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...gallery at the Art Institute of Chicago, there's a painting from 1913 by the German Expressionist Franz Marc called The Bewitched Mill. A waterfall spills down the center of the canvas between a scene of machines and houses on one side and trees and animals on the other. It's a fantasy of magical reconciliation between the natural and man-made worlds - always a nice trick...
...large crowds and a big outdoor party. The $294 million Modern Wing, built to house the Institute's great collection of 20th and 21st century work, is a complicated exercise in reconciliation. A resolutely modern building, it not only manages to gently introduce itself into the greenery of Chicago's Millennium Park but also draws in three tricky neighbors - the original Art Institute, the active commuter railway lines that run between them, and the city of Chicago, where around any corner there's another architectural masterpiece asking just what you're doing here. To which Piano's building...
Piano is exaggerating only a bit when he says that "Chicago invented modern architecture, invented modernity after the fire." The Great Fire of 1871 wiped away large stretches of the city and opened them for rebirth in a modern industrial and high-rise idiom. There was nothing particularly modern about the original Art Institute, a Beaux Arts culture palace from 1893. But it symbolized the determination of the city's élite to rebuild Chicago as a cultural force to be reckoned with. Over the years it was expanded frequently. Now the 264,000-sq.-ft. addition of the Modern...
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...church. Working part-time at a bookstore. Selling real estate. All are worthwhile pursuits, but not exactly what Peter Marshall thought he'd be doing after he graduated from Vanderbilt Law School this spring. Particularly since he received a coveted offer last September to join a white-shoe Chicago firm, Kirkland & Ellis...