Photo by Rich Hein
For many years, if you stood in Helmut Jahn’s office at 35 E. Wacker and looked out the window, you were confronted with the ugliest building in Chicago: the Sun-Times’ home at 401 N. Wabash, a squat, trapezoidal relic that, next to the Venetian splendor of the Wrigley Building, looked like an overturned gray galvanized metal tub set beside a spun sugar ivory Victorian wedding cake.
Perhaps to block that view, Jahn kept in the window a model of the latest version of his sailing sloop, Flash Gordon, which won the Chicago to Mackinac Race in 1995. Its presence was a violation of his own edict not to keep “personal things” at work; the reverse being true at his home, which was free from images of the stunning buildings he created around the world during his long career.
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Tonight on Person Place Thing, host Randy Cohen sits down with fashion designer Yeohlee Teng. Teng’s work is in the permanent collection of London’s Victoria & Albert Museum and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, and yet she says she’s not focused on beauty. “I just like the clothes to be useful, you know? That’s really the basic thing.”
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The post-pandemic art world in Arkansas
courtesy of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
OPENING IN JULY: Crystal Bridges celebrates its 10th anniversary this year with the exhibition “Crystal Bridges at 10,” featuring more than 140 works, including Deborah Roberts’ mixed media on panel “He Looks Like Me.”
What the immediate future holds for our museum-going life is still a bit murky, thanks to the unknowns of the pandemic. But what is certain is that big things are on the post-pandemic horizon, with a spruced-up and expanded Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts coming in 2022 and a 100,000-square-foot expansion at
Crystal Bridges Museum of Fine Art in 2024.
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