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Chicago's Olympic Bid: What's In It for the Arts?new
Why are the city's nonprofit cultural institutions lining up behind a bid that looks dicey enough to send almost half the sports-besotted Chicago public running the other way?
Chicago Reader |
Deanna Isaacs |
09-14-2009 |
Sports
A New Crop of Scrappy Troupes is Making Opera Accessible in Chicagonew
Chicago has a new crop of stereotype-busting little opera groups playing at bargain prices in intimate venues -- including the neighborhood pub. Faced with the traditional opera world's shrinking ticket sales, dying audiences, and dearth of opportunity, these artist-entrepreneurs are looking to crack that world open and cozy up to the masses.
Chicago Reader |
Deanna Isaacs |
07-27-2009 |
Theater
Crowd-Sourced Graphic Design Has the Profession on Edgenew
Widely perceived as the wave of the future, Crowdspring has also been characterized as the design Antichrist, a force that will destroy the profession.
Chicago Reader |
Deanna Isaacs |
02-23-2009 |
Art
It’s Good to Be the King’s Election Lawyernew
Chicago attorney Michael Dorf has thrown his hat in the ring for the job of head honcho at the National Endowment for the Arts. Here are his killer qualifications: from the time Barack Obama began his run against Bobby Rush for Congress in 1999 through Obama’s election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Dorf was his election lawyer.
Chicago Reader |
Deanna Isaacs |
01-26-2009 |
Art
Stanley Tigerman Talks About His Design for the Illinois Holocaust Museumnew
He says the project really hasn't changed since he interviewed for the commission. He took "a little free-hand sketch" to that interview, he said, and "I've built the sketch. Developed dramatically, modified somewhat, but not in any way that is detrimental. I'd been waiting to do this building all my life."
Chicago Reader |
Deanna Isaacs |
11-24-2008 |
Art
Sonic Boom: Why Theater is Getting Loudernew
The basic problem with sound, engineer Nick Keenan maintains, is that everyone hears it differently, and no one really knows how to talk about it.
Chicago Reader |
Deanna Isaacs |
11-10-2008 |
Theater
Can You Copyright Stage Direction?new
Lawsuits over Urinetown haven't helped decide the matter.
Chicago Reader |
Deanna Isaacs |
08-26-2008 |
Theater
Gay Activists Fight James Dobson's Induction into National Radio Hall of Famenew
Truth Wins Out founder Wayne Besen states that while his group could have lived with a win by, say, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Dobson's agenda -- which includes curing homosexuality and lobbying against same-sex marriage -- makes Focus on the Family's election intolerable.
Chicago Reader |
Deanna Isaacs |
08-04-2008 |
Media
Chicago Makes it Easier to Panhandle than to Sell Art on Downtown Streetsnew
Unless you're at one of those cookie-cutter annual art fairs, you're not likely to encounter artists selling their work on the street here at all. If you do, you'll probably also see a cop rapidly approaching. Street sales are illegal downtown and -- at the discretion of the local alderman -- in other areas as well.
Chicago Reader |
Deanna Isaacs |
07-28-2008 |
Art
How to Make Money on the Internetnew
With the economy in a free fall and jobs disappearing faster than the bubbles in a Red Bull, it was a relief to drop in on the third Seed Conference and get a jolt of high-energy confidence about the future.
Chicago Reader |
Deanna Isaacs |
06-24-2008 |
Tech
Art Therapynew
Now that he's sober, Bill Current runs a gallery for artists recovering from addiction.
Chicago Reader |
Deanna Isaacs |
03-10-2008 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Chasing the Bloggienew
Fausto Fernos has the world's most popular gay podcast, but the top blog title slipped away.
Chicago Reader |
Deanna Isaacs |
01-07-2008 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Is the Chicago Art Institute Renting Out its Treasures?new
The recent announcement that the museum will pack up 92 impressionist works -- the core of its flagship collection -- and send them off for an extended sojourn in Texas next year arrived like a stealth bomb.
Chicago Reader |
Deanna Isaacs |
11-19-2007 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Second Rate? Or Second City Syndrome?new
Local artists and musicians wonder why Chicago is barely represented in the Museum of Contemporary Art's big show about art and rock.
Chicago Reader |
Deanna Isaacs |
10-15-2007 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
In Art, Is Public Better?new
A report from the University of Chicago concludes that the city's public art program could be better off private.
Chicago Reader |
Deanna Isaacs |
08-13-2007 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
