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Chicago Gallery News, a magazine founded in 1982 by Natalie van Straaten to cover the openings of the 'Original 16' group of galleries that had moved to or opened around Superior and Huron Streets in Chicago, continues to promote local and regional exhibitions and art openings. It has continually been published in print three times a year since ...
An 1893 sketch of the new Art Institute of Chicago showing most of today's Grant Park still submerged under Lake Michigan with the railroad tracks running along the shoreline behind the museum In 1866, a group of 35 artists founded the Chicago Academy of Design in a studio on Dearborn Street, with the intent to run a free school with its own ...
An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed. In Western cultures from the mid-15th century, a gallery was any long, narrow covered passage along a wall, first used in the sense of a place for art in the 1590s. [ 1 ]
In addition to the world-renown Art Institute of Chicago, which houses nearly 300,000 works of art alone, there are countless independent spaces to explore—which is exactly why we did a deep ...
Chicago has a Percent for Art program of public artworks, although it is notoriously more opaque and secretive than that of most other cities; arts activist such as Paul Klein and attorney Scott Hodes have long criticized its lack of public accountability. [123] Chicago is home to a number of large, outdoor works by well-known artists.
2008 "Chicago Art" Artropolis (Chicago) 2005 "Six Rings" Corbett vs Dempsey Gallery; 2005 "Chicago at Mid Century" De Paul Art Museum (Chicago) 2005 "Art in Chicago" Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art; 2003 "Animal Images Show": First Prize — Sculpture "Coyote" Anti-Cruelty Society; 2000 Triennial International Print (Krakow, Poland)
The Wells Street Gallery played a major role in granting young artists like sculptor John Chamberlain and painter Robert Natkin their first one-person exhibitions at a time when too few galleries in Chicago, or elsewhere for that matter, where interested in the work of abstract artists. The gallery closed after only two years, but made a ...
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