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The Doors
Posted in ALL THE NEWS on Tuesday, June 26th, 2012
At nearly 125 years old the storefront doors and the apartment door at 1926 N. Halsted St. were perhaps the most used and abused element of the building. Having been opened and closed by countless people over the years, they had lost much structural integrity and were just plain worn out. The building had settled […]
RBSC in the Chicago Reader
Posted in ALL THE NEWS on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
The Chicago Reader recently featured the Roger Brown Study Collection in their Culture Vultures weekly series of recommendations. Curator and Smart Museum staff member Alice Kain’s recommendation can be seen here.
Afterimage at the Roger Brown Study Collection September 14th – November 18th 2012
Posted in ALL THE NEWS, Happening Now at the RBSC, RBSC Related on Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
Curated for the DePaul Art Museum, by Thea Liberty Nichols and Dahlia Tulett, the exhibition Afterimage considers the contemporary implications of the Imagist legacy through a focused exploration of the artwork, social art practice and writing of contemporary makers. Afterimage focuses on contemporary artists that are of a generation after Imagism, and also— in ways […]
Roger Brown Study Collection fall update
Posted in ALL THE NEWS on Monday, December 19th, 2011
Just Add Water…. In July heavy rain flooded the basement at 1926. Among the hidden treasures we exhumed during the cleanup were eight carved and silver-painted panels of draped fabric with billowing folds. In a 1995 video they appear installed in Brown’s studio and he explains that these lovely, enigmatic objects were panels from a […]
Remembering Roger Brown
Posted in ALL THE NEWS on Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Roger Brown, December 10, 1941 – November 22, 1997 Roger Brown’s magnanimous gifts continue to enrich SAIC in uncountable ways, and there are always new discoveries. We recently unpacked (from storage) eight carved and silver-painted panels of draped fabric with billowing folds. In a 1995 video we see them installed them in Roger’s studio and he explains that these […]
RBSC staff and volunteers on the Bad at Sports Blog
Posted in ALL THE NEWS, Happening Now at the RBSC on Thursday, March 24th, 2011
RBSC volunteer and SAIC staff member Thea Liberty Nichols recently interviewed several friends of the RBSC as a guest blogger for the Bad at Sports blog in a series of posts focusing on contemporary arts writing. Featured were discussions with RBSC volunteer Laura Fox, SAIC grad student and writer of the successful nomination for 1926 […]
All The (Recent) News
Posted in ALL THE NEWS on Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
Our complete fall update can be downloaded here. The building renovation projects begun last spring were completed by mid summer. With the new roof in place, the dark cloud of concern that hovered over staff with each storm since 1997 has vanished. The building feels sturdier after re-pointing and parapet repair. In its newly refreshed […]
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