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Behold "The Popsicle." The massive ice sculpture that's being billed as "Paintings Below Zero," which is part of the "Museum of Modern Ice", was officially unveiled in Millenium Park Friday. Canadian artist Gordon Halloran, who started as an abstract painter, created the work out of large pieces of colorful ice, and according to the Sun-Times, "he and a team of six have been working 12 to 14 hours a day since mid-December to ensure the project is complete [in time for its] unveiling." The exhibit stays up through the end of February.
In other (indoor) museums, general admission to both the Art Institute and the Field Museum will be waived for the month of February. The Museum of Science & Industry is running a special exhibit that explores African-Americans in cinema and television through March 2nd (not free); and Edward Hopper and Winslow Homer exhibits will start at the Art Institute on February 16th. –Mark Boyer
[Trib video and graphics of Museum of Modern Ice]
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How much did this nonsense cost the people of Chicago? Or is this more bland corporate art to make us ooh and ahh at the magnanimous nature of Corus Bank or United Airlines?
Mandala Sand Paintings have been done for centuries and unlike this elaborate and empty color wheel they have soul.
http://www.mysticalartsoftibet.org/Mandala.htm
This isn't art, it's decoration.
What is the difference between "art" and "decoration"? I guess to pseudo-intellectual hipsters art has to make a "statement" where are decorations merely pander to the tastes of the viewer.
Art speaks truth. Decoration covers up cracks in the walls.