That's right, we're still adding stuff to the November calender, and if the past is any indication, there'll be even more by the time last turkey emerges from hiding on the 30th. Global Architecture Brigades: Student-:Led Design Build - Monday at noon in the lower core of Crown Hall at IIT, director John Cunningham will be talking about the Global Architecture Brigades , a "volunteer student-led...
Art Institute graduate students Katherine Pill, 26 (right), and Francesca Wilmott, 24, operate the Concertina Gallery out of their own apartment. Brian J. Morowczynski for RedEyeBy Ryan SmithFor RedEyeMost curators don't make a habit of sleeping next to their exhibits,...
Developer Epic Games has released a free, Unreal 3-powered development kit that will allow students, schools, researchers or fledgling game developers the ability to experiment with 3D game technology. The Unreal Development Kit (UDK) can be downloading at the UDK website . The UDK is free for noncommercial or educational use, and a variety of licensing options are available—including a revenue...
Her works, which combined drawing, painting, collage and printmaking, examined the treatment of women and the horrors of war. Nancy Spero, a pioneering feminist artist who examined the treatment of women and the horrors of war, has died. She was 83.
Oprah Winfrey says she's keeping singer BeBe Winans off her show until domestic violence charges against him are resolved. The gospel singer had taped appearances on Winfrey's "karaoke challenge" and was on last Friday.
If you're sick of looking at paintings and sculptures all the danged time, for god's sake already, then maybe it's time to give your eardrums a work-out. And here's the perfect venue to do so: the 10th annual Outer Ear Festival of Sound , a celebration of the sonic arts in Chicago presented by the Experimental Sound Studio , the Sound Department of the School of the Art Institute and several other...
Dallas police have arrested an acquaintance in the stabbing death of a 20-year-old Art Institute student whose body was discovered in her Lake Highlands apartment in September. Also Online Daniel Willyam, 26, was taken into custody Wednesday afternoon in the death of Samantha Michelle Nance, who was found slain in her bedroom on Sept. 11. Shortly after the discovery of her body, Dallas detectives searched...
[ November 7, 2009 to January 10, 2010. ] Masterpieces in Miniature Delaware Art Museum November 7, 2009 – January 10, 2010 [ad#lb] The Delaware Art Museum is pleased to present the fourth annual Masterpieces in Miniature exhibition, on view November 7, 2009 – January 10, 2010. Masterpieces in Miniature is the Museum’s signature holiday display, featuring three-dimensional miniatures...
...from the Thorne Miniature Rooms Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago... ...it's hard to believe that these rooms are 1:12 scale and even harder to believe that they were all built between 1932 and 1940 (no precision laser etching back then!). There are 68 rooms in total showcasing interiors from the late 13th Century through to the 1930's. Donated to the Art Instute by Mrs James Ward Thorne,...
For a the city between the fashion capitol (NY) and the shopping capitol (LA), Chicago certainly puts a lot of effort in it’s own fashion identity. With the city funded Fashion Council, they were able to host a full-fledged fashion show for their top-tier recent graduates. I’ve been to several student shows this year, most [...]
Happy Monday, folks! Did everyone have a good Halloween weekend? Mine was really nice. Now that the hubby and I have a house, we actually had little trick-or-treaters come to the door! Ended up with about 40 kids. I was very excited to hand out the candy and see all of the costumes. The little ones were the best. We had twins, a boy and a girl, about 6 years old, dressed as Minnie and Mickey Mouse....
Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) is a tricky but harmless fast-talker. But he knows how to have fun, which is exactly what he sets out to do when he feigns illness and talks his parents into letting him stay home from school. The perpetually lucky Ferris enlists his hypochondriac best friend, Cameron Frye (Alan Ruck), into springing his girlfriend, Sloane Peterson (Mia Sara), from class, and the...
It begins on Monday with Wes Jones at UIC, and continues with critics, critics, everywhere this week - first Joseph Rosa talking with Paul Goldberger on Wednesday, and then Goldberger again, plus Hawthorne , Goldhagen , Kamin and Lifson at a Chicago Architecture Foundation panel on Thursday. Me? I'll be at the bar, Schuba's Tavern, to be exact, this Wednesday, moderating Urban Habitat's Burnham Smackdown!...
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