesday to join together this fall for a "citywide celebration of arts and culture." Dubbed “Expo Art Week,” the event is set to encompass museum and gallery exhibitions,...

    Tags: Artists, Entertainment Events, Sepia, Spiaggia, Arts and Culture

    10. Feb 14, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  10. Looking at Picasso from Chicago's angle

    The funny thing is, Pablo Picasso never even set foot in Chicago, let alone anywhere else in the United States.
    The funny thing is, Pablo Picasso never even set foot in Chicago, let alone anywhere else in the United States. That untitled 50-foot-tall sculpture in Daley Plaza, the city's most iconic piece of public art as well as Picasso's only work of its kind?...

    Tags: Artists, Fine Artists, Arts, Museums, Painting

    11. Feb 4, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  11. Adult studies programs keep minds sharp, satisfy curiosities

    Always wish you had studied architecture? Wonder if you would be better at science if you learned what interested you rather than what was required? Do you wish you better understood today's political issues more clearly or wish you could find others passionate about the same topics? 
    Always wish you had studied architecture? Wonder if you would be better at science if you learned what interested you rather than what was required? Do you wish you better understood today's political issues more clearly or wish you could find others...

    Tags: Artists, Students, Education, Arts and Culture, Adult Education

    12. Feb 4, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  12. Smorgasbord for the soul

    Lately I've been having some excellent lunches downtown.
    Lately I've been having some excellent lunches downtown. One day I had a fabulous repast of Poulenc and Prokofiev. Another time, I enjoyed several delicious servings of Georgia O'Keeffe. And on Friday, I chewed over some Heidegger. I've been on a kick...

    Tags: University of Chicago, Music Industry, Entertainment, Arts, Arts and Culture

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