Visual Arts
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Sunday picks: Bret Michaels, hair rockers play ElginJun 22, 2014 5:00 am - Vintage metal: Bret Michaels of the 1980s hair-metal band Poison will be joined by some key contemporaries at the Hair Band Heavyweights show at Grand Victoria Casin...
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Fashion museum exhibit looks closely at lingerieJun 21, 2014 5:45 am - NEW YORK - From a 1770 corset to a 2014 bra-and-panty set in lacy stretch silk, the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology has put the focus on lingerie and ladie...
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Weekend picks: Jim Gill gets silly in NapervilleJun 21, 2014 5:00 am - Jim Gill jams: It's time to get silly! Award-winning musician Jim Gill presents a family concert with interactive dancing, singing and a silly dance contest at Washi...
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Detroit-area museum shows off Warhol record coversJun 20, 2014 5:30 am - BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. — The banana. The zipper. Along with his Marilyn Monroe portrait and the Campbell Soup cans, Andy Warhol's album covers have their own place in t...
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Waukegan ArtWauk event:Jun 18, 2014 1:01 am - "Colorful Communications," an art show by Kim Rahal, will open Saturday June 21, at Dandelion Gallery, 109 S. Genesee St., Waukegan. The opening reception, from 5 to 9 p...
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Devo explores its earliest sounds at St. Charles' Arcada showJun 17, 2014 5:30 am - Let's travel back in time for a moment — to Akron, Ohio, circa 1975. The country was reeling, scarred by more than a decade of social protest, violence both at home and ...
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Waukegan ArtWauk:Jun 17, 2014 1:01 am - "Colorful Communications," an art show by Kim Rahal, will open Saturday June 21, at Dandelion Gallery, 109 S. Genesee St., Waukegan. The opening reception, from 5 to 9 p...
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Rare stamp could set record at NYC auctionJun 17, 2014 1:00 am - NEW YORK — A 1-cent postage stamp from a 19th century British colony in South America is poised to become the world's most valuable stamp — again. The 1856 British Guian...
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Infrared image reveals hidden man in Picasso paintingJun 17, 2014 1:00 am - WASHINGTON — Scientists and art experts finally know what's beneath one of Pablo Picasso's first masterpieces, “The Blue Room,” using advances in infrared imagery to rev...
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Weekend picks: Bruno Mars plays the suburbs FridayJun 16, 2014 11:00 pm - FRIDAY Patchy arts: Die-hard stitchers and quilters won't want to miss the International Quilt Festival Chicago 2014, which continues this weekend at the Donald...