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Closeup on Chuck Close // Retrospective opens at the MCA
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Chuck Close
Saturday through Sept. 13 Museum of
Contemporary Art,
220 E. Chicago
General admission, $6.50; students and seniors, $4
(312) 280-2660
For 30 years, we have stared up into their billboard-sized faces,
while they, in turn, have stared down their Brobdingnagian noses at
us. We've never met them, but we're on a first-name basis - Joe,
Keith, Linda, Phil, John, Nancy. We know every meticulously enlarged
feature on their monumental mugs - every wrinkle, every stray hair,
every por...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research
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GETTING CLOSE AN EXHIBIT OF PRINTS PROVIDES A CLEAR VIEW OF THE ARTIST'S PROCESS
The Boston Globe
; ANDOVER Everybody loves Chuck Close. Look at his giant portraits, and first you see the daunting scale, the super-saturated tones. Then the buildup of tiny increments into a luridly fascinating whole. The faces have an awful nakedness that comes from the artist's decision to apply uniform attention
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Visual Art: Up close and impersonal Chuck Close Hayward Gallery, London Chuck Close White Cube, London
The Independent - London
; Chuck Close is one of the most famous and influential American artists alive, yet in Britain he has never yet had a solo show. Until now, when he has two: a large retrospective of his paintings from the last 30 years at the Hayward, and a small selection of his recent photographs in the minuscule
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Artist's proofs may cause controversy: some publishers, artists and dealers are battling misconceptions and facing pricing issues with these specially titled prints. (Special Report).
Art Business News
; A New Hampshire art collector enters a mall gallery and asks the sales associate if she can buy an artist's proof of a popular offset lithograph. The dealer locates one and tells the customer it will cost her 10 percent more than the regular s/n print. It offers a good value the sales associate
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VISION OF CHUCK CLOSE
ABC Good Morning America
; ... stuff. KEVIN NEWMAN: Isn't that remarkable? We'll be back in a second. (Commercial Break) LISA McREE, Host: On ABC News World News Tonight -- Where'd Asha go? KEVIN NEWMAN: I don't know. LISA McREE: ... With Peter Jennings, is the local pharmacy putting ...
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Portrait of the Artist as a free manWith 'Crystal Ball,' The Artist.
The Boston Herald
; 1 The Artist formerly known as Prince may be seeking to escape from chaos and mistruth, as he told a press conference this week in New York City's Millennium Hotel. But as he sets off on his Jam of the Year world tour, which stops at the FleetCenter tonight and will continue into 1999, he's also
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