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If your space is feeling a little too square, it’s time to embrace the curve — specifically, the Mt. Curve. Designed by the ever-imaginative minds at bnf Studio, the Mt. Curve seating collection is here to swoop, cradle, and steal the spotlight with its bold silhouettes and juicy color palette.
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Chicago has a rich music history. The city is the birthplace of modern jazz, urban blues, gospel, and house music. It’s no wonder many musicians and music enthusiasts travel there every year to hear live performances.
If you’re exploring live music in the Chicago area, you’ll want to check out the area’s wide array of venues. We’ve assembled a list to spotlight all the stages you need to see during your trip. Keep reading to learn more!
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This striking mural, depicting three skulls that relay the immortal message of “Speak No Evil, See No Evil, Hear No Evil,” is by Chicago-based street artist Vampiro X.
See it now on Allen Street just north of Stanton on the LES, where it’s part of The New Allen project. I believe it went up in February of 2020, so it should be up for a few months into the spring, at least.
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At first (or even second) glance, this colorful, towering sculpture comprised of jumbled letters and numbers may appear very random and indecipherable. Take a look at it from the correct angle, however, and it clearly spells out the frequency and call letters of radio station 95.1 WBEZ FM, in Chicago, which is an NPR station.
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Hailed as “the perfect painter” by avant-garde writer Gertrude Stein, Juan Gris developed his signature approach to Cubism beginning in 1911. Using classic café subject matter — such as the newspaper, seltzer bottle, and glass seen here — Gris made subtle adjustments to the conventions of picture making that render ordinary objects both familiar and newly intriguing. For example, in The Checkerboard (1915) and its bird’s-eye view of a tabletop, a cunning reorganization of pictorial space places objects that should have volume into a single compressed plane. With a nod to play, Gris shows us a fragmented checkerboard, an emblem of the strategy and gamesmanship at the center of his art.
Photographed in the Art Institute Chicago