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Article: Degas' `final act,' in all its splendor; If you go What: "Degas: Beyond Impressionism" Where: Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan Ave. When: through Jan. 5 Hours: Viewing hours are 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday; 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday; 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission: Dated, timed tickets are required. Tickets are $8 Monday-Thursday, $10 Friday-Sunday. Telephone ticket orders carry a surcharge of $2.75 per ticket. There is no surcharge for tickets acquired at the museum. Phone: To order tickets, call (800) 929- 5800. To become an Art Institute member and qualify for free tickets (two per individual, four per family) to the exhibit, call (630) 889- 9821. For groups of 15 or more, call (630) 792-0800. For hotel packages, call (312) 443-3944.
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- October 13, 1996
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Simply to speak the word aloud is a sensuous delight. It starts
with a touch of the tongue to the palate just behind the front
teeth, bounces rapidly back toward the uvula and ends up, audibly,
with the gentle exhalation of two quick puffs of vibrating air:
"Degas!"
Ironic, isn't it, that a man whose very name evokes thoughts of
balletic grace and physical desirability should have been, in his
old age, a seeming recluse who lived, chastely and
claustrophobically, amid glowing studies of women bathing and
combing their hair?
A mystery in his own time and a myth in ours, Hilaire Germain
Edgar Degas (1834-1917) is being given an adoring, and instructive,
tribute at the Art Institute of ...
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