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The Art Institute of Chicago – October 2017, part 2

The Art Institute of Chicago – October 2017, part 2

This is the final installment about recent visits to exhibitions in the Chicago area earlier this month, seeing great shows, some now closed, and seeing others that continue into the new year. In my last post we left off on The Nichols Bridgeway, over Monroe as we were about to enter the Art Institute to see a show that was just opening to the public that day, and runs through January 15, 2018.

Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test

This exhibition, one hundred years after the Revolution of 1917, presents a Continue reading →

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The Art Institute of Chicago – October 2017

The Woman’s Board Grand Staircase – Art Institute of Chicago

As I’ve written before, there is always something good, something exciting, something sublime, something challenging, to see at The Art Institute of Chicago. Since there is such a wealth of riches, Continue reading →

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The Woman’s Board Grand Staircase

The Woman's Board Grand Staircase - Art Institute of Chicago

The Woman’s Board Grand Staircase – Art Institute of Chicago

Another visit to that great museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, to see some of the new exhibitions, visit some favorites, and see what works the curators have brought out or installed in new locations. I found a new installation when I went to see how the light was working in the Grand Staircase. Continue reading →

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In my previous post I mentioned how one day in The Louvre I realized that I had been in a specific spot, in one of the galleries devoted to temporary exhibitions, several times before. It was an interesting realization, at first curious, with a strange physical sensation, a feeling, something akin to memories Continue reading →

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