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Art Institute Required To Increase Free Days: Alderman

AP | Posted 05.29.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO (AP) -- A member of the Chicago City Council is attempting to use a 118-year-old contract to increase the number of free admission days at the...

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Field Museum Endowment Rocked By Market

Chicago Sun-Times | Andrew Herrmann and Dave Newbart | Posted 02.07.2009 | Chicago

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The tanking stock market has hit the Field Museum's endowment, which has dropped about $95 million -- 30 percent -- leading to salary cuts, layoffs an...

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Forget Jeff Koons: Try a Pomegranate...

Victoria Lautman | Posted 09.21.2008 | Chicago

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Victoria Lautman

Here is an installation that bravely and wildly exposes the creative process, throws it in front of your face, in all its messy, hand-made, stream-of-consciousness glory. It's literally like peering into the mind of an artist, and in this case an extremely talented, witty, thoughtful one.

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