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JR: Artist asking if art can change the world
French street artist JR uses massive public installations to spark hope and resist disconnection in an overconnected world.
TIME · 1m
Google commissions 30-foot sculpture for Chicago headquarters
Sanford Biggers will create Vector, a quilt-inspired work to replace the Dubuffet piece at the former Thompson Center.
Chicago Sun-Times · 2m
Trump wants a 30-foot Washington on the Mall
The president gave the Smithsonian a deadline to swap a 1967 abstract sculpture for a colossal George Washington.
Fox News · 1m
Why 400 paintings now line the El in Kensington
More than 500 Kensington residents painted the steel plates under the Market-Frankford Line, turning a grim stretch into a gallery.
PhillyVoice · 1m
Chicago's 77 neighborhoods, played through 24 speakers
For three days, the Millennium Park lawn becomes the instrument, starting with a sound map of the city built by 24 local horn players.
Chicago Sun-Times · 3m
The mural that walks you into the next neighborhood
Two Chicago artists are painting viaducts so Bronzeville, Chinatown and Pilsen stop feeling like separate worlds.
Chicago Sun-Times · 2m