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Art Institute Raises Price of Admission: “Cannibalism,” or Just “Keeping Up”?
There’s been some commentary on other art and culture blogs about this, so maybe we should get into it too: The Art Institute has raised its price of admission by 50%. Now, the general public will pay...
View ArticleL.A. MOCA: Where Are They Now? + Rose Art Museum Symposium Tonight
For those of you who’ve been following MOCA’s meltdown (see sidebar links to Meg’s previous posts on this subject) and the Rose Art Museum’s deaccessioning debacle at Brandeis, there are a few...
View ArticleFriday Clip Show
Are re-blogged links the blogger’s version of the sitcom flashback episode? Uh, maybe, but in any case, here’s a partial and purely subjective roundup of the past week in art, culture, etc. in Chicago...
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Wednesday Clips 5/27/09
A webchat with Andy Warhol, Oliver Laric (http://oliverlaric.com/webchat.htm) Here’s what’s got my attention, web-wise, so far this week: *San Diego Museum of Art director Derrick R. Cartwright...
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Museum Exhibitions and The Book
I’m fascinated (alas, only from afar) by the Louvre’s Special Guest program and in particular with its use of acclaimed novelists as guest curators. (I’ve posted on this program before, here). The...
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Museum Guards Make Art; Here’s Where to Find Some of It.
Fred Wilson. Guarded View, 1991. Installation view. Which museum job is the hardest? It’s a question that can be endlessly debated; for my part, I’ve always thought that museum guards have a pretty...
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Week in Review: Courage and House Plants
It is Sunday all over again and the world is a flutter with mother’s day sensation. The plethora of touching mother/child photographs everyone is posting on facebook, the emails, the phone calls,...
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I AM MYSELF A CITIZEN OF NO MEAN CITY
Guest Post by Wendy Lee Spacek Photo courtesy of Zachary Nischan Shields. Greetings from INDPLS, new friends! Caroline and I saw one another a few weeks back at a poetry reading I gave at Heavy Gel in...
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I AM MYSELF A CITIZEN OF NO MEAN CITY Vol. 3
American Legion Mall downtown Sunday Frisbee photo by Benjamin Bernthal Greetings from Indianapolis, friends! July is a lovely time here. One of my favorite things about July is the 4th. Here in Indy...
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