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External Editor @wbez. Past @chalkbeatCHI @crainschicago @chicagomag. Strollerpusher. @chipubschools parent. AL to GA to CHI. cburke@wbez.org
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Art is all around you at the Obama Presidential Center Original

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By Cassie Walker Burke Verified
| Chicago Sun-Times Verified
Barack and Michelle Obama are well-documented art lovers. So it’s little surprise that the new Obama Presidential Center features several contemporary artists in the prime of their careers, from Mark Bradford and Rashid Johnson to Chicagoans Theaster Gates and Nick Cave, who partnered with Indigenous artist Marie Watt for a bead-heavy work on display in the ticketed museum.
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The Sufjan Stevens dance musical ‘Illinoise’ will return to Chicago Shakespeare in 2027

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By Cassie Walker Burke Verified
| WBEZ-FM (Chicago, IL) Verified
Tony winning choreographer Justin Peck will return to Chicago early next year to remount “Illinoise,” his Tony Award-winning dance musical set to the genre-bending Sufjan Stevens album of the same name. The musical, which headed to Broadway after a lightning fast run in early 2024, will return as a highlight of Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s 40th anniversary season, announced Friday. Artistic Director Edward Hall told WBEZ/Sun-Times that the return of “Illinoise,” running Feb.
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Rocker Patti Smith tells sold-out crowd nourishing curiosity is what keeps her young Original

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By Cassie Walker Burke Verified
| Chicago Sun-Times Verified
Few wordsmiths in the American cultural canon can bend genres like Patti Smith, the artfully rebellious rocker, poet and author who, at 79, seems destined to keep spinning gold out of her maverick life. Smith visited Chicago on Monday to promote her latest memoir “Bread of Angels” (Random House, $30).
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