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Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Gustave Caillebotte: Painting MEN, goddammit!

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"Man Drying His Leg"         If you read this stuff and think, "Man, that Steinberg, he's a genius. He knows everything!...
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Monday, August 4, 2025

'Paradise Lost' is a sprawling artwork defying description. You just have to see it.

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“Interior, Woman Reading,” an 1880 painting by Gustave Caillebotte      For a smart guy, I can be pretty thick.      Let me explain.      Fo...
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Sunday, August 3, 2025

Flashback 1998: Architecture often soars in spite of its occupants

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        On Friday, I made what turned out to be an unnecessary plug for the Aug. 21 Chicago River boat tour I'm conducting with our arc...
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Saturday, August 2, 2025

Works in progress: Michael Cooke

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Michael Cooke, 2019, Magallanes, Chilean Antarctic region.      Michael Cooke introduced himself over the phone. Exactly 25 years ago. Holli...
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Friday, August 1, 2025

Going up river with Sun-Times architecture critic Lee Bey, plus another guy

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      "Even if it's just you and me and Lee, we'll have fun," I told my wife, of the architectural river tour I'm host...
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Thursday, July 31, 2025

Flashback 1997: It's all water into the crib

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Harrison crib, left, built in 1900; Dever crib is to the right. (Chicago Department of Water Management photo)     I was chatting Saturday w...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

When the news isn't new

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"Napoleon's Return from Elba," by the Charles de Steuben.      This Epstein thing, just goes on and on and on.      Which is s...
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