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, Dec 26, 2012
Photo Issue 2012
A collection of reader-submitted images honoring Chicago's quiet-but-worthy moments
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Andrew Mine
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Ashley Marchi
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Bill Guerriero
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Carrie Allen
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Edward Anderson
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Ellie Pritts
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Gabriel X. Michael
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Gene Tenner
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Heather A. Phillips
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Iwona Biedermann
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Jacob Watts
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Garbage
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Tame Impala
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Jeremiah Loren
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police
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East Chicago, Indiana
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John Case
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Dewayne Wise
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Hammond, Indiana
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Buffalo Grove, Illinois
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Waukegan, Illinois
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Katherine Hodges
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Chicago River
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bridges
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Mark Hetzel
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Michael Brantley
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Alex Rios
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Lake Michigan
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Milaukee Avenue
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Blue Line
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Matthew Duff
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bridges
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Didier Farms
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multiple exposure
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Michael Ritchie
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Michael Salisbury
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Neil Arsenty
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Patrick Brady
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Nato summit
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Paul Boucher
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Chicago Music Exchange
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Diversey Harbor
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Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park
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Johnnie's Beef
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Montrose Beach
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Garfield Park Conservatory
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, Dec 19, 2012
People Issue 2012:
Tara D., the gallerist
"It's getting people really excited about street art again."
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, Sep 12, 2012
Our six best bets for fall visual arts
Expo Chicago and a look inside Studio Gang Architects highlight a busy season
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Carl Baratta
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Onsmith
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Tony Karman
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Danh Vo
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Statue of Liberty
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Jeanne Gang
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Aqua Tower
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, Sep 12, 2012
One to watch this fall: Offbeat performance collective Lucky Pierre
A hundred artistic acts of torture, right at your fingertips
by Justin Hayford
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, Dec 22, 2011
Zoka Zola, the architect
'I shift the norm just enough to move or provoke our thoughts and the way that we live'
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Zoka Zola Architecture + Urban Design
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, Dec 22, 2011
Weed Wolf, the tagger
'No matter how lame or artsy-fartsy it is, I'll take anything over a poo-brown wall'
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, Dec 22, 2011
Erica Michie, the designer
'I think design can really have an impact—changing from design as an aesthetic to design as a problem-solving mentality'
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Mike DiTullo
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University of Illinois in Chicago
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University of Illinois at Chicago Arts and Architecture Building
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, Nov 23, 2011
Tigerman on the loose
Chicago architecture’s chief bad boy and critic takes on his own contentious career
by Deanna Isaacs
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Tigerman and McCurry
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Ayn Rand
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George Fred Keck
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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
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Marg
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, Oct 13, 2011
Chris Ware reflects on his most nerve-racking
Reader
cartoon
'I'd assumed by its pretension and ridiculous complexity that it would be rejected'
by Chris Ware
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, May 19, 2011
The photographs in
Conflict Zone
document endless war and daily life.
by Alex Parker
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Joao Silva
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Chris Hondros
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Nick Ut
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Matthew Brady
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Joe Rosenthal
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Libya
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Iraq
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Afghanistan
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Jason Howe
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Joel Chaverri
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The Bang Bang Club
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Columbia College
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Sultan Qaboos University
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, Mar 24, 2011
As the Walls Come Down
Artist Jan Tichy plans to memorialize Cabrini-Green as it falls.
by Brian Costello
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1230 N. Burling
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, Feb 23, 2011
Art From the Margins of Haiti
The Sifu Design Studio will exhibit paintings and jewelry by founders of a new collective
by Ed M. Koziarski
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Sifu Design Studio & Fine Yarns
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Flores McGarrell
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Jakmel Ekspresyon
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, Jan 13, 2011
Chagall's New Nook
The
America Windows
are back at the Art Institute—way back.
by Deanna Isaacs
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, Dec 30, 2010
1,000 Words
The
Reader
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John Crouch
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Cabrini-Green
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Brian Bonenberger
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Transformers 3
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Columbus Drive Bridge
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Patrick O'Neil
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Robert Boake
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Chicago Air & Water Show
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Chicago Air and Water Show
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David Schalliol
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Logan Square
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Gabriel X. Michael
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Jeffery Johnson
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Crown Fountain
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Millennium Park
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Ian Bul-lalayao
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Art Institute Modern Wing
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Meera Lee Sethi
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Promontory Point
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John Curtis
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Naper Settlement
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Erin Nekervis
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Jewel-Osco
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David Adler
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Chiditarod
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Robbie Conaway
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No Pants Subway Ride
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Bart Heird
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Chinatown
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, Nov 4, 2010
Outsider Art, Back Inside the Tent
The Intuit show, dumped by Art Chicago, teams up with SOFA. But not everybody's happy.
by Deanna Isaacs
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Navy Pier
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Art Fair Company
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SOFA Chicago
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Wes Cowan
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SOFA Chicago 2010
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Intuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art
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Cowan's and Clark & Del Vecchio auction
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Intuit
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Mark Lyman
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Cleo Wilson
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Art Chicago
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Garth Clark
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Mark Del Vecchio
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, Oct 28, 2010
Obamacare for Artists
What health care reform looks like for creative pros—and where to get help now.
by Deanna Isaacs
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Dr. David Hinkamp
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Health in the Arts Program
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Al Hirschfeld clinic
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James Brown
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Actor's Fund
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Affordable Care Act
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Beau O'Reilly
,
Margie Schaps
,
lifetime dollar limits
,
universal coverage
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Career Transition for Dancers
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Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
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Medical Program for Performing Artists
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Maryellen Langhout
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Don Towne
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Movie Feature
, Sep 16, 2010
Thirteen Long Shots in Suriname
Multimedia artist Ben Russell, featured at the MCA this month, on his experimental ethnography of the Saramaccan tribe
by Ed M. Koziarski
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, Sep 10, 2010
Gallery Openings This Weekend
Dozens of new art exhibits open this weekend.
by Julia Thiel
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Beyond the Coyote
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After Dark
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Busy Beaver Button Company Museum
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Renegade Craft Fair
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Drive-By
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Nick Cave
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, Aug 26, 2010
Slideshow
Twenty-First Century Skeletons
Stanley Greenberg's intimate portraits of buildings in progress, at the Art Institute
by Stephen Longmire
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Bleader
, Aug 19, 2010
Even Banksy Has to Follow the Rules in Proco Joe's Ward
Where's the line between street art and graffiti for artsy alderman Proco "Joe" Moreno?
by Lauri Apple
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