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Like many denizens of Winesburg, Ohio, the fictional town in which the American writer Sherwood Anderson set his eponymous 1919 masterwork, Alice Hindman feels she has missed out on life—or at least an important part of it. After her lover …
Continue reading Posted in Art, Culture, Film, Reviews | Tagged chicago, Chicago Heights, Sherwood Anderson, suburbs, Winesburg | Leave a commentAnish Kapoor named his colossal sculpture Cloud Gate, but everyone in Chicago calls it the Bean. One hundred and ten tons of polished stainless steel, it seems to float above its cement plinth like a visitor from a distant and …
Continue reading Posted in Art, Economics, Reviews | Tagged Bean, chicago, Cloud Gate, public art | Leave a commentIf nothing else comes from the “Occupy” protests, I really hope the person—or people—who conceived of the “we are the 99 percent” tagline lands a top job at a branding firm. Yesterday was the SEIU-organized Occupy Chicago protest. It was …
Continue reading Posted in Politics | Tagged chicago, wall street | Leave a commentLast spring the Art Institute of Chicago unveiled its most significant acquisition to date. It was neither a painting nor a sculpture, but Renzo Piano’s Modern Wing. The 264,000 square foot addition was quickly hailed as a museum masterpiece, though …
Continue reading Posted in Art, Reviews | Tagged chicago, modernism | Leave a commentThe London-based Granta “magazine of new writing” has devoted its 108th issue to the city of Chicago. The special issue, whose release was celebrated with a week of local events in September, promises a tour of Chicago during its “cultural moment,” in …
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