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Tag: mural

Posted inArts & Culture

The remarkable life of Art Castillo and Moulin Jimmy’s

by Hannah Edgar December 8, 2020August 18, 2021

Tacked to the wall of a beloved Hyde Park dive, a time capsule hides in plain sight.

Posted inArts & Culture

Fading Memories of Germany

by Jeff Huebner August 27, 2020August 18, 2021

Lincoln Square artist Lothar Speer said he’d restore his prominent German heritage mural. But as the neighborhood has become less German and more gentrified, he wonders if anyone really cares anymore.

Posted inBlogs

How this got made: the award-winning 2017 Best of Chicago issue cover

by Sue Kwong and Danielle A. Scruggs August 14, 2018August 9, 2022

The Reader‘s graphic designer and former director of photography and two sign painters explain how they created and photographed a mural in just 12 days.

Posted inBlogs

Historic home destroyed in fire; ex-owner furious at county for failing to secure it

by David North June 28, 2018August 18, 2021

The 125-year-old home had been ravaged by vandals after crews decided not to board up a basement window.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

After city accidentally whitewashes landmark mural, artists and activists demand change

by Deanna Isaacs June 19, 2018August 18, 2021

Sandra Antongiorgi and Marcus Akinlana’s Es Tiempo de Recordar had been in Hermosa for 26 years.

Posted inArts & Culture

What ever happened to the King Memorial Mural at 43rd and Langley?

by Jeff Huebner April 24, 2018August 18, 2021

The artist, Eugene “Eda” Wade, wants to know, but nobody seems to have any answers.

Posted inBlogs

The case of the missing Keith Haring mural

by Aimee Levitt March 23, 2018August 18, 2021

The 36 panels currently on display at the Chicago Cultural Center are less than a third of the 488-foot-long work the artist created with CPS students in 1989.

Posted inBlogs

My morning at the Pitchfork lineup reveal, or two hours of watching paint dry

by Rachel Yang February 28, 2018August 18, 2021

A Reader intern discovers the life of excitement and glamour that is journalism.

Posted inMusic

The best of the weekend’s blues outside Millennium Park

by David Whiteis June 5, 2017August 18, 2021

Not at the festival but playing in town are Eddie Shaw, Peaches Staten, L’Roy, Eddy “the Chief” Clearwater, and many more.

Posted inBlogs

A South Loop mural wants you to stop telling women to smile

by Brianna Wellen September 16, 2015August 18, 2021

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh’s street harassment project comes to Chicago.

Posted inBlogs

When Keith Haring painted Chicago

by Gwynedd Stuart February 24, 2015August 18, 2021

The story behind the Keith Haring mural at Wells High School

Posted inBlogs

Loop building’s makeover includes a giant $800,000 mural

by John Greenfield December 15, 2014August 18, 2021

The 300 South Wacker building’s giant mural features a map of the Chicago River and surrounding streets.

Posted inArts & Culture

The Ladydrawers collective tackles “Sex. Money. Race. Gender.”

by Janet Potter June 26, 2013August 19, 2021

The Ladydrawers collective tackles “Sex. Money. Race. Gender.”

Posted inBlogs

Artist’s del Valle Mural Channels Twitter

by Alex Parker February 21, 2011August 19, 2021

Barack Obama had Shepard Fairey.
Miguel del Valle has Maya Escobar.

Posted inBlogs

Typeface

by Ed M. Koziarski January 28, 2010August 19, 2021

Kartemquin executive director Justine Nagan’s “Typeface” premieres Friday 1/29 in the Gene Siskel Film Center’s Stranger Than Fiction documentary series.

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