// This has always been my favorite exhibit at the Art Institute – which shouldn’t be surprising because it’s shiny, colorful, and involves candy. But once you learn the meaning behind the exhibit, it will break your heart. “Felix Gonzalez-Torres produced work of uncompromising beauty and simplicity, transforming the everyday into profound meditations on love...
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// Here are a few fantastic photographs that my wife took at the brand new Modern Wing of the Art Institute last December. I’m a planner when it comes to photography, I like to scout places out and recreate atmosphere, space and mood. Val looks in one direction and *snap* sees and takes a photograph...
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// I seem to endlessly pack up and unpack my camera while I’m out shooting. Don’t ask me why. I had myself trained pretty well at one point – leaving the camera on my tripod and walking around ready to go! I’ve been slipping over the past few months. It was the same morning I...
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Tags: Chicago, Downtown, hdr, justin kern, Michigan Avenue, morning, Nikkor AIS 28mm f/3.5, Nikon D700, photomatix, reflection, sculpture, Sunrise
// As I’ve mentioned before, I find religious art fascinating. At the Art Institute of Chicago there are all these wonderful bits of European religious art from long ago tucked into exhibit hall after exhibit hall. I was there checking out some of the great art and saw this awesome cabinet with these intense, gold...
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// Ever since I was a kid, the Art Institute has had this incredible display of miniature rooms created by Mrs. James Ward Thorne. There are 68 rooms designed by Mrs. Thorne and constructed with painstaking detail. Most of the rooms are living rooms in period and regional styles from both European and American traditions....
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