In 1988 a painting of this deceased mayor wearing lingerie was removed from the Art Institute of Chicago
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Putin Not The First Politician Painted In Women's Underwear  Aug 29, 2013 ... Putin is hardly the first politician whose portrayal in lingerie has raised a storm. ... In 1988, student artist David Nelson sparked a political crisis in Chicago when he painted that city's recently deceased mayor, Harold Washington, ... The Art Institute later agreed not to display the painting and issued a formal...
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Chicago Aldermen and Police Seize Portrait That Blacks Deem ...  Published: May 13, 1988 ... CHICAGO, May 12 Like several other aldermen here, Allan Streeter was ... a portrait of the late Mayor Harold Washington, depicted in frilly lingerie, was ... to cut off public funds to the Art Institute if the painting was not removed. ... Since his death last November Mr. Washington has increasingly...
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Harold Washington - Wikipedia  Harold Lee Washington (April 15, 1922  November 25, 1987) was an American lawyer and politician elected as the 51st Mayor of Chicago in February 1983. He was the first African-American to serve as Mayor of Chicago, in office from April 29, 1983 until his death on .... Washington graduated in August 1949, with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree.
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Stuff Black People Don't Like - SBPDL: Great Moments in Black ...  Feb 17, 2013 ... Rumor is he died wearing a bra and panties. .... a painting all based on the rumor Mayor Washington was wearing bra and panties when ... David Nelson, a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, did not think .... 1988, Alderman Streeter reiterated his stance regarding the removal of the painting,...
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Politics Takes Its Place In World Of Art - tribunedigital-chicagotribune  May 13, 1988|By Robert Davis and Ann Marie Lipinski. ... The Art Institute of Chicago agreed to officially apologize for the one-day ... portrait of the late mayor, frowning, holding a pencil and wearing filmy lingerie. ... a delegation of about 10 who had forcibly removed the painting from the ... Boyfriend is guilty in grisly death.
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PICASSO'S ANTIWAR 'GUERNICA' QUIETLY LEAVES US FOR SPAIN  Ending its refugee existence after years of dispute and agitation over its status, the ... Over the years there have been sporadic protests against the transfer to Spain of the painting, a political and ... Published: September 10, 1981 ... antiwar mural on loan to the Museum of Modern Art for 42 years, left New York for a final...
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J! Archive - Show #1215, aired 1989-12-08  Not surprisingly, he played the "psycho" in "Crimes of Passion" .... Though he lost the presidential election to Mitterand in 1988, he's still mayor of Paris...
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Bremen Bombed, Art Destroyed | The National WWII Museum Blog  Sep 5, 2012 ... The Kunsthalle Bremen, the city's art museum, was among the damaged buildings. ... in New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art was the second version of the painting, replicated by Leutze himself just after painting the original in 1850-51. Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze, 1851.
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Theft of The Weeping Woman from the National Gallery of Victoria ...  The theft of The Weeping Woman from the National Gallery of Victoria took place on 2 August 1986 in Melbourne, Australia. The stolen work was one of a series of paintings by Pablo Picasso all known ... The model for these works was his mistress Dora Maar. The last and definitive work in the series is in the collection of the...
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About This I believe  Murrow Collection - Tufts University  Edward R. Murrow collection. ... In 1948, Harry Truman was reelected, Jackson Pollock's expressionist paintings hit the New York art world, the Marshall Plan...
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25 years later: Cincinnati and the obscenity trial over Mapplethorpe ...  Oct 24, 2015 ... A once controversial photographer shaped how fine art is seen ... Twenty-five years later, a retrospective of Mapplethorpe's work and ... Now, 25 years after Mapplethorpe, Cincinnati's conservative ... museum such as the CAC could not be charged with obscenity. ... Calla Lily, negative 1988; print 1990.
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Edward I. Koch, Mayor as Brash as His City, Dies at 88 - The New ...  Feb 1, 2013 ... Mr. Koch, a showman of City Hall, was a three-term mayor who steered New ... Re-elected in 1981 with 75 percent of the vote  he became the first mayor in the city's history to get both the Democratic and the Republican nominations  Mr. .... and the only black candidate, in the 1989 Democratic primary.
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Revisionist News - Alexandria  Jul 14, 2009 ... The latest victim of The Economy here in Chicago is the Symphony Store, ... or blog post as it were  till today ['course if I were the Marryin' kind, and had ... nudity (capping his almost-Letterman Top 8 list of reasons for preferring ... on the Choice of a Mistress, 1745): 8thly and Lastly They are so grateful!
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This citys art museum in Forest Park was the Palace of Fine Arts at ...  Jul 13, 2016 ... In 1836 this artist unsuccessfully ran for mayor of New York City a year ... Youll find this citys Museum of Moroccan Arts inside a former royal...
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3,000 Protest Chicago Exhibit of Flag on Floor - latimes  Mar 13, 1989 ... The ruckus is over a piece by Scott Tyler, a student at the School of the Art Institute, consisting of a photo ... One day last week, a patron offended by the interference with the exhibit tried to put the flag back on the floor.
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Renoir Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago  In 1858 (one year after making this drawing), Renoir stopped painting ... Erasure may have been used to create some small areas of highlights on the flowers and their container. .... Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise (The Rowers' Lunch)12 ... the Chicago work was identified as that included in the second Impressionist...
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US|To Stretch City's Budget for the Arts, Chicago Turns to EBay  Nov 29, 2004 ... search sponsored by .... Proceeds from the "Great Chicago Fire Sale" (a reference to the city's worst calamity, 1871) will benefit some of the city's cultural ... 300 life-size fiberglass cows, decorated by local artists, onto the city's streets for ... out that it is generally difficult to predict final prices at charity auctions.
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The Ill-Matched Lovers from the studio of Jacob Cornelisz van ...  The little plaque beside it tells us that the artist was from Venice but left that city for good after being imprisoned for adultery. For more images from the museum,...
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Renoir Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago  In 1854, Renoir was apprenticed in a porcelain workshop on the rue des Fosss du ... By descent to the artist's grandson, Paul Renoir (born 1924), Cagnes.8 .... 2.6), located on what was then known as the le du Chiard in the Seine, part of the ..... 13 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Renoir, Feb. 3Apr. 1, 1973, cat.
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Vanished Opulence | Vanity Fair  Among the paintings are Rubens's Venus and the Three Muses Mourning the ... In 1988 the Steinbergs were said to have spent $3 million on the wedding of Saul's ... A year later, Gayfryd spent $1 million on Saul's 50th-birthday party, held at ... In honor of his passion for history, his family accompanied him on a trip to the...
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Paris Street; Rainy Day | The Art Institute of Chicago  This work is featured in the online catalogue Caillebotte Paintings and Drawings at the ... In his masterpiece, Paris Street; Rainy Day, Gustave Caillebotte brought an ... With its curiously detached figures, the canvas depicts the anonymity that the ...... Teacher Manual: Chicago: The City in Art: A Curriculum Guide for Teachers