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Article: Two for the road. (Arts Club of Chicago holds exhibitions of Daniel Buren and Richard Pettibone)

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September 1, 1995
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This spring the 79-year-old Arts Club of Chicago, along with several other important architectural and cultural institutions, lost its home to the ominous commercial development that is rapidly changing the face of Chicago's Magnificent Mile. In its place will sprout a $100-million retail and entertainment complex, spearheaded by developer John Buck, leaving little, if any, of Daniel Burnham's original 1909 plan intact [see A.i.A, April'95].

Housed within Philip B. Maher's Erskine-Danforth Building, the Arts Club had been a mainstay of North Michigan Avenue since it moved to 109 East Ontario Street in 1951. The Arts Club facility contained a suspended staircase, ...

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