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Chinatown
Chicago’s Chinatown is one of the city’s most prominent cultural neighborhoods, shaped by migration and resilience for over more than a century. It is located just south of downtown along Wentworth Avenue and Cermak Road. The neighborhood serves as both a cultural center for Chinese Americans in the Midwest and an example of how immigrant…
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Modern Crowds, Urban Anonymity in Impressionistic Art
Impressionists were among the first artists to treat crowds as subjects worthy of serious attention. Their cities are filled with people, walking boulevards, sitting in cafés, attending theaters, waiting at train stations. Yet these crowds feel fundamentally different from earlier group scenes in art history. In medieval or classical art, groups are organized hierarchically. Figures…
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The Dark God in the White House
Field journal of Nathaniel Faust, Curse-breaker and Master of Mystic Science 21 Jan. 20– The mortal government is usually nothing more than a source of mild entertainment, a nuisance at most, for the majority of mystics (and mystical beings seldom take any notice in any of our human affairs anyway). I will admit, I did…
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