Anyone involved in that history may be distracted by the gaps and omissions.
Tag: Leon Golub
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‘Monster Roster’ confirms Chicago’s significance in midcentury American art
A crucial era in local art history is on display at the Smart Museum.
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RIP Jerry Blumenthal, founding partner of Kartemquin Films
The teacher and documentary filmmaker made lasting contributions to the Chicago film community.
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A half century of CIFF milestones, from Scorsese’s debut to Lee Daniels’s achievement award
The Reader digs through the Chicago International Film Festival’s archives to assemble a time line covering the fest’s 50 years.
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What I saw at Expo Chicago (and suggest you see, too)
African-American artist Sanford Biggers’s imagery sewn into quilts from the slave-era south, beautiful and horrific large-format landscapes by Hungarian photographer Tamas Dezso, and more
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Evening Art: Picasso, Golub, Basquiat
Three notable documentary profiles of painters screen this week.
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Morning Art: Leon Golub
Part of “Live & Die Like a Lion?,” on display at Northwestern University Block Museum of Art