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`Arms and Art' embraces the beauty of firearms
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The art of Raymond J. Weilgus, on display at the Art Institute
of Chicago, is unlike any I've seen before and although his unusual
canvases fascinate me, it's easy to understand how others might
dismiss them as decorated instruments of destruction.
That would be unfortunate because Weilgus's exhibition, "Arms
and Art," is a display of 27 firearms so elegantly restored, refined
and gold-filled with Art Nouveau and Art Deco designs as to raise the
otherwise utilitarian handguns to th...
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Czech photohistorian leads off Art Institute series
Chicago Sun-Times
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Art Institute Unveils Its Masterful Monet Show
Chicago Sun-Times
; This year's must-see museum event, the most comprehensive exhibition ever of the paintings of French impressionist Claude Monet, opens on Saturday at the Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan. In "Claude Monet: 1840-1926," 159 works from 66 museums and 37 private collections in 15 countries
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Broadcast Museum Lights New Cultural Center Digs
Chicago Sun-Times
; The Museum of Broadcast Communications celebrated a moving experience and its fifth anniversary Friday night. Having outgrown its original home in the South Loop, the museum moved uptown and re-opened in stunning new quarters on the first and second floors of the Chicago Cultural Center at a
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British Impressionists show to open soon at Art Institute
Chicago Sun-Times
; Tomorrow is the opening of "Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces: The Courtauld Collection," at the Art Institute of Chicago, an exhibition of 48 important paintings by Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cezanne, Seurat, Monet and Toulouse-Lautrec, among others. The exhibition is on tour from
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Albuquerque, N.M., Cultural Center Celebrates Indian Heritage.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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Campaign under way to help cultural center
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Campaign under way to help cultural center $337,000 would pay off mortgage By MIKE JOHNSON mikejohnson@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel Friday August 15, 2003 Cedarburg -- The Greater Cedarburg Community Foundation said it is embarking on a campaign to raise $337,000 to pay off the Cedarburg
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