Tag Archives: modernism

Out With the New

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Ben Jeffery

They had found their affinity in art, in a love for what art promised and a hatred for where those promises stopped, for the separate and privileged realm society reserved for beautiful, impotent dreams—but even the beauty, they thought, had …

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Coming to Terms

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Jon Baskin

Jonathan Franzen and David Foster Wallace, the two most important American writers of their era, both grew up in the Midwest. Franzen describes his childhood in Webster Groves, Missouri as having unfolded “in the middle of the middle [where] there …

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Modern Wing

Posted on January 3, 2010 by Maggie Taft

Last 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 …

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An Apology for the Course & Outcome of Certain Events Delivered by Doctor John Faustus on this His Final Evening

Posted on January 3, 2010 by John Beer

The fall of 2009 saw something of an apotheosis for Chicago theater. Following in the wake of Tracy Letts’s Pulitzer-winning August: Osage County—an epic family drama in the grand American tradition of O’Neill, Miller and Williams—a pair of plays set in …

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