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For the Obama Center, Mark Bradford Paints a Fierce and Luminous Chicago – New York Times
“I make my own detritus,” Bradford said, “and then I use the detritus to make a painting.” The debris makes his canvases impressionistic and sculptural, and resistant to linear, literal storytelling.
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Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
May 19, 2026
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer – Chicago’s struggling commercial real estate and more
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
Audio and summary
Don’t come without your real id or you can’t get in. According to democrats that means blacks and minorities can’t get in.
Looks like somebody ate a Chicago-style pizza and then vomited!
Amateur night at the arts studio again. Still, it is appropriate for the concrete wastebasket in Jackson Park.
The Useless Media Charter Member New York Slimes’ Elly Fishman probably had to wear a drool bib as she typed this mess.
Oh, Gawd. This reads like something written in a contemporary arts class at Oberlin College.
So many words to describe a colorful painting that was made to simply fill in a weird shaped spot in an ugly building.