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Francis Bacon (artist) (1909–1992), 1 painting (Figure with Meat): Artic Jo Baer (born 1929), 1 painting : Artic Giovanni Baglione (1566–1643), 1 painting : Artic
Local history: Open by appointment [53] Oriental Institute: Chicago: Cook: Chicago area: Archaeology: Part of the University of Chicago, exhibits focus on history, art, and archaeology of the ancient Near East: Orpheum Children's Science Museum: Champaign: Champaign: Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area: Science: Ottawa Historical and Scouting ...
Art Institute of Chicago Modern Wing. On May 16, 2009, the Art Institute opened the Modern Wing, the largest expansion in the museum's history. [46] The 264,000-square-foot (24,500 m 2) addition, designed by Renzo Piano, makes the Art Institute the second-largest museum in the US. [2]
Hyde Park Art Center; Illinois Institute of Technology - Kemper Gallery in the Galvin Library [22] ISM Chicago Gallery; John David Mooney Foundation - International Currents Gallery [23] Lillstreet Art Center; Little Black Pearl Art & Design Center [24] Loyola University Chicago - Crown Center Gallery [25] Marwen [26]
Also in 2009, Chicago Art Magazine broke off of Art Talk Chicago, part of the Chicago Tribune-sponsored blog network, to start their own independent online platform. [67] Chicago Art Review, which ran from 2009-2011 and is currently in hiatus, began in 2009 as well. [ 68 ]
Eleanor Roosevelt at the dedication of South Side Community Art Center (May 7, 1941). Efforts to open a community art center on Chicago's South Side began in 1938. Peter Pollack, a Federal Art Project official, contacted Metz Lochard, an editor at the Chicago Defender, about having the Art Project sponsor exhibitions of African American artists, who often had trouble securing space to display ...
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Chicago History Museum is the museum of the Chicago Historical Society (CHS). The CHS was founded in 1856 to study and interpret Chicago's history. The museum has been located in Lincoln Park since the 1930s at 1601 North Clark Street at the intersection of North Avenue in the Old Town Triangle neighborhood, where the museum has been expanded several times.