Broad Shoulders deserves brotherly love

The influence of art collective Hairy Who is pervasive in HPAC's Broad Shoulders and Brotherly Love.

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January 30, 2009

HPAC’s path to weirdness paved with pine needles

Things are getting a little weirder at the Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC).

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November 25, 2008

Hip-hop in high relief is all Greek to Vera’s viewers

Hip-hop culture doesn’t just give Vera his subject—it provides him with his artistic technique. Unfortunately, this remix just doesn’t fly.

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October 28, 2008

Renaissance and Baroque etchings not much of a draw

As I turned my gaze from one red chalk drawing to another at Drawn to Drawings, the newest exhibition at the Art Institute, I was surprised to find someone talking to me.

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October 24, 2008

HPAC offers not just one Pretty Face, but many

A visit to the Hyde Park Art Center’s (HPAC) newest exhibition, Not Just Another Pretty Face, will have you confused why the patronage system isn’t used more often.

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October 21, 2008

Peet exhibit isn't just kid's stuff

I still can remember how his 1985 book Capyboppy taught my second-grade class about that strangest of rodents, the capybara, so often overlooked even by petting zoos but given due respect in Peet's book based on his family's experiences with the odd…

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September 23, 2008

This ain’t your grandmother’s Titus

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January 25, 2008

Top Five Movies of 2007—Elizabeth Goetz

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January 11, 2008

New Cusack film asks, where has Grace gone?

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December 7, 2007

Stars reach out with love and roses

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November 5, 2007