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CHICAGO (AP) --Chicago is getting ready to mark the 50th anniversary of the city's famous downtown Picasso statue. The untitled sculpture by Pablo Picasso is usually referred to simply as "The ...
Picasso created the piece betwen 1962 and 1964 Model comes from the estate of an art market dealer who died in 2008 Sculpture the model helped create is a tourist attraction in Chicago CHICAGO (AP ...
Chicago’s Picasso, a 162-ton steel sculpture hovering 50 feet over Daley Plaza, has been slowly turning colors and gaining in popularity for 50 years. Oxidation has given it a rusting patina.
Chicago’s iconic (truly iconic) Picasso-designed sculpture that anchors Daley Plaza in The Loop celebrates a big milestone this week: it celebrates its 50th birthday.A beloved public art piece ...
CHICAGO — A baboon with wings, a bull-moose hybrid, an Egyptian revival sculpture, and even a vampire. Fifty years after its public unveiling, the untitled Picasso sculpture that sits in the ...
Chicago moment So what is the Picasso sculpture? ”It`s Chicago,” Rich Daley told INC. as he gazed up at the woman/bird/Afghan on its 25th birthday Friday afternoon. Joaquin Ma. de Arist… ...
To this day, no one is exactly sure what the 50-foot-tall untitled Picasso sculpture in Chicago’s Daley Plaza actually is supposed to represent.
CHICAGO (WLS) -- One of Chicago's most iconic public pieces of art is getting ready for its gold anniversary. The Chicago Picasso sculpture was unveiled on August 15, 1967. It's considered to be ...
“It wasn’t really cool to be looking at Picasso in the art world,” said Curry, 45, who came to Chicago in 1991 to go to the School of the Art Institute and first encountered the sculpture ...
Pablo Picasso's "Mother and Child" is one of more than 250 works on display at the Art Institute of Chicago through May. 12. "The Old Guitarist" (1902-04) is from Picasso's Blue Period. Picasso ...
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Chicago's iconic Picasso sculpture turns 50 this month. On Tuesday, a celebration led by Mayor Rahm Emanuel was held at noon at Daley Plaza.