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The Timeless Cosmology of 19th Century Caucasian Rugs (Part I)

This High Collectible Caucasian Kazak rug, 5-2 x 9-1 (157cm x 277cm), circa 1875, is a stunning example of tribal rugs woven in the highest reaches of the Caucasus Mountains.

By Jan David Winitz
President/Founder
Claremont Rug Company


OAKLAND, CA.- “Remember to look up at the stars. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist.” ---Stephen Hawking. For centuries, the Caucasus Mountain Range provided refuge for nomadic peoples forced out of more hospitable areas. Eventually, approximately 350 different tribes resided in the mountain range that extended from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea, stretching across modern-day Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Russia. The people spoke over 150 distinct languages. Along with the Moslem Lesghis, Chechen, and Talish, there were clans of Mountain Jews, Christian Armenians, Buddhist Kalmucks, Norsemen and even a group of Württemburg Germans. They were collectively known for their spirited sense of independence and longevity, with many tribal elders apparently living ... More


The Best Photos of the Day
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View of the new Archaeological Windows of the Temple of Ehecatl that are exposed to the public next to the Templo Mayor in Mexico City on August 30, 2021. Mexican authorities inaugurated on Monday a route of archaeological sites belonging to the Templo Mayor of ancient Mexico-Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec empire, whose remains lie beneath the current historic center of Mexico City. RODRIGO ARANGUA / AFP.






Hindman's September Fine Art sales include works by Martin Wong and Nicolai Fechin   Sotheby's to offer the earliest illustrated Hebrew prayerbook to ever appear at auction   Krannert Art Museum retrospective of Louise Fishman's drawings an unexpected memorial


Nicolai Fechin. Study of a Woman (Portrait of Elena Konstantinovna Luksch-Makowsky), c. 1906-08. Estimate: $600,000-800,000.

CHICAGO, IL.- This month, Hindman will present three days of fine art sales featuring over 500 works of art. The series will launch with American and European Art on September 27, followed by Post War and Contemporary Art on September 28, and will conclude with Prints and Multiples on September 29. Outstanding collections and artworks will be featured, including important works by Martin Wong, Hans Hofmann, Nicolai Fechin, Thomas Hart Benton, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Sonia Delaunay, Ivan Albright, Marc Chagall, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Alex Katz, Frank Stella, Kerry James Marshall and Yvonne Thomas. The sales will showcase works from the Collection of Homer E. Noble (Denver, Colorado), the Estate of George W. Fellows (Naples, Florida), the Collection of Lily Huberman (Chicago, Illinois), Property from the Estate of Timothy E. Burton (Brookfield, Wisconsin) and Property ... More
 

Detail showing the scribe-artist Abraham’s decoration of his name with a crown. Estimate $4/6 Million. Courtesy Sotheby's.

NEW YORK, NY.- As Jewish communities around the world are set to observe the two holiest holidays on the Jewish calendar – Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur – Sotheby’s announced that it will offer the earliest illustrated Hebrew Prayerbook to ever appear at auction. Produced in Southern Germany during the late thirteenth/early fourteenth century, The Luzzatto High Holiday Mahzor is a scribal masterpiece that attests to the vibrancy of the medieval Jewish community in Europe. Written in a distinctive and elegant Hebrew script by a Jewish scribe-artist in the region of Bavaria, over the ensuing centuries, The Luzzatto High Holiday Mahzor found new homes in Alsace, the Lake Constance region, Northern Italy, and France. Numerous notes and annotations handwritten in the manuscript’s margins bear witness to its many journeys through different countries. At each step of the volume’s journey, its new ... More
 

Louise Fishman at Krannert Art Museum, pictured with her 1995 painting Blonde Ambition, 2019. Photo by Julia Nucci Kelly.

CHAMPAIGN, IL.- A retrospective at Krannert Art Museum of the late abstract artist Louise Fishman’s works on paper will serve as an unexpected memorial to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumna. “A Question of Emphasis: Louise Fishman Drawing” opened Aug. 26, exactly one month after the artist’s death. It is the first retrospective of Fishman’s works on paper, spanning more than 50 years, and features many works of art that have never been shown. “The exhibition serves as a very fitting memorial, even though it was not created with this intent. It brings together ideas that Louise Fishman had been working with across her entire career – in particular, the complex and important networks of friends, family and ideas that she cultivated so deeply,” said Krannert Art Museum director Jon Seydl. Fishman earned an MFA in painting and printmaking at the U. of I. in 1965. She is known for large-scale pai ... More



Pandemics get forgotten. But not at this museum.   The manuscript Albert Einstein - Michele Besso offered in Christie's Exceptional Sale   Mingei International Museum reopens


Klaus Vogel, the director of the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden, Aug. 22, 2021. Andrew White/The New York Times.

DRESDEN (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In a display case at the German Hygiene Museum here is a pretty, blue glass bottle whose daintiness belies its purpose. Manufactured in 1904, it is a flask for tuberculosis patients to wear at the hip, so they could spit up infectious phlegm with relative discretion. (In Thomas Mann’s 1924 novel “The Magic Mountain,” residents of a sanitarium nickname this device Blue Heinrich.) Using a pocket spittoon rather than spitting on the floor was considered courteous at a time before TB could be treated with antibiotics, Carola Rupprecht, the head of the museum’s education department, explained on a recent tour, just as mask-wearing or coughing into your elbow are points of etiquette during the current pandemic. “The idea was to take hygienic measures to avoid the spread of the disease,” she said. The museum, in the Eastern city ... More
 

This manuscript documents a crucial stage in the development of the theory of general relativity. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.

PARIS.- Christie's welcomes Aguttes* to its Exceptional Sale on 23rd November, which will offer collectors an exceptional document : a 54-page autograph manuscript written by Albert Einstein and Michele Besso between June 1913 and early 1914. This manuscript documents a crucial stage in the development of the theory of general relativity, which reshaped modern understanding of how the universe works. As such, it is without doubt the most valuable Einstein manuscript ever offered at auction (estimate: €2,000,000-3,000,000). Adrien Legendre, Director of the Books and Manuscripts department, commented: "We are delighted that Christie's will be able to promote this extraordinary manuscript to its international network of collectors for our Exceptional Sale. Einstein's autographs from this period, and more generally from before 1919, are extremely rare ... More
 

Artist unknown, Rooster. Metal. Gift of Ted Cohen.

SAN DIEGO, CA.- After a three-year closure for a transformational renovation, Mingei International Museum will reopen September 3, 2021, with a dynamic slate of exhibitions, commissioned artworks and public programs. Mingei’s inaugural exhibitions will be Global Spirit—Folk Art from the Ted Cohen Collection and Humble Spirit / Priceless Art, both drawn from the Museum’s notable collection of folk art, craft and design from around the world. Located in San Diego’s historic Balboa Park, one of the most significant cultural locations in the American West, Mingei International Museum’s home is a 1915 Spanish Colonial building (reconstructed 1996), known as the “House of Charm.” The grand reopening will reveal a compelling new Museum of over 50,000 square feet. Enhancements include adding 10,000 square feet to exhibition and programming space and creating a new theater, education center, bistro, store and coffee bar. In 20 ... More


Six Germans charged over spectacular Dresden museum heist   'Zorba the Greek' composer Theodorakis dies aged 96   Exhibition at Pace Gallery brings together works by five artists


This file photo taken on November 25, 2019 shows a forensic expert searching the area within a police cordon in front of the Royal Palace that houses the historic Green Vault (Gruenes Gewoelbe) in Dresden, eastern Germany, after a robbery. Sebastian Kahnert / dpa / AFP.

BERLIN (AFP).- German prosecutors said Thursday they have charged six men over a spectacular heist in 2019 when more than a dozen diamond-encrusted artefacts worth over 100 million euros were snatched from a state museum. The suspects, all German nationals aged between 22 and 27 years old, are accused of aggravated gang robbery and aggravated arson. Two among them had previously been convicted for stealing in 2017 a 100-kilogramme (220-pound) gold coin from Berlin's Bode Museum -- another robbery that shook up Germany. Armed with a loaded revolver and an automatic-loading gun with a silencer, the men allegedly broke into the Green Vault museum in Dresden in the early hours of November 25, 2019, making away with 21 pieces of jewellery encrusted with more than 4,300 ... More
 

In this file photo taken on February 24, 2015 Greek composer and former politician, Mikis Theodorakis meets with Greece's Prime Minister at the composer's home in Athens. ORESTIS PANAGIOTOU / POOL / AFP.

ATHENS (AFP).- Renowned Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis, who scored the 1964 classic film "Zorba the Greek" and was an icon of resistance to the former military junta, died in Athens on Thursday aged 96. A prolific talent and political maverick, Theodorakis was adored in Greece for his inspirational music and defiance during the junta that ruled from 1967-74. Following the news of his death, the Greek flag was flown at half mast at the Acropolis on Thursday, while parliament observed a minute's silence. He was best-known around the world for his film title scores which also included "Z" in 1969 and "Serpico" in 1973. His work ranged from operas to choral music and popular songs, providing a soundtrack to the life of his country. In recent years, he suffered heart problems for which he had been hospitalised. Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said "today we lost a part of Greece's ... More
 

Andreas Eriksson, Körna, 2021. Egg oil tempra and oil on canvas, 195 cm × 180 cm (76-3/4" × 70-7/8"). © Andreas Eriksson, courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London.

GENEVA.- Pace Gallery presents Silence, an exhibition that brings together five artists who use abstraction as a means of engaging with meditative, spiritual and philosophical understandings of nature. On view September 3 – October 30, this exhibition features work by Andreas Eriksson, Brice Guilbert, Lee Ufan, Marina Perez Simão and Jean-Paul Riopelle. Despite their distinctive practices, these artists are united by a shared fascination with an artwork’s capacity to give form to their highly individual experience of the world. At its core, Silence is an exploration of the ways in which these artists use varying degrees of abstraction to negotiate the relationship between body, landscape and temporality. The fact that there is no figure present within their work and yet a vivid sense of presence abounds, is testament to the artists’ masterful handling of their chosen material. Central to Lee Ufan’s practice is the rela ... More


Eric Bradley joins WorthPoint as Vice President of Editorial Content and Public Relations   Phillips to offer property from The Halston Personal Archives   First major exhibition celebrating Nellie Mae Rowe in 20 years opens at the High Museum of Art


Bradley brings extensive background in antiques, collectibles, content development and communications to propel WorthPoint’s continued growth.

ATLANTA, GA.- WorthPoint, the world's largest online resource for researching, valuing and preserving antiques, art and collectibles, has hired Eric Bradley as Vice President of Editorial Content and Public Relations. Bradley joins WorthPoint after spending nearly nine years as Director of Public Relations for Heritage Auctions, the world's largest collectibles auctioneer, where he led successful publicity and marketing campaigns for special collections and its most valuable lots. Bradley is known throughout the antiques and collectibles trade as the author of 12 books, including the critically acclaimed “Mantiques: A Manly Guide to Cool Stuff,” “Harry Potter - The Unofficial Guide to the Collectibles of Our Favorite Wizard” and two “Picker's Pocket Guides: SIGNS & TOYS.” He is an eight-time editor of the annual “Antique Trader Antiques & Collectibles ... More
 

Joan Miró, Lucifer (Mourlot 1050), 1975. Image courtesy of Phillips.

NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced the sale of The Halston Personal Archives: The Lesley Frowick Collection to Benefit the Fashion Scholarship Initiative. Taking place on Phillips’ Gallery One platform from 9-16 September, the sale will feature 44 works of art, photography, and personal sketches from the acclaimed fashion designer’s personal collection. The Halston Archives remains the only definitive and comprehensive source on the man and his legacy as the personally appointed custodian of his private papers and effects. Lesley Frowick, Halston’s niece, CEO and founder of The Halston Archives, comments on the sale,” My uncle Halston was a deliberately generous person throughout his life, especially with his family. He knew exactly what he wanted to give to all of us particularly toward the end. Before his death he gave me his personal archives with a directive to write his story "you'll have everything you need" he told me. ... More
 

Nellie Mae Rowe (American, 1900-1982), Real Girl, 1980, color photograph, crayon, pen, and pencil on cardboard, 14 x 11 inches, gift of Judith Alexander, 2003.212. © 2021 Estate of Nellie Mae Rowe/High Museum of Art, Atlanta.

ATLANTA, GA.- For the last 15 years of her life, self-taught artist Nellie Mae Rowe (1900-1982) lived on a busy thoroughfare just outside of Atlanta and welcomed visitors to her “Playhouse,” which she decorated with found-object installations, handmade dolls, chewing-gum sculptures and hundreds of drawings. The High Museum of Art’s exhibition “Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe” (Sept. 3, 2021-Jan. 9, 2022), featuring nearly 60 works drawn from the Museum’s leading collection of her art, is the first major presentation of her work in more than 20 years and the first to consider her practice as a radical act of self-expression and liberation in the post-civil rights-era South. “Really Free” marks the Museum’s first partnership with the Art Bridges Foundation, an organization dedicated to expanding ... More




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New gallery space opens at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
OSLO.- Henie Onstad Kunstsenter announced the official opening of Gallery Merz, a new space dedicated to the German avant-garde artist Kurt Schwitters, his contemporaries, and the artists he later inspired. On September 3, Gallery Merz will be formally inaugurated with an event featuring a newly commissioned work by the Norwegian performance artist Marthe Ramm Fortun and a performance by the German born musician and performance artist Florian Kaplick, based on texts by Kurt Schwitters. The new 430-square-metre exhibition gallery is spread across two levels and is integrated into the original Henie Onstad Kunstsenter 1968 building. It is the result of a close collaboration between the internationally renowned architecture practice Snøhetta and the artist Luca Frei, who has been responsible for the exhibition design. Sustainability and the reuse of materials in existing rooms ... More

3rd edition of BoCA Biennial of Contemporary Arts challenges to "Prove You Are Human"
LISBON.- From 3 September to 17 October, BoCA reaffirms itself as an “extra-disciplinary” project that inspires changes and reflections, with a programme that combines different rhythms, projects and relationships with artists and institutions, leaning into a transition of processes of production and creation, integrated, plural and sustainable. Prove You Are Human, the central theme of the new edition of the Portuguese biennial, is about the activation of a radical empathy with history, presently rewriting and reinscribing collective narratives which will propose the opening of history to a biodiverse coexistence of multiple voices and respond to the urgencies of a contemporary world in crisis, mostly caused above all by climate changes. Given the dehumanisation we currently observe, we face the biggest challenge of our lives, which the pandemic has only made more evident: to make ... More

'Zorba's Dance', Greece's trademark theme music
PARIS (AFP).- Probably the best-known piece of Greek music in the world, the theme tune for the 1964 film "Zorba the Greek" was penned by celebrated composer Mikis Theodorakis, who has died aged 96. An instrumental, it is played and danced to around the world even today, coming to symbolise Greece almost to the point of cliche and contributing to the popularity of Greek culture. Commonly referred to as "Zorba's Dance", it is the signature tune of the film in which an uptight English writer travelling in Crete finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba. In the famous final scene, Anthony Quinn, as Zorba, dances on the beach the "sirtaki", also referred to as "Zorba's Dance", to the strains of the traditional guitar-like bouzouki. The dance was choreographed specially for the film and is a combination of slow and fast rhythms and of two styles of Greek ... More

Solo exhibition of new work by Sofia Mitsola opens at Pilar Corrias
LONDON.- Pilar Corrias is presenting a solo exhibition of new work by Sofia Mitsola, running 2 September – 2 October 2021. The exhibition is Mitsola’s second solo presentation with the gallery and explores a myth written by the artist, following the adventures of warrior protagonists, sisters Aqua and Marina, in the semiaquatic world they inhabit. The exhibition includes new paintings and charcoal works. Conceived firstly through drawings, Mitsola’s protagonists have developed across multiple media. Her figures are set on simple geometric backgrounds with intensely bright and gem-like colours painted in translucent and opaque layers. They are depicted naked and much larger than human scale. For this exhibition Mitsola has adopted a looser way of painting than in her previous work, using turpentine washes to imply her semiaquatic world, as well as opting either fiery or cooler tones to ... More

New head of communications & marketing announced at the Kunstmuseum Bern and Zentrum Paul Klee
BERN.- In August 2021, communication expert and art historian Anne-Cécile Foulon took over as the new Head of Communications & Marketing at the Kunstmuseum Bern and Zentrum Paul Klee. Her previous positions include Head of Communications and Art Education at the Max Ernst Museum in Brühl (Germany) and Head of Communications & Development at the art auction house Karl & Faber in Munich. The 48-year-old- French-born studied at the University of Angers (France) and obtained her doctorate at the Sorbonne in Paris and at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. She later expanded her expertise with parttime postgraduate studies in business administration and operational management at the FernUniversität in Hagen (Germany), as well as with her participation in the Museion21. programme for museum managers. Anne-Cécile Foulon ... More

Paralympian, nurse, musician: Manami Ito, Japan's show-stealing violinist
SHIZUOKA (AFP).- Haunting notes stream from Manami Ito's violin as she gracefully draws her bow back and forth, clasping it with her specially designed prosthetic arm. The Japanese musician enthralled a nation with her brief but show-stealing performance at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Paralympics, and playing violin isn't even her day job. The 36-year-old is a qualified nurse and a former Paralympian swimmer who has spent the years since she lost her right arm in a motorbike accident defying her naysayers and overcoming every obstacle before her. "There were always people who told me: 'No, you can't do it. It's impossible,'" she told AFP at her mother's home by a lush green riverbank. "Every time I faced that kind of wall, I thought to myself: 'They are saying that because no one has done it before. So I will do it.'" But that wasn't always the way Ito felt, particularly in the ... More

ABBA thrills fans with comeback album after decades apart
LONDON (AFP).- Nearly four decades after disbanding and vowing never to get back together, Swedish superstars ABBA on Thursday announced a musical comeback with a new album and a London show featuring their performances captured by digital avatars. ABBA notched up over 400 million album sales over 50 years despite parting ways in 1982 and resolutely resisting all offers to work together again -- until now. "We have made a new album with ABBA!" the band's Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson announced via a video presentation in London, delivering the news fans have waited decades for. The pop maestros had a string of hits in the 1970s and early 1980s after winning Eurovision in 1974 with "Waterloo". But on Thursday, Ulvaeus and Andersson put an end to the suspense, following hints that something was in the pipeline. After the video announcement, both men ... More

Colonial-era architectural heritage at risk in Tunis
TUNIS (AFP).- In the centre of Tunisia's capital, dilapidated colonial-era art deco and art nouveau buildings face demolition as heritage preservation falls prey to a lack of planning and eager developers. Imed Tahenti is the only remaining tenant of a building surrounded by Haussmann-style architecture just a stone's throw from Tunis' main thoroughfare. Since 1956, his family has rented the ground floor apartment, an art deco gem featuring high ceilings, artisanal tiling and winding staircases. Tahenti is the last resident to have resisted the pressure to leave. A broker recently announced he now wants the building vacated ahead of selling it, after buying it decades ago. "I've held out for a long time," said Tahenti, a baker in his 60s, expressing fear that the owner would demolish the building and put up offices. Tahenti said he should have been informed about the sale, adding that under ... More

Librairie Marian Goodman presents a new limited edition by Tacita Dean
PARIS.- Librairie Marian Goodman launched Monet Hates Me, a new limited edition by Tacita Dean, which i being presented for the first time from 1 September to 9 October. Designed as ‘an exhibition in a box,’ Monet Hates Me is an edition of one hundred clothbound and foil embossed boxes, each containing fifty objects, some unique to each box. The source material was found by Tacita Dean in the Getty Research Institute Special Collections in Los Angeles while she was artist-in-residence in 2014-15. Her research project at the Getty was entitled “The importance of objective chance as a tool of research,” which meant allowing chance to guide her research in Special Collections. On her first visit to the collection, she pointed randomly to a cardboard box on a high shelf, which turned out to contain the key to Auguste Rodin’s studio entrance in Hôtel Biron. During the COVID-19 ... More

Artworks by Portuguese artist Paula Rego go on display at National Museum Cardiff
CARDIFF.- Two important artworks by Portuguese-born artist Paula Rego (b.1935) have gone on display at National Museum Cardiff from 2 September 2021. The works have been acquired by the Derek Williams Trust for their collection in partnership with Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales. The Trust has acquired two of Rego’s pastels The Visitation and The Death of the Virgin Mary from the series representing the Life Cycle of the Virgin Mary, which she created in 2002 after being invited by the Portuguese President to make work for the chapel in the official Palace of Bélem. Rego completed twelve works, eight to be installed in the chapel and four (slightly larger) to keep for herself. The two works will be part of the collection of the Derek Williams Trust who work closely with Amgueddfa Cymru to collect post-1900 fine and applied art. The Trust collects and supports the collection ... More

New York City Ballet taps Diana Taylor to lead its board
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Appointing a new leader to guide the company through its much-awaited reopening, the New York City Ballet voted to approve Diana L. Taylor — a finance leader and the partner of former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg — as the new chair of its board of directors, the company announced Wednesday. Taylor will be the first woman to assume the role in the company’s 73-year history. As Bloomberg’s companion throughout his three terms as mayor, Taylor performed the typical duties of a first lady (such as attending City Ballet galas) while also leading her own career in government and finance. During Bloomberg’s tenure, she served as the superintendent of banking for the state of New York in Gov. George Pataki’s administration, then as a managing director for a private equity firm. As for dance, Taylor recalls that her parents had a ... More

Coming to terms with the legacy of Rick James
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- It’s no question that Rick James is a legend for helping bring “punk-funk” to the mainstream with classics like “Mary Jane” and “Super Freak”; for breaking down the color barrier in rock ’n’ roll; and for confronting the whiteness of MTV in the ’80s. But how do you reckon with the man who is just as famous for committing sexual assault and perpetuating misogyny in the music industry? To Sacha Jenkins, director of the fascinating new documentary, “Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James,” the answer is complicated. “I think it’s undeniable that he was a brilliant, genius musician and artist, and I think it’s undeniable that he had demons, and it’s undeniable that he did some really horrible, unsavory things,” Jenkins said on a recent video call from Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. “So, how do you reconcile the two?” Jenkins talks about his work ... More

When the parking lot is its own strange trip
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Parking lots outside Grateful Dead shows were the stuff of lore, and that tradition has continued with Dead & Company, the post-Jerry Garcia incarnation of the band featuring John Mayer. This summer, as the band tours the United States, the party outside the show is alive and well, each with a unique flavor. In New York City, when you’re exiting the subway at Citi Field, you can see Shakedown Street — as the legendary lot scene is known (named after a 1978 album by the Grateful Dead) — opposite the stadium. For a show in Boulder, Colorado, you’re on a college campus. In Saratoga Springs, New York, at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, you’re in a state park on grass in the woods by cornfields. On Aug. 27 and Aug. 28, photographer OK McCausland captured the culture outside two shows: in Saratoga Springs and at Hershey Park in ... More


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On a day like today, American architect Louis Sullivan was born
September 03, 1856. September 3, 1856.- Louis Henry Sullivan (September 3, 1856 - April 14, 1924) was an American architect, and has been called the "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism". He is considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper, was an influential architect and critic of the Chicago School, was a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School. Along with Henry Hobson Richardson and Frank Lloyd Wright, Sullivan is one of "the recognized trinity of American architecture". He received the AIA Gold Medal in 1944. In this image: Shoppers pass a building designed by celebrated architect Louis Sullivan, Friday, Sept. 1, 2006, in Chicago. The building, a National Historic Landmark, for now houses the Carson Pirie Scott department store. Chicago is kicking off a six-week-long 150th birthday celebration this weekend for Sullivan who is sometimes called the "father of modernism."

  
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