CGN has tracked down a list of holiday events which now require&nbsp;your&nbsp;attention. From around the city, no matter where you are, there is something for everyone. Inspiration for holiday shopping seems to allude you this year? Look no further, we have a number of local solutions to ease your gifting woes.

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North Shore

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Enjoy the local shops in Evanston with a warm beverage in hand. Free and open to the public with all ages invited.&nbsp; The shops will be open until 8pm with holiday gift ideas&nbsp;for all.

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North Side

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Stop in for sips and snacks on&nbsp;Friday evening, December 8th. This gallery hosts&nbsp;a wide array of genres with&nbsp;gift cards availible, it&nbsp;could well be the time to begin a family member or friend on their collecting journey!

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West Side

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A well known fact is that everyone should attend&nbsp;a show during the holiday season. Many of the classics we now have memorized and then some.&nbsp;Without straying too far from&nbsp;the holiday path, here is the timeless story of Hansel and Gretel&nbsp;with fresh take on the story.&nbsp;&nbsp;Hosted by Intuit, the show will be a family event with children&#39;s admission free (under 18 years of age).

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South Side

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Coinciding with&nbsp;Bridgeport Art Center&#39;s third Thursday Open Studio Night. The evening will include complimentary beverages, time to view the artists studios and shopping opportunities from artists resident at the BAC as well as the greater Chicagoland area.&nbsp;

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Randolph Street Holiday Market

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Bringing it indoors for the cold winter months, Randolph Street Market will carry&nbsp;on into the holidays with a wide variety of antique shopping, crafts, and snacks. Price ranges and gifts ideas suitable for all. The perfect gift giving experience for all ages.

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Holiday mania can prove a challenge, particularly the gifting process. With any luck, the events above could very well be where a&nbsp;perfect local shopping&nbsp;opportunity awaits you. From a local artist to your loved one&rsquo;s home, perhaps these markets hold the key to your gifting success (and an evening of enjoyment for yourself)!

There are holiday events&nbsp;in every part of the city, get to know&nbsp;the arts happening around you! Happy Holidays!

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Holiday Happenings: Where to Go, Shop, and See Local Arts This Holiday Season

<h2>Giant mural by Kerry James Marshall honors Chicago women of culture</h2>

Giving Chicago its own Mount Rushmore was Kerry James Marshall&rsquo;s idea for his biggest work ever, a mural that will be officially dedicated Monday morning at a gathering of city luminaries.

&ldquo;RUSH MORE&rdquo; is an homage to women who have shaped arts and culture in Chicago &mdash; including Gwendolyn Brooks, Oprah Winfrey, Sandra Cisneros and Maggie Daley &mdash; and it occupies a wall nearly half the size of a football field on the west facade of the Cultural Center.

<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-kerry-james-marshall-mural-unveiled-chicago-1204-story.html">Read More</a>

--Via&nbsp;Steve Johnson,&nbsp;Chicago Tribune

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<h2>Kehinde Wiley on Painting the Powerless. And a President.</h2>

LONDON &mdash; Early next year, a portrait of Barack Obama will go up on the walls of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, produced by an artist who was chosen by Mr. Obama himself in the closing months of his presidency.

The artist, Kehinde Wiley, is known for picturing young black people in stylized portraits that are deliberate throwbacks to earlier traditions of painting. His &ldquo;Napoleon Leading the Army Over the Alps&rdquo; (2005) shows a young man in hiking boots and camouflage riding a rearing stallion the way the French emperor does in an early-1800s&nbsp;painting by&nbsp;Jacques-Louis David. In the 2010 &ldquo;Equestrian Portrait of King Philip II (Michael Jackson),&rdquo; the pop superstar Jackson, in a cape and elaborate armor, mimics the monarch in&nbsp;the Rubens work it references.

<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/27/arts/design/kehinde-wiley-obama-portrait-london-exhibition.html?smid=tw-share&amp;_r=0">Read More</a>

--Via&nbsp;Farah&nbsp;Nayeri,&nbsp;The New York Times

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<h2>A New Study Shows That Most Artists Make Very Little Money, With Women Faring the Worst</h2>

The struggle is real.&nbsp;A just-released survey of international artists yields some dismal findings: In the US, a full three quarters of artists made $10,000 or less per year from their art.&nbsp;Close to half (48.7 percent) made no more than $5,000. The report, titled&nbsp;The Artfinder Independent Art Market Report: 2017,&nbsp;was commissioned by&nbsp;Artfinder, and doubles as a pitch&nbsp;for that company&rsquo;s online marketplace for independent artists.&nbsp;It was&nbsp;conducted by&nbsp;a-n, an artist information company which did a similar study specific to UK artists in 2013.

Based on data from 1,533 self-identified working artists in the US and the UK surveyed over the first three weeks of this month, the Artfinder report claims to be the &ldquo;biggest ever independent artist income survey.&rdquo; (UK income data is broken out separately, given the different currencies, but appears to represent roughly the same hard realities.)

<a href="https://news.artnet.com/market/artists-make-less-10k-year-1162295#.WiAdJvGkoFM.twitter">Read More</a>

--Via&nbsp;Eileen Kinsella,&nbsp;Artnet

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<h2>Chicago Became an Outdoor Art Museum This Year</h2>

Local artists made our streets the city&rsquo;s most exciting exhibition space.

Last fall, Mayor Emanuel declared 2017 the Year of Public Art, promising a $1.5 million investment and new outdoor murals, sculptures, and performances in all 50 wards. As a result, Chicago&rsquo;s streets have been transformed into the city&rsquo;s most impressive permanent showcase of local and global talent. Here, five standouts from the artwork that emerged this year.

<a href="http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/December-2017/Year-of-Public-Art/?utm_campaign=Chimag+year+of+public+art+11.28.17&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=Twitter">Click To View</a>

--Via Chicago Magazine, Text by&nbsp;Jason Foumberg

News from Around the Art World: December 4, 2017

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Which charities are the big winners in the city budget?

At least four nonprofits will benefit from Mayor Rahm Emanuel&#39;s 2018 budget, which the City Council is expected to approve Nov. 21. The city of Chicago&#39;s 2018 budget earmarks $76.7 million for youth programs, up from $21 million in 2011, when Emanuel took office.&nbsp;

<a href="http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20171121/NEWS07/171129983/the-chicago-charities-that-win-in-2018-city-budget">Read More</a>

--Via Lisa Bertagnoli, Crain&#39;s Chicago Business

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<h2>A Museum for Art&rsquo;s Sake</h2>

Departing leaders are rarely f&ecirc;ted for what they didn&rsquo;t do. But we live in a time of cultural turmoil, so it&rsquo;s worth noting the tenure of National Gallery of Art Director Earl A. (Rusty) Powell III, who announced this month that he will retire in early 2019 after 25 years on the job.

On Mr. Powell&rsquo;s watch there have been no glitzy expansions, scandals or raids on the collection to raise money, no board dysfunction or dumbing down of exhibitions. In many respects his directorship was very low-key, with much of its focus on...

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-- Via The Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal

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<h2>How the internet is transforming the art world</h2>

These days, selling your art online is easy. Online art galleries, freelance platforms, digital stores, and other websites help connect artists to potential buyers. From watercolor pictures of squirrels to geometric patterns of maple leaves, there is a growing demand for original artwork in the digital space. However, the commercialization and dilution of art online is leading to new debates about the meaning and future of fine art.

In 2016, online sales of art totaled&nbsp;$3.27 billion. This figure comes from an annual report compiled by&nbsp;TEFAF, but it only includes data from art sales databases, dealers, collectors, and auctioneers. So while the report shows significant growth in the art industry online, it&#39;s still missing key parts. For example, sales from personal websites, individual artists, and some online platforms such as Etsy are missing.

So, the demand is there. But the TEFAF report also revealed another interesting trend in online art sales: They tend to be on the lower end of the price scale, with each piece usually selling for less than $500. It&#39;s easy to see this trend when perusing Etsy, Creative Market, or another online platform. You can find original artwork for a couple of dollars.

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--Via Lana Bandoim, The Week

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<h2>The Elite Professionals Who Assist Wealthy Art Collectors</h2>

Art buyers make global headlines when they pay record prices for a new addition to their collection, such as the recent sale of a da Vinci painting for over $450 million.

But behind every art collector, there is an entourage of buying consultants, gallerists, framers and lighting specialists to make sure they buy the right piece and display it just so.

<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-elite-professionals-who-assist-wealthy-art-collectors-1511365211">Read More</a>

--Via Ruth Bloomfield, The Wall Street Journal

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<h2>David Hockney&rsquo;s Life in Painting: Spare, Exuberant, Full</h2>

Give it up for David Hockney, one of painting&rsquo;s elder statesmen, and for his crystalline retrospective&nbsp;at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which proceeds in a string of perfectly curated mini-exhibitions. Check at the door the usual caveats and tsk-tsks regarding this wildly popular Anglo-Californian &mdash; that he&rsquo;s a lightweight; that his &ldquo;moment&rdquo; was the &rsquo;60s; that he&rsquo;s obvious. Suspend at least briefly the belief that a tragic vision, or abstraction, is essential for entry into art history&rsquo;s pantheon.

No, Mr. Hockney, at 80, is not Jasper Johns or Gerhard Richter. But he has his own greatness, which flows from openly following his own desires &mdash; including his attraction to other men &mdash; while rigorously exploring the ways art and life feed each other, visually and emotionally. Full disclosure, forthright joy and forward motion are the dynamos of his art, which in my book at least, gives him an edge over Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon.

<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/arts/design/david-hockney-art-review-metropolitan-museum-of-art.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=arts&amp;region=rank&amp;module=package&amp;version=highlights&amp;contentPlacement=5&amp;pgtype=sectionfront&amp;_r=0">Read More</a>

--Via Roberta Smith, The New York Times

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Top image:&nbsp;David Hockney&rsquo;s &ldquo;A Bigger Interior With Blue Terrace and Garden,&rdquo; from 2017. Credit Metropolitan Museum of Art

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News from Around the Art World: November 27, 2017

<h2>Leonardo da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3 Million, Shattering Auction Highs</h2>

After 19 minutes of dueling, with four bidders on the telephone and one in the room, Leonardo da Vinci&rsquo;s &ldquo;Salvator Mundi&rdquo; sold on Wednesday night for $450.3 million with fees, shattering the high for any work of art sold at auction. It far surpassed Picasso&rsquo;s &ldquo;Women of Algiers,&rdquo; which fetched $179.4 million at Christie&rsquo;s in May 2015. The buyer was not immediately disclosed.

There were gasps throughout the sale, as the bids climbed by tens of millions up to $225 million, by fives up to $260 million, and then by twos. As the bidding slowed, and a buyer pondered the next multi-million-dollar increment, Jussi Pylkkanen, the auctioneer, said, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s an historic moment; we&rsquo;ll wait.&rdquo;

-- Via Robin Pogrebin&nbsp;and&nbsp;Scott&nbsp;Reyburn, The New York Times

<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/15/arts/design/leonardo-da-vinci-salvator-mundi-christies-auction.html?smid=tw-share&amp;_r=0">Read More</a>

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<h2>Three U.S. Cities Reinventing the Modern Waterfront</h2>

Projects such as the High Line in New York City and Discovery Green in Houston have upped the ante for cities, showcasing landscape architecture as a powerful tool for urban change and raising public awareness of the multifaceted value of well-designed public spaces.

These projects&mdash;and many more like them&mdash;are a far cry from the pastoral, largely unprogrammed spaces championed in the last century by visionaries like Olmsted, Burnham, L&rsquo;Enfant, Kessler, and Cleveland. Today&rsquo;s urban parks, instead, face intense pressure to provide &ldquo;something to do&rdquo; for an increasingly wide array of users&mdash;and are often, by necessity, thrust into new management and operational structures (think: conservancy or public/private partnership models). For the first time in history, the&nbsp;majority of the world&rsquo;s population&nbsp;lives in urban areas. Since the average city apartment&rsquo;s footprint is significantly smaller than that found in suburbia, urban public spaces increasingly serve as an expansion of one&rsquo;s apartment. The city, in essence, becomes one giant shared frontyard.

--Via Gina Ford, Urban Land Magazine

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<h2>The Art Market Moves East: How Gagosian, David Zwirner, and 14 Other Western Art Businesses Are Trying to Expand to Asia</h2>

In the past year alone, no fewer than six galleries have opened or announced plans to open an outpost or office somewhere in Asia.

Amid announcement after announcement, it may feel like Western art businesses have been working forever to tap into the Asian art market. But in fact, the push to set up outposts in China&mdash;as well as South Korea and Japan&mdash;began less than a decade ago. And much of the momentum has picked up only in the last several years.&nbsp;

--Via artnet News

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<h2>The Man Behind the Wall&nbsp;</h2>

It seems fitting that Bill Walker wants to meet on the corner of Woodlawn and Hyde Park Boulevard. The street has always been his workplace, and that&#39;s where you most easily picture him&mdash;the father of the community mural movement, capturing, as he once wrote, the &quot;human side of street life in the city.&quot;

Photographs and films of Walker from the 60s and 70s always show him on the street, on sidewalks and in parking lots, climbing scaffolds to fill brick walls and viaducts with spirited reflections on the urban black experience. In three decades of painting murals in Chicago&#39;s neighborhoods, he became an authority on the culture of poverty, racism, and the simple healing effects of goodwill. The street was both Walker&#39;s milieu and his canvas.

--Via&nbsp;Jeff Huebner, Chicago Reader

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<h2>Dieter Roelstraete appointed curator of Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society</h2>

Dieter Roelstraete, an internationally renowned curator of contemporary art, has been named the next curator of the&nbsp;Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society.

In his new role, effective November 10, Roelstraete will oversee all aspects of the Neubauer Collegium Exhibitions Gallery, working with the University arts community as well as with arts organizations in the city of Chicago and around the world.

Roelstraete joins the Neubauer Collegium after serving on the curatorial team that organized documenta 14, the international art exhibition that ran this past spring and summer in Kassel, Germany, and Athens, Greece. Widely hailed as a significant statement about the relevance and aesthetic concerns of the contemporary art world, the show brought together work by 160 artists at more than 80 sites.

--Via Andrew Bauld, UChicagoNews

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News from Around the Art World: November 20, 2017

<h2>Chicago&rsquo;s South Side Community Arts Center named a National Treasure</h2>

As the National Trust for Historic Preservation continues a push to oppose the&nbsp;elimination of the federal Historic Tax Credit program, the organization focused its attention on Chicago&rsquo;s Bronzeville community today to officially designate the South Side Community Arts Center as a National Treasure.

Situated at 3831 S. Michigan Avenue, the historic Georgian-Revival style building was originally built as a residence for grain merchant George A. Seaverns, Jr in 1892.

-- Via Jay Koziarz, Curbed Chicago

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<h2>Here&rsquo;s the Artist List for the 2018 New Museum Triennial</h2>

The New Museum has revealed the list for its 2018 New Museum Triennial, which opens on February 13 and runs through May 27. Curated by New Museum curator Gary Carrion-Murayari and Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami deputy director and chief curator Alex Gartenfeld, the exhibition will be titled &ldquo;Songs for Sabotage,&rdquo; and will include more than 30 artists from 19 countries&mdash;a much smaller group than the last triennial, in 2015, which included 51 artists.

The exhibition, which is the triennial&rsquo;s fourth edition, will loosely focus on the relationship between art objects and the societies artists hail from, with meditations on the circulation of images and the legacies of colonialism and systemic racism interspersed throughout. &ldquo;The exhibition amounts to a call for action, an active engagement, and an interference in political and social structures urgently requiring them,&rdquo; a press release reads.

-- Via Alex Greenberger, ARTNEWS

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<h2>In Chicago, graffiti comes into its own as public art precedes major building developments</h2>

Graffiti in Chicago is not always vandalism. Though tagging, the stylized signatures sometimes used as gang markings, still pervade alleys and the occasional blank&nbsp;wall, graffiti has come into its own as&nbsp;public art. Whether on &ldquo;permission walls&rdquo; or commissioned by businesses, many neighborhoods in Chicago are filled with large-scale artworks that, until recently, were relegated to train cars and out-of-the-way&nbsp;places. But in neighborhoods on the near northwest side and near south of the city, fewer and fewer commercial walls are left blank. Partially as an attempt to stem random tagging and partially as an attempt to connect with young locals who may be future customers, businesses and developers are commissioning, or at least allowing, 
massive works of graffiti on their property.

-- Via&nbsp;Matthew Messner, The Architects Newspaper

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<h2>Tracing the Education of Michelangelo</h2>

It&rsquo;s rare that a major museum gives drawings top billing. They are not seen as alluring enough to engage the public. But one thing they can do is lift the veil on the artistic process, even for such a secretive artist as Michelangelo (1475-1564). And the Met&rsquo;s new exhibition does this beautifully.

-Via Cammy Brothers, The Wall Street Journal&nbsp;

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<h2>Why Richard Avedon&rsquo;s Work Has Never Been More Relevant</h2>

In 1964, Richard Avedon published &ldquo;Nothing Personal,&rdquo; a lavish coffee table book with gravure-printed portraits of individuals who do not fit into any single classification: Allen Ginsberg standing naked in a Buddhist pose opposite George Lincoln Rockwell, the founder of the American Nazi Party; the puffy-eyed&nbsp;Dorothy Parker, her bags containing a lifetime of tears, side by side with a sullen and deflated, if still-shimmering,&nbsp;Marilyn Monroe; a young and earnest&nbsp;Julian Bond&nbsp;among members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; and the grizzled&nbsp;William Casby,&nbsp;who had been born into slavery about 100 years earlier.

&ldquo;Nothing Personal&rdquo; was published only months after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, in the period of profound cultural soul-searching following President Kennedy&rsquo;s assassination. Despite Avedon&rsquo;s glamorous reputation, it was his social conscience &mdash; revealed in the range of photographs in this book &mdash; that may be the surprise that deepens his enduring legacy.

-- Via Philip Gefter, The New York Times

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News from Around the Art World: November 13, 2017

Huge Mural Tackling Gentrification Coming To Logan Square Blue Line Lot

LOGAN SQUARE&nbsp;&mdash; A huge mural tackling&nbsp;gentrification&nbsp;is coming to a prominent location in Logan Square.

The mural will&nbsp;be on the wall facing the Logan Square Blue Line station&#39;s lot, where buses loop around. It will feature cultural landmarks, as well as neighborhood folks and scenes, that depict the neighborhood&#39;s once-predominant Latino community.

--&nbsp;Via&nbsp;Mina Bloom,&nbsp;DNAinfo

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<h2>3Arts awards grants to more than 90 Chicago artists</h2>

More than 90 Chicago artists will receive grants Monday at the 10th annual 3Arts Awards, a yearly celebration held by the Chicago-based nonprofit organization that advocates for artists of color, artists with disabilities and women in the arts.

This year&rsquo;s unusually large group of awardees is a result of the new peer-to-peer &ldquo;Make a Wave&rdquo; giving initiative, which allowed 83 former 3Arts recipients to select 83 winners of $1000 grants.

-- Via Morgan Greene, Chicago Tribune

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<h2>Wave of Cyber Crime Hits Art World</h2>

Hauser &amp; Wirth, London-based dealers Simon Lee, Thomas Dane, Rosenfeld Porcini, and Laura Bartlett, and Tony Karman, the president of Expo Chicago, have all been targeted by hackers or had money stolen from them in the midst of transactions over artworks, according to a report in the&nbsp;Art Newspaper. The most common form of fraud so far consists of criminals hacking into an art dealer&rsquo;s e-mail account and monitoring incoming and outgoing correspondence.

-- Via Artforum

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<h2>Buyer Beware: Looted Antiquities Flood Online Sites Like Amazon, Facebook</h2>

Earlier this year, Stephennie Mulder was in her office at the University of Texas at Austin when she received a Facebook message from Yemen with pictures of gold coins and an ancient tomb.

&ldquo;I found the treasure in my towns,&rdquo; read the message from Ahmed Bakil Al Marhabi, who was a stranger to Ms. Mulder.

--&nbsp;Via&nbsp;Georgi Kantchev, The Wall Street Journal

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<h2>Lord Mayor of London returns Nazi-looted Dutch Old Master</h2>

The Lord Mayor of London is today (6 November) returning a Dutch Old Master that was looted from the Netherlands during the Second World War and has been on display at Mansion House, his official residence, for nearly 30 years.

The Oyster Meal by Jacob Ochtervelt (around 1664-65) was one of 14 paintings that J.H. Smidt van Gelder, the director of the children&rsquo;s hospital in Arnhem, stored in a bank vault for safekeeping during the Second World War.

The paintings were looted in January 1945, when the Nazis plundered the town after British troops were forced to retreat in the Battle of Arnhem. The Oyster Meal is one of six works the family were not able to track down after the war, despite extensive searches. It is to be handed over to Smidt van Gelder&rsquo;s 96-year-old daughter, Charlotte Bischoff van Heemskerck, at a ceremony at Mansion House today.

-- Via Catherine Hickley, The Art Newspaper

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News from Around the Art World: November 6, 2017

By GINNY VAN ALYEA&nbsp;

Friday, November 3 will be a big opening night around the city, as many galleries open major shows that will be their final exhibitions of 2017. &nbsp;The busy night also coincides with the 24th edition of SOFA, which will be taking place on Navy Pier all weekend. Following the end of the fair&#39;s show on Friday, art lovers are encouraged to go out into the city&#39;s dozens of art spaces to see what is new in area galleries. Free shuttles take people between SOFA, the MCA and River North, but openings are happening in multiple neighborhoods. Some hightlights are listed below, and our full calendar may be viewed <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar">here</a>. Note that there are several tours and artist talks also happening on Saturday, November 4.&nbsp;

See you in the galleries!&nbsp;

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<h3>Traduttore, Traditore</h3>

On view at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/traduttore-traditore">Gallery 400</a> through December 16

Artists:&nbsp;Bani Abidi, Arturo Hern&aacute;ndez Alc&aacute;zar, Carlos Arias, Luis Camnitzer, Alejandro Cesarco, Bethany Collins, Brendan Fernandes, Dora Garc&iacute;a, Emily Jacir, Katia Kameli, Harold Mendez, Paulo Nazareth, Sherwin Ovid, Michael Rakowitz, Raqs Media Collective, Emilio Rojas, Thamotharampillai Shanaathanan, Edra Soto,and&nbsp;Stephanie Syjuco

Traduttore, Traditore&nbsp;brings together a group of artists from around the world who employ processes of translation to expose, question, and challenge global circuits of economic and cultural capital.

<img alt="" data-caption="Traduttore, Traditore at Gallery 400 showing works by Michael Rakowitz" data-rich-file-id="2454" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2454/original/400.jpg" />

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<h3>John Kiley and Dante Marioni&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;Collaborations, and John Kuhn &ndash; Astral</h3>

A unique collaboration between two masters, plus new work by a renowned glass artist.&nbsp;Exhibitions run&nbsp;through&nbsp;December 23 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/john-kiley-dante-marioni-collaborations-jon-kuhn-astral">Ken Saunders Gallery</a>

<img alt="" data-caption="John Kiley and Dante Marioni at Ken Saunders" data-rich-file-id="2461" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2461/original/saunders.jpg" />

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<h3>Unison &amp; social distortion</h3>

Exhibition on view&nbsp;through&nbsp;November 23 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/unison-social-distortion">Chicago Artists Coalition</a> (CAC) in the West Loop.

The Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to presents Unison, a BOLT Residency exhibition featuring a&nbsp;new series of sculptural photographic work by&nbsp;Mayumi Lake. Unison, features the artist&#39;s&nbsp;interpretation of the mythic heavenly flowers or Housouge,&nbsp;bright and bold mythical flowers, believed to bloom through the afterlife.&nbsp;

CAC also presents social distortion, a HATCH Projects exhibition featuring new works by&nbsp;Rebecca Himelstein&nbsp;and&nbsp;Joseph Wilcox.&nbsp;The work presented&nbsp;considers data, systems of comprehension and context as one. Two artists inspired by theories, respectively manifest interpretations of their studies.

<img alt="" data-caption="Mayumi Lake at CAC" data-rich-file-id="2456" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2456/original/cac.jpg" />

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<h3>Leeah Joo: Knots and Loose Ends</h3>

Exhibition on view through&nbsp;December 16 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/leeah-joo-knots-and-loose-ends">Andrew Bae Gallery</a>

Kurosawa&rsquo;s film&nbsp;Dreams&nbsp;has a scene where a beautiful snow spirit drapes a fallen hiker with layer upon layer of shimmering fabric.&nbsp;Despite their warmth, these blankets of snow, and&nbsp;fatigue and slumber must be shaken off for the hiker to survive. Joo says that her&nbsp;recent paintings explore different connotations of drapery as a subject and she looks to this film as inspiration for many shapes and draped forms in her work.&nbsp;

<img alt="" data-caption="Leeah Joo at Andrew Bae" data-rich-file-id="2455" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2455/original/bae.jpg" />

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<h3>Tanya Agui&ntilde;iga &ndash; Reindigenizing the Self&nbsp;</h3>

On&nbsp;view through December 31

The works featured in Reindigenizing the Self at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/volume-gallery">VOLUME Gallery</a>&nbsp;are the result of Agui&ntilde;iga&rsquo;s own explorations into identity, driven by Latin and Mesoamerican Surrealism. Fully tapping into her Mexican heritage in both material and ideological explorations, Agui&ntilde;iga digs deep and ponders the resulting questions with a nod to Mexican surrealism and the sometimes absurdist explanations of the Popol-Vuh (the Mayan creation myth).

<img alt="" data-caption="Tanya Aguiñiga at VOLUME" data-rich-file-id="2460" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2460/original/volume.jpg" />

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<h3>Vale Craft Gallery &ndash; 25th Anniversary Exhibition</h3>

On view through December 30

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/vale-craft-gallery">Vale Craft Gallery</a> will mark its&nbsp;25th anniversary with a show celebrating gallery artists, and&nbsp;including&nbsp;jewelry, ceramics, glass, fiber, metal, wood and mixed media art by gallery favorites from the past 25 years.

<img alt="" data-caption="Vale Craft Gallery marks 25 Years" data-rich-file-id="2459" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2459/original/vale.jpg" />

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<h3>Neil Goodman - Twists and Turns: New Sculptures</h3>

On view through December 30 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/neil-goodman-twists-and-turns-new-sculptures">Carl Hammer Gallery</a>

This well known sculptor has a show of new work.

<img alt="" data-caption="Neil Goodman at Carl Hammer" data-rich-file-id="2457" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2457/original/hammer.jpg" />

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<h3>Concrete, Paper, and Plastic: 3 artists, 3 works</h3>

<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/concrete-paper-and-plastic-3-artists-3-works">Aron Packer Projects</a> at Chicago Gallery News through December 22

Work by Anthony Adcock, Michael Dinges and&nbsp;Brian Dettmer.&nbsp;

<img alt="" data-caption="Brian Dettmer at Aron Packer" data-rich-file-id="2458" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2458/original/packer.jpg" />

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<h3>Faith Wilding: un-natural Parables&nbsp;</h3>

On view at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/faith-wilding-un-natural-parables">Western Exhibitions</a> until December 22

Aa two-part solo exhibition&nbsp;by pioneering feminist artist Faith Wilding. In Gallery 1, the gallery will present&nbsp;Natural Parables, a body of work last exhibited in 1985; large watercolor/drawing hybrids paired with oil-on-panel paintings shaped like pods. In Gallery 2 will be a new series of mixed-media watercolor paintings,&nbsp;Paraguay: Republica de la Soya, that reflect on the artist&rsquo;s recent on-the-ground research into her birth country&rsquo;s ongoing ecological crises.

<img alt="" data-caption="Faith Wilding at Western Exhibitions" data-rich-file-id="2462" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2462/original/faithwex.jpg" />

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<h3>David Kroll: Bouquets&nbsp;</h3>

On view at&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/david-kroll-bouquets">Zolla/Lieberman</a>&nbsp;until December 21

Kroll&#39;s hyper-realistic paintings are like modern Dutch still lifes that reveal internal memories realized, and they are of private memories trapped, as if in amber, within a time of glowing solitude.

<img alt="" data-caption="David Kroll at Zolla/Lieberman" data-rich-file-id="2463" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2463/original/zlkroll.jpg" />

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Top of page image: Tree of Life, Faith Wilding

A preview of exhibitions opening on November 3, 2017

November 3 Openings Highlights

<h2>Wright-designed cottage on market for first time since 1950s</h2>

A cottage in Glencoe that Frank Lloyd Wright designed as part of what was supposed to become a grand estate came on the market Oct. 13 for the first time in more than 60 years.

The asking price is $1 million for the one-story, three-bedroom house on a third of an acre on Franklin Road.

&quot;We&#39;re looking for an architect or Frank Lloyd Wright enthusiast who will restore this house,&quot; said the listing agent, James Tiernan of Re/Max Center. He is representing it for the relatives of its late owners, Meyer and Doris Rudoff, who bought the house in 1956. &nbsp; &nbsp;--Via&nbsp;Dennis Rodkin,&nbsp;Crain&#39;s Chicago Business

<a href="http://www.chicagobusiness.com/realestate/20171016/CRED0701/171019891/wright-designed-cottage-on-market-in-glencoe">Read More</a>

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<h2>Logan Center emerges as cultural magnet</h2>

In 2001, a report entitled &ldquo;The Future of the Arts at the University of Chicago&rdquo; documented the increased engagement of students, faculty, staff and the community with the arts on campus, and highlighted the need for new facilities to accommodate the growing demand.

&ldquo;The creative and performing arts should play an important role in the intellectual and cultural aspirations of the University,&rdquo;&nbsp;wrote members of UChicago&rsquo;s Arts Study Group. It recommended a site at 60th Street and Drexel Avenue for a new creative and performing arts center for the University. &nbsp; &nbsp;--Via&nbsp;Andrew Bauld, University of Chicago&nbsp;

<a href="http://www.uchicago.edu/features/logan_center_emerges_as_cultural_magnet/">Read More</a>

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<h2><img alt="" data-caption="Los Angeles artist Lindsey Nobel has traded as many as 75 of her abstract paintings for various services and discounts. Photo: Lindsey Nobel" data-rich-file-id="2440" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2440/original/barter.jpg" /></h2>

<h2>How Artists Barter to Pay the Bills</h2>

It&rsquo;s famously hard for artists to pay the bills with income from their work. But some have found a way to do it without having to sell a single piece.

These artists are finding that they can make ends meet by trading their creations for services or items they need, from medical treatments to rent. Meanwhile, the providers of goods and services willing to barter often see it as helping out a struggling acquaintance&mdash;with the promise of a windfall if the artist ends up becoming acclaimed.

But for both parties, there are delicate questions to consider before making any deals. &nbsp; &nbsp;--Via Daniel Grant,&nbsp;The New York Times

<a href="https://www.wsj.com/article_email/how-artists-barter-to-pay-the-bills-1508724240-lMyQjAxMTE3MDI4MzgyNTM1Wj/">Read More</a>

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<h2>New Mural To Be Unveiled In Woodlawn On Nov. 9</h2>

WOODLAWN &mdash; Woodlawn&rsquo;s latest mural will be unveiled Nov. 9 under the Metra tracks on 64th Street.

Arlene Turner-Crawford and Rahmaan &ldquo;Statik&rdquo; Barnes are currently working to finish the mural in time for the unveiling at 3 p.m. Nov. 9 under the viaduct.

The mural depicts artistic and cultural icons like muralists Bill Walker, Siddha Webber and Calvin Jones as well as pilot Bessie Coleman and former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama with their children. &nbsp; &nbsp;--&nbsp;Via Sam Cholke,&nbsp;dna info

<a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20171023/woodlawn/new-mural-arlene-turner-crawford-rahmaan-statik-barnes-64th-street-metra-tracks-viaduct">Read More</a>

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News from Around the Art World: October 23, 2017

<h2>The U.S. Is Withdrawing from UNESCO&mdash;What Happens Now?</h2>

In a short statement that spoke volumes about American engagement with the international community, the United States announced on Thursday that it will withdraw from United Nations cultural organization UNESCO at the end of the year. The Trump administration has justified the withdrawal in part due to what it claims is UNESCO&rsquo;s &ldquo;anti-Israel bias.&rdquo; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Trump&rsquo;s move and followed suit. Cultural policy experts have been left shaking their heads.

What does the withdrawal actually mean for UNESCO? Is the &ldquo;anti-Israel bias&rdquo; the administration&rsquo;s main reason for pulling out? And can the organization survive without the United States?

What does UNESCO do?

--Via Isaac Kaplan, Artsy Editorial

<a href="https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-withdrawing-unesco-now">Read More</a>

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<h2>Basquiat&rsquo;s &lsquo;Red Skull,&rsquo; Sold at Christie&rsquo;s in London for $21.5 M, Will Fund New Charter Schools in New Jersey and Miami</h2>

There was one bit of good news to come out of the last week&rsquo;s auctions in London: the anonymous consignor of Jean-Michel Basquiat&rsquo;s&nbsp;Red Skull&nbsp;(1982), which sold for $21.5 million at&nbsp;Christie&rsquo;s contemporary evening sale Friday night, announced that he or she would donate all the proceeds after taxes to the the New Jersey chapter of the Knowledge Is Power Program, a nonprofit that helps open new public charter schools.

Today, KIPP New Jersey announced how it was planning to spend the funds, which after seller&rsquo;s fees and taxes amount to somewhere between $7 million and $9 million.

--Via&nbsp;Nate Freeman, ARTNEWS

<a href="http://www.artnews.com/2017/10/12/basquiats-red-skull-sold-at-christies-in-london-for-21-5-m-will-fund-new-charter-schools-in-new-jersey-and-miami/">Read More</a>

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<h2>Anish Kapoor, &lsquo;Cloud Gate&rsquo; artist: &lsquo;I call it &ldquo;The Bean,&rdquo;&nbsp;too&rsquo;</h2>

Anish Kapoor, the artist who dreamed up &ldquo;Cloud Gate&rdquo; &mdash; the sculpture phenomenon in Millennium Park better known as &ldquo;The Bean&rdquo; &mdash; hasn&rsquo;t seen his internationally recognized work in person since it was dedicated in 2006.

But he&rsquo;ll get another look Tuesday when he&rsquo;s back in Chicago, flying in from his home in London, to be honored at the Grant Park Music Festival&rsquo;s Advocate for the Arts Awards benefit.

--Via&nbsp;Hedy Weiss,&nbsp;Chicago Sun Times

<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-politics/anish-kapoor-cloud-gate-artist-i-call-it-the-bean-too/">Read More</a>

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<img alt="" data-caption="Untitled by Jess, one of many artist inspired by Blake. IMAGE: COURTESY OF NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY BLOCK MUSEUM OF ART" data-rich-file-id="2412" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2412/original/cg20171004-qa-stephen-eisenman-untitled-jess.jpg" />

Art History Professor Stephen Eisenman on His New William Blake Exhibition

The Northwestern faculty member and curator of&nbsp;William Blake and the Age of Aquariusdiscusses William Blake, 1960s artists, and more.

--Via&nbsp;Christian Belanger,&nbsp;Chicago Magazine

<a href="http://www.chicagomag.com/arts-culture/October-2017/Stephen-Eisenman/">Read Here</a>

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<img alt="" data-caption="Members of the Chicago Public Art Youth Corps work on a mural called &quot;Mother Nature,&quot; the second art piece the group has worked on this summer. (Alyssa Pointer / Chicago Tribune)" data-rich-file-id="2402" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2402/original/50-public.jpg" />

<h2>50 artists and 50 wards: New public art brings new life, reflection to city</h2>

The city of Chicago continues to make good on its declaration that 2017 would be the&nbsp;Year of Public Art. Fifty new murals, paintings, sculptures and other art forms, one for every ward of Chicago, are being rolled out through Nov. 1.

The final installations of 50x50, a public art project announced in June, will come with the help of the Department of Family and Support Services, the&nbsp;CTA, One Summer Chicago, DCASE and the Chicago Park District, along with other businesses and venues.

--Via&nbsp;Erin Ben-Moche,&nbsp;Chicago Tribune

<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-50-x-50-public-art-update-1009-story.html">Read More</a>

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Are those pants or sculpture? Chicago auction house takes couture beyond the runway

One morning last week, a man roughly the size of an NFL linebacker shoved me aside so he could exit a crowded subway car first. As we rode the narrow escalator to the street, his broad, meaty back rising like a wall in front of me, I thought, &ldquo;I bet that wouldn&rsquo;t have happened if I were wearing the pants.&rdquo;

The pants I had in mind were a pair I had seen a fewlesldays before: blood-red trousers designed by Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garcons. One might best describe them as overalls, because they hang from shoulder straps.

--Via&nbsp;Cindy Dampier,&nbsp;Chicago Tribune

<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/style/sc-fashion-1016-pants-or-sculpture-auction-20170927-story.html">Read More</a>

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News from Around the Art World: October 16, 2017

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<h2>Closed Bronzeville school becomes a student art&nbsp;gallery</h2>

It was hard for Irene Robinson not to cry as she walked the halls of the former Anthony Overton Elementary School. Five of Robinson&rsquo;s children attended the school before it was closed by Chicago Public Schools in 2013. Since then, the building has fallen into a state of disrepair. The flooring has been torn up, ceiling tiles are missing and some doors and windows are now boarded up or covered in caution tape, with glass shattered from attempts to enter.

&ldquo;It was so much more than a school,&rdquo; Robinson said through tears. &ldquo;This was a family. Every time I pass by here I feel like this is a gravesite.&rdquo;

&ldquo;Opening Closings&rdquo;&nbsp;is a collaboration between Borderless Studios, DOCOMOMO-US-Chicago and the Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education. For Saturday only, the former Bronzeville school featured student artwork. The exhibit is part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial

--Via&nbsp;Rachel Hinton,&nbsp;Chicago Sun Times

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<h2>After hours program returns to Frank Lloyd Wright&rsquo;s Robie House</h2>

If you missed the last several iterations of After Hours at Robie House, there&rsquo;s going to be four more events this month. Once again, the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust is opening the historic Prairie School home in&nbsp;Hyde Park&nbsp;to the public for drinks and live music. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and completed in 1910, the Prairie style home is a Chicago Landmark, a U.S. National Historic Landmark, and is a home that Wright himself considered to be one of his greatest works.

--Via&nbsp;AJ LaTrace, Curbed Chicago

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<h2>Newly Discovered Copy of Declaration of Independence Will be Auctioned</h2>

On July 9, 1776, the Manhattan printer John Holt gently edited the Declaration of Independence text and then published 500 copies.

Only four of the Holt Broadsides, as the documents came to be called, were&nbsp;known to survive&nbsp;until a few months ago, when a fifth surfaced in a private collection. The authenticated document and related papers, which belong to a descendant of some of early British settlers in eastern Long Island, will be auctioned on Nov. 11 at&nbsp;Blanchard&rsquo;s Auction Service&nbsp;in Potsdam, N.Y.

--Via&nbsp;Eve&nbsp;M. Kahn, The New York Times

<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/arts/design/declaration-of-independence-holt-broadside-auction.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/design&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=design&amp;region=stream&amp;module=stream_unit&amp;version=latest&amp;contentPlacement=8&amp;pgtype=sectionfront&amp;_r=0">Read More</a>

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<h2>Frieze draws up plan to protect art world from Brexit</h2>

Ongoing concerns about the impact of the UK&rsquo;s withdrawal from the European Union (EU) have prompted the organisers of Frieze to draw up a list of recommendations designed to &ldquo;help maintain the best possible conditions&rdquo; for the art world. In an open letter, Victoria Siddall, the director of the Frieze fairs, aired her concerns about the impact of Brexit on galleries that are based in the UK or exhibit at fairs in London. Siddall shared her proposals with the Creative Industries Federation, an arts lobbying organisation, as part of a larger discussion of how the government should respond to the needs of the cultural sector.

Representatives of Frieze have &ldquo;spoken to a range of people working in galleries&rdquo;, Siddall says, and have formulated a plan of action with four recommendations. These include maintaining the current rate of VAT (5%) on works imported into the UK; continuing the free circulation of works between the EU and the UK; and maintaining the temporary admission procedure, which ensures that works imported temporarily for events such as fairs and exhibitions are exempt from import duties and VAT.

--Via&nbsp;Gareth&nbsp;Harris, The Art Newspaper

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<h2>Brazilian Artist Tarsila do Amaral Comes to New York and Chicago</h2>

In Brazil she is famous enough to be called by her first name, Tarsila. In the U.S., where contemporary Brazilian art has an increasing following, the work of Tarsila do Amaral is rarely seen and hardly known. But starting this weekend, the artist, who spent the 1920s giving European modernism a resounding Brazilian makeover, will have her first American solo show at two major American museums.

--Via J.S. Marcus, The Wall Street Journal

<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/brazilian-artist-tarsila-do-amaral-comes-to-new-york-and-chicago-1507314040">Read More</a>

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<h2>Christie&rsquo;s ends London contemporary auctions on a high note&mdash;despite Bacon flop</h2>

In stark contrast to Sotheby&rsquo;s&nbsp;sales&nbsp;the night before, and after an efficient sale of 34 lots at Phillips&rsquo;s 20th Century and Contemporary sale totalling &pound;23.9m hours prior, Christie&rsquo;s proved the depth of the international art market with double-header sales of post-war and contemporary and 20th century Italian works that saw solid results for stalwarts and deep bidding on established names new to the evening sale.

The evening&rsquo;s &pound;131.7m total, while below the presale estimates of &pound;168.4m to &pound;236.3m--which included a major Francis Bacon that failed to sell&mdash;nonetheless approached the standing record of &pound;132m for an October contemporary sale in London, quashing concerns over a flooded field. &ldquo;I think we can be very confident in the market&rdquo;, says the house&rsquo;s head of post-war and contemporary in Europe, Francis Outred.

--Via Sarah&nbsp;P. Hanson, The Art Newspaper

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<h2>David Geffen pledges $150 million for new LACMA building</h2>

reathing fresh life into one of the city&rsquo;s most ambitious cultural projects and making history as the largest gift on record toward the construction of an American museum, David Geffen has pledged $150 million to a new building for the&nbsp;Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Geffen&rsquo;s pledge raises LACMA&rsquo;s fundraising total to $450 million of the $650 million needed to break ground on a modernist&nbsp;Peter Zumthor&nbsp;building, arguably the most anticipated new piece of architecture in L.A. since&nbsp;Frank Gehry&rsquo;s Walt Disney Concert Hall opened in 2003.

--Via Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times

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News from Around the Art World: October 9, 2017

Just as we wind down a bit from the frenzied September start of the fall art season, we look ahead to the City&#39;s next major art fair, SOFA CHICAGO, which takes opens in a few weeks and runs from&nbsp;November 2-5 at Navy Pier.&nbsp;

Critically acclaimed and ever popular with the public, SOFA has been&nbsp;continuously running since 1994.&nbsp;What distinguishes SOFA from other top contemporary art events is its focus on three-dimensional&nbsp;artworks&nbsp;that cross the boundaries of fine art, decorative art and design.&nbsp;Exhibitors from around the country and the world offer&nbsp;contemporary art and design in all media including ceramics, wood, glass, fiber, jewelry, metal, design, painting, photography, and works on paper.

Held annually in the fall in Chicago, SOFA averages&nbsp;80 participating dealers and 35,000 attendees during the fair weekend. Average sales&nbsp;are estimated at $15-20 million per show.

With a strong educational emphasis, SOFA CHICAGO includes an acclaimed lecture series and special exhibits exploring the artworks on view and surveying new trends in the art world. A complete programming lineup may be viewed on <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/art-services/sofa-chicago">SOFA&#39;s</a> website. VIP events tend to fill up in advance.&nbsp;

Some advance artwork images are shown below.

<img alt="" data-caption="John Garrett Santa Rita Shimmer, 2017 Copper, steel, brass, paint, metal leaf, paper, wire and beads 48 x 72 x 4 in. Courtesy of Duane Reed Gallery" data-rich-file-id="2363" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2363/original/8.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Christina Bothwell Angel Landing, 2017 Cast glass, ceramic and oil paint 28 x 31 x 12 in. Courtesy of Habatat Galleries" data-rich-file-id="2359" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2359/original/4.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Jun Kaneko Untitled Head Form, 2015 Ceramic with glass mosaic on stainless steel stand 69 x 24.75 x 20 in. Courtesy of Duane Reed Gallery" data-rich-file-id="2358" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2358/original/2.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Alain Mailland On the Seashore, 2016 Hackberry acrylics colored pencils Courtesy of Kirsten Muenster Projects" data-rich-file-id="2361" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2361/original/6.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Harumi Nakashima A Disclosing Form 1607, 2016 Porcelain 25 x 15.5 x 13 in. Courtesy of Duane Reed Gallery" data-rich-file-id="2357" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2357/original/3.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Marietta Patricia Leis Disturbances in the Field Styrofoam, cardstock, oil and MDF Courtesy of Michael Warren Contemporary" data-rich-file-id="2364" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2364/original/9.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Gina Stick Luminosity Vase Porcelain, celadon glaze, gucai overglaze, 24k roman gold, 22k german gold 17.5 x 7 in. Courtesy of Studio 21 Fine Art" data-rich-file-id="2356" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2356/original/1.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Niloufar Banisadr Iranian Spring, 2017 Print on plexiglass 26 x 39.5 in. Courtesy of 55Bellechasse" data-rich-file-id="2362" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2362/original/7.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Marta Mattsson Brooch Cicada wings, resin, cubic zirkonias, lacquer, glitter and silver Courtesy of Galerie Noel Guyomarc'h" data-rich-file-id="2365" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2365/original/10.jpg" />

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SOFA CHICAGO runs November 2-5, 2017 at Navy Pier in Chicago.&nbsp;

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Top image: &nbsp;Pascal Oudet,&nbsp;Natural Bowl (Group),&nbsp;Lathe turned and sandblasted oak.&nbsp;Courtesy of Kristen Muenster Projects

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SOFA CHICAGO Returns to Navy Pier November 2-5, 2017

CGN's weekly roundup of local, national and international art world news.


News from Around the Art World: September 25, 2017

CGN&#39;s weekly roundup of local, national and international art world news.

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<h3>Chicago Architecture Biennial: 10 things we loved</h3>

Artistic directors, architects, and educators Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee, of L.A.&rsquo;s&nbsp;Johnston Marklee, invited more than 140 participants from around the world to interpret the exhibit&rsquo;s theme, &ldquo;Make New History.&rdquo; Based on the myriad of architectural history, design, and urban planning displays, it appeared to be a wide-ranging prompt. Here are some of the exhibitions and events that stood out during a tour of the main display and many of the&nbsp;off-site exhibitions&nbsp;opening weekend. &nbsp;--Via Patrick Sisson, Curbed Chicago

<a href="https://www.curbed.com/2017/9/18/16317224/chicago-architecture-biennial-2017-must-see">Read More</a>

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<h3><img alt="" data-caption="Courtesy of EXPO CHICAGO" data-rich-file-id="2340" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2340/original/expo-20sold.jpg" /></h3>

<h3>What Sold at EXPO Chicago</h3>

Gupta credited Tony Karman, EXPO Chicago&rsquo;s director since 2011, with helping revitalize the city&rsquo;s art scene. Chicago has, for decades, had some of the world&rsquo;s most prestigious art institutions and a sophisticated group of collectors, but Karman, Gupta noted, has brought everyone together in support of the city&rsquo;s cultural scene&mdash;from Mayor Rahm Emanuel, whose photo and personal note appear in the fair&rsquo;s promotional materials, to the institutions, collectors, universities, and even non-profit organizations from the U.S. and abroad.

&ldquo;He&rsquo;s using [the fair] as this thing that&rsquo;s beyond a trade show,&rdquo; Gupta said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s using it as a catalytic moment to shift the cultural makeup of the city.&rdquo; &nbsp;--Via Anna Louie Sussman, Artsy Editorial

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<h3>Cardboard Art Show At Bridgeport Gallery Seeks Submissions</h3>

BRIDGEPORT &mdash; Think you have the next oil-and-cardboard masterpiece? Now is your chance to submit it for a special, cardboard-only art show happening at Bridgeport&#39;s Co-Prosperity Sphere.

The&nbsp;Art on Cardboard Show&nbsp;is seeking submissions for its 15th annual exhibit in October. Described by organizers as an art show &quot;by the people for the people,&quot; the exhibit features pieces from dozens of artists guided by just one rule &mdash; use cardboard.

Most pieces are art paintings or drawings on cardboard, and artists of varying skill levels are encouraged to submit works to the show. &nbsp; --Via Joe Ward, dna info

<a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170919/bridgeport/cardboard-art-show-gallery-co-prosperity-sphere-lumpen-radio-birdhouse-museum">Read More</a>

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<h3>A visit to the art-filled Lakeview tavern that is Ten Cat</h3>

There are few more pleasant places than a neighborhood saloon on a late afternoon and so it was at the Ten Cat Tavern one day last week.

A couple of men played pool on one of the two ancient and magnificent Brunswick tables that occupy the middle of the long rectangular tavern and walking past them, careful not to bump their cue sticks, you would have passed a jukebox that still contains 45s (an amazing selection of them too), a room with a fireplace and comfortable chairs and a couch before eventually finding a small and peaceful garden dotted with a few tables. &nbsp;--Via Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune

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<h3>It Might Have Been a Masterpiece, but Now It&rsquo;s a Cautionary Tale</h3>

AMSTERDAM &mdash; When the cultural historian and Piet Mondrian biographer L&eacute;on Hanssen visited the Bozar Center for the Arts in Brussels in the spring of 2016, a painting stopped him dead in his tracks.

It looked remarkably similar to an untitled 1923 Mondrian that the Nazis had displayed as an example of &ldquo;degenerate art&rdquo; in a famous 1937 Munich exhibition. It was thought to have been destroyed in the Berlin air raids at the end of World War II. But could this be it? &nbsp; --Via Nina Siegal, New York Times

<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/19/arts/fake-mondrian-stedelijk-bozar.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=arts&amp;region=rank&amp;module=package&amp;version=highlights&amp;contentPlacement=2&amp;pgtype=sectionfront&amp;_r=0">Read More</a>

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<h3>Art Collectors, Pay Your Taxes</h3>

States are cracking down on art collectors who aren&rsquo;t paying taxes owed on their purchases.

States don&rsquo;t release details about investigations into evasion of taxes on art purchases. But according to lawyers representing defendants in such cases, state attorneys general and revenue departments around the country have stepped up their investigations and prosecutions for failure to pay sales and use taxes on art purchases. &nbsp; --Via Daniel Grant, Wall Street Journal

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CGN's weekly roundup of local, national and international art world news, Sept 19-24, 2017

News from Around the Art World: September 19, 2017

By GINNY VAN ALYEA

The sixth edition of EXPO CHICAGO,&nbsp;the International Exposition of Contemporary &amp; Modern Art, opened last night at Navy Pier. The crowds were humming from the earliest opening at 3pm, and the energy continued to build all evening, as art enthusiasts streamed through the doors, eager to see the best of the world&#39;s contemporary art all under a single, massive roof. Many prominent collectors, artists and art world figures&nbsp;were in attendance as expected,&nbsp;giving a boost to the fair and making many connections all evening, ensuring that the fair&#39;s vitality and reputation will continue to grow in years to come.

Overall the art in the show looked very strong, and the enthusiasm and excitement of the crowd overflowed positively all night. The evening concluded with Nick Cave&#39;s&nbsp;remarkable Up Right Chicago&nbsp;performance, which featured dozens of participants, some wore his famous Soundsuits, some helped dress the performers live on stage, and others played music and sang songs. Architect Jeanne Gang&#39;s custom objects, designed to be part of the performance, were irrisistably playful and touchable for all who walked through the atrium on the walk to the Aon Ballroom.&nbsp;

EXPO&#39;s sterling exhibitor list and offering of art, combined with outstanding and dynamic art programming, has made EXPO ART WEEK a cultural centerpiece of Chicago, and its effects will long be felt and remembered.&nbsp;

A few highlights from the show are pictured below, but properly&nbsp;viewing&nbsp;this show will take more than one party-filled evening, as much of the work displayed requires time and attention&nbsp;to truly see&nbsp;and understand. Lucky for us, EXPO added an extra day to the show this year!&nbsp;&ndash;GV

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To read other EXPO 2017 coverage, click <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2017/9/expo-art-week-september-11-17-2017--2">here</a>.

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<img alt="" data-caption="Visitors to Galerie Gmurzynska, New York" data-rich-file-id="2338" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2338/original/img-6493.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Luftwerk's booth with the NRDC" data-rich-file-id="2326" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2326/original/img-3218.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Liat Elbling at Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago" data-rich-file-id="2319" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2319/original/img-3150.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Anna Kunz at McCormick Gallery, Chicago" data-rich-file-id="2336" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2336/original/img-6489.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Eduardo Terrazas at Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City" data-rich-file-id="2318" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2318/original/img-3139.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="The Haas Brothers, Fruit Stripe, hand woven carpet in wool, R &amp; Company, New York" data-rich-file-id="2321" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2321/original/img-3154.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Manish Nai, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, part of IN/SITU" data-rich-file-id="2322" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2322/original/img-3157.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Faheem Majeed, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago (artwork is on cover of fall 2017 CGN!)" data-rich-file-id="2323" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2323/original/img-3169.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="John Seal at Konig Gallerie, Berlin " data-rich-file-id="2325" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2325/original/img-3216.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Faig Ahmed at Sapar Contemporary, Handmade wool carpet" data-rich-file-id="2328" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2328/original/img-3223.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Jean-Francois Razzier, Musee d'Orsay, Waterhouse &amp; Dodd Gallery, London" data-rich-file-id="2327" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2327/original/img-3219.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Luring Augustine's all video booth" data-rich-file-id="2329" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2329/original/img-6475.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Robert Therrien, No Title (drops), stainless steel, at Gagosian Gallery" data-rich-file-id="2330" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2330/original/img-6477.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Wang Du's IN/SITU installation, Psychiatrie et Cardiologie, courtesy Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris" data-rich-file-id="2337" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2337/original/img-6492.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Lucas Simoes at PATRON, Chicago – concrete, glass, plastic and foam installation" data-rich-file-id="2333" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2333/original/img-6488.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Ed Ruscha at Gagosian" data-rich-file-id="2324" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2324/original/img-3214.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Judy Ledgerwood at Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago" data-rich-file-id="2320" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2320/original/img-3146.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Adam Parker Smith at The Hole, New York, resin, fiberglass, preserved mylar, steel" data-rich-file-id="2332" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2332/original/img-6479.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Lara Schnitzers installation, Suffragette City, courtesy Anton Kern Gallery, New York" data-rich-file-id="2335" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2335/original/img-6480.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Nick Cave's Up Right Chicago concluded the evening in the Aon Grand Ballroom" data-rich-file-id="2339" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2339/original/img-6517.jpg" />

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A wrap-up of the 2017 EXPO Chicago's Vernissage opening

EXPO CHICAGO 2017 Vernissage Visual Wrap-Up

By GINNY VAN ALYEA

EXPO Chicago is bringing the global art community to the city this week, and for the fair&#39;s sixth edition, which&nbsp;opens on Wednesday evening, EXPO&nbsp;is introducing a host of new initiatives that specifically address architecture, as the fair coincides with the launch of the second Chicago Architecture Biennial.

One of the most highly anticipated exhibitions happening offsite during the fair is part of a&nbsp;partnership with Palais de Tokyo, a self-proclaimed &quot;dynamic place for the artists of our time,&quot;&nbsp;and &quot;the largest center for contemporary artistic creation in all of Europe, as well as a one-of-a-kind exhibition space and a&nbsp;rebellious wasteland with the air of a Palace, an anti-museum in permanent transformation.&quot;

<img alt="" data-caption="Palais de Tokyo in France" data-rich-file-id="2303" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2303/original/palais-.jpg" />

The&nbsp;exhibition,&nbsp;Singing Stones, curated by Katell Jaffr&egrave;s, brings together 11 emerging artists from both the French and Chicago art scenes&nbsp;as part of the first&nbsp;Hors les Murs (beyond the walls)&nbsp;exhibition in the United States,&nbsp;in partnership with the&nbsp;Institut fran&ccedil;ais and&nbsp;Chicago&#39;s&nbsp;DuSable Museum of African American History.&nbsp;The exhibition has a strong contemporary architecture&nbsp;focus&nbsp;and is also possible in part because of&nbsp;a partnership with Chicago&#39;s Graham Foundation as well as&nbsp;guest designer Andrew Schachman.&nbsp;

This&nbsp;group&nbsp;exhibition, which will coincide with EXPO Art Week (September 13-17, 2017) and the&nbsp;opening of the second Chicago Architecture Biennial&nbsp;(September 16, 2017-January 8, 2018),&nbsp;will be on view&nbsp;at the DuSable Museum&#39;s Roundhouse on the South Side at 56th Street.&nbsp;

Famed Chicago architecture firm Burnham and Root designed the Roundhouse in 1893 as horse stables for the&nbsp;World&rsquo;s Columbian Exposition. Singing Stones&nbsp;begins a return for the Roundhouse to active use, though different of course from its original purpose. Fifty six years ago&nbsp;the DuSable Museum began as a small gallery in the home of Charles and Margaret Burroughs. In 1971, the Museum moved to the original wing of its current facility and then expanded in 1993.&nbsp;In 2005 the DuSable Museum acquired the Roundhouse, and since then they have been fundraising in order to recontruct the structure to its original state. Earlier this month the Museum&nbsp;unveiled a new outdoor event space, a&nbsp;15,000-square-foot plaza&nbsp;next to the Roundhouse, that would be open in time for the Architecture&nbsp;Biennial. Since the space has not been completely restored, it is in a more raw state now, something that curator Jaffr&eacute;s will use to his advantage for the exhibition as he showcases the raw artistic talent of Chicago and France&nbsp;today.&nbsp;

The exhibition partnership program is an extension of the French-American Curatorial Exchange initiated in 2013 with the Cultural Services of French Embassy in the United States. It ties together this year&#39;s focus in Chicago on art and architecture through a global lens.&nbsp;

The DuSable Museum&#39;s mission is to promote understanding and inspire appreciation of the achievements, contributions, and experiences of African Americans through exhibits, programs, and activities that illustrate African and African American history, culture and art.

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<h3>Singing Stones&nbsp;</h3>

Curated by Katell Jaffr&egrave;s (Palais de Tokyo)

September 12-October 29, 2017 
Opening Reception: 8&ndash;11pm |&nbsp;Tuesday, September 12, 2017&nbsp;

The Roundhouse 
740 E&nbsp;56th Pl.,&nbsp;Chicago (60637) 
FREE

Artists: Wilfrid Almendra, Daniel G. Baird, Floating Museum, Dorian&nbsp;Gaudin, Lola Gonz&agrave;lez, Bouchra Khalili, Guillaume Leblon,&nbsp;Florian Pugnaire &amp;&nbsp;David Raffini, Cauleen&nbsp;Smith, Thomas Teurlai,&nbsp;Rapha&euml;l Zarka, and&nbsp;Andrew Schachman

Extended hours during EXPO ART WEEK 
Wednesday, September 13 &mdash; 10:00am&ndash;7:00pm 
Thursday, September 14 &mdash; 10:00am&ndash;7:00pm 
Friday, September 15 &mdash; 10:00am&ndash;7:00pm&nbsp; 
Saturday, September 16 &mdash; 10:00am&ndash;7:00pm 
Sunday, September 17 &mdash; noon&ndash;7:00pm

Exhibition Hours during run of show 
September 18&ndash;October 29 
Mondays Closed 
Tuesday&ndash;Saturday &mdash; 10:00am&ndash;5:00pm 
Sunday &mdash; 12:00&ndash;5:00pm

More information is at <a href="https://www.expochicago.com/programs/palais-de-tokyo-hors-les-murs">expochicago.com</a>

To read CGN&#39;s original article on the partnership announcement, click <a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2017/3/expo-chicago-palais-de-tokyo-announce-new-partnership-with-dusable-museum">here</a>.&nbsp;

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Singing Stones as part of EXPO Chicago and Palais de Tokyo 

Palais de Tokyo at EXPO Chicago

A summary of highlights of EXPO ART WEEK and the 6th edition of EXPO CHICAGO

EXPO Art Week – September 11-17, 2017

<h3>The growth of Chicago&#39;s Super Loop: So much building, so little architecture</h3>

A flock of construction cranes fills the sky. Downtown&#39;s population is soaring. The skyline is changing and so is the texture of city life.

A generation ago, West Madison Street was Chicago&#39;s Skid Row home to winos and flophouses. It is now a chic strip of sushi joints, cycle studios, preschools and a gourmet ice cream shop. But the architectural fare consists of bland apartment high rises that have drawn complaints of monotony. &ndash; Via&nbsp;Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune

<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kamin/ct-chicago-building-boom-kamin-met-0903-20170908-column.html">Read More</a>

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<img alt="" data-caption="Salvador Dali. Photo by Kammerman/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images." data-rich-file-id="2304" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2304/original/dali.jpg" />

<h3>DNA Tests Debunk a Psychic&rsquo;s Claim to Be Dal&iacute;&rsquo;s Daughter, and a Surreal Saga Comes to an End</h3>

A Spanish tarot card reader&rsquo;s quest to be acknowledged as the daughter of Surrealist painter&nbsp;Salvador Dal&iacute;&nbsp;may have come to an anticlimactic end.

The Court of First Instance no. 11, in Madrid, has ruled out&nbsp;Pilar Abel Mart&iacute;nez&rsquo;s claim&nbsp;to be descended from the artist, based on DNA samples from her and from the artist, analyzed by the National Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences.

The artist&rsquo;s body&nbsp;was exhumed in July&nbsp;in&nbsp;a dramatic ceremonyat the Dal&iacute; Theater-Museum, located in his hometown of Figueres, Spain. &ndash; Via Artnet

<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/dna-tests-debunk-psychic-claim-dali-1072697#.Wbarm5za0LM.twitter">Read More</a>

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<img alt="" data-caption="Gallery owner Kavi Gupta with Roger Brown's &quot;Hollywood With the Stars.&quot; Photo by Manuel Martinez " data-rich-file-id="2307" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2307/original/gupta.jpg" />

<h3>On a Mission to Make Roger Brown a Household Name</h3>

The late Imagist Roger Brown is one of the most underappreciated artists to come out of Chicago. Gallery owner Kavi Gupta wants to change that.&nbsp;&ndash; Via Crain&#39;s Chicago (subscription required)

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<img alt="" data-caption="Site Design Group" data-rich-file-id="2309" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2309/original/dusable.jpg" />

<h3>Chicago&rsquo;s DuSable Museum reveals new terrace, timeline for historic Roundhouse</h3>

Late last week, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel helped cut the ribbon on a new outdoor event space at the DuSable Museum of African-American History. Created by local architecture firm Site Design Group, the addition replaces an underused parking lot with new grass, flowers, fencing, and pavers. The&nbsp;$582,000 project&nbsp;is aimed at not only boosting attendance, but also creating a new revenue stream for the museum at 740 E. 56th Place through hosting private events such as weddings and corporate functions. &ndash; Via Curbed Chicago

<a href="https://chicago.curbed.com/2017/9/5/16255038/dusable-museum-historic-roundhouse">Read More...</a>

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<img alt="" data-caption="Courtesy of Getty Images" data-rich-file-id="2306" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2306/original/paris.jpg" />

<h3>Out With the Old, and in With La Biennale Paris</h3>

Global competition has brought some big changes to the latest edition of the venerable art fair&nbsp;La Biennale Paris.

Think of it as an old-school Citro&euml;n with a brand-new engine. &ndash; Via New York Times

<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/10/arts/design/la-biennale-paris-art-fair.html?action=click&amp;contentCollection=arts&amp;region=rank&amp;module=package&amp;version=highlights&amp;contentPlacement=7&amp;pgtype=sectionfront&amp;_r=0">Read More</a>

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<img alt="" data-caption="Courtesy Chicago Architecture Foundation" data-rich-file-id="2308" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2308/original/caf.jpg" />

<h3>Architecture Foundation moving to Wacker on the Chicago River</h3>

After more than 25 years at the Railway Exchange Building, the Chicago Architecture Foundation is moving to a new location in the heart of the city. The new Chicago Architecture Center will be at&nbsp;111 East Wacker Drive, just above the dock for the&nbsp;Chicago Architecture Foundation River Cruise aboard Chicago&rsquo;s First Lady Cruises. It will occupy 20,000 square feet, providing the foundation with expanded space for its growing program and education initiatives. The center will open in summer 2018.&nbsp;&ndash; Via Architecture.org

<a href="http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20170907/NEWS07/170909927/chicago-architecture-foundation-building-new-center">Read More</a>&nbsp;

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Top Image: Courtesy of Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune

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A round-up of news from around the art world for the week of Sept 11, 2017

News from Around the Art World: September 11, 2017

Hot on the heels of the busy September 8 opening of the fall art season, more openings take place on Saturday, September 9 and throughout the week leading up to and through EXPO Chicago. Part II of our September preview gives you the highlights so you can plan ahead.&nbsp;

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<h3>September 9</h3>

&bull;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/ass-grass-or-gas">Ass Grass or Gas</a> at Tiger Strikes Asteroid &ndash; Sparked by an interest in vanning culture, curators Josue Pellot and Robin Dluzen explore the aesthetics of the sub-culture with this exhibition that encompasses wider ideas about taste, the vernacular, and the psychedelic.&nbsp;The opening reception on&nbsp;Saturday September 9&nbsp;will also feature a mini-vanning convention with Chicago-based vanners showing off their vehicles to the public. To read our fall interview with the artists behind TSA click <a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2017/8/tiger-strikes-asteroid-anna-kunz-michelle-wasson-on-artist-run-spaces">here</a>.&nbsp;

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&bull;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/jose-lerma-nunquam-prandium-liberum">Jos&eacute; Lerma: Nunquam Prandium Liberum</a>, the artist&#39;s solo show,&nbsp;opens at Kavi Gupta Gallery. Gerald Williams also opens on the 9th. Both shows are on view&nbsp;at the gallery&#39;s second location at 219 N Elizabeth.&nbsp;

<img alt="" data-caption="José Lerma at Kavi Gupta" data-rich-file-id="2279" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2279/original/lerma.jpg" />

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&bull;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/lilli-carre">Lilli Carr&eacute;</a> opens at Western Exhibitions in a two part show.&nbsp;It&#39;s the artist&#39;s third solo show at the gallery, featuring new ceramic sculptures, animation, and prints. It&#39;s&nbsp;a great reason to visit the gallery group in the 1709 W Chicago Ave. building, as other openings are also happening this evening&nbsp;from 5 to 8pm. Check out some fancy shiny 1980s chairs while you&#39;re at <a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/krueck-sexton-reflections-from-there-to-here">Volume Gallery</a>...

<img alt="" data-caption="Like a Lantern, 2012, Handbound artist book of a portion of the animation frames that compose the film 8 1/2 x 11&quot;, closed 8 1/2 x 20&quot; open edition of 10 " data-rich-file-id="2277" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2277/original/carre.jpg" />

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&bull; James Greco is exhibiting tarp paintings at <a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/james-greco-tarp-paintings">Bert Green Fine Art</a> on South Michigan Ave. across from Millennium Park.&nbsp;The&nbsp;Brooklyn-based painter&#39;s&nbsp;newest works are paintings on unstretched, flat tarps on which he rapidly and intuitively applies color from punctured spray paint cans, in a contemporary iteration of action painting.&nbsp;

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&bull; Chris Silva&#39;s fall show at <a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/linda-warren-projects">Linda Warren Projects</a> takes up two galleries. Open Source is a&nbsp;solo exhibition of new works and installation by the Chicago-based artist, who is showing for the first time at LWP.&nbsp;Silva will present an assortment of 2D collage sculptures and paintings in Gallery Y and a large-scale multi-sensory, multi-media, video animation installation in Gallery X. In LWP&#39;s third gallery space (O)&nbsp;Go Figure is&nbsp;a curated group exhibition of female artists from the gallery&rsquo;s roster:&nbsp;Loretta Bourque, Megan Euker, Lora Fosberg, Paula Henderson, Michiko Itatani, Judith Mullen and Jennifer Presant.

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<h3>September 12</h3>

&bull;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/the-arts-club-of-chicago">The Arts Club of Chicago</a>&nbsp;will have a public opening on Sept 12 to celebrate the centennial of Marcel Duchamp&rsquo;s&nbsp;Fountain, welcoming&nbsp;an exhibition by acclaimed Slovak artist Roman Ondak. Known for a conceptual oeuvre that draws on both participatory and object-based processes, Ondak interrogates the peculiarities of daily life in a post-Soviet and increasingly global context. For The Arts Club, Ondak gathers four sculptural installations that have never been shown in the United States along with an ongoing series of paintings begun in the 1990s, most of which were produced expressly for this exhibition. Taken as an ensemble, this work deploys found materials to reflect on aspects of memory and place&ndash;indicating Ondak&rsquo;s rather ambivalent stance toward the legacy of the readymade.

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<h3>September 14 and 15</h3>

&bull; On Thursday, September 14 <a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/david-hartt-in-the-forest">The Graham Foundation</a> opens&nbsp;David Hartt: in the forest.&nbsp;Borrowing his title from Claude L&eacute;vi-Strauss&rsquo; 1955 memoir&nbsp;Tristes Tropiques,&nbsp;in the forest&nbsp;continues Hartt&rsquo;s investigation into the relationship between ideology, architecture, and the environment. Consisting of a film, a suite of photographs, and a series of sculptures, the installation revisits architect Moshe Safdie&rsquo;s unfinished 1968&nbsp;Habitat&nbsp;Puerto Rico&nbsp;project through a contemporary lens.

<img alt="" data-caption="David Hartt, &quot;Carolina I,&quot; 2017, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, print size 36 x 54 inches. Courtesy of Corbett vs. Dempsey and commissioned by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts." data-rich-file-id="2276" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2276/original/hartt.jpg" />

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&bull;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/richard-gray-gallery-gray-warehouse">Gray Warehouse, Richard Gray Gallery&#39;s</a> west side location that opened this past April with a show of Jim Dine&#39;s paintings, presents new work by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa.&nbsp;At Gray Warehouse,&nbsp;Secret Garden&nbsp;presents recent sculptures in wood, stainless steel, and bronze in conjunction with a new suite of drawings. The exhibition continues at Richard Gray Gallery&rsquo;s John Hancock Center space with a portrait series carved in alabaster, as well as a second exhibition of historical works titled One Thought Fills Immensity. Featuring works from 1989 to 2002,&nbsp;One Thought Fills Immensity&nbsp;offers a deeper view into the artist&rsquo;s prolific career. The two exhibitions open with a public reception for the artist at Gray Warehouse on Thursday, September 14 from 6-8 pm.&nbsp;An exhibition walk-through and Q&amp;A with Jaume Plensa and curator Brooke Kamin Rapaport will take place at&nbsp;Gray Warehouse on Friday, September 15 at 10:30am.

<img alt="" data-caption="Jaume Plensa (b. 1955) Isabella, 2016 Stainless steel" data-rich-file-id="2281" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2281/original/plensa2.jpg" />

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&bull; Part of <a href="http://www.expochicago.com/programs/expo-art-week">EXPO </a><a href="https://www.expochicago.com/programs/expo-art-week">Art Week</a>, Art After Hours&nbsp;is a citywide open gallery night inviting EXPO CHICAGO visitors and the Chicago community to experience the city&#39;s vibrant art scene, including alternative exhibition venues and performance spaces,&nbsp;during extended hours on&nbsp;Friday,&nbsp;September 15,&nbsp;6:00&ndash;9:00pm. The list of participating galleries and related exhibitions is <a href="https://www.expochicago.com/programs/expo-art-week/art-after-hours">here</a>.

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&bull;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/glenn-kaino-sign">Glenn Kaino&#39;s</a> second solo exhibition at Kavi Gupta Gallery,&nbsp;Sign,&nbsp;opens&nbsp;on Friday, September 15 from 5-8pm at the gallery&#39;s 835 W. Washington location.

<img alt="" data-caption="Glenn Kaino, In Search of New Systems (Celestial..., 2016. Wood, plexiglass, plastic, wire, metal, 6’ diameter x 6”" data-rich-file-id="2283" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2283/original/kaino.jpg" />

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&bull;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/patron">PATRON Gallery</a> features work by gallery artist&nbsp;Nick van Woert on Friday, September 15

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&bull; <a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/carrie-secrist-gallery">Carrie Secrist Gallery</a> opens their new season with a show of Anne Lindberg&#39;s work on September 15. walking as I stand, features six new monumental drawings that embody the seamless relationship between the pace of Lindberg&#39;s step and the evolution of the drawing. Citing a long tradition ranging from Henri Rousseau to William Wordsworth, Robert Walser and Immanuel Kant, the work in this exhibition&nbsp;expounds&nbsp;the relationship of deep thinking and composing with time spent walking. As thousands of lines are pulled across a pliant mat board while walking, an under-layer of graphite builds a matrix into which color is overlaid and embedded. Lindberg&rsquo;s work has a highly atmospheric inclination towards the rhythmic layers of luminous colors. To read CGN&#39;s interview with Secrist for the gallery&#39;s 25th anniversary, click <a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2017/8/carrie-secrist-turns-25-chicago-gallerist-makes-the-old-school-new-again">here</a>.

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There is a LOT of great art to see, and there&nbsp;are just a few&nbsp;highlights&nbsp;around the city. View the entire&nbsp;<a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar?what-type-of-event">calendar here</a>.&nbsp;

To read&nbsp;Part I&nbsp;of our Fall Preview. featuring shows opening September 8, <a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2017/8/fall-preview-part-i-september-8-openings-annual-river-north-design-district-art-walk">click here</a>.

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Top image: EXPO Chicago&#39;s Vernissage opening night party takes place Wednesday, September 13

A second summary of opening highlights in Chicago art 

Fall Preview Part II: September 9, 14 + 15 Openings + EXPO Art Week

<h2>As Harvey Hits Texas, Art Museums Shutter</h2>

&quot;On Friday morning, as Hurricane Harvey approached the Gulf Coast of Texas, museums in the region closed, saying that they would keep their doors closed for the weekend... Among the institutions that closed early or completely on Friday were the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the Galveston Arts Center, the Menil Collection in Houston, the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, the Art Museum of Southeast Texas in Beaumont, and the Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi, which is near where Harvey made landfall on Friday evening.&quot; &nbsp; -ARTnews

This post <a href="http://www.artnews.com/2017/08/27/as-harvey-hits-texas-museums-shutter-082717/">(Via ARTnews)</a> is being continuously updated with details about Harvey&rsquo;s effects on Texas&rsquo;s art community.

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<h2>Here&rsquo;s the latest site plan for the Obama Presidential Center</h2>

The Obama Foundation has just released the most detailed look at its plan for Jackson Park yet. An aerial illustration depicting the Obama Presidential Center has been sent along with a formal announcement regarding the&nbsp;planned parking garage&nbsp;for the new South Side campus. The new site map is a refinement to the original which was&nbsp;unveiled&nbsp;in May. &nbsp;-Curbed

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<h2>Ettore Sottsass:&nbsp;The Met Breuer looks back at the colorful work of the late postmodern designer.</h2>

&quot;Serious fun. That&rsquo;s what the disruptive design genius Ettore Sottsass was up to with his furniture, ceramics, buildings, glassware, textiles, jewelry, and photographs&mdash;in other words, with his life, which ended on New Year&rsquo;s Eve in 2007, at the age of ninety. For all the sensuous whimsy and nose-thumbing irreverence of his best-known work&mdash;the lipstick-red plastic&nbsp;Valentine&nbsp;typewriter for Olivetti, from 1968; the more-is-more pile on of color and form of the&nbsp;&ldquo;Carlton&rdquo; Room Divider, from 1981&mdash;Sottsass was at heart a philosopher, with a deep faith in the power of objects. As he told Charlie Rose in 2004, &ldquo;If you have good design, you will have a better society.&rdquo;&quot; &nbsp;-4Columns

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<h2>Four Uncompromising Finnish Women Artists</h2>

&quot;The story of the Finnish modernist painter Helene Schjerfbeck is a fascinating one, which was first told in America in 1992, 25 years ago, when she was the subject of an exhibition at the National Academy of Design. Writing for&nbsp;The New York Times&nbsp;(November 27, 1992), Roberta Smith characterized the exhibition of this neglected artist as &ldquo;revelatory [and] bittersweet.&rdquo; Smith&rsquo;s observation still holds true, perhaps even more so, in the exhibition&nbsp;Independent Visions: Helene Schjerfbeck and Her Contemporaries&nbsp;at Scandinavia House (April 29 &ndash; October 7, 2017), which fleshes out a story of independence and perseverance that keeps needing to be told, if only to remind us how complicated and chaotic history is.&quot; &nbsp; -Hyperallergic

<a href="https://hyperallergic.com/397644/independent-visions-helene-schjerfbeck-and-her-contemporaries-scandinavia-house-2017/">Read More...</a>

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<h2>STEINBERG: &lsquo;Wall of Respect&rsquo; less remembered but more&nbsp;significant</h2>

&quot;The Wall is important, not as enduring artwork &mdash; the building burned in 1971, the murals are gone &mdash; but as a statement that people who are routinely ignored can still manifest themselves, at least in their own neighborhood. The Wall was influential; hundreds of similar displays of pride went up in cities across the country.&quot; &nbsp; -Sun Times

<a href="http://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/steinberg-wall-of-respect-less-remembered-but-more-significant/">Read More...</a>

Top Image: A satellite view of Harvey as it neared Texas on Thursday. COURTESY NASA

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The CGN weekly roundup of local, national and international art world news.

News from Around the Art World: August 28, 2017

CGN&#39;s weekly roundup of local, national and international art world news.

<h2>We Need to Move, Not Destroy, Confederate Monuments</h2>

&quot;The art historian in a critic wants to preserve Confederate images in&nbsp;museums, not trash them. At a crime scene, you don&rsquo;t destroy evidence.&quot; -New York Times

<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/20/arts/design/we-need-to-move-not-destroy-confederate-monuments.html?referer=">Read More...</a>

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<h2>Not To Be&nbsp;Sniffed at: Long-Lost Banksy Artwork Is Rediscovered</h2>

&ldquo;A Banksy painting that appeared on a public toilet block in east London, only to disappear after it was vandalised, spray-jetted by the local council and then painted over, has been rediscovered over a decade later.&rdquo;

-The Guardian

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/aug/18/banksys-snorting-copper-east-london">Read More...</a>

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<h2>Singapore Art Museum Names June Yap as New Curatorial Director</h2>

&ldquo;June Yap has been named the new curatorial, programs, and publications director for the Singapore Art Museum, according to the Chinese newspaper Today. Yap was a curator of new-media exhibitions at the museum in 2003 and 2004, and she has remained involved since as a member of the institution&rsquo;s acquisitions committee as well as the Singapore Biennale 2016 Advisory Committee. From 2012 to 2014, she also served in a two-year curatorial residency at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.&rdquo; -ARTnews

<a href="http://www.artnews.com/2017/08/22/june-yap-joins-singapore-art-museum-as-new-curatorial-director/">Read More...</a>

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<h2>That Norman Rockwell Poster on the Wall? It&rsquo;s Actually a $300,000 Original, One Family Discovered</h2>

&ldquo;A long-lost work by&nbsp;Norman Rockwell&nbsp;has been discovered by&nbsp;Heritage Auctions&nbsp;Texas. The owners, who mistakenly identified the piece as&nbsp;a signed print, presented it to Heritage auctions experts to assess its value. However, after careful inspection,&nbsp;the work, showing three umpires standing in the rain during a baseball game,&nbsp;is actually an oil-on-paper study for the final piece&nbsp;titled&nbsp;Tough Call. Its value is estimated at $300,000, but based on past auction results, it could go for considerably more.&rdquo; -artnet News

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<h2>Who is Really Making &ldquo;Chihuly&rdquo; Art?</h2>

&ldquo;More than 40 years later, Jeffrey Beers still vividly remembers what it felt like to have Dale Chihuly call up to convene a pre-dawn glassblowing session. You felt flattered and inspired, he said, jazzed by Mr. Chihuly&rsquo;s caffeinated freight train of energy and the idea of making art with him while most of the world slept in.&rdquo; -New York Times

<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/arts/design/chihuly-glass-bipolar-court-moi.html">Read More...</a>&nbsp;

Read the August 14, 2017&nbsp;roundup&nbsp;<a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2017/8/news-from-around-the-art-world-august-14-2017">here</a>.

Photo: Julia Rendleman/Associated Press

CGN's weekly roundup of local, national and international art world news.

News from Around the Art World: August 22, 2017

It&#39;s been a&nbsp;big year&nbsp;for Chicago&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/institutions/museum-of-contemporary-art-chicago-mca">Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA)</a>. Coinciding&nbsp;with their 50th Year Celebration, MCA has&nbsp;hosted a slew of special exhibitions and events, ranging from their show devoted to Takashi Murakami, famed Japanese artist that specializes in anime inspired works, to soothing jazz music and drinks in the garden.

Although the&nbsp;year is halfway done,&nbsp;MCA continues&nbsp;their celebrations. Following suit of hosting&nbsp;past talks featuring musicians (Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth), the museum has&nbsp;three new artists invited to each lead a talk; &nbsp;R&amp;B and pop artist Solange Knowles (commonly known as Solange), rapper Vince Staples, and Chicago native&nbsp;Chance the Rapper. All three talks are&nbsp;in partnership&nbsp;with Chicago-based Pitchfork and are highlighted&nbsp;with hopes to be&nbsp;&ldquo;a conversation series exploring new perspectives in music, art, and culture&rdquo;.

Here is a breakdown of the participating speakers, and what to expect&nbsp;from each artist.

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<h2><a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/mca-talk-solange-knowles">Solange</a></h2>

Wednesday, September 13, 6-7pm

Solange Knowles isn&rsquo;t just one of the year&rsquo;s most respected, Grammy winning R&amp;B/ artists&mdash; she&rsquo;s also an activist and&nbsp;experienced speaker. This fall, she will&nbsp;be bringing her speaking capabilities to the MCA. Solange, in conjunction with Chicago writer Britt Julious, will discuss her most recent album A Seat at the Table.

Tickets to see Solange Knowles will be on sale August 23 at noon. To purchase tickets,&nbsp;visit <a href="https://mcachicago.org/Home">mcachicago.org</a>

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<h2><a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/mca-talk-vince-staples">Vince Staples</a></h2>

Friday, October 13, 6-7pm

There is more than meets the eye with Vince Staples, and that&#39;s&nbsp;what his MCA talk is going to be about. Aided by Matthew Schnipper, editing manager of Pitchfork, Staples will discuss his early life growing up in Long Beach, personal identity, and how a&nbsp;rap career has altered both his art and lifestyle.

Tickets to see Vince Staples&nbsp;will be on sale September 6 at noon. To purchase tickets, visit <a href="https://mcachicago.org/Home">mcachicago.org</a>

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<h2><a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/mca-talk-chance-the-rapper">Chance the Rapper</a></h2>

Friday, November 17, 6-7pm

Chance the Rapper has become a household name in Chicago for many reasons&mdash; his loyalty to the city, popular and colorful mixtapes, and&nbsp;philanthropic efforts do not go unnoticed. Paired with Adrienne Samuel Gibbs, a journalist whose work focuses on south side Chicago, the audience can expect to hear from Chance the Rapper about personal&nbsp;ties to the city, his music, and how he is giving&nbsp;back to the&nbsp;community.

Tickets to see Chance the Rapper will be on sale October 11 at noon. To purchase tickets,&nbsp;visit <a href="https://mcachicago.org/Home">mcachicago.org</a>

This fall the MCA hosts Solange, Chance the Rapper and Vince Staples.

Hitting the Right Note: Fall MCA Artist Talks

CGN&#39;s weekly roundup of local, national and international art world news.

<h2>Pope.L to Bottle Contaminated Flint Water and Sell It in Detroit</h2>

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&quot;Pope.L is&nbsp;headed to the What Pipeline gallery in Detroit, where he will do a show that involves selling 1,200 bottles of water from Flint, Michigan, the city of nearly 100,000 people whose water became undrinkable after authorities decided to fill its water system with resources from the Flint River instead of using Detroit&rsquo;s network.&quot;

-ARTnews

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<h2>Gauguin: It&rsquo;s Not Just Genius vs. Monster</h2>

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&ldquo;Prodigy, pathfinder, nonconformist, virtuoso; fabulist, plagiarist, colonialist, pedophile. Are we fated forever to treat Paul Gauguin as an artist trailing a balance sheet behind him, a column of achievements and a column of crimes?&rdquo;

-The New York Times

<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/09/arts/design/gauguin-its-not-just-genius-vs-monster.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign">Read more...</a>

<h2>John McKinnon Appointed Executive Director of Elmhurst Art Museum</h2>

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The Board of Directors of the&nbsp;Elmhurst Art Museum&nbsp;announced John McKinnon as the new Executive Director. McKinnon comes to the Elmhurst Art Museum with over ten years of curatorial and administrative experience at major art institutions.&nbsp;

-ArtDaily

<a href="http://artdaily.com/news/98110/John-McKinnon-announced-as-new-Executive-Director-of-Elmhurst-Art-Museum#.WZHSB3eGMUE">Read more...</a>

<h2>Kentucky Mayor Calls for Review of Public Art Holdings After Charlottesville Rally</h2>

Kentucky&rsquo;s&nbsp;WHAS11&nbsp;reports that, in the wake of violence surrounding a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, the mayor of Louisville is asking state officials to look into his city&rsquo;s inventory of public art and determine which, if any, pieces could be interpreted as honoring bigotry, racism, or slavery.

-Art Forum

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<h2>Tananbaums Endow Curator Position at Block Museum of Art</h2>

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&nbsp;The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University&nbsp;has announced the receipt of a major endowment from Lisa (WCAS &rsquo;86) and Steven Tananbaum in support of its modern and contemporary art program. The $1 million gift will permanently establish the position of the Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.

-Northwestern Now

<a href="https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2017/july/tananbaums-endow-curator-position-at-block-museum-of-art/">Read more...</a>

Read the August 7, 2017&nbsp;roundup <a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2017/8/news-from-around-the-art-world-august-7-2017">here</a>.

Top image:&nbsp;Paul Gauguin.&nbsp;Vision of the Sermon&nbsp;(Jacob Wrestling with the Angel), 1888.&nbsp;Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh.

News From Around the Art World: August 14, 2017

CGN&#39;s weekly roundup of local, national and international art world news.

<h2>Graham Foundation Awards over $400,000 in Grants to&nbsp;Organizations</h2>

<img alt="" data-caption="Image: helloeverything/SelgasCano, Kibera Hamlets School, 2016, Nairobi, Kenya. Courtesy of the architects. From the 2017 organizational grant to New York Foundation for Architecture-Center for Architecture for &lt;i&gt;Scaffolding&lt;/i&gt;" data-rich-file-id="2221" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/2221/original/9bb4988f-1301-4053-aecd-d7dd47a1bfb0.jpg" />

&quot;As part of its annual Grants to Organizations program, the <a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/galleries/graham-foundation-for-advanced-studies-in-the-fine-arts">Graham Foundation</a> has awarded over $400,000 to support architectural projects around the world. Grants went to 41 projects ranging from exhibitions and publications to events and research projects.

Winners were chosen from more than 220 submissions from museums, educational institutions, architectural organizations, and architectural festivals. In the past 61 years, the Graham Foundation has awarded more than 4,300 grants.&quot; -The Architect&#39;s Newspaper

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<h2>Walker Art Center&rsquo;s Deputy Director Steps Down</h2>

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&quot;David Galligan, the veteran arts administrator who served as the Walker&#39;s chief operating officer from 1996 to 2002, then&nbsp;returned&nbsp;in 2013&nbsp;to help lead the effort to develop a new Walker campus and renovate the&nbsp;Minneapolis Sculpture Garden renovation, is stepping down as deputy director and COO to become a consultant.&quot; -Star Tribune

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<h2>N.E.H., Once Targeted by Trump, Announces $39.3 Million in New Grants</h2>

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&quot;A literacy program on American military bases, an effort to revitalize Native American languages, a four-part TV documentary about the Atlantic slave trade and several large-scale projects relating to America&rsquo;s founding period are among the 245 recipients of new grants from the&nbsp;National Endowment for the Humanities across the country.&quot; -The New York Times

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<h2>Following the Floating Museum: When and Where to Expect It</h2>

&quot;There are a few sights that a Chicagoan expects to see on the river&mdash;friends celebrating the weekend on yachts, people hustling to numerous restaurants on the river bank&nbsp;or the occasional architectural boat tour brimming with eager tourists. However, for the next month, city dwellers should keep their eye out for something a&nbsp;bit more uncommon: The Floating Museum.&quot; -Chicago Gallery News

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<h2>Coming to Dana Schutz&rsquo;s Defense, Cindy Sherman and Other Artists Pen an Open Letter to Her Critics</h2>

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&quot;Prominent members of the National Academy, including&nbsp;Kara Walker,&nbsp;Marina Abramovic,&nbsp;Ed Ruscha, Jack Whitten, and&nbsp;Cindy Sherman, are coming to the defense of the artist&nbsp;Dana Schutz&nbsp;and the ICA Boston.

In an open letter distributed by email on Thursday evening, the signatories voiced their support of &#39;cultural institutions like the ICA Boston who refuse to bow to forces in favor of censorship or quelling dialogue.&#39;&quot; -Artnet

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Read the July 26, 2017 roundup <a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2017/7/news-from-around-the-art-world-july-31-2017">here</a>.

Top image:&nbsp;Gwyneth Shanks,&nbsp;From Above Looking Down, 2017, Los Angeles. Courtesy the artist. From the Graham Foundation&#39;s organizational grant to Materials &amp; Applications for &quot;Privacies Infrastructure&quot;

News from Around the Art World: August 7, 2017

CGN&#39;s weekly roundup of local, national and international art world news.

<h2>Chicago Planning Big&nbsp;Celebration for the Daley Center Picasso&rsquo;s 50th birthday</h2>

&ldquo;On August 8, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and hundreds of Chicago residents will convene at Daley Plaza to celebrate the 50th birthday of the city&rsquo;s famous Picasso sculpture. Dubbed &lsquo;Everyone&rsquo;s Picasso,&rsquo; the event is organized by the city&rsquo;s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events and will feature performances by the Chicago Children&#39;s Choir and the After School Matters Orchestra.&rdquo; -Curbed Chicago

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<h2>Sheikh Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi Joins Board of Trustees at the MCA Chicago</h2>

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&ldquo;The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago has added Sheikh Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi to its board of trustees. His addition to the board was announced on the same day that the museum official launched the Global Vision Initiative, which the MCA first began as a pilot program in 2016.&rdquo; -ARTnews

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<h2>EXPO CHICAGO Announces Artists for In/Situ Sector</h2>

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&ldquo;EXPO CHICAGO has revealed the artists who will participate in the In/Situ sector of the fair&rsquo;s upcoming edition, which will open in the Windy City on September 13. Organized by Florence Derieux, who was formerly a curator of American art at the Centre Pompidou Foundation, this year&rsquo;s In/Situ sector&mdash;the fair&rsquo;s annual showcase for monumental artworks&mdash;will be titled Chronopolitics.&rdquo; -ARTnews

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<h2>Philippe de Montebello, Former Director of the Metropolitan Museum, Joins Acquavella Galleries</h2>

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&ldquo;Acquavella Galleries has brought on an unlikely new director: Philippe de Montebello, the longest-serving former head of New York&rsquo;s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The art historian&rsquo;s hire, announced today, is effective immediately.&rdquo; -Artnet

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<h2>Ancient Vase Seized From Met Museum on Suspicion It Was Looted</h2>

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&ldquo;For decades it was proudly displayed in the Greco-Roman galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a 2,300-year-old, vividly painted vase that depicts Dionysus, god of the grape harvest, riding in a cart pulled by a satyr.

Today it sits in an evidence room at the district attorney&rsquo;s office in Manhattan after prosecutors quietly seized the antiquity last week based on evidence that it had been looted by tomb raiders in Italy in the 1970s.&rdquo; -New York Times

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Read the July 24, 2017 roundup&nbsp;<a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2017/7/news-from-around-the-art-world-july-24-2017">here</a>.

Top image: Chicago Picasso sculpture in Daley Plaza. Courtesy of&nbsp;Franck Mercurio