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ARC Gallery and Educational Foundation 2156 N. Damen Ave.; 773-252-2232, arcgallery.org Through Saturday: "Restraint(S)": Amy Zucker explores the dichotomy of the word "restraint," with the work influenced by Zucker's other job as a nurse, where the...Tags: Science and Technology, Arts, Michigan Avenue, Museums, Frank Lloyd Wright
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Greg Cameron is Joffrey's new executive director
Special to the TribuneGreg Cameron will take over as the new executive director of the Joffrey Ballet July 1 after leaving his post as chief operating officer of Window to the World Communications, Inc., the parent company of WTTW-Ch. 11 and WFMT-FM, the dance troupe announced...Tags: Arts, Arts and Culture, Joffrey Ballet, WTTW, Media Industry
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Young Hindus embrace their heritage at Dharma Bee
Not long ago, Sauruv Garg "didn't know anything" about the man credited with helping introduce the Hindu faith to the West. But after poring over books, meeting with a monk and learning about the history of Hinduism in the U.S., 10-year-old Sauruv...
Tags: Students, Religion and Belief, Hinduism, Education, Teaching and Learning
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Caesar Citraro to lead plein air painting class June 14-15
To kick off the summer of painting, and leading into the Oil Painters of America's first ever Salon Show at Crooked Tree Arts Center, an introduction to plein air with Caesar Citraro will be offered Friday and Saturday, June 14-15. This is a two-day...
Tags: Arts, Painting, Arts and Culture
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Want a sculpture? A new jaw? Pizza? Just print it
Thanks to 3D printing, American society may be about to boldly go where no one has gone before. A Johns Hopkins scientist is seeking to adapt the technology to grow human jaw bones — potentially revolutionizing implant procedures. A Halethorpe...
Tags: Arts, Technology, Barack Obama, Timonium, Baltimore Museum of Art
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What to see in Chicago
Overhead trains, river-touring boats, legendary dinosaurs and American Girls: Chicago's best attractions appeal to all ages. And though it's a big city, Chicago extends a warm Midwestern welcome to visitors while keeping it real with an ample dose of...
Tags: Buckingham Fountain, Museums, Museum of Science and Industry, Cloud Gate, Chicago Tribune
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WGN-Ch. 9's Julie Unruh selling house in Winnetka
WGN-Ch. 9 reporter Julie Unruh has a contract pending to sell her three-bedroom vintage house in east Winnetka, which is listed for $819,000. Unruh, 44, a Chicago native, joined the station in 2001 after working for CLTV. Unruh and her husband paid...
Tags: Gold Coast, Homes
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Feds pursue Manhattan art dealer suspected of smuggling
Federal agents have seized an estimated $100 million in art over the last two years from a prominent Manhattan antiquities dealer they describe as one of the most prolific antiquities smugglers in the world. Subhash Kapoor, a 64-year-old American...
Tags: Arts, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, India, Theft, Museums
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An art to solving Detroit's debt
Late last month, the Detroit Free Press ran a major article on a problem that seems unthinkable: the likelihood of the precious artworks in the Detroit Institute of the Arts being sold to help pay the crippling debts of the City of Detroit. "It is an...
Tags: Freedom of the Press, Arts, Politics, Detroit Free Press, Bankruptcy
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Being numb to it all no longer big shock
Sometime in the next few weeks, if you're walking down Fullerton Avenue around DePaul University and have 15 minutes to spare, duck into the tidy brick building alongside the CTA station. Here you will find the DePaul Art Museum, an institution so...
Tags: Arts, Bars and Clubs, Museums, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Arts and Culture
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Pre-Raphaelite art is a reminder of Mom's influence
chrisc@herald-mail.comMy mother made me a journalist. And a musician, an artist, a poet and a playwright. I realized this recently while taking in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. —“The Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design,...Tags: England, Music, Arts, Charles Darwin, Customs and Tradition
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'The Cooked Seed' details Anchee Min's fraught immigrant saga
By the time Anchee Min made it to America in 1984, she was "considered a 'cooked seed' — no chance to sprout." As she explains in her new memoir, "I was 27 years old and life had ended for me in China. I was Madame Mao's trash, which meant I wasn'...Tags: Immigration, Rentals, Politics, China, The Washington Post
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