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Art Feature
, Dec 26, 2012
Photo Issue 2012
A collection of reader-submitted images honoring Chicago's quiet-but-worthy moments
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Ashley Marchi
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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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East Chicago, Indiana
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John Case
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Hammond, Indiana
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Buffalo Grove, Illinois
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Chicago River
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Matthew Duff
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Didier Farms
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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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, Dec 19, 2012
People Issue 2012:
Tara D., the gallerist
"It's getting people really excited about street art again."
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, Nov 20, 2012
"The Sound, the Soul, the Syncopation" considers public housing as artistic training ground
A National Public Housing Museum exhibit about the stars who came out of places like Cabrini-Green
by Sam Worley
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, Nov 5, 2012
The Steve McQueen who didn’t make
Bullitt
The Art Institute surveys the career of Brit artist McQueen
by Sam Worley
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, Oct 31, 2012
SOFA Chicago picks up the pieces
The marriage is over, but Intuit is still involved in the art fair's life
by Meg Pier
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, Oct 17, 2012
Sic transit gloria meat market
Two Chicago Artists' Coalition shows chronicle the effects of time
by Sam Worley
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meatpacking
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Barbara Blacharcyzk
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Angela Davis Fegan
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Alexandra Lee
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Tempestt Hazel
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Hillary Clinton
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Fulton Market Cold Storage
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, Oct 9, 2012
Hebru Brantley visits planet America
The Afro-Futurist artist shows new work in "Brothers of the Robbing Hood"
by Sam Worley
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Hottentot Venus
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, Oct 2, 2012
Allen Ruppersberg's back pages
"No Time Left to Start Again" gives a chaotic history of rock 'n'roll
by Sam Worley
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Louis Jordan
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, Sep 25, 2012
Laura Letinsky withdraws to a further remove
The Chicago photographer shows prints of collaged images in "Ill Form and Void Full"
by Sam Worley
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, Sep 19, 2012
Is the nth time the charm?
Expo Chicago jumps into our world-class-art-fair void
by Sam Worley
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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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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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Chicago Torture Justice Memorials Project
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, Sep 11, 2012
Children under glass: Caleb Weintraub's insular, precarious worlds
Don't take the kids to "Snowglobe, a Plastic Dream in a Clear and Present Danger"—they're already in it
by Sam Worley
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, Sep 4, 2012
Getting Into Face
. . . after face after face
A new book and exhibit show JoJo Baby and Sal-E playing advanced dress-up
by Sam Worley
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, Aug 27, 2012
Zeph Farmby's eat-the-rich art
"Love, Lust & Desire" might go well with some fava beans and a nice chianti
by Sam Worley
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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, Aug 14, 2012
Chunks of dismembered wife found in whale
Amber Hawk Swanson recycles her art-project spouse in "All That Is Left of You / Everything You Are Now"
by Sam Worley
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, Jul 23, 2012
Seymour Rosofsky's sinister whimsy
Corbett vs. Dempsey displays a monstrous vision in "Xylophone Solo"
by Sam Worley
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, Jul 18, 2012
Synchrodogs unleashed
The self-documenting Ukrainian art couple comes to Chicago
by Sam Worley
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Roman Noven
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, Jul 10, 2012
Landscape with really huge phalluses
The MCA's "Skyscraper" takes the measure of urban towers
by Sam Worley
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Michael Wolf
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Empire State Building
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September 11
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Gabriel Orozco
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Robert Moskowitz
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, Jun 21, 2012
"Kink," regular and super
Two artists interpret sexual idiosyncasy at Design Cloud Gallery
by Sam Worley
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