Friday, June 1, 2007

Grant Park

GRANT PARK:
# Grant Park : Chicago's open frontyard ..
# Public Art in the Grant Park .. click here ..

The Grant Park has such a huge collection of public art pieces that I've subdivided it and listed them below :
# At the NORTH END of Grant Park is the state-of-the-art Millennium Park, with many pieces of public art .. scroll down ...
# At the SOUTH END of the Grant Park is the world's largest Museum Campus with three world class museums ... For public art pieces in the Museum Campus ... scroll down ..
# Another important component of the Grant Park is the Art Institute of Chicago ... For public art pieces in the Art Institute ... scroll down ...
# Cancer Survivors Garden .. click here ...

# Gardens in the Grant Park ..
# Daphne - by Dessa Kirk [Congress Triangle Garden] ...
# The Bowman and The Spearman - by Ivan Mestrovic [Congress Plaza Garden] ..
# The Eagle Fountain - by Frederick Cleveland Hibbard [Congress Plaza Garden].. click here ..
# Buckingham Fountain - by Edward H. Bennett
# Figure Fountains [Crane Girl, Dove Girl, Fisher Boy, and Turtle Boy] - by Leonard Crunelle [Rose Garden]..
# Sitting Lincoln - by Augustus Saint-Gaudens [North President's Court].. click here ...
# Artists And Automobiles - Various artists [South President's Court]..
# Van Buren Street Station [Metra] ..
# Bust of Sir Georg Solti - Dame Elizabeth Frink ..
# Grant park Restoration Program..
# Theodore Thomas Memorial / The Spirit of Music - by Albin Polasek ..
# The bust of Aaron Montgomery Ward ..
# General John Logan Memorial ..
# Agora - by Magdalena Abakanowicz .. click here..
# Rosenberg Fountain .. by Franz Machtl .. click here ...
# Statue of Christopher Columbus - by Carlo Brioschi .. click here ...

THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO:
# Public Art in the Art Institute of Chicago ..
# The Entrance ... click here ...
"The Lions" - by Edward Kemeys ..
# The South Garden .. click here ...
"The Fountain of the Great Lakes" - by Lorado Taft ..
# The North Garden ... click here ...
It has three pieces of sculptures:
"Large Interior Form" by Henry Moore ..
"Cubi VII" by David Smith ..
" Flying Dragon" by Alexander Calder ...
# The Pritzker Garden ... click here ...
"White Curve" by Ellsworth Kelly ..
# The Nicholas Bridgeway ... click here ...
A pedestrian bridgeway between Millennium park and the Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago ... Architect: Renzo Piano
# "Fountain of the Tritons" [McKinlock Court] by Carl Mille .. .. click here ...

MILLENNIUM PARK:
# Millennium Park ..
# The Crown Fountain - By Jaume Plensa ..
# The Cloud Gate / The Bean - by Anish Kapoor..
# The Jay Pritzker Pavilion - by Frank Gehry...
# Pedestrian Bridge by Frank Gehry ...
# Wrigley Square and Millennium Monument ...

THE MUSEUM CAMPUS:
At the south end of the Grant Park and is a site of three world class museums ... [I]the Field Museum of Natural History, [II] the John G.Shedd Aquarium and Oceanarium and [III] The Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum ..
# ... There are many pieces of public art pieces in the Museum Campus ... click here ...
[I] Public Art in the "Field Museum" campus ...
# Replica of colossal Olmec Head #8 ... click here ...
# Big Beaver totem .. click here ...
# What you see ... click here ..
[II] Public Art in the "Shedd Aquarium" campus ..
# Man with Fish ..
[III] Public Art pieces in the "Adler Planetarium" campus ...
# Sundial "Man Enters the Cosmos" - by Henry Moore .. click here ..
# Monument of Nicholas Copernicus - by Bertel Thorvaldsen ... click here ..
# America's Courtyard - by Denise Milan and Ary Perez... click here ..
In ADDITION ... there are many other pieces in the museum campus ...
# Children's Garden .. click here ...
# Three forms for Chicago - by David Nash ... click here ...
# Monuments on the Solidaity Drive ...
# Balbo Munument ... click here ...
# The Gold Star Families Memorial and Park .. click here ...


TEMPORARY EXHIBITS:
GRANT PARK: [Temporary Exhibits] ...
# Cool Globes - by various artists ...
Temporary exhibit from ... June - September, 2007 ..
~ Cool Globes - I of III - Various Artists ...click here ..
~ Cool Globes - II of III - Various Artists ... click here ..
~ Cool Globes III of III - Various artists ... click here ...

MILLENNIUM PARK: [Temporary Exhibits]..
# The Burnham Pavilions ..
Temporary Exhibit from: June 19, 2009 to October 31, 2009 ..
- The Burnham Pavilion by UNStudio ..
- The Burnham pavilion by Zaha Hadid ..
# A Conversation with Chicago: Contemporary Sculpture From China .
Temporary exhibit from .. Apr 9, 2009 ... to ... Oct 10, 2010 ..
It includes four sculptures ... [1] “Kowtow Pump” - by Shen Shaomin ... [2]Valiant Struggle" - by Chen Wenling ... [3]"Windy City 2009 - by Sui Jianguo ... and ... [4] "Jia Shan Shi No.46" - by Zhan Wang ...
For images .. click here ...
# Museum of Modern Ice at the Millennium Park - by Gordon Halloran ..
Temporary Exhibit from .. Feb 1 to Feb 29, 2008 ...
~ Artist at work .. clcik here ...
~ For images ... click here ..
# Sculptures by Mark di Suvero ..
Five sculptures by Mark Di Suvero exhibited in the Millennium Park ...
Temporary exhibit from .. April 17, 2007 - to - April 1, 2008
~ [1] Orion and [2] Johnny Appleseed - by Mark Di Suvero .. click here ...
~ [3]Shang, [4]Rust Angel and [5]Yoga - by Mark Di Suvero .. click here

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