There are several mural villages throughout Korea, little residential areas covered in art. The Ihwa Mural Village is located in Seoul in Ihwa-dong, Jongno-gu. It's open all year round and is filled with little shops and restaurants. A friend of mine had been wanting to check it out for awhile so we finally headed out one [...]
After Shinsegae we planned to go to the aquarium. Sadly Google first lead us directly to a pet store. Melting from the heat and burning from the sun I found a different address for the aquarium on my phone and led us from one side of shaded street to the next. One of the side streets we [...]
Expo 72 is a free art exhibit located at 72 East Randolph Street downtown in the loop. I've passed by it several times never quite sure exactly what it is or when it's open. I saw people inside recently and decided to check it out. The exhibit currently up until the end of February is [...]
The Art Institute of Chicago was voted by Trip Advisor as the #1 museum in the world and it's located near Grant Park at 111 South Michigan Avenue. It was established in 1879 and houses over 300,000 pieces of art over about 1 million square feet. The museum houses art from all around the world [...]
Before we left our super short trip to Missouri and cutting my trip with my sisters remarkably short we made a quick stop to the City Museum. The City Museum was created by an artist of international acclaim, Bob Cassilly who with the help of 20 artists opened the doors in 1997. The museum use [...]
Loyola University museum of Art is located at 820 North Michigan Avenue. My department began to murmur about Edward Gorey a couple months before the exhibit opened up at Loyola. Edward Gorey was an artist and writer born in Chicago. He's most well known for his pen and ink books and illustrations such as "Vinegar [...]
The Millennium Art Festival is the last weekend in May and the beginning of June for a weekend located at the end of Millennium Park at the cross of Lake Street and Michigan Avenue. It's free and filled with booths of art, paintings, photography, innovative designs of jewelry, candles, wine/alcohol corks, wooden box musical instruments, glass [...]
Fringe Festival is a large performance festival we attended in Prague. It happens all of the world, they have one here in Chicago. In Prague it happens every summer, so right on time for when we were there. The Fringe Festival is based off the model of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which is the worlds largest [...]
The Chicago Cultural Center is located at 78 East Washington Street. The Cultural Center has been around since 1897 and use to be the Chicago Public Library. Today it is a free to enter museum of sorts. It's open daily from 9am until 7pm, except on weekends (Fridays through Sundays) when it closes an hour earlier. [...]
The Lennon wall since 1980 has been filled with graffiti. Mostly messages of peace or lyrics from beetles songs or art. People from all over the word come by and write (graffiti) on the wall. When we went one of my classmates had written on it and it was already covered. The Lennon Wall [...]
