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The creative process behind Edward Hopper's paintings
NEW YORK — As 1938 came to a close, painter Edward Hopper was a man on a mission. Again and again, he would pick up his sketchbook and head for a cluster of New York City movie theaters. Sometimes it was the Republic or the Palace, other times the...
Tags: Lobbying, Greenwich Village, Museums, New York Public Library, Arts and Culture
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Gerard Pawlicki, 1921-2013
Gerard Pawlicki was just out of DePaul University when he joined Enrico Fermi, Walter Zinn, George Weil and other seasoned scientists as they lifted their paper cups filled with Chianti wine, celebrating the first controlled nuclear chain reaction under...Tags: DePaul University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Merchandise Mart, Science and Technology, Argonne National Laboratory
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Want a sculpture? A new jaw? Pizza? Just print it
Thanks to 3D printing, American society may be about to boldly go where no one has gone before. A Johns Hopkins scientist is seeking to adapt the technology to grow human jaw bones — potentially revolutionizing implant procedures. A Halethorpe...
Tags: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arts and Culture, Star Trek: The Next Generation (tv program), Walters Art Museum, Barack Obama
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Harris: Digital push builds to rectify 1991 Pritzker Prize omission
Denise Scott Brown has worked side by side with her husband, architect Robert Venturi, since the early 1960s, joining his firm and marrying him in 1967 and becoming the firm's principal in charge of planning in 1969. In 1991, Venturi won their...
Tags: Zaha Hadid, The New York Times, Ryue Nishizawa, Architecture, Culture
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Classical Corner
Access Contemporary Music: Resident ensemble Palomar is joined by Strawdog Theatre Company actors to present "1,001 Afternoons in Chicago," a play for voices and instruments based on legendary Chicago journalist Ben Hecht's newspaper columns. 7 p.m....Tags: Music, Dominican University, Mayne Stage, Culture, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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Book sheds light on muralist whose work is featured at St. Kate's
The Santa Fe New MexicanPeter E. Lopez was introduced to the work of Edward O'Brien four years ago, when he visited the abandoned main building of the St. Catherine Indian School campus. Lopez, a santero who lives in Montezuma near Las Vegas, N.M., made arrangements to get...Tags: Religion and Belief, Real Estate, Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Arts
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Cerna 'Chickie' Alter, 1939-2013
Cerna "Chickie" Alter was not a brilliant artist, but she knew great art when she saw it, friends said. Mrs. Alter studied painting at the Art Institute of Chicago, and then in the 1960s started a corporate art consulting business with a fellow art-...
Tags: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ovarian Cancer, Mexico
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Meadville teen wins prestigious art competition
Erie Times-News, Pa.John O'Laughlin dreams of a career as a lead designer for an automotive company like General Motors or Chrysler. The Meadville native recently took a big step toward fulfilling his dream by redesigning something much smaller -- a lawn mower. In April,...Tags: Chrysler, Arts, General Motors Corp., Passenger Cars, Awards and Prizes
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Being numb to it all no longer big shock
Sometime in the next few weeks, if you're walking down Fullerton Avenue around DePaul University and have 15 minutes to spare, duck into the tidy brick building alongside the CTA station. Here you will find the DePaul Art Museum, an institution so...
Tags: Joffrey Ballet, Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Goodman Theatre, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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St. Louis Art Museum expansion brings national attention to all of area's visual arts venues
St. Louis Post-DispatchThe $162 million expansion of the St. Louis Art Museum has already drawn national attention to St. Louis. Art critics and travel writers love major projects such as these whether they are built in New York or Bentonville, Ark. Add a high-profile name,...Tags: Music, Museums, Trips and Vacations, Architecture, Travel
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Pre-Raphaelite art is a reminder of Mom's influence
chrisc@herald-mail.comMy mother made me a journalist. And a musician, an artist, a poet and a playwright. I realized this recently while taking in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. —“The Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design,...Tags: Washington, DC, Artists, Music, Arts, Charles Darwin
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'The Cooked Seed' details Anchee Min's fraught immigrant saga
By the time Anchee Min made it to America in 1984, she was "considered a 'cooked seed' — no chance to sprout." As she explains in her new memoir, "I was 27 years old and life had ended for me in China. I was Madame Mao's trash, which meant I wasn'...Tags: Literature, Culture, Rentals, Chinese Restaurants, China
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