Museums & Attractions
- The Milwaukee Art Museum is premiering Andy Warhol: The Last Decade, exploring the work that this seminal American artist produced during the final years of his life. The exhibition includes approximately 55 works lent by private collections and institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, Baltimore Museum of Art and Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh. Along with an introduction to Warhol, it is divided into thematic sections based on significant Warhol series: abstract works; collaborations (featuring Jean-Michel Basquiat); black-and-white ads; works surrounding death and religion; self-portraits; camouflage patterns; and a concluding section of the artist’s Last Supper series. Several large-scale works punctuate the exhibition. In each of his late series, a number of works stretch from 25 to 35 feet in width. The exhibition is running through Jan. 3, 2010. For more information, call 414.224.3200 or visit www.mam.org.
- Premier Exhibitions is presenting BODIES…The Exhibition, which will run at Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn., through Jan. 10, 2010. The exhibition, which has been seen by more than 15 million visitors worldwide, features real, whole and partial specimens that have been meticulously dissected and preserved through an innovative process, giving visitors the opportunity to view the complexity of their own organs and systems. The exhibition takes visitors through galleries providing an up-close look inside the skeletal, muscular, reproductive, respiratory, circulatory and other systems of the human body. In addition, authentic human specimens illustrate the damage caused to organs by over-eating, heart disease, kidney disease, breast cancer, cirrhosis and more. The exhibition has attracted nearly 15 million visitors in cities around the world and is currently open in New York, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Quebec, Brazil, Peru, Ireland and Warsaw. For more information, call 952.818.8780 or visit www.bodiestheexhibition.com.
Kudos
- The Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza was recently certified LEED Gold by the U.S. Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, making the hotel the first LEED certified hotel in the city of Chicago. The hotel is part of the 2.25 million-square-foot, 25-story 350 West Mart Center, which has also been awarded LEED Gold certification. The hotel, originally built in 1977, recently underwent a $20 million redesign that included extensive ecological measures, including installing solar film on many of its windows to reduce solar heat gain and thus reduce the air-conditioning load on the building. Many additional initiatives have been adopted at the hotel, such as a solid waste management policy that requires recycling or other diversion of ongoing consumables, durable goods, facility alterations and additions and mercury-containing lamps. For more information, call 312.836.5000 or visit www.martplaza.com.