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Thursday, April 25
The Wall Street Journal ran a nice review of the Art Institute's current show, 1945: Creativity and Crisis, Chicago Architecture and Design of the World War II Era. The exhibit includes designs by Chicago-associated architects Bertrand Goldberg and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.