Visual Arts
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How COD's McAninch Arts Center landed and remade a major Frida Kahlo exhibitionMay 22, 2021 1:00 am - A blockbuster Frida Kahlo art exhibition opens next month in the last place you'd expect to find it: a community college in Glen Ellyn. Diana Martinez and Justin Witte w...
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Kahlo-inspired drinks, menu items tie in to the Frida exhibitMay 22, 2021 1:00 am - Visitors taking in the visual splendors of the "Frida Kahlo: Timeless" art exhibit this summer will have many opportunities to "team with the theme" via Mexican cuisine....
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Best Bets: Marvel at Sistine Chapel exhibition at Oakbrook CenterMay 18, 2021 6:00 am - Masterpiece mock-ups For those who can't travel to Rome, "Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Exhibition" promises the next best thing with reproductions of the famed Biblical...
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'Michaelangelo's Sistine Chapel' exhibit tours to Oak BrookMay 17, 2021 1:00 am - Art, faith and commerce all combine in “Michaelangelo's Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition,” which opens Wednesday at Oakbrook Center. Shoppers who may have previously visit...
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A look at this year's Sculpture in the Park display in St. CharlesMay 14, 2021 6:00 am - As it has since 2006, the Sculpture in the Park program at Mount St. Mary Park in St. Charles lured us in for a closer look at this year's exhibit. Little did we know we...
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ClaySpace hosts spring open house, pottery sale May 14-16May 12, 2021 11:00 pm - ClaySpace Ceramic Arts Studio, 740 Front St. in Lisle, is hosting its spring open house and pottery sale from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, May 14; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May...
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'To the Moon: Snoopy Soars With NASA' touring exhibit makes Midwest debut at Elmhurst History Museum May 14May 11, 2021 11:00 pm - "I think having Snoopy go to the moon was the greatest triumph of all." - Charles M. Schulz, 1986 It is difficult to imagine - although some will remember it well - the...
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Best Bets: New Philharmonic plays 'A Salute to Frida'May 11, 2021 6:00 am - Classical Kahlo The New Philharmonic performs "A Salute to Frida," a virtual concert featuring works by Mexican-born composers Agustin Lara, Arturo Márquez and Manuel Po...
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Join Water Street Studios in Batavia for 'Second Friday at the Studio' May 14May 10, 2021 11:00 pm - Join Water Street Studios in Batavia for "Second Friday at the Studio." The opening will be 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, May 14, in the gallery, 160 S. Water St. Masks are requir...
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Oswego's Karly Quarnstrom named 2021 Congressional Art Competition winnerMay 03, 2021 11:00 pm - Congresswoman Lauren Underwood announced Karly Quarnstrom of Oswego High School as the winner of the 2021 Congressional Art Competition for the 14th District of Illinois...