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Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art

2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622, USA

Touch-activated kinetic sculptures and Ukrainian-American abstract art in a Ukrainian Village gallery.

This guide to the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago's Ukrainian Village starts with a kinetic steel sculpture you're invited to touch and set swaying. It follows sculptor Kostiantyn Milonadis, who left Soviet Ukraine in 1951 and believed art should invite touch, and the circle of artists who founded the institute in 1971 rather than let one style speak for their culture. You'll also hear about painter Gladys Nilsson's seventieth birthday show here in 2010, a crowded watercolor self-portrait with her husband painting her nose.

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