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Famous Works of Art to Be Plastered Across American Billboards for "Art Everywhere"
Museum directors across the country have joined forces for what will be the largest outdoor exhibition in history. This summer, famous works from American artists will go on display across the U.S. on 50,000 public surfaces, including billboards and bus shelters, literally covering the country in its own art history for a project called "Art Everywhere."
The Whitney Museum, the National Gallery, the Dallas Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and LACMA have joined forces with the Outdoor Advertising Association of America, who has contributed $500,000 to the project.
Museum directors are hopeful that the project will inspire people to see the works in real life while the OAAA believes that "Art Everywhere" will revitalize outdoor advertising, an industry that has been on the decline. The wildly poplar response to French artist Etienne Lavie's digital project replacing billboards in Milan and Paris with works of art suggests that "Art Everywhere" will have no trouble finding support.
Although the five museums have selected possible works to go on view, including Jasper Johns'Three Flags and Grant Wood's American Gothic, the public will get to choose what they want to see on the streets of their hometowns. Through May 7, you can vote for the works of art online.
The project was inspired by the British "Art Everywhere" initiative that occurred in the UK last year. Maxwell L. Anderson, the director of the Dallas Museum, was the leading force behind bringing "Art Everywhere" to America.
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Monday, 7 April 2014
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Oprah Winfrey to Sell Harpo Studios in Chicago
The studio, where she filmed "The Oprah Winfrey Show," will remain on the property for two years.
Oprah Winfrey is selling Harpo Studios in Chicago to a developer, but the studio will remain on the property for another two years.
Winfrey filmed The Oprah Winfrey Show at the studio from 1990 to 2011, when she ended the talk show to start OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network on cable.
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"We have entered into a purchasing agreement with Sterling Bay for the four-building Harpo Studios campus in Chicago's West Loop," Harpo told Crain's Chicago Business in a statement. "We expect the transaction to be closed in 30 days. The property will be leased back to Harpo for two years, and the studio will continue to produce programming for OWN."
About 200 people work at the 3.5-acre campus, which will sell for about $32 million, Crain's reported Sunday. Harpo said it expects to close the transaction in 30 days.
Winfrey first came to Chicago in 1984 to WLS-TV's morning talk show, A.M. Chicago. A month later, the show was No. 1 in the market and renamed The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1985.
Winfrey moved to Harpo Studios in 1990 and is credited with transforming the once-gritty industrial area to a neighborhood filled with families and trendy restaurants.
In 2011, then-Chicago Mayor Richard Daley named the street outside Harpo Studios "Oprah Winfrey Way."
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Sunday, 16 March 2014
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