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Anxious about Addition
Photo: Monica Almeida/The New York Times After reading through multiple reviews of architect Renzo Piano’s extension, the Broad Contemporary Art Museum, to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art I have...
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Reconsidering Karen Kilimnik
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (MCA), recently opened Karen Kilimnik from the Philadelphia Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) on February 23rd and will be open until June 8th. The show...
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What’s that in the Sky? A Bird? A Plane? Renzo Piano’s Addition to the Art...
For everyone that doesn’t live here in Chicago or does live here but can’t make it downtown to see the progress on the addition at the Art Institute, here are some pictures of the progress. The big...
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Calatrava’s Chicago Spire to be Built
I thought it was always going to be built but I guess selling 30% of the condos means that Calatrava’s Chicago Spire will be built for sure. From the Chicago Tribune: read it here. Apparently this is...
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Uh Oh: Calatrava’s Chicago Spire Future Uncertain
Over the last weekend the Chicago Tribune broadcast the news (first broken by Crain’s Chicago Business) that Santiago Calatrava, along with a Chicago architectural design firm, have filed liens...
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This Week’s Words
This week on ArtSlant I review the Buckminster Fuller show at the MCA, Kathryn Born critiques the critics: http://tr.im/l9Ut
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Harold Washington Library One of World’s Ugliest Buildings?
Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin points out that Chicago’s central library the Harold Washington Library (seen below) received the dubious honor of being one of the 15 ugliest buildings...
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