Prentice Falls: Brutalism torn down in Chicago
As part of an ethnography study this past month, I was working at the emergency department at Northwestern’s hospital in downtown Chicago. I passed by Prentice Woman’s Hospital on my […]
Category Archives: art & architecture
Reflections on The Happy Show
I was lucky enough to catch The Happy Show by Stefan Sagmeister while it was at the Chicago Cultural Center. This was the first time I’d actually been inside the building, […]
Lansing Solo Exhibition
“Coalescence” (see photos here) April 7-May 5, 2913 Gallery 1212, Lansing, MI My second solo art exhibition was (again) mainly based on my paintings of women in hanbok (Korean traditional […]
Opening Ceremony of Broad Museum
The new Eli and Edythe Broad Art museum opened in East Lansing along with the announcement that they had met their funding goal; which was great news considering that construction […]
Roy Lichtenstein retrospective: copycat or innovator?
I am not a huge fan of the pop artist, but I immensely enjoyed the Roy Lichtenstein (1923-97) retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago. I was unfamiliar with his […]
Housing for tornadoes
Whenever I read or hear about tornadoes damaging houses, it is interesting (although a shame) that despite all our modern technology, we are so vulnerable in front of destructive forces […]
Digital Media Conference (DML 2012)
The first day at DML: it was such an engaging conference and a lot of the presentations so pertinent to my personal interests and feelings about education. For one, it […]
Art & Architecture in Toronto
Toronto was surprisingly a very sophisticated palette in terms of art and architecture, with nods to modern “appendixes” to the eclectic city. It was hard to understand what Toronto was […]
D. Yvette Wohn 