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LAURA PEARSON

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SELECTED ART CRITICISM

Chicago Tribune

Byzantine art comes to life at Art Institute

Chicago Reader

Is Chicago architecture too enamored of its own past?

He helped: The bright start, and untimely death, of innovative young arts administrator Ben Schaafsma

British conceptual artist Simon Starling’s journey is the destination

Time Out Chicago

Expo Chicago hits Navy Pier, aims to be everything its predecessor, Next Art Chicago, wasn’t

Mark Bradford comes to the Museum of Contemporary Art for ten-year retrospective

Carrie Schneider at Monique Meloche

Andy Warhol photographs debut at the Smart Museum and Gahlberg Gallery

Alexander Calder at the MCA: Long dismissed by art snobs for its mass appeal, the modern master’s work is cool again

Crain’s

Known in Copenhagen, but not yet in Chicago: Inside Theaster Gates’ new Stony Island Arts Bank

Chicago magazine

The 10 best art shows this month


OTHER CULTURE STORIES

Huffington Post

The art of unsticking ourselves: Learning (and relearning) from Harold Ramis’ ‘Groundhog Day’

Motherboard

The new 'Cosmos’ revives Carl Sagan’s sense of awe

Chicago Reader

Stevie Nicks reaches into her ‘dark gothic trunk of magical, mysterious things’

Time Out Chicago

Angel Olsen at Comfort Station

Luna Negra Dance Theater’s CARMEN.maquia