Best of Chicago: Art

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  Art on the Highway: EXPO Chicago's Override Takes Over Chicago Billboards "Override" is a public art project running the duration of the fair that subverts the commercial usage of digital billboards across the city.

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  Avant-Garde Meets the Midwest: A Review of Bauhaus Chicago at the Art Institute of Chicago As smart design shows do, this one makes us look at our own environments with a new appreciation.

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  Defining Chicago Imagism: A Review of What Came After: Figurative Painting in Chicago 1978-1998 at the Elmhurst Art Museum What could a transgressive art practice accomplish once it had become the new normal? A new Elmhurst Art Museum exhibition looks at figurative painting post-Hairy Who.

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  Beautiful, Yet Eminently Boring: A Review of “John Singer Sargent and Chicago’s Gilded Age” at the Art Institute of Chicago Sargent was a prodigiously gifted artist working in a transitional era in European art history.

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  The Long View On Chicago's Artistic History: A Book Review of "Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now" This handsome tome boasts an expansive array scholarship on the art history of Chicago and interviews with artists, curators, historians and other cultural workers.

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  The Heart Is Where The Art Is: 3Arts Supports Diversity and Inclusion in Chicago's Art World The eleventh year of the Chicago-based arts philanthropic powerhouse's annual awards reaffirms the organization's commitment to supporting women artists, artists of color, and artists with disabilities.