November 2023 Issue: Fine Arts (Digital Edition)

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Enduring Art

After 125 Years, the Fine Arts Building Is Defiantly Unmodernized and Ready for Its Next Act

"Every building hides a world behind its doors—even blank-faced office blocks have a history and a social life—but perhaps no Chicago building hides more worlds than the Fine Arts Building. Located at 410 South Michigan Avenue between the broad shoulders of the Auditorium Building and the Chicago Club, the Fine Arts Building celebrated its quasquicentennial anniversary last month in style, with an open house, free concerts, gallery showings and workshops." (Keir Graff)

Arts & Culture

Art: Candace Hunter delivers portals to change

+ Deborah Maris Lader knows how birds fly

Dance: A "Jungle Book" for the age of climate change

Design: Bruce Woods' threaded elegance

+ Mood: Tabletop

Dining & Drinking: Splendid sandwiches for post-Turkey day

Film: Checking in on Black Harvest

Lit: Documenting the disappearing mom-and-pop shop

Music: Jeff Tweedy’s personal playlist

Stage: Melody Betts eases down the road

Reviews

A sampler of our daily delivery

Poetry

“VACUNA I”: A new poem by Natasha Mijares

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