A Neoclassical Monument to Stephen A Douglas
A video recounts the story of the design, construction and ongoing...
Category Archives: Visual Arts
Mural Based on Virgil sparks controversy
In1985, the Sulzer Library in Lincoln Square was the site of...
Hannibal of Chicago
In his collage project, “The Wonder—Portraits of a Remembered City,” contemporary...
Caryatids Adorn Major Museums
Field Museum Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens The architecture of both the Field...
Socrates Goes to Federal Court
The Old Federal Building that once stood on the...
An Artist’s View of the Democratic Significance of the LaSalle Corridor in the Loop
Above the doorway at 120 North La Salle Street a mosaic...
A Lysistrata for Chiraq
Spike Lee adapted Aristophanes’ comic masterpiece Lysistrata to address a 21st...
Aesop’s Fables Grace Gothic Revival Buildings
Carvings of creatures from Aesop’s fables by American sculptor Rene Paul...
A Downtown Pompeian Villa
In the 1950s the luxurious Congress Hotel on South Michigan Avenue...
Community Murals Notice Classical Presences
A 600-ft long cement bench covered with paintings by local families...
Mythic Ceiling Murals
Extraordinary mythical scenes are all over the ceiling of the Chicago...
Political satire invokes ancient sex worker
Satirical magazine Puck published this cartoon, “Phryne before the Chicago Tribunal,”...
