Art & Art Institute of Chicago (intersection of tags)

This photo makes me want to take off my shoes, run across the floor, and sliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide. The Art Institute’s new modern wing is nice. They should hold annual sock-sliding competitions. Maybe I’ll start an unofficial one with a couple people.…

I’d like there to be a website that collects images of all the artwork being shown in Chicago art museums and galleries. Here’s the next best thing. A google image search for each of the gallery districts in Chicago. I…

Artontrack and Sandy Caribou blogged about this hilarious letter mailed to the Art Institute of Chicago. Arthur needs to check out my Art Institute Collection, “Stolen Artworks“

Make your own Lichtenstein using the DotBot generator at roy.artic.edu. If you post your photo on the Art Institute of Chicago’s Facebook timeline, they will put your photo into their DotBot Self-Portraits album. Most people just shoot themselves making a…

In a WBEZ interview about how techno music is like classical music, Mason Bates, composer-in-residence for both the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony, gives an example of how people are afraid of the symphony. At minute 11:48…

The Museum of Contemporary Art’s twitter account pointed me in the direction of a “Time Out Chicago” article about their new identity, “We are here at the Museum of Contemporary Art.” The commenting is closed on the article, so I’m…

The Art Institute of Chicago has this thing on their website where you can browse all their artwork. You can even make collections of their artworks to show to other people! (Read more about “My Collections”) Last week a chicago…

Current museum projects I’ve got several art projects that take place in art museums. Last summer I got reciprocal art museum pass from the Walker Art Center and it allows me to go into over 400 art museums nationwide. With…

The Art Institute of Chicago’s official twitter account calls my art “wild card”! View all 15 “wild card” photos on the Spudart Facebook Page.

Walking around the museum trying to find artworks to match the autographs, the art on the walls felt like they belonged in a cardboard box in my apartment.

The aesthetic forms of the signature are very intriguing. When I paypal’ed $1.74 to the seller, I included the following note: Thanks for selling this card. It has to be one of the coolest signatures ever. It’s like a work…

Here’s what the Art Institute should do for their lion sculptures for Christmas 2011. Wrap them entirely in crochet. People would love it. Photo from http://animalnewyork.com/2010/12/wall-street-bull-crocheted/ Here’s what the Art Insitute of Chicago did in 2010: And what the lion…

Someone made some wrong measurements, because the Chicago Blackhawks helmets don’t quite fit onto the heads of the lions in front of the Art Institute. The Art Institute of Chicago posted a very nice photo album online of the helmets…

My brother and I have commented so much on a particular photo on the Art Institute’s Flickr account, that it is now their #1 most commented photo. I encourage you to leave a fun comment on this photo of people…

Once the Art Institute of Chicago closes every night, the artwork hanging on the walls talk to each other. They like to discuss their histories and how they relate to one another. Sometimes they’ll brag about how long certain people…

I’m searching for reviews on the The Medici show at the Art Institute of Chicago, and not coming up with much. (here’s a page with links) If I were an art museum guard, I would talk to people about the…