No Room for Un-Conventional Art
But last week Guinan received a telephone call from his Paris-based dealer Albert Loeb, who said a prominent Chicago art collector with close ties to Mayor Daley told him that city officials “wanted something else in the Cultural Center during the convention.” A new exhibit, “Explorations in the City of Light: African-American Artists in Paris 1945-1965,” has now been slated to take its place.
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Dance Chicago ’95’s Modest Triumph
Stagebill, the monthly program booklet handed out at area theaters, is about to lose one of its most prestigious clients. Sources confirm that beginning in January the Shubert Theatre will drop Stagebill and begin using a program booklet produced by Performance Media Network, a company owned by the Chicago Sun-Times. This defection comes in the wake of protests within the theater community over Stagebill’s decision to begin charging theaters $20 for each photo published in excess of five. The new fee apparently isn’t a factor in the Shubert switch, however, because it’s one of the few places that doesn’t use photos in its program biographies.
