At Home in Chicago
Exploring unexpected connections between twenty-four historic house museums in Chicago, the new At Home in Chicago website is playful, inventive, and like nothing else you’ve ever seen.
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The Tiffany Girls Studio Tour
This living history tour explores Tiffany Studios’ iconic glassmaking process from the perspective of artisans Clara Driscoll and Agnes Northrop, of the Women’s Glass Cutting Department.
“The Unshakable Museum”
Inside the DePaul Art Museum, a fortified building not even Chicago’s El can rattle.
Ernest Tino Trova (1927–2009)
Trova’s invariably sleek, armless, slightly pot-bellied Falling Man is, for all its enigma, a uniquely contemporary figure—an everyman for the new technological age.
Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection
Excerpts from “Preservating Tiffany: A Collector’s Vision,” published in the exhibition catalogue “Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection” (The Monacelli Press, 2013).
Social Media Strategy: The Driehaus Museum
The Richard H. Driehaus Museum immerses visitors in one of the grandest residential buildings of 19th-century Chicago, the Gilded Age home of banker Samuel Mayo Nickerson.
Ernest Trova’s “White Dog,” c. 1955.
This yawning—or growling—creature on a fiery background hung above the friendly clutter of curios in Trova’s home.
Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933)
Born in 1848, Louis Comfort Tiffany would become the seminal artist of America’s Gilded Age.
