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Cerna 'Chickie' Alter, 1939-2013
Cerna "Chickie" Alter was not a brilliant artist, but she knew great art when she saw it, friends said. Mrs. Alter studied painting at the Art Institute of Chicago, and then in the 1960s started a corporate art consulting business with a fellow art-...
Tags: Ovarian Cancer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Mexico
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Being numb to it all no longer big shock
Sometime in the next few weeks, if you're walking down Fullerton Avenue around DePaul University and have 15 minutes to spare, duck into the tidy brick building alongside the CTA station. Here you will find the DePaul Art Museum, an institution so...
Tags: Millennium Park, Arts and Culture, Museums, Religion and Belief, Artists
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Pre-Raphaelite art is a reminder of Mom's influence
chrisc@herald-mail.comMy mother made me a journalist. And a musician, an artist, a poet and a playwright. I realized this recently while taking in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. —“The Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design,...Tags: Fine Artists, Arts, Washington, DC, Arts and Culture, Charles Darwin
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'The Cooked Seed' details Anchee Min's fraught immigrant saga
By the time Anchee Min made it to America in 1984, she was "considered a 'cooked seed' — no chance to sprout." As she explains in her new memoir, "I was 27 years old and life had ended for me in China. I was Madame Mao's trash, which meant I wasn'...Tags: Chinese Restaurants, Arts and Culture, Literature, China, Migration
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CSO series explores connections between nature and culture
For ages, mankind has been fascinated by rivers, not simply as natural resources and avenues of commercial conveyance, but also as symbols, metaphors and ideas. Countless artists, composers, writers and thinkers have pondered the significance of these...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Festive Events, Chinatown (Chicago, Illinois), Music Industry, Mother's Day
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"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)
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'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!” 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: Civic Opera House, Arts and Culture, Carnegie Hall, Poetry, Tony Awards
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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. Whining gets you nowhere, while action talks. In that vein, four venerable Chicago companies have come...
Tags: Millennium Park, Arts and Culture, River North, Architecture, New Music Mondays Millenium Park
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10 things you might not know about razed Chicago
Chicago Tribune reportersEver 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: Al Capone, Civic Opera House, Arts and Culture, Holy Name Cathedral, Newspapers
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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. Many of the award-winners qualifying for very goodness and even greatness fed an ongoing debate about historical fiction on...
Tags: Arts and Culture, James Coburn, Fiction, Argo (movie), Zero Dark Thirty (movie)
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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. Calling it the second of Park...
Tags: Arts, Arts and Culture, Libraries, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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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. The event was the International Exhibition of Modern Art, better...
Tags: Studs Terkel, Material Science, Arts and Culture, Miami Beach, Museums
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