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ArtFutura
Staff reporterThe 10th Annual ArtFutura will be held Thursday May 31, 2012 at in the Ryan Family Atrium of Northwestern's Lurie Center (303 E. Superior) just two blocks from Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. The exhibit, a juried art exhibition benefitting the...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Hospitals and Clinics, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Arts and Culture, Arts
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Meet the author of "Revolution 2.0"
"Social media" sounds a bit trivial, doesn't it? The phrase is redolent of casual Fridays, yoga class, after-work drinks, brunch . . . all things "social" and partyesque.
Then along comes Wael Ghonim, who used the very same tools that most of us tap to...Tags: Facebook, Social Media
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Chicago's overall museum attendance holds steady
Despite the so-so economy, attendance at Chicago's museums and zoos, held steady last year.
Overall attendance at 14 area institutions was 14.4 million, virtually identical to the 2010 totals, according to the group Museums Work for Chicago.
Some...Tags: Shedd Aquarium, Museum of Science and Industry, Arts, Arts, Lincoln Park Zoo
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Wael Ghonim, Revolution 2.0
Just a year and change since the protests that marked the beginning of the Egyptian revolution, Wael Ghonim was in Chicago this weekend for a conversation about his new book, Revolution 2.0, and questions about social activism.
He spoke with the Tribune&...Tags: Facebook, Egyptian Revolution (2011-12), Occupy Wall Street, Democracy, Activism
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The Walters puts its own stamp on Christmas
The Walters Art Museum has been putting its stamp on the nation for more than 77 years — but never in quite the way that it's doing this holiday season.
The museum's "Madonna of the Candelabra," a painting by Raphael with a romantic past, has...Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Painting, Walters Art Museum, William H. Keeler, Arts
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Dec 22, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles TimesGene R. Summers dies at 83; architect renovated L.A. Biltmore
Gene R. Summers, an architect and developer who undertook the first major renovation of the historic Biltmore Hotel, reviving interest in downtown Los Angeles and helping to spark its revitalization, has died. He was 83.
Summers, who retired to the...Tags: Illinois Institute of Technology, Architecture, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Services and Shopping, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Jan 27, 2012 |Column| Chicago TribuneEgyptian activist's memoir details the power of social media
If Paul Revere had wielded a laptop instead of a lantern — cut us some slack on the historical improbability here, OK? — he would have understood Wael Ghonim.
Ghonim is the man who used social media to move his homeland of Egypt a few long...Tags: Chicago Tribune, Paul Revere, Julia Keller, Hosni Mubarak
Dec 28, 2011 |Column| Chicago TribuneIs this the twilight of blues music?
They buried Hubert Sumlin two weeks ago at Washington Memory Gardens Cemetery in Homewood, laying to rest the man whose ferocious guitar riffs galvanized Howlin' Wolf's classic recordings of the 1950s and '60s.
Just before Sumlin's casket was lowered...Tags: Chester Arthur "Howlin' Wolf" Burnett, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Keith Richards, Hubert Sumlin
Jun 30, 2011 |Story| WGNTV-LTVJuly 7: Midday Fix - Dr. L. Subramaniam
WGN NewsDr. L. Subramaniam Appearing: Friday, July 8 8:00 p.m. Harris Theater for Music and Dance 205 East Randolph Drive Chicago For tickets and more information about Dr. L. Subramaniam: eyeonindia.com A unique and colorful extravaganza of Indian culture,...Tags: Chicago Cultural Center, Millennium Park, WGN, Culture, India
Dec 9, 2011 | Los Angeles TimesMonster Mash: Broad Museum at MSU; World Trade Center site
Culture MonsterThe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University has named Alison Gass as its curator of contemporary art. A planned performing arts center to be designed by Frank Gehry for the former World Trade Center site in New York is in limbo as organizers await...Original site for Art Institute of Chicago topic gallery.
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