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The windy city is a cornucopia of modern art, fine dining, cutting edge comedy, and die-hard sports fans. Snap a photo of your reflection in the silver Cloud Gate sculpture at Millennium Park before heading to Grant Park to get hit with the refreshing spray of Buckingham Fountain. There are dozens of museums and theater companies in Chicago, so a cultural experience is never hard to find. You’re sure to laugh your head off at the Second City Theater, the professional launch pad of many famous comedians.
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1. Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
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5.0 based on 21 reviews
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art promotes public awareness, understanding, and appreciation of intuitive and outsider art through education,exhibition, collecting and publishing. Intuit defines ‘intuitive and outsider art’ as the work of artists who demonstrate little influence from the mainstream art world,and who instead are motivated by their unique personal vision. Thanks to our members, we are free and open to the public.
2. Galleria 1712
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4.5 based on 2 reviews
Amazing selection of one-of-a-kind jewelry, fabulous handbags and accessories, designer clothing, original artwork, photography, handmade pottery: more than 50 artists of varied media all under one roof.
3. Flat Iron Arts Building
4. Ukranian Institute of Modern Art
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4.5 based on 5 reviews
Reviewed By 866TaylorB - Chicago, United States
Founded in 1971, the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago is home to one of the world's largest collections of Ukrainian-American abstract and minimalist works from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Located at 2320 West Chicago Avenue, east of Western Avenue, in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood, it was established to fill a void in the public's understanding of nationally and internationally recognized Ukrainian artists engaged with contemporary art. In six to seven major exhibits in the 2,100-square-foot main gallery and in two side galleries are displayed the works of Chicago, Canadian, Ukrainian, Polish and Lithuanian artists and sculptors as well as first-generation computer art, book art, fiber and ceramics. Recently, my wife and I enjoyed three exhibitions--The Eternal Eye by Yana Bystrova and Paula Henderson, Chicago: Selections from the Permanent Collection by Morris Barazani and Harold Hayden and Michel Andreenko and Ukrainian Artists in Paris by Alexis Gritchenko and Oleksa Hryshchenko. Open from noon to 4 from Wednesday through Sunday, the UIMA is committed to a program of art exhibitions, musical concerts, lectures, readings, films and multidisciplinary events relevant and challenging to all members of the community and the city while serving the cultural needs and strengthening understanding and diversity. Many artists have world-class reputations and their works can be found in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery in Washington DC.
