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From left: Nora Brooks Blakely, Edra Soto, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Carlos Tortolero, Mark Kelly, and Jacqueline Terrassa.
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Everyone's Picasso - Celebrating 50 Years of Chicago Icon.
A restaging of the 1967 Chicago Picasso dedication
Tuesday, August 8, 2017.
Location: Daley Plaza, Chicago.
From being hugely controversial, to...
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The Pride and Perils of Chicago's Public Art
Temporary Exhibition: February 25 to July 30, 2017.
Location:Landmark Chicago Gallery, Ist Floor, Chicago Cultural Center.
Curated by Cultural Historian of Chicago: Tim Samuelson.
Part of Celebration of 2017 as as The Year of Public Art.
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Eugene Eda’s Doors for Malcolm X College
Location: Sidney R. Yates Gallery at Chicago Cultural Center.
Temporary Exhibition: January 21-June 25, 2017.
Admission Fee: Free
This exhibition presents all 32 doors painted by Eugene Eda for the stairwells of the original, now demolished Malcolm X College. Painted in 1971, the monumental doors are a landmark of the...
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Strandbeest: The Dream Machines of Theo Jansen
Location: Exhibit Hall & Sidney R. Yates Gallery, 4th Floor North, at.. Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St., Chicago.
Temporary Exhibition: February 6-May 1, 2016.
Strandbeest: the Dream machines of Theo Jansen is organized by the Peabody Essex Museum [PEM], Salem, MA. Audemars Piguet, the tour's National Sponsor, provided generous support...
Above Image: Dr. Richard Powell [curator of the exhibition] and Daniel Schulman [Director of Visual Arts for DCASE, Chicago] at the Opening Reception.
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Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist
Temporary Exhibition: March 7 - August 31, 2015
Location: Sidney R. Yates Gallery, 4th Floor at Chicago Cultural Center.
Admission is FREE!
The exhibition is presented by the Chicago...
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Amplifiers - by Nicole Beck
Dedicated: October 10, 2014
Location: Electrical and Computer Engineering [ECE] building at the University of Illinois. 306 N Wright St Urbana, IL 61801, at the entrance from the quad side of the building.
Description: 18' x 12' x 6'/ Stainless steel, dichroic glass, RGB LEDs, granite.
Commission by Capital Development Board of Illinois Art-In-Architecture program.
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Diss-Connections - by John Adduci
Dedictaed: October 10, 2014.
Location: Electrical and Computer Engineering [ECE] building at the University of Illinois. ECE Building’s Wright Street entrance.
Commission by Capital Development Board of Illinois Art-In-Architecture program.
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Above Image: Sculptor Chakaia Booker, Deputy Commissioner DCASE Tracie D. Hall and me. Where DCASE is Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, City of Chicago. Photo by Jeff Stevenson, who works at the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park.
2014: Carts and Cocktails
Saturday, Sep 14, 2014
An annual benefit fundraiser at the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park at Governors State University.
One of the most...
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1004 Portraits - by Jaume Plensa
Temporary Exhibit: June 18 2014 through December 2015.
Location: Millennium Park - Madison Street entrance and South Boeing Gallery. In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Millennium Park, there is a new installation of the work by Jaume Plensa, sculptor of one of the most prominent attraction of Millennium Park - the Crown Fountain: "Jaume Plensa: 1004...
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CSI Presents "Invoking the Absence"
Temporary Exhibition: May 17 to October 26, 2014
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 17, 2014
Location: Elks National Veterans Memorial
Curated by Lucas Cowan
A group exhibition of 22 artists: Terry Karpowicz, Steve Luecking, Toby Zallman, Carol Hammerman, Christine Perry, Christina Murphy, Chris Newman, Peter Gray, Suzanne Cohan-Lange, Dominic Sansone, Glenn...
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