“Feast” at the Smart Museum
Tag: Art Institute
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On Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, author of Harlem Is Nowhere
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts writes beautifully about Harlem
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Our most read posts of the past week
What people read from January 1st to 7th, 2012, on the Bleader
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Art theft unveiled
A discussion with Robert Spiel, former FBI agent and art-theft investigator.
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A key moment for leftists
Protesters march to a rally in downtown Chicago during a key period for leftists, here and nationally.
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Our Trip to Africa
Peter Kubelka’s 1966 scrambled document of an African hunting trip, “Unsere Afrikareise,” screens Monday 3/15 in the Landscape Films program at the School of the Art Institute
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The Indian Boundary Line
Kasper Hauser frontman Thomas Comerford’s experimental documentary “The Indian Boundary Line,” about the stories history of Rogers Avenue, premieres Thursday 2/4 at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
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The Chicago News Cooperative Debuts
The first big story is a doozy by Dan Mihalopoulos on the parking meters. It’s obviously been widely reported, but the former Trib city hall reporter scored some internal documents on how much dough Chicago Parking Meters, LLC is baking. 70% profit margin is pretty good, by which I mean totally infuriating. As to the […]
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Morning Art: Konstantin Grcic
Part of “Decisive Design,” on display at the Art Institute
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Friday notes: What’s the verb behind it all?
Infuriating TIF news, Renzo Piano’s Modern Wing, and Mike Watt’s podcast.
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Art Institute hike update
Higher Art Institute fees: it’s a go! The Park District Board approved the Art Institute’s request to up its admission fees at its meeting today. The new prices go into effect May 23.
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Jeff Wall talk at the Art Institute tonight
The great Vancouver photographer Jeff Wall lectures this evening at the Art Institute to kick off an exhibit of his work.
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Actress
A masterpiece by Stanley Kwan, the greatest Hong Kong film I’ve seen (also known as Ruan Ling Yu and Center Stage). The story of silent film actress Ruan Ling Yu (1910-1935), known as the Garbo of Chinese cinema, it combines documentary with period re-creation, biopic glamour with profound curiosity, and ravishing historical clips with color […]
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All by Myself
Christian Blackwood’s fascinating documentary portrait of Eartha Kitt not only offers a multifaceted sense of its subject–as professional entertainer, private individual, political activist, and self-commentator–but also treats each of these facets in a kaleidoscopic manner. The relationship between Kitt’s champagne-and-furs persona and her traumatic deep-south upbringing is especially suggestive; by the end of the film […]