<h2>Chicago&rsquo;s &lsquo;Art on theMART&rsquo; to debut world&rsquo;s largest video display in September</h2>

An ambitious plan to transform the facade of Chicago&rsquo;s iconic 1930&rsquo;s Merchandise Mart into a massive canvas for projected art is just weeks away from dazzling residents and tourists alike. Dubbed&nbsp;&ldquo;Art on theMART&rdquo;, the public installation will launch Saturday, September 29.

By&nbsp;Jay Koziarz, Curbed Chicago

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<h2>Michigan Avenue sculpture by famed Israeli artist is gone</h2>

A brightly colored work by Yaacov Agam had stood in front of a building at 150 N. Michigan Ave. since 1983. It&#39;s now in storage.

By&nbsp;ARI BENDERSKY, Crains Chicago Business

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<h2>Chicago&#39;s Sector&nbsp;2337, Home to&nbsp;the Green Lantern Press, To Close</h2>

Beginning in 2019, the artist-run nonprofit organization&nbsp;Green Lantern Press&nbsp;(GLP) will close its Chicago-based headquarters&nbsp;Sector 2337&nbsp;and continue its publishing, curatorial, and public programming projects remotely.

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<h2>Artists Explore a New Canvas: Tennis Courts</h2>

This project, &ldquo;Art Courts,&rdquo; was spearheaded by the United States Tennis Association as part of a 50th anniversary celebration of the U.S. Open. Organizers hope to inject a dash of enthusiasm and color into community tennis courts in underserved neighborhoods &mdash; as well as enliven a sport that, to some, possesses a reputation for stuffiness and adherence to rules.

By&nbsp;Andrew R. Chow, The New York Times

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<h2>Alex Katz&rsquo;s Life in Art</h2>

Alex Katz is on fire. He said so himself, when I visited his studio one day this spring. &ldquo;One thing after another is coming up,&rdquo; the ninety-year-old said, flashing a wide smile that transformed his usual expression of slight gloom. His proposal to place a series of cutout sculptures of his wife, Ada, on the median of New York&rsquo;s Park Avenue had been accepted by the city, and he had been commissioned to enhance the interior of a subway station. &ldquo;I told them a couple of little mosaics in the subway isn&rsquo;t going to change anything, what you need is an environment&mdash;and they went for it,&rdquo; he said.&nbsp;

By&nbsp;Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker

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News from Around the Art World: August 21, 2018

<h2>Chicago&#39;s Lighthouses: Shedding light on artists with disabilities</h2>

Some street art in Chicago is shedding light on the challenges millions of us face every day. Let&#39;s take a stroll with Dean Reynolds:&nbsp;This summer in Chicago beacons of hope have sprouted on the sidewalk, dotting Michigan Avenue&#39;s &quot;Magnificent Mile&quot; with a message for the masses.

Story produced by Charlie Brooks, CBS News

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<h2>Museum Tours for People Who Don&rsquo;t Like Museum Tours</h2>

On a recent Monday afternoon, Sarah Dunnavant, a 27-year-old actress and guide with the tour company&nbsp;Museum Hack, gathered her group of eight at the entrance of the&nbsp;Art Institute of Chicago, promising to reveal the &ldquo;salacious, sexy and scary&rdquo; parts of the museum in an animated two-hour &ldquo;un-highlights&rdquo; trip through the museum.

By Elaine Glusac, The New York Times

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<h2>Pop-up &#39;sensory&#39; exhibit in West Town features local artists, interactive rooms</h2>

For four days in July, Chicagoans can become part of an art installation, full of vivid colors that zig and zag. They can enter a room full of shredded paper, write down their thoughts, then shred said thoughts by hand via pasta-maker.

By Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune

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<h2>A stunning mirrored art installation debuts at Navy Pier this weekend</h2>

On Saturday, July 28, Chilean artist Iv&aacute;n Navarro&#39;s installation &quot;This Land is Your Land&quot; will make its Chicago&nbsp;appearance in Polk Bros Park. Made up of three structures that look like water towers, guests can situate themselves under each tower&#39;s eight-foot-tall support to reveal a mirrored interior outfitted with neon lights. One of the pieces depicts a neon ladder than appears to ascend endlessly upward, while another displays the words &quot;We&quot; and &quot;Me&quot; perpetually repeating.

By Zach Long, Timeout Chicago

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<h2>Will blockchain deliver a registry of all traded works of art?</h2>

Christie&rsquo;s summit weighs up pros and cons of the technology and how it might bring greater transparency to the art market

By Anny Shaw, The Art Newspaper

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News From Around the Art World: July 23rd, 2018

<h2>Is the state-owned art at Thompson Center in jeopardy?</h2>

Here today, gone tomorrow: Is that the fate of the 150 pieces of state-owned art residing at the James R. Thompson Center? The Thompson Center collection, which contains several valuable pieces by&nbsp;Chicago Imagists&mdash;a midcentury school of artists that includes Ed Paschke, Roger Brown, Ray Yoshida and Gladys Nilsson&mdash;is part of a state collection launched in 1978 with an initiative that dedicates half a percent of funds appropriated for state-funded public construction projects to art. The 600-piece collection appears in 25 sites around the state. The Thompson Center&#39;s artworks represent the biggest concentration, and its future is as uncertain as the fate of the building.

--Lisa Bertagnoli, Crain&#39;s Business Chicago

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<h2>&lsquo;Chicago Calling&rsquo; offers an inside look at the city&rsquo;s outsider&nbsp;artists</h2>

Outside of a relatively small group of insiders and specialists, many people, including some in the broader international art world, probably don&rsquo;t realize that Chicago has long been one of the leading centers for outsider or non-mainstream art. Driving home that reality is the core mission of the largest and most ambitious exhibition ever mounted by Intuit:&nbsp;The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, a 27-year-old museum that has been at the forefront of displaying and promoting such work.

--Kyle MacMillan, Chicago Sun Times

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<h2>Exploring Nature and Humanity: Young-Il Ahn at Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago</h2>

A monographic exhibition of new paintings by Korean artist&nbsp;Young-Il Ahn&nbsp;will open on July 14 at Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago. The works on view explores the relationship the artist shares with beauty, nature, and music. &ldquo;His work is frequently associated with Dansaekhwa, an aesthetic position specific to Korea, which expresses natural processes through a mostly monochromatic palette,&rdquo; the gallery says. &ldquo;As a Korean-born painter working in the US, Ahn is unique among Dansaekhwa artists.&rdquo;

--Blouin Art Info

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<h2>How a Female-Led Art Restoration Movement in Florence Is Reshaping the Canon</h2>

Sometimes, all it takes is for someone to ask the right question.

That is exactly what&nbsp;Jane Fortune&nbsp;did on a visit to Florence 12 years ago. While touring the Renaissance city&rsquo;s exquisite museums and fresco-covered churches, the American philanthropist began to wonder, &ldquo;Where are the women?&rdquo; Her search for an answer set Fortune on a passionate quest to restore the lost legacies and artworks of Florence&rsquo;s forgotten female artists, digging into museums&rsquo; archives and dusty deposits with her organization,&nbsp;Advancing Women Artists&nbsp;(AWA).

--Kate Brown, Artnet News

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<h2>Programme of paid internships aims to make US museum staff more diverse</h2>

In response to the demographic disparity of staff in museums, the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) has launched a paid internship programme aimed at giving undergraduate students from under-represented backgrounds an opportunity to work in the arts.

--Gabriella&nbsp;Angeleti, The Art Newspaper

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News from Around the Art World: July 16, 2018

The summer art season is about to be in full swing, as many galleries open their latest exhibitions this coming weekend. The hottest&nbsp;months of the year inspire&nbsp;many&nbsp;galleries &nbsp;to welcome art collectors and visitors to the city to&nbsp;spend time in&nbsp;the districts and&nbsp;explore a unique part of area&nbsp;culture by viewing work created by living artists.&nbsp;

There is a lot to see Thursday through Sunday, with the bulk of the openings taking place in River North and West Town on Friday night. Openings continue on Saturday night in West Loop, West Town and Michigan Ave.&nbsp;

Many artist talks&nbsp;are also planned for Saturday and Sunday in both galleries and museums, with a handful of events taking place in the suburbs.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Our summary of the weekend&#39;s highlights is below. New events are being added daily.

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In River North, the traditional July happening that was a much loved fixture on the art calendar for many years&nbsp;is back,&nbsp;with the second annual <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/a-midsummer-art-walk">Midsummer Art Walk</a>. Resurrected and reimagined last year by a group of dealers who wanted to reinvent a familiar seasonal&nbsp;energy for a district long associated with art, the event is casual but promises to be a lively evening of mingling in the name of art discovery.

Throughout the city galleries have spent time planning their&nbsp;new shows, the final stop before the fall art frenzy opens in September and continues through EXPO Chicago.

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Galleries are&nbsp;dispelling&nbsp;old notions of lazy summer group shows by&nbsp;featuring new artists, for instance at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/dabin-ahn-2-3">Andrew Bae Gallery</a>, the artist Dabin Ahn is a recent SAIC grad who is the gallery&#39;s first-ever artist from Chicago and the only new one to be added to the roster in over 13 years.&nbsp;Opening&nbsp;Friday, July 13.

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<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/the-chicago-project-vii-selections-from-our-online-gallery">Catherine Edelman Gallery</a> celebrates 15 years of curating The Chicago Project VII: Selections from our Online Gallery&nbsp;a show created in 2003 as a biennial&nbsp;online-only gallery devoted to unrepresented photographers in the Chicagoland area.&nbsp;Opening&nbsp;Friday, July 13.

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<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/gallery-victor-armendariz">Gallery Victor Armendariz</a> opens two shows simultaneously, Kirill Polevoy: Sideshow and Oliver Hazard: Purple Dawn,&nbsp;highlighting the range of figuartive work on view in the space, which marked its first anniversary this past March.&nbsp;Opening&nbsp;Friday, July 13.

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<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/carl-hammer-gallery">Carl Hammer Gallery&#39;s</a> group show highlights the gallery&#39;s recent acquisitions from artists such as Mary Lou Zelazny, Jay Kelly, Amy Laskin and Marc Dennis.&nbsp;Opening&nbsp;Friday, July 13.

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A thought provoking exhibition at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/weight-of-a-world">Weinberg/Newton</a>, Weight of a World,&nbsp;presents artworks that elicit lessons to be learned &ndash; and to be taught &ndash; from global conflict, local lore, and cultural identity. Opening&nbsp;Friday, July 13.

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<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/friend-of-a-friend-elizabeth-atterbury-gordon-hall-huong-ngo-em-rooney">DOCUMENT</a>, one of a handful of West Town spaces opening on Friday, features its summer group show featuring artists&nbsp;Elizabeth Atterbury, Gordon Hall, Huong Ngo and&nbsp;Em Rooney. Opening Friday, July 13.

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The <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/you-will-be-the-archivist-of-your-desires">Chicago Artists Coalition</a>, which just moved to a new expansive space on West Fulton in West Town,&nbsp;is actually&nbsp;presenting an off-site exhibition in Pilsen at the Chicago Art Department (1932 S. Halsted).&nbsp;You will be the archivist of your desires,&nbsp;a&nbsp;HATCH Projects&nbsp;exhibition, features&nbsp;new works by&nbsp;Brittany Leeanne Williams,&nbsp;Frances Lightbound,&nbsp;Marissa Chris Zain Neuman,&nbsp;Meg Leary,&nbsp;Pooja Pittie, and&nbsp;Sydney Shavers.&nbsp;Opening Friday, July 13.&nbsp;And if you&#39;re in Pilsen, it&#39;s 2nd Friday!&nbsp;More than 20 galleries surrounding South Halsted and 18th Street showcase cutting edge art from Chicago and beyond.&nbsp;Pick up a map at&nbsp;1945 South Halsted in the the <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/2nd-friday-gallery-night--10">Chicago Arts District</a> meeting spot.&nbsp;

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Tony Fitzpatrick&#39;s <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/urban-menagerie-by-danny-torres">The Dime</a> on Western Ave. opens the first solo show by artist Danny Torres, Urban Menagerie. According to Fitzpatrick, artists like Torres are exactly why he opened The Dime.&nbsp;Opening Friday, July 13.

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<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/greg-breda-hei">PATRON</a> in West Town opens their&nbsp;first solo exhibition with Los Angeles based artist, Greg Breda,&nbsp;titled,&nbsp;Hei.&nbsp;Opening Saturday, July 14.

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<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/truth-claim">Carrie Secrist Gallery&#39;s</a>&nbsp;group show is as vibrant as the season and as hot as the political climate. TRUTH CLAIM features six artists and artistically explores the term&nbsp;&ldquo;Truth Claim&rdquo;, formally known as a proposition or statement that a particular person or belief system holds to be true.&nbsp;Opening Saturday, July 14.

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In the West Loop, <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/young-il-ahn">Kavi Gupta&#39;s</a> newest show at their 219 N. Elizabeth St.&nbsp;location features the intricate, large-scale paintings&nbsp;of Korean artist Young II Ahn, who recently had a large-scale solo exhibition at LACMA&mdash;the first time a Korean artist has received the honor. Opening Saturday, July 14.

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On South Michigan Ave. in <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/tom-burtonwood-three-points-make-a-plane">Bert Green&#39;s</a> high rise space,&nbsp;Tom Burtonwood&#39;s&nbsp;3D printed images are on display. Burtonwood&nbsp;reinterprets physical space through technological means using scanning, printing, and virtualization of positive and negative spaces to expose the inner workings and invisible structures of our environments. Opening Saturday, July 14.

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<h3>View the full CGN calendar <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar">here</a>.</h3>

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A summary of July gallery openings in Chicago

The Heat is On: July Art in Chicago

<h2>Theaster Gates salutes the spaces where Ebony and Jet&nbsp;happened</h2>

&ldquo;A Johnson Publishing Story,&rdquo; an exhibition that opened in Chicago last week, memorializes the iconic tastes of the late John and Eunice Johnson, pioneers in African-American publishing, fashion and cosmetics. Chicago artist/developer Theaster Gates has installed select furnishings from the Johnson Publishing Co. offices in the Ebony/Jet building that opened in 1972.

Besides a stylish desk, credenza and sofa, there&rsquo;s an IBM Selectric typewriter custom-clad in red alligator leather. Autographed copies of books by Richard Wright and Langston Hughes are on view too. Cards inform visitors: &ldquo;These objects are sacred, please be respectful.&rdquo;

By Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun Times

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<h2>This Artist&rsquo;s Radical Designs Made America Fall in Love with Alfred Hitchcock and Quaker Oats</h2>

They called him the&nbsp;Pablo Picasso&nbsp;of commercial artists. For over 50 years, beginning in the late 1940s,&nbsp;Saul Bass&nbsp;crafted quietly brilliant images for Hollywood and Madison Avenue, many of which still feel strikingly contemporary decades later. Much like Picasso, he reinvented himself again and again throughout his long life, excelling at wildly different genres of visual art&mdash;you can&rsquo;t talk about Bass without talking about posters, logos, feature films, documentary shorts, or title sequences.

By Jackson Arn, Artsy Editorial

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<h2>The site of the earliest known temple on earth continues to keep its secrets</h2>

One morning in May I stood in a dark room in southern Turkey, watching blue-skinned early humans domesticate wheat between bouts of interpretive dance. They were holograms, and they swayed across the walls to a doomy arrangement of bells, drums, and spectral voices: the soundtrack to the dawn of time. The display was a concession to drama in an otherwise austere complex of new museums &ndash; low, tan, elliptical structures tucked into a dip in the Harran plain &ndash; built to ease visits to G&ouml;bekli Tepe, a hilltop cluster of stone circles that is sometimes described as the earliest temple on earth. The museums take their shape from the limestone ruins a short walk up the rise, but for all the touch screens and soft-power gloss &ndash; this is the project of a large Turkish conglomerate &ndash; their&nbsp;raison d&rsquo;&ecirc;tre&nbsp;could hardly be more mysterious.

By Yasmine Seale, Apollo Magazine

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<h2>What colour is this dress? Guggenheim reveals Manet painting after three years of restoration</h2>

A freshly-cleaned fashion statement by &Eacute;douard Manet goes back on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York today (29 June) for the summer, after three years of research and restoration. The free and expressive brushstrokes and bright colours of Woman in Striped Dress (around 1877-80), a full-length portrait of an unidentified model&mdash;and of the dress itself&mdash;were hidden under two layers of discoloured varnish.

&ldquo;Especially towards the end of his life, [Manet] was really quite modern in the way that he approached the canvas and he would describe things with very few touches,&rdquo; says Lena Stringari, the deputy director and chief conservator of the Guggenheim Foundation, who led the project. &ldquo;As this very thick and unsightly varnish came off, you could see how just with a few little touches he could make something sing.&rdquo;

By Victoria Stapley-Brown, The Art Newspaper

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<h2>&lsquo;Art Is Almost Free&rsquo;: Iran Opens Its First-Ever Art Fair&mdash;Just as the Value of the Country&rsquo;s Currency Plummets</h2>

Imagine you are a gallerist preparing to attend an art fair. But almost overnight, the value of the works you plan to sell drops by half.

What is a bad dream for some dealers is a reality in Tehran, where 10 dealers gathered last week to participate in the country&rsquo;s first art fair. Teer Art opened&nbsp;against the backdrop of protests&nbsp;in the Iranian capital as the country&rsquo;s currency, the rial, hit a new low. Since the US withdrew from the Iranian nuclear deal in May, the rial has lost more than 40 percent of its value. Against all odds, however, the mood on the fair&rsquo;s opening day on June 24 was positive. There&rsquo;s a first time for everything, and for this first edition of an art fair in Tehran, just opening on time is an achievement.

By Tahereh Sariban, Artnet News

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News from Around the Art World: July 2, 2018

<h2>Barrels of Fun: Christo Erects a Brilliantly Colored Pyramid as Tall as Egypt&rsquo;s Sphinx in London&rsquo;s Hyde Park</h2>

The artist Christo is known for making the impossible possible. In 2016, he allowed hundreds of thousands of people to walk on water when he erected floating piers in the middle of Italy&rsquo;s Lake Iseo. In 1983, he and his wife Jeanne-Claude surrounded 11 islands in Miami&rsquo;s Biscayne Bay with floating fabric the color of Pepto Bismol.

By Naomi Rea, artnet News

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<h2>&lsquo;They Force You to Look Without Judgement&rsquo;: Watch Nick Cave Describe the Origins of His Trademark Soundsuits</h2>

If you visit the Park Avenue Armory in New York sometime this month, make sure to bring your dancing shoes. The artist&nbsp;Nick Cave&nbsp;has transformed the massive drill hall into a cavernous disco where New Yorkers are invited to boogie their anxieties away. On select evenings through July 1, the installation also hosts transporting performances during which a cast of dancers don &ldquo;Soundsuits,&rdquo; the ecstatic, wearable sculptures that have made Cave famous.

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<h2>From the community: Art Design Chicago: &lsquo;Sculpting a Chicago Artist&rsquo; comes to Oakton July 12</h2>

Oakton Community College&#39;s Koehnline Museum of Art will display the works of a world-renowned Chicago sculptor and the influences of his teachers as part of Art Design Chicago. &quot;Sculpting a Chicago Artist: Richard Hunt and his Teachers, Nelli Bar and Egon Weiner&quot; opens Thursday, July 12, and runs through Sept. 14 at the college&#39;s&nbsp;Des Plaines&nbsp;campus, 1600 E. Golf Road. The public is invited to a free opening night reception from 5 to 8 p.m.

By Community Contributor Oakton Community College, The Chicago Tribune

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<h2>Why Have There Been No Great Black Art Dealers?</h2>

IN 1966, TWO BROTHERS, Alonzo and Dale Davis, set out from Los Angeles on a road trip across the United States, seeking out other artists of color like them. They meant for the trip &ldquo;to broaden our limited art history experience,&rdquo;&nbsp;Alonzo&nbsp;says, since African-American artists had been conspicuously absent from his curriculum at Pepperdine University, or&nbsp;Dale&rsquo;s at the University of Southern California. &ldquo;We drove from L.A. to Mississippi, up through New York and Chicago, and somewhere between all those cornfields, we thought: it&rsquo;d be interesting to own a gallery.&rdquo;

By&nbsp;Janelle Zara, The New York Times Style Magazine

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<h2>&lsquo;Worker Cottage Parklet&rsquo; art installation honors Chicago&rsquo;s working class&nbsp;history</h2>

Chicago&rsquo;s past is right under our feet. Just below the trendy bars of Milwaukee Avenue, markers of the street&rsquo;s former life as a working-immigrant thoroughfare &mdash; hand-hewn granite cobblestones and streetcar ties &mdash; lie in their final resting place buried underneath the street&rsquo;s modern pavement.

Some of those granite cobblestones will be allowed to see the light of day again as part of Chicago artist Lynn Basa&rsquo;s newest public art installation, &ldquo;Worker Cottage Parklet,&rdquo; which will be installed July 18 on the corner of Milwaukee and Wood.&nbsp;Commissioned by Wicker Park Bucktown Special Service Area #33 for $80,000, this is the largest public art commission in the history of the Wicker Park and Bucktown neighborhoods.

By Jane Recker, Chicago Sun Times

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News from Around the Art World: June 25, 2018

<h2>The Brilliant Artist That Chicago, and the World, Nearly Forgot</h2>

Edgar Miller was a virtuoso in any medium he chose: painting, sculpture, stained glass, architecture, interior design, printmaking, metalwork, cutlery, graphic design. He put those prodigious skills toward building a creative community on Chicago&rsquo;s near-north side in the 1920s and beyond. Miller&rsquo;s handful of architecture projects (a series of live-work lofts) stretched the boundaries of the city&rsquo;s bohemian frontier, seeding a new hub for culture, art, and radical politics. This output never earned Miller a place in Chicago&rsquo;s pantheon of culture. But now a non-profit,&nbsp;Edgar Miller Legacy, is celebrating his legacy and offering new ways for people to connect through Miller&rsquo;s work.

By Zach Mortice, CityLab

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<h2>The Mysterious New Wndr Museum Will Give Chicago Its First Yayoi Kusama Infinity Room</h2>

A mysterious new institution calling itself the&nbsp;wndr museum&nbsp;has announced plans to bring a&nbsp;Yayoi Kusama&nbsp;Infinity Room to Chicago, the first to ever go on view in the Windy City. The pop-up museum promises to feature educational and experiential installations that merge art and science to appeal to visitors of all ages.

By Sarah Cascone, artnet news

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<h2>Historic Cook County Hospital restoration and redevelopment breaks ground in Chicago</h2>

Chicago&rsquo;s beleaguered&nbsp;Cook County Hospital&nbsp;is slated for redevelopment after sitting idle for 16 years.&nbsp;Skidmore, Owings &amp; Merrill&nbsp;will transform the Chicago landmark into a dual-branded Hyatt House/Hyatt Place hotel, accompanied by medical office space and retail. Leading the project is the Civic Health Development Group (CHDG) along with Chicago-based developer John T. Murphy. Walsh Construction is the general contractor with Koo Architecture as the interior designers. According to Cook County, the development plan is valued at over $1 billion dollars.

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<h2>The Neuroscientist in the Art Museum</h2>

&ldquo;The fact is, the culture is changing dramatically,&rdquo; says Monroe. &ldquo;When asked what people want out of cultural activities today, and this is across all age ranges, the number one priority people want is fun,&rdquo; he says, in reference to findings from the 2017&nbsp;Culture Track study, which listed fun as respondents&rsquo; &ldquo;single greatest motivation&rdquo; for attending cultural activities. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s not what we were all thinking about five or six or 10 years ago as the most important criterion for the success of a cultural event or activity, and what fun means is obviously an interesting question,&rdquo; he allows, &ldquo;but the whole definition of culture is changing, and the idea that cultural organizations are immune from the incredible changes that are occurring&mdash; at dramatically faster speed than ever before&mdash; would be incredibly dangerous and naive.&rdquo;

By Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian Magazine

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<h2>Linda Nochlin&rsquo;s Lifetime Insights Continue to Amaze</h2>

Published after her death, this succinct volume draws important art historical connections pointing to longstanding struggles with depictions of misery.

By Olivia McEwan, Hyperallergic

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News from Around the Art World: June 19, 2018

<h2>Shane Campbell Gallery Sues Frieze Art Fair, Alleging &lsquo;Substantial Financial Losses&rsquo; Resulting from Heat in New York</h2>

Chicago&rsquo;s Shane Campbell Gallery has filed suit against the Frieze art fair, alleging that Frieze &ldquo;was grossly negligent in preparing&rdquo; its recent New York edition for temperatures that exceeded 90 degrees Fahrenheit. The suit, which was filed this past Friday in New York&rsquo;s Southern District Court, notes that &ldquo;Frieze was aware of the problem but took no action to correct it.&rdquo;&nbsp;

By&nbsp;Alex Greenberger, ARTNEWS

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<h2>Elmhurst Art Museum opens Mies van der Rohe exhibit</h2>

The Elmhurst Art Museum is hosting an unusual open house &mdash; one that will last most of the summer and involve a famous house that hasn&rsquo;t been lived in for decades. The house is the McCormick House, designed by renowned architect&nbsp;Mies van der Rohe, built in Elmhurst in the 1950s and for more than 20 years an integral part of the structure of the Elmhurst Art Museum building.

By Graydon Megan, Chicago Tribune

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<h2>Charles White&#39;s powerful portraits of black America &ndash; in pictures</h2>

The artist created what his gallerist, and later he, called &lsquo;images of dignity&rsquo; while portraying African American life in the US. He was part of Chicago&rsquo;s flourishing black artistic community in the 30s, believing that &lsquo;art must be an integral part of the struggle&rsquo;. His work is being celebrated in the centenary year of his birth at the&nbsp;Art Institute of Chicago&nbsp;and the&nbsp;Museum of Modern Art&nbsp;in New York.

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<h2>These Chicago projects won awards for eco-sensitive design</h2>

On Tuesday evening, Friends of the Chicago River doled out awards to a handful of Chicago projects with designs that were particularly mindful of their water impact. The 2018 Chicago River Blue Awards recognize the work of developers, architects and municipalities for projects that are sensitive to the Chicago River watershed. Studio Gang&rsquo;s Eleanor Street Boathouse in Bridgeport took home the organization&rsquo;s top prize.

By&nbsp;Sara Freund, Curbed Chicago

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News from Around the Art World: June 12, 2018

<h2>Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn pledges to return Parthenon sculptures to Greece</h2>

Comments come after Unesco calls for &ldquo;mutually acceptable&rdquo; solution to 200-year-old issue. The Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn says he will work to return the Parthenon sculptures to Greece if elected as British prime minster. Corbyn says the antiquities were &ldquo;made in and belong to Greece&rdquo; and that, on entering Downing Street, he would begin &ldquo;constructive talks&rdquo; with the Greek government to secure their repatriation.

By Anny Shaw, The Art Newspaper

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<h2>Art and antiques show preview party benefits Northwestern Memorial Hospital</h2>

Nearly 400 guests attended the opening-night party for the second annual Chicago Antiques + Art + Design Show on May 17 at the Chicago Merchandise Mart. The event, produced by Dolphin Promotions, was hosted by the Woman&#39;s Board of&nbsp;Northwestern Memorial Hospital&nbsp;and raised over $200,000 to benefit the programs and care initiatives supported by the board, including a recent commitment to fund a study of collaborative mental health care.

By Candace Jordan,&nbsp; Chicago Tribune

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<h2>Art Institute uses data to give visitors what they want</h2>

If you saw &ldquo;Degas: At the Track, on the Stage&rdquo; at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015 or early 2016, you were part of an experiment. The show, a microcosm of the impressionist artist&#39;s work, used a sophisticated attendance model to test the effect of smaller exhibits on attendance. Measuring Wi-Fi usage throughout the museum revealed that visitors spent more time in the room containing the Degas exhibit than they would have had that room not contained a special exhibit.

By&nbsp;Lisa&nbsp;Bertagnoli, Crain&#39;s Chicago Business

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<h2>&#39;Happy Place&#39; Art Exhibit Aims to Spread Positivity in Chicago</h2>

An art exhibition celebrating the joy of being happy is heading to Chicago after a successful run in Los Angeles.&nbsp;The exhibit, known as &ldquo;Happy Place,&rdquo; is a fully immersive space that features a slew of scenes designed to increase positivity and happiness. The world&rsquo;s largest confetti dome, and a pair of stiletto shoes made of candy are just two of the attractions that are being made available to Chicagoans beginning on June 28.&nbsp;

By&nbsp;James Neveau, NBC Chicago

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<h2>C&eacute;zanne:&nbsp;An old-school approach to the famed artist&rsquo;s portraiture.</h2>

C&eacute;zanne Portraits, at the National Gallery in Washington, is indeed, as the curators claim proudly, &ldquo;the first major museum exhibition&rdquo; devoted to the portraits of Paul C&eacute;zanne, an artist more famous for his shimmering landscapes, still lifes, and bathers. The genre was a modest but persistent presence in the French postimpressionist&rsquo;s career&mdash;fewer than two hundred of the thousand or so canvases he produced in a lifetime (about sixty of which are assembled here).&nbsp;

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<h2>Fire at London&rsquo;s Hayward Gallery as Rotting Fish Artwork Explodes</h2>

Majestic Splendor&nbsp;is composed of sequin-covered rotting fish. When it was shown in 1997 at New York&rsquo;s MoMA, it had to be removed as the smell made visitors feel sick. For the Hayward show, the fish were placed in potassium permanganate. Although it is not flammable, the chemical does increase the flammability of other combustible materials. On receiving advice, the gallery decided to withdraw the artwork, but it spontaneously combusted mid-removal.&nbsp;

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News from Around the Art World: June 4, 2018

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Art events and spaces for children in Chicago this summer

Summer round-up: Family-friendly art spaces 

<h2>Artist Robert Indiana Dies At 89: The Story Behind &#39;LOVE&#39;</h2>

Fifty years after his&nbsp;LOVE&nbsp;painting made Robert Indiana a sensation, the artist has died at age 89. Indiana&#39;s two-row rendering of the word, with its tilted &quot;O,&quot; became one of the most recognizable works of modern art in the world.

The famous design emerged from deep influences in Indiana&#39;s life, from his early exposure to religion to his father&#39;s career.

By Bill Chappell, NPR

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<h2>Painting That Hung in a Chicago Convention Center Brings Unexpected Windfall</h2>

A lone painting by a celebrated contemporary artist turned into a windfall on Wednesday night for a small municipal agency in Chicago.

The painting,&nbsp;Kerry James Marshall&rsquo;s&nbsp;&ldquo;Past Times,&rdquo; sold for $21.1 million at Sotheby&rsquo;s in New York, nearly 900 times the $25,000 that the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority spent on it in 1997, and a record for the artist. In a statement, Lori Healey, the authority&rsquo;s chief executive, said the M.P.E.A. was &ldquo;thrilled&rdquo; by the auction results, adding that the price tag ended up &ldquo;far exceeding anyone&rsquo;s expectations.&rdquo;

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<h2>1960s Chicago Gave Birth to a Colorful, Frenetic Art Style That Is Still Gathering Steam</h2>

The&nbsp;Chicago Imagists&nbsp;of the 1960s and &rsquo;70s created colorful, energetic paintings and sculptures that often riffed on vernacular sources (comic books, pinball machines) and the eccentricities of American culture.&nbsp;Barbara Rossi&rsquo;s colorful, corporeal shapes piled atop each other like jumbles of internal organs.&nbsp;Jim Nutt&nbsp;drew and painted grotesque figures that evoked brightly lit freak shows.&nbsp;Gladys Nilsson&nbsp;rendered overlapping bodies, simultaneously in their own worlds and parts of a larger, chaotic mass.&nbsp;Suellen Rocca&nbsp;created busy, symbol-laden canvases.

By&nbsp;Alina Cohen, Artsy Editorial

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<h2>A Mighty Mural: Oxbow launches artist-in-residence program to spice up downtown</h2>

The corner of Farwell and Galloway is about to get prettified in a big, bold way. Chicago-based artist Molly Z will begin work on a 3,200 square foot mural on the side of the Eau Claire Printing Building on June 3 as part of The Oxbow Hotel&rsquo;s first artist in residence program. The public is welcome to participate in the process during several events hosted throughout the residency &ndash; in addition to watching the image come to life over the roughly two-week project.&nbsp;

By Lauren Fisher, Volume One

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News from Around the Art World: May 22, 2018

<h2>Chicago Architecture Biennial appoints Sepake Angiama and Paulo Tavares as 2019 co-curators</h2>

The&nbsp;Chicago Architecture Biennial&nbsp;has selected two co-curators for its 2019 program, educator and curator Sepake Angiama,&nbsp;and architect and urbanist&nbsp;Paulo Tavares. Along with&nbsp;creative director Yesomi&nbsp;Umolu, Angiama and Tavares will round out the curatorial team of the Biennials&rsquo; third installment, launching in September 2019 and running through January 2020.

By Elizabeth Blasius, The Architects Newspaper

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<h2>Records Trampled&nbsp;At Heritage&rsquo;s Comics &amp; Comic Art Auction</h2>

CHICAGO &mdash; Artist Frank Frazetta&rsquo;s painting &ldquo;Death Dealer 6,&rdquo; 1990, set a world auction record for the artist when it sold for $1,792,500, nearly three times its estimate, at Heritage Auctions May 10-12.

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<h2>No, it&#39;s not a bike rack: Art installation on Daley Plaza is a line of mock AR-15s</h2>

Glance at it quickly and you might think it&rsquo;s a bike rack. But look closer and you&rsquo;ll see that the art installation at Daley Plaza includes a line of mock AR-15 military-style rifles.

Purposely set up in one of the busiest pedestrian spots in the Loop, the short-term exhibit &ldquo;Chicago Gun Share Program,&rdquo; resembles a&nbsp;Divvy&nbsp;bike-share docking station and invites visitors to consider how easy it is for people get their hands on weapons, said Norm Bilow, of the Chicago-based advertising agency Escape Pod. The agency, along with the Brady Campaign and Center to Prevent Gun Violence, created the exhibit that went up last week and will remain in the Loop until Wednesday.

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<h2>How the Royal Academy Schools shook off their fusty image</h2>

Once seen as a bastion of tradition ignored by young artists, the institution&#39;s postgraduate fine art course has become the most desirable in London

By Ben Luke, The Art Newspaper

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News from Around the Art World: May 14, 2018

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417960/cpq67r27pjzdhqase2h4.png"></figure>&nbsp;By RILEY YAXLEYTrace, Ai Weiwei’s monumental work, comprises nearly one million individual LEGO® bricks depicting 176 men and women who are prisoners of conscience, and exploring the theme of incarceration of citizens by governments. It is being exhibited for the first time in Chicago.This is the second time that the artwork will be on view to the public since its original exhibition at Alcatraz, the former federal penitentiary in San Francisco, in 2014. Trace was one of seven pieces that made up @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz, which drew nearly one million visitors. In 2017, Trace made its institutional debut at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and was acquired for their permanent collection. The site-specific installation of Ai Weiwei: Trace in Chicago is organized by the Hirshhorn and continues Alphawood Exhibitions’ history of socially engaged, and politically charged, shows following 2016’s Art AIDS America and 2017’s Then They Came For Me.Trace’s creation was influenced by Ai Weiwei’s own experience with imprisonment by the Chinese government. In 2011, he was incarcerated, interrogated, and beaten by the police in Beijing and was held for 81 days before he was released and officially charged. Weiwei was charged with tax evasion and had his passport confiscated. He was unable to travel abroad until 2015 and fabricated Trace remotely from his studio in Beijing in partnership with the FOR-SITE Foundation. Each portrait features an individual, selected by Amnesty International and through Ai Weiwei’s research, whom the artist considers activists, prisoners of conscience, and advocates of free speech.<figure class="image"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2769/original/untitled.jpg" alt=""></figure>The opening of Ai Weiwei: Trace in Chicago was preceded by A Conversation with Ai Weiwei at the Auditorium Theater of Roosevelt University. The talk featured Ai Weiwei in conversation with Melissa Chiu, Director of the Hirshhorn Museum.Trace will be on view at a new gallery space in Lincoln Park, located at 659 W. Wrightwood Ave. from May 9 to June 30. The new exhibition space is designed to be a meditative, thought-provoking environment. In order to maintain this experience, admission is limited and by online reservation only. Free timed tickets are available, and can be reserved at <a href="http://www.alphawoodex.org/">http://www.alphawoodex.org/</a></body></html>

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<h2>Santiago Calatrava chosen to design public art sculpture at River&nbsp;Point</h2>

Santiago Calatrava&rsquo;s 2,000-foot-tall Chicago Spire never did get built, thanks to a recession that had nothing to do with his spectacular design. But, Calatrava will leave his mark on Chicago, nevertheless.

The Spanish architect, structural engineer, sculptor, painter and all-around Renaissance man has been chosen to create an outdoor sculpture that will be installed at developers&rsquo; expense in the park at River Point, the 52-story office tower at Lake and Canal that includes a 1.5-acre public park over rail lines.

By Fran Spielman, Chicago Sun Times

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<h2>Art Institute of Chicago Name Ellenor Alcorn&nbsp;Chair and Curator of&nbsp;European Decorative Arts</h2>

The Art Institute of Chicago has appointed&nbsp;Ellenor Alcorn&nbsp;as the new chair and curator of the department of European Decorative Arts. Alcorn most recently served as a curator in the department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She will join the museum in September.

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<h2>The art of diversity: how power is shifting at the top of US museums</h2>

Last month, former Nasa scientist&nbsp;Ellen Stofan&nbsp;walked into the National Air and Space Museum in Washington and unlocked the door to the director&rsquo;s office &ndash; which, for the first time, was her own. It was a breakthrough moment, as the museum has always had a male director since it first opened in 1976,&nbsp;until now.

By Nadja Sayej, The Guardian

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<h2>Art, revolution and the &lsquo;Golden Age of the Cuban Poster&rsquo;</h2>

During a period of profound and rapid social and political changes, the Cuban poster boldly documented and embodied the spirit and ideals of the Cuban revolution. &lsquo;Thanks to those daring, inspired artists, an important part of the visual memory of Cubans is indelibly imprinted in their bold graphic designs,&rsquo; writes Leonardo Padura Fuentes in&nbsp;Mira Cuba: The Cuban Poster Art from 1959&nbsp;(2014). &lsquo;It had a dignity and an aesthetic standing that turned the utilitarian poster into a milestone of Cuban cultural history in the second half of the twentieth century.&rsquo;

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<h2>Investing Canvas: Many Planners Add Art Valuation to a Portfolio Conversation</h2>

Art as investment for high-net-worth individuals is on its way to new heights, according to a 2017 report.

The global value of art held by ultrahigh-net-worth individuals is expected to rise to $2.6 trillion by 2026, up from $1.6 trillion in 2016, according to the report by consultants Deloitte Luxembourg &amp; ArtTactic, an art-market research firm based in London.

By&nbsp;Jane Hodges, The Wall Street Journal

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News from Around the Art World: May 7, 2018

Art Design Chicago is a year-long comprehensive arts initiative spotlighting many aspects of Chicago&rsquo;s creative history, and it has inspired and facilitated many collaborative events and exhibitions around the city.&nbsp; ADC celebrates the unique and vital role Chicago plays as America&rsquo;s crossroads of art and design, creativity and commerce with a scope and ambition befitting Chicago&rsquo;s grit and can-do determination. More than 30 exhibitions and hundreds of public programs taking place in 2018 tell the stories of the artists and designers that defined and continue to propel Chicago&rsquo;s role as a hub of imagination and impact.

This summer several notable tours and celebrations taking place. View the full list at <a href="http://artdesignchicago.org">artdesignchicago.org</a>

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<h4>Bus Tour: Mexican Influence &ndash; Art in Pilsen</h4>

May 17 &ndash; Includes the National Museum of Mexican Art&rsquo;s exhibition Arte Dise&ntilde;o Xic&aacute;go and guided tours of Pilsen&rsquo;s murals and the studios of painters/muralists Hector Duarte and Marcos Raya.

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<h4>Opening Reception: A Home for Surrealism</h4>

June 7 &ndash; Attend the public opening of A Home for Surrealism: Fanstastic Painting in Midcentury Chicago at the Arts Club of Chicago

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<h4>Bus Tour: Charles White and&nbsp;African American Visual Legacies</h4>

June 16 &ndash; Featuring a viewing of Charles White: A Retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago&nbsp;

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<h4>Bus Tour, Sculpture in Chicago, Featuring Richard Hunt</h4>

July 12&nbsp; &ndash; This day-long suburban bus tour visits artist studios and Oakton Community College&rsquo;s Koehnline Museum of Art in Des Plaines to view Sculpting a Chicago Artist: Richard Hunt and his Teachers. Participants attend a reception with Richard Hunt.

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<h2>A 48,000% return on a painting may be Illinois&#39; best investment</h2>

(Bloomberg) &mdash; Art may not save the world, but it could help a municipal authority in Illinois.

The Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority voted Tuesday to sell a painting by Chicago artist Kerry James Marshall, estimated at $8 million to $12 million, at a Sotheby&#39;s auction next month. The MPEA purchased the monumental canvas &ldquo;Past Times&rdquo; for $25,000 in 1997, a potential increase of as much as 48,000 percent.

Illinois can use all the help it can get. On Wednesday, the state sold $500 million of federally tax-exempt bonds. Moody&#39;s Investors Service and S&amp;P Global Ratings rank Illinois one level above junk, the worst rating of any state.

Via Crain&#39;s Chicago Business

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<h2>From the Archives: A Look at Leon Golub&rsquo;s Early Work, in 1955</h2>

An enthusiastic appreciation of younger talents developed in the Windy City. Leon Golub is a highly educated painter. He has two B.A.&rsquo;s (one in art history) and an M.F.A. He now teaches at Wright Junior College and Northwestern University. In an effort to evaluate his own painting and the art of his time, he has made critical revisions of some established evaluations of contemporary art and, in this regard, his writing is more socio-psychological than that of most artists.

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<h2>&lsquo;It Is an Unusual and Radical Act&rsquo;: Why the Baltimore Museum Is Selling Blue-Chip Art to Buy Work by Underrepresented Artists</h2>

Lots of museum leaders talk about wanting to diversify their collections. Christopher Bedford, the director of the Baltimore Museum of Art, is actually doing it&mdash;though not everyone may agree with his tactics.

Next month, the museum is&nbsp;due to sell off&nbsp;seven works from its collection by&nbsp;Andy Warhol,&nbsp;Robert Rauschenberg, and other 20th-century titans. The proceeds from the sale of these works by white men&mdash;a sum that could exceed $12 million&mdash;will be used to create a &ldquo;war chest&rdquo; to fund future acquisitions of cutting-edge contemporary art, specifically by women and artists of color.

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<h2>French museum discovers more than half its collection is fake</h2>

A museum in southern France has handed more than half the works in its collection over to police investigators after experts said they are fakes. The Mus&eacute;e Terrus in the village of Elne, near Perpignan, which is dedicated to the local painter &Eacute;tienne Terrus, who was friends with Henri Matisse and the sculptor Aristide Maillol, reopened after renovation on 27 April. But around 80 of the 140 works owned by the municipal museum are now believed to be falsely attributed to Terrus or outright forgeries...

By&nbsp;Hannah&nbsp;McGivern, The Art Newspaper

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News from Around the Art World: April 30, 2018

<h2>Old Chicago Main Post Office receives landmark designation</h2>

The&nbsp;Chicago&nbsp;City Council recently approved the&nbsp;landmark designation&nbsp;for the Old Chicago Main Post Office. Built in phases from 1921 to 1932, the 2.3-million-square-foot structure is located on the western bank of the south branch of the Chicago River in Chicago&rsquo;s Near West Side. The building&rsquo;s brawny nine-and twelve-story art deco design is the work of Chicago architectural firm Graham, Anderson, Probst &amp; White, a successor to D.H. Burnham and Company.

By Elizabeth Blasius, The Architects Newspaper

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<h2>The FBI Has Cracked the 30-Year-Old Case of a Stolen Marc Chagall</h2>

Thirty years after it was stolen, an early&nbsp;Marc Chagall&nbsp;has been recovered by the FBI. The painting, titled&nbsp;Othello and Desdemona,&nbsp;belonged to retired jeweler and art collector Ernest &ldquo;Pick&rdquo; Heller and his wife Rose &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Heller, and was stolen from their New York apartment back in 1988, along with numerous other paintings, sculptures, and art objects including jewelry, carpets, silverware, and Steuben china.&nbsp;

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<h2>Story of Mexican art in Chicago is the story of Chicago art</h2>

There&rsquo;s a kind of Zelig quality to the new &ldquo;Arte Diseno Xicago&rdquo; exhibition at the National Museum of Mexican Art. Its subtitle is &ldquo;Mexican Inspiration from the World&#39;s Columbian Exposition to the Civil Rights Era,&rdquo; and across those 80 years this eye-opening show intersects with so many key figures in Chicago art and the culture more broadly.

By Steve Johnson, Chicago Tribune

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<h2>Expo Chicago Expands 2018 Talks Program and Adds Professional Forum</h2>

The Expo Chicago art fair is expanding its programming for 2018, with an off-site edition of its &ldquo;/Dialogues&rdquo; discussion program at the Venice Architecture Biennale in May and, at the hometown fair in September, more talks in addition to a first-time Professionals Forum to convene specialists in mind of &ldquo;managing, selling, and acquiring a contemporary collection,&rdquo; according to an announcement.

By Annie Armstrong, ArtNews

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<h2>Louvre&rsquo;s director: we are active in 75 countries</h2>

Four months after the grand inauguration of Louvre Abu Dhabi,&nbsp;Jean-Luc Martinez was off to Iran in March to open The Louvre in Tehran&mdash;a temporary exhibition (until 3 June). Unlike most art historians, the director of the Mus&eacute;e du Louvre in Paris, whose&nbsp;mandate was renewed for three years last week by the French president, Emmanuel Macron, does not shy away from political commitment and fully embraces the diplomatic role played by his institution.

By Vincent Noce, The Art Newspaper

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News from Around the Art World: April 16, 2018

<h2>Saving landmark Eternal Indian statue may hinge on &#39;1 or 2 charitable angels&#39; as supporters try to restart restoration</h2>

For three years, fifth-grade teacher Becky Fuller and about 100 students have trudged through Lowden State Park to the bluffs of the Rock River as part of their Outdoor Education program. The objective: to see the beloved, iconic behemoth known as the Black Hawk statue.

Instead, what they encountered resembles a giant mummy.

By Ted Gregory, Chicago Tribune

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<h2>Kehinde Wiley&mdash;the artist behind Obama&#39;s presidential portrait&mdash;signs with Hollywood talent agency</h2>

Kehinde Wiley, the artist whose portrait of former President Barack Obama is attracting record crowds to the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, has joined the Hollywood talent agency Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

The firm will licence Wiley&rsquo;s paintings for use on screen as well as &ldquo;identify directing opportunities&rdquo; for the artist, &ldquo;option books&rdquo; on his behalf and help him &ldquo;produce, develop his own material [and] collaborate with other screenwriters,&rdquo; according to a report on the film and entertainment news website&nbsp;Deadline.

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<h2>11 of the World&rsquo;s Greatest Sculpture Parks, from Seattle to Oslo</h2>

The tradition of mounting works of art outdoors in nature stretches back for centuries. In the late 1500s, for example, Henry VIII adorned his gardens at Nonsuch Palace in Surrey, England, with sculptures inspired by Greek mythology. In Renaissance Italy, nobles like the Medicis bedecked their gardens with&nbsp;Classical&nbsp;pieces excavated from ruins. And at the end of the 17th century, Louis XIV lavishly decorated the sprawling grounds of Versailles with over 200 sculptures made of marble, bronze, and lead. Later, when site-specific outdoor sculptures were first commissioned in the 1800s, the earliest iterations of what we now consider sculpture parks began to emerge. Today, these outdoor spaces around the world strike a delightful balance between nature and art, displaying a wide range of work, from massive contemporary sculptures to earthworks and subtler, historic pieces.

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<h2>An Insider of Design and Media Who Favors Outsider Art</h2>

If there were a Collecting Confidence Index, Robert M. Greenberg&rsquo;s score would be 100.

In the same way he entered a number of fields and excelled &mdash; co-founding the influential digital advertising agency R/GA, designing titles and visual effects for hundreds of feature films including &ldquo;Alien&rdquo; and establishing himself as a communications guru &mdash; Mr. Greenberg goes all-in and doesn&rsquo;t second-guess.

Scooping up collections by the dozens or hundreds of items is easier when you live in a massive, two-story penthouse loft, as Mr. Greenberg does with his wife, Corvova Lee (an artist whose work is also on view). It&rsquo;s one of five homes they own, including two in the Hudson Valley.

By Ted Loos, The New York Times

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News from Around the Art World: April 9, 2018

<h2>Overlooked No More: A Foundation&#39;s Push to Elevate Chicago Art</h2>

New York has long been considered the center of American visual art, home to the Met, the MoMA, and the incredible, cylindrical viewing galleries of the Guggenheim. Abstract Expressionism developed in the city, as did the careers of its luminaries such as Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline and Mark Rothko. A new crop of art-world superstars blossoms in the city each year.

More recently, Los Angeles has entered the collective art consciousness. In the past five years, major gifts in the hundreds of millions have remade L.A.&rsquo;s cultural landscape into a Monopoly board of arts institutions. The Broad and the Marciano Art Foundation opened, and new galleries and acquisitions are planned at the Hammer, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art. Art makers themselves, fleeing the high cost and low light of New York City, are basking in L.A.&rsquo;s spectacular, Mediterranean-like sun.

By Wendy Paris, Inside Philanthropy

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<h2>Opioid Protest at Met Museum Targets Donors Connected to OxyContin</h2>

Anti-opioid activists unfurled banners and scattered pill bottles on Saturday inside the Sackler Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which is named for a family connected to the powerful painkilling drug OxyContin.

The protest, which was organized by a group started by the celebrated photographer Nan Goldin, started just after 4 p.m., when several dozen people converged at the Temple of Dendur inside the wing.

By&nbsp;Colin&nbsp;Moynihan, The New York Times

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<h2>Chicago architects take the lead for U.S. pavilion at prestigious Venice Architecture Biennale</h2>

It&rsquo;s no insult to Chicago&rsquo;s fledgling architecture biennial to say that the event remains an upstart compared to the bigger, older and more prestigious Venice Architecture Biennale. So it&rsquo;s a big deal that Chicago&rsquo;s architecture community is poised to make a mark on the Italian city of lagoons, canals and exotic buildings washed by the Adriatic mist.

For the first time, a spokeswoman confirmed, Chicago institutions are organizing architecture biennale&rsquo;s U.S. pavilion, traditionally a showcase for top American talent. In addition, Chicagoans are designing two of the pavilion&rsquo;s seven installations, including one by the firm of architect&nbsp;Jeanne Gang&nbsp;that will transport hundreds of cobblestones from a Memphis riverfront to Venice.

By Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune

<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ae-venice-biennale-kamin-0313-story.html">Read More</a>

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<h2>Kapoor condemns NRA&rsquo;s use of his Chicago &lsquo;Bean&rsquo; sculpture in promotional ad</h2>

The British-Indian artist Anish Kapoor is speaking out against the National Rifle Association (NRA), condemning the US gun lobby organisation&rsquo;s use of an image of his Chicago sculpture Cloud Gate (2004) in a&nbsp;promotional videoreleased last year. &ldquo;I am disgusted to see my work&mdash;in truth the sculpture of the people of Chicago&mdash;used by the NRA to promote their vile message,&rdquo; Kapoor says in a written statement from today (12 March), issued in association with the anti&ndash;gun violence nonprofit&nbsp;Everytown for Gun Safety. &ldquo;Recent shootings in Florida, Las Vegas, Texas, and a number of other towns and cities, make it more urgent than ever that this organization is held to account for its ongoing campaign of fear and hate in American society.&rdquo;

By Jillian&nbsp;Steinhauer, The Art Newspaper

<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/kapoor-condemns-nra-s-use-of-his-chicago-bean-sculpture-in-promotional-ad">Read More</a>

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<h2>Part of University of Chicago art museum collection is on loan &hellip; to&nbsp;undergrads</h2>

Andrew Langford lives in a typical college dorm room: He has a desk, a single bed, a mini-fridge stocked with cookies, brownies, some booze and, on an otherwise drab beige wall, he has a framed Miro. That&rsquo;s right, the 18-year-old has a piece by the famed Spanish painter and sculptor, Joan Miro.

Noah Adams, 19, has a Pablo Picasso etching in his dorm entitled, &ldquo;Dream and Lie of Franco 1.&rdquo; To be sure, these are not the originals &mdash; they&rsquo;re prints &mdash; but many of the several dozen pieces on loan this year to mostly undergraduates at the University of Chicago are each worth several thousand dollars.

By Stefano Esposito, Chicago Sun Times

<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/part-of-university-of-chicago-art-museum-collection-is-on-loan-to-undergrads/">Read More</a>

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News from Around the Art World: March 12, 2018

<h2>ELLEN ROTHENBERG // SPERTUS INSTITUTE</h2>

If you had to leave your home for good, what would you take with you? Would you take your favorite books? The scarf that your grandmother knit for you, your favorite necklace that your best friend gave you, your red shoes, most comfortable pillow, love letters, spices that you cannot find anywhere else, or more practical things like passports, identity cards, and money? Is it possible to carry your whole being if you leave a part of your life behind? Stepping in Ellen Rothenberg&rsquo;s installation,&nbsp;ISO 6346: ineluctable immigrant,&nbsp;at the Spertus Institute, such questions flock together in one&rsquo;s mind and do not let go of your soul for a long time.

By Pınar &Uuml;ner Yılmaz, THE&nbsp;SEEN

<a href="http://theseenjournal.org/art-seen-chicago/ellen-rothenberg/">Read More</a>

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<h2>Chicago&#39;s unique &mdash; and complicated &mdash; intersections inspire artist&#39;s work</h2>

If Rascal Flatts is correct and life is truly a highway, artist Peter Gorman wants to ride it all night long.

The Seattle-based creator of digital art biked through Chicago during the summer of 2015 and discovered the unique looks of some of the city&rsquo;s interesting intersections. He has since created artwork featuring those streets that are a bit off of the traditional grid. He sells it on his Etsy store,&nbsp;BarelyMaps.

By Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune

<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/travel/ct-trav-chicago-intersections-art-20180228-story.html">Read More</a>

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<h2>Chicago&rsquo;s Particular Cultural Scene and the Radical Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks</h2>

In&nbsp;an interview with the rapper Kanye West from 2003, shortly before he released &ldquo;The College Dropout,&rdquo; West recounted the time he met the poet Gwendolyn Brooks, at a dinner held for students in Beverly Hills, Chicago, when he was in &ldquo;fourth grade or sixth grade.&rdquo; Brooks asked him if he had a poem to read, West recalled. &ldquo;I said&rdquo;&mdash;here,&nbsp;the interviewer writes, he put on a high-pitched boy&rsquo;s voice&mdash;&ldquo;&nbsp;&lsquo;No, but I can write one real quick.&rsquo; I went in the back, wrote a poem, and then read it for her and the 40 staff members.&rdquo;

By Doreen St. F&eacute;lix, The New Yorker

<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/chicagos-particular-cultural-scene-and-the-radical-legacy-of-gwendolyn-brooks">Read More</a>

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<h2>In Marrakech, New Art Fair and Museum Make Case for an Intriguing Future</h2>

It may well be that settings for people-watching can get no better than an art fair in a grand Moroccan hotel. The milling in and out of La Mamounia Palace in Marrakech was a sight to see last weekend in the midst of the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair: locals and travelers alike taking up their stations amid bountiful orange trees and swaying palms, with a lot of dashing fashion on display. Sounds and scents stirred the senses more, from clacking traffic noise drifting over top the hotel&rsquo;s gated walls to a dizzying mix of floral aromas whirled together with notes of citrus and gasoline.

By Andy Battaglia, ARTNEWS

<a href="http://www.artnews.com/2018/03/02/marrakech-new-art-fair-museum-make-case-intriguing-future/">Read More</a>

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<h2>Picasso painting offered in money-laundering scheme, US feds say</h2>

On Friday (2 March), the US Department of Justice (DOJ) unveiled a multi-count indictment in a federal court in Brooklyn against four corporate and six individual defendants who prosecutors say were part of a $50m international securities fraud and money laundering scheme that involved the attempted sale of a Picasso painting to an undercover agent.

By Victoria&nbsp;Stapley-Brown&nbsp;and&nbsp;Anna&nbsp;Brady, The Art Newspaper

<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/picasso-painting-offered-in-money-laundering-scheme-us-feds-say">Read More</a>

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News from Around the Art World: March 5, 2018

By GINNY VAN ALYEA&nbsp;

Friday, March 2&nbsp;will be a&nbsp;big opening night around the city, as many galleries open major shows that will begin the spring season.&nbsp;

After Friday&#39;s big night out,&nbsp;several daytime tours and artist talks are happening on Saturday, March&nbsp;3 and Sunday, March 4.&nbsp;Some hightlights are listed below, and our <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar">full calendar</a> may be viewed&nbsp;here.

See you in the galleries!&nbsp;

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<h2>Barbara Crane: The Polaroid Years</h2>

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March 2-April 28, <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/barbara-crane-the-polaroid-years">Catherine Edelman Gallery</a>&nbsp;&ndash; RIVER NORTH

In celebration of Barbara Crane&rsquo;s 90th birthday, CEG presents&nbsp;The Polaroid Years, a solo exhibition featuring some of Crane&#39;s best known Polaroid pieces from the late 1970s/80s, including recent work from 2012. The show is being held in collaboration with&nbsp;Stephen Daiter Gallery, who will also feature the artist in a one-person exhibition.&nbsp;

A concurrent exhibition by Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber, Empire, is also opening the same evening.

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<h2>Blood Sport</h2>

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March 2 - April&nbsp;27, <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/blood-sport">Gallery Victor Armendariz&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;&ndash; RIVER NORTH

The art of the physical is on view in this gallery known for figurative work. The gallery also marks its first anniversary this month.&nbsp;Blood Sport&nbsp;features works by Caleb O&#39;Connor, Art Shay, Dean Kugler, Patrick Burns.

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<h2>Lee Grantham: Reverse Acrylic Paintings</h2>

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Closing reception March 2 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/reception-with-lee-grantham-reverse-acrylic-paintings">Jean Albano Gallery</a>&nbsp;&ndash; RIVER NORTH

This show, which opened in January, has gotten a lot of press and attention for the unique&nbsp;works which feature bright colors, wild scenes and atypical everyday materials.&nbsp;

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<h2>VIVARIUM: New Work by Mary Lou Zelazny</h2>

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March 2 - April 28 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/vivarium-new-work-by-mary-lou-zelazny">Carl Hammer Gallery</a>&nbsp;&ndash; RIVER NORTH

Mary Lou Zelazny&#39;s works on canvas act as a viewer&rsquo;s transport to worlds and planes of dreamlike existence. &nbsp;The hybrid combination of the artist&rsquo;s gestural painting fluidity combines with the slickness of clipped collage images.&nbsp;

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<h2>Gun Ballet: the Aestheticization of Violence in Video Games</h2>

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March 2-June 3 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/gun-ballet-the-aestheticization-of-violence-in-video-games">Video Game Art Gallery</a> &ndash; WICKER PARK-ISH

Violence has a ubiquitous presence in video game history. This exhibition explores why this characteristic is so appealing among gaming demographics. It also examines the various styles of violence -- ranging from extremely graphic to the acrobatic and balletic -- that serve various expressive goals on the part of studios.

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<h2>Woman Made Midwest Open</h2>

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March 2-24 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/woman-made-midwest-open">Woman Made Gallery</a>&nbsp;&ndash; PILSEN

48&nbsp;artists from&nbsp;Midwestern States will be represented through a variety of subject matters, styles and techniques: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Awards will be announced during the opening reception, which takes place in WMG&#39;s new Lacuna Artist Lofts home in Pilsen. Juried by WMG&rsquo;s Executive Director, Deb Flagel, the exhibition includes paintings, sculptures, photography, mixed media, fiber, printmaking, and installation.

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<h2>Yellow is Mine (Not My Yellow)</h2>

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Mar 2-22 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/yellow-is-mine-not-my-yellow">Chicago Artists Coalition</a> &ndash; WEST LOOP&nbsp;

CAC presents its new BOLT Residency&nbsp;solo exhibition by&nbsp;Roni Packer.&nbsp;

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<h2>Art, Architecture and Design / New Works</h2>

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March 2 and 3 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/linc-thelen-gallery">Linc Thelen Studio</a> &ndash; WEST SIDE

See an artist&#39;s own studio and view works in progress&nbsp;at&nbsp;1620 W Carroll. View current paintings and see concepts from one of Thelen&#39;s&nbsp;new modern architectural projects

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<h2>Cornelia&nbsp;Open Studios</h2>

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March 2, 6-10pm at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/march-2018-open-studios">Cornelia Arts Building</a> &ndash; NORTH SIDE

Cornelia Arts Building&nbsp;Open Studio nights happen four times a year.&nbsp;Join over 40 resident artists in their studios, hallway guest artist exhibitions, and food from a local food truck in the parking lot.&nbsp;

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<h2>Lindsay Olson</h2>

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March 2-April 1 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/lindsay-olson">Evanston Art Center</a> &ndash; NORTH SUBURBS

Lindsay Olson, an artist with a science-based practice, is known for her unusual art projects. As Fermi National Accelerator&rsquo;s first artist in residence, Olson&rsquo;s work sheds light on the fascinating world of sub atomic particles. Her love of science and technology grew out of her work with Chicago&rsquo;s Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, the world&rsquo;s largest wastewater treatment facility.

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A summary of highlights from March 2 art openings in and around Chicago

March 2 Openings Kick Off Spring

<h2>Please Enjoy This Video of Jerry Saltz Reviewing Art Made by Artificial Intelligence</h2>

Thanks to great advances in artificial intelligence, humans aren&rsquo;t the only ones making art anymore. As computers get in on the creative action, art critic Jerry Saltz has taken their efforts to task, offering some fairly savage reviews of works of art generated by various algorithms.

By Sarah Cascone, artnet

<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/jerry-saltz-ai-art-1227932?utm_content=buffer55463&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=socialmedia">Read More</a>

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<h2>Exhibit highlights work of Midwestern women</h2>

Deb Flagel started 2018 by asking a question: What kind of art is coming out of the Midwest?&nbsp;

As executive director of <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/woman-made-gallery--2">Woman Made Gallery</a>, 2150 S. Canalport Ave., Flagel curated an exhibition to help herself answer that question. From March 2&ndash;24, Woman Made will display its inaugural Midwest Open, featuring work from female artists from all 12 Midwestern states.&nbsp;

Flagel hopes the Midwest Open will explore several other questions as well, such as whether the immediacy of sharing art over the internet has made the concept of &ldquo;regional art&rdquo; disappear.&nbsp;

By Miranda Manier, The Colombia Chronicle

<a href="http://www.columbiachronicle.com/arts_and_culture/article_a6cfa838-18e2-11e8-be1e-2313932f1448.html">Read More</a>

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<h2>Beyond &lsquo;American Gothic&rsquo;: The Conflicted World of Grant Wood</h2>

Almost everyone knows Grant Wood&rsquo;s &ldquo;American Gothic,&rdquo; the hypnotic painting of a pitchfork-toting farmer and his daughter. But to many fans of the picture&mdash;and its many parodies&mdash;the rest of the artist&rsquo;s career has remained a mystery.

By&nbsp;Brenda Cronin, WSJ

<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/beyond-american-gothic-the-conflicted-world-of-grant-wood-1518707424">Read More</a>

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<h2>Elmhurst considers arts commission to promote, add to public art</h2>

From the sculpture next to city hall to several pieces outside the art museum, Elmhurst has a significant public art collection, local art enthusiasts say. But people might not be aware of it.

By Robert Sanchez, Daily Herald

<a href="http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180226/elmhurst-considers-arts-commission-to-promote-add-to-public-art-">Read More</a>

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News from Around the Art World: February 26, 2018

On March 1, as we hopefully start to&nbsp;see more signs of spring everywhere, including in the art world, the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College (MoCP) will host its popular annual benefit auction.

This year <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/darkroom-benefit-auction">DARKROOM</a>, co-chaired by Lisa Bailey, Dawoud Bey, and Jackie Moss, will take place on Thursday, March 1, 2018 from 5:30-8:30 p.m. at Venue Six10 at 610 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago.

Photography enthusiasts will enjoy music, hors d&rsquo;oeuvres, drinks and good company while perusing auction items by celebrated contemporary artists, including work by Ai Weiwei, Dawoud Bey, and more. All proceeds raised at this event will support essential MoCP exhibition and education programs in 2018.&nbsp;

The centerpiece of the event is the&nbsp;auction. The list of artists who&nbsp;are part of the auction is noteworthy, and collectors and enthusiasts should be motivated to bid not only to support MoCP but to potentially take home a work of art by one of the following:&nbsp;Dawoud Bey,&nbsp;Paul D&#39;Amato,&nbsp;Laura Letinsky,&nbsp;Diana Matar,&nbsp;Paula McCartney,&nbsp;Sandro Miller,&nbsp;John Opera,&nbsp;Leonard Suryajaya,&nbsp;Jan Tichy and&nbsp;Jeff Wolin, among others. Viewers may preview and bid virtually on <a href="https://paddle8.com/auction/mocp/">Paddle8</a>.

Particularly noteworthy is a piece by Ai Weiwei&nbsp;(b. 1957, Beijing, China), a controversial social activist and artist who was&nbsp;secretly, and now famously,&nbsp;detained by the Chinese police in 2011 and interrogated for 81 days. Since then he has not been allowed to leave the courtyard of his home without permission from the police.&nbsp;Weiwei creates work that boldly confronts contemporary sociopolitical issues, both in China and abroad. In his series of snapshots titled Study of Perspective he flips his middle finger at monuments, landmarks, and institutions of cultural and political power. Traditionally, artists have done perspective studies as preparation for illusionistic drawings or paintings of three-dimensional space on a flat surface. Ai cannily uses the double entendre of &ldquo;perspective&rdquo; as he interjects his point-of-view into photographs of iconic landmarks in which his middle finger serves as both a universal symbol of protest and a device for evaluating the relationship of distant objects.&nbsp;His most recent addition to the series,&nbsp;Study of Perspective, Trump Tower, NYC, 2016 was shown for the first time in the exhibition #AiWeiwei at MoCP in 2017. This was also Ai&rsquo;s first solo presentation of work in Chicago. The bidding for&nbsp;Study of Perspective, Trump Tower, NYC, 2016 starts at <a href="https://paddle8.com/work/ai-weiwei/153873-study-of-perspective-trump-tower-nyc/">$50,000</a>.

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In addition to offering its stellar fine art photography auction, at DARKROOM&nbsp;MoCP will&nbsp;present the sixth annual Silver Camera Award to artist Deborah Willis. The Silver Camera Award honors those who have made significant contributions to the medium of photography. Deborah Willis is a celebrated photographer, historian, and curator of African American photography. She is the author of many notable books, including Out [o] Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty and Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present, which inspired a traveling exhibition. Her photographs and scholarship have centered on representations of blackness, womanhood, and beauty.&nbsp;

<img alt="" data-caption="Venue SIX10" data-rich-file-id="2615" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2615/original/venue610.jpg" />

This year&#39;s event takes place at&nbsp;Venue SIX10, located in a contemporary building&nbsp;right next door to the musuem itself, with&nbsp;panoramic views of downtown Chicago and Lake Michigan.

Tickets to DARKROOM start at $150 for individuals and $300 for VIP Tickets.

<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/darkroom-2018-tickets-41427193852">Visit&nbsp;mocp.org&nbsp;for more information.</a>

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Additional images from the auction:&nbsp;

<img alt="" data-caption="Allison Grant, Macintosh Forest, 2014 Archival inkjet print, Signed. Estimate $1,200" data-rich-file-id="2607" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2607/original/2.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Paul D'Amato, Gee Gee, 2012 Archival inkjet print, Framed AP from an edition of 12, Signed. Estimate $2,500" data-rich-file-id="2608" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2608/original/damato.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Sandro Miller, Robert Mapplethorpe/ Ken Moody &amp; Robert Sherman (1984), 2017 Archival inkjet print, Signed. Estimate $3,600" data-rich-file-id="2609" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2609/original/sandro.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Leonard Suryajaya, Lucky Cat, 2017 Wrapped cat with paper and tape, Unique. Signed. Estimate $550" data-rich-file-id="2612" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2612/original/suryajaya.jpg" />

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DARKROOM is March 1 at 5:30pm&nbsp;at 610 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago

Top image:&nbsp;DAWOUD BEY,&nbsp;Hassan II, 1999,&nbsp;Polaroid prints,&nbsp;Unique,&nbsp;Courtesy of artist and Stephen Daiter Gallery,&nbsp;Signed.&nbsp;Estimate&nbsp;$25,000 
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