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Flickr Foundation

One of the things the Field Museum (Chicago, US) displayed from its collection in 1898 was a "Moon Model."

Prepared by Johann Schmidt of Germany, it was made of 116 sections of plaster on a framework of wood and metal.

With a 19.2-foot diameter, it was one of the largest and most elaborate representations of the Moon at the time. It was displayed until the 1980s.

flickr.com/photos/field_museum

black and white photo of a mostly-empty museum room showing a very large model of the moon with a man standing next to it. It's easily 2.5 times his height. There is a door next to him
#photography#moon#Chicago
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James Akers

I visited Jacob Fishman and the new Lightwriters public access neon studio in Chicago. I learned lots from his "Neon Engineers Handbook" and he has been one of my neon heros for years.

Of course, I was dazzled seeing all the Bruce Nauman pieces, patterns and rejects (Jacob is Nauman's main neon fabricator)- and I am a big Bruce Nauman fan. That copy of "mystic truths" has been all over the world and is the "living template" for the piece.

Jacob makes me wanna play more with radio.

I loved seeing the Bing neon happy sad outlets at Light Writers. It's so exciting that there is now a public access neon shop in Chicago - it's been needed for years with SAIC and UW students graduating and not having a place to work for years. I am gonna send some class proposals to Jacob and Zoell (his daughter) to return one day an teach a class :)

Next stop- Madison Wisconsin!

One of the most iconic Bruce Nauman pieces- this one exists as a "Living Template" and is Fishman's personal copy. It has been all over the world and I saw it in NYC at MoMa PS1 a few years ago. It's pink spiral with blue script letters have inspired countless copycat pieces from artists in the decades since it's original making.
Bing's neon outlet- I love the happy sad outlets!
A bunch of Bruce Nauman patterns on non-asbestos paper. The patterns for some of my all time favorite pieces of neon- all rolled up under that table
One of the double letters (an A in this case) that regularly break my brain. I wanna make some things like this.
#neon#heros#brucenauman
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ProPublica

By returning the stolen statue to Nepal but not disclosing that it was a gift from a major donor, the museum is “getting rid of a problematic object” while simultaneously “face-saving” its relationship with all donors, an art historian says.
propublica.org/article/art-ins

ProPublicaThe Art Institute of Chicago Returned a Sculpture to Nepal But Obscured Its Connection to a Wealthy Donor
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