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Music without Borders in Chicago. (Analog Giant)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:10:00 GMT

The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, The Art Institute of Chicago, and The Chicago Council on Global Affairs will be hosting Sudan: Harmony Beneath the Headlines on July 9th. The program features a panel of renowned experts on Sudanese society and politics with a special introduction by former NBA star Manute Bol, a native of Turalei, Sudan. The night will also showcase...

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Who Owns Antiquity? (Phi Beta Cons)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:25:17 GMT

James Cuno, head of the Art Institute of Chicago, writes in CHE:The sad truth is that nationalist cultural-property laws are not intended to protect t... . . .

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Kimbell Art Museum hosts ~ The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Knowledge News)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:44:59 GMT

FORT WORTH, TX - Some of the most celebrated and iconic works of the great Impressionist painters are on view at the Kimbell Art Museum. The loan of about 90 paintings from Chicago’s world-renowned Impressionist collection is possible because of an ambitious reinstallation and expansion project at the Art Institute that includes extensive renovation of the galleries and the construction...

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CHI Events Calendar: 06.27.08 (Apartment Therapy - Chicago)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:17:42 GMT

St. Ben's Neighborhood Garden Walk Art, Design and Home Related Events: St. Bens Neighborhood Garden Walk Tour 30 Gardens in the St. Ben's Neighborhood Sunday 6/29, 12-5 Self Guiden Tour Begins at th

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NYC-Based Graphic Scholarship Fund Presents $53,000 in Grants to 25 Students (The Print CEO Blog)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:43:39 GMT

It began six years ago in a borrowed conference room with a blank sheet of paper and a cash balance of zero. It culminated last night in the theatre of the Hearst Tower in New York City with the award of nearly $53,000 in scholarships to 25 college and college-bound students of the graphic arts. The [...]

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Stone Summer Theory Institute at SAIC What Is an Image (Dexigner Design Portal)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:00:01 GMT

From July 13-19 the second annual Stone Summer Theory Institute at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago will present a forum for some of the worlds foremost art theoreticians to address unsolved issues in the field This years Institute i

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Fashion Week in Review | Cheap Chic Fashion inspired by Sex and the City (BlogHer)

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:43:45 GMT

What happened this week in the world of fashion? We have a tribute to the late Yves Saint Laurent, gorgeous sculptural designs from up-and-coming Portland designer Leanne Marshall, a professional quality fashion show from students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago--and affordable Sex and the City style.

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Walter A. Netsch Jr., 88; Chicago architect whose complex designs rebelled at glass-box buildings of the 1950s (LA Times)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT

Walter A. Netsch Jr., a prominent Chicago architect who designed the at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., has died. He was 88.Netsch died of pneumonia Sunday at his Chicago home, said his wife, Dawn Clark Netsch. Walter Netsch spent nearly all his architectural career in the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, where he concentrated on institutional projects,...

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Best Vacuum, Inc.: Comics Artist Alex Wald Designs New Best Vacuum Ad Program (Market Wire - Professional Services: Advertising, PR and Marketing)

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:15:00 GMT

CHICAGO, IL (MARKET WIRE) Best Vacuum, Inc. has launched a new ad campaign featuring the work of noted comic book artist Alex Wald. The Internet and Lincoln Park Chicago retailer's first ad in the series promotes the Miele Vacuum Cat & Dog canister vacuum, with a humorous take on canine domesticity and the problems of cleaning up pet hair.

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Sustainable Design Initiative Launched (Environmental Leader)

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:48:20 GMT

Groups from the U.S. and Italy have launched Elogico, a sustainable design initiative set on raising environmental consciousness in the design of products and buildings, Plenty reports. Italian design branding firm Brandit, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) kicked off the venture recently in response to consumers who increasingly consider environmental sustainability...

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Chemists Investigate Lost Reds In Homer Painting (Science Daily)

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:16:15 GMT

Scientific evidence has shown that the sky in Winslow Homer's watercolor "For to be a Farmer's Boy" (1887) once glowed with color. A Northwestern University chemist and an Art Institute of Chicago conservation scientist are working to determine exactly what those colors were. They are using a powerful analytical technique called surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy, which requires much...

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UIC Architect Walter Netsch Dead At 88 (Chicago news)

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:05:28 GMT

Prominent Chicago architect Walter A. Netsch Jr., who designed the University of Illinois-Chicago campus and the Cadet Chapel at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., has died at the age of 88.

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Art under attack: Vandals, critics and the criminally insane (Today's Tribune-Review)

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT

The May 16 "keying" of "Night Sky #2" by Latvian-born artist Vija Celmins, on display in "Life on Mars" the 2008 Carnegie International, is shocking news. But not so surprisingly, it is nothing new in the history of art.

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Blair Kamin: Inside the Art Institute's new Modern Wing (Chicago Tribune)

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:23:20 GMT

An exclusive look inside the Art Institute's new wing with the building's architect, Renzo Piano ere's a prediction about the Art Institute of Chicago's modern and contemporary art wing that opens next May: The third-floor galleries, which overlook Millennium Park, will be hailed by critics and the public as some of the most beautiful rooms in Chicago.

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Chicago Art In A New Light (ArtsJournal)

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:39:51 GMT

The Art Institute of Chicago is opening "the first in a sequence of renovated spaces that leads to the dedication of a building for modern and contemporary art next spring... All 3,500 square feet are used for exhibition and include such niceties as a lighting system that uses a low number of foot candles."...

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Space Madness Strikes Security Guard [Science Art] (io9)

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT

... because "viewers may find it difficult to determine their relationship to the image," says the Art Institute of Chicago, which owns the now-worthless picture. In any case, Timur Serebrykov will not be the last human to freak out and go berzerk after staring too long into the uncaring vacuum. []

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Northwestern chemist investigates lost reds in Homer painting (Physorg)

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:24:51 GMT

More than 30 years ago, when Northwestern University chemist Richard Van Duyne developed a powerful new sensing technique, he never thought he would be using it to learn more about treasures in the Art Institute of Chicago's collection -- including a watercolor recently featured in the museum's exhibition "Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light."

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Art Institute Painting Vandalized In Pittsburgh (Chicago news)

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:29:11 GMT

Experts at the Art Institute of Chicago are trying to determine if a painting that was vandalized while on loan to a museum in Pittsburgh.

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Northwestern chemist investigates lost reds in Homer painting (Eurekalert)

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:00:00 GMT

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Art Institute painting slashed (Chicago Tribune)

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:43:22 GMT

Art Institute of Chicago conservators were trying to determine Monday the salvageability of a museum painting severely defaced while on loan in Pittsburgh.

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