The corkscrew-shaped 150-story tower on Chicago’s lakefront, designed by world-renowned Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, is the stuff of fantasy, the type of building that seems possible only in science fiction. And we’re so close to seeing the reality. The hole is dug for the foundation, the penthouse has been sold to Beanie Baby founder Ty Warner. But with the real estate market crashing, the project has stopped in its tracks, and the architect has sued the developer. But this is one nightmare we hope turns out to be a dream.
Today in the Culture, April 14, 2021 | Dawoud Bey's Whitney Solo | Denise Gardner's AIC Ascent | Turn out the Arclights ART Dawoud Bey Pictures Poetics Surveying his nearly half-century of work, Chicago photographer Dawoud Bey's retrospective, "An American Project" opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, including 35mm, Polaroid and large-format images. "We feel both the passion and contempt that he holds for his complicated country," Sasha Bonét writes at Vulture. "In a street corner…
Flea Bitten: A Day at the Market Here upon the asphalt plain of the parking lot, nourished by the milky rays of a sharp-edged, crescent moon, blooms a frenzy of grass-rooted entrepreneurialism.
