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ART
Larry J. Feinberg
Clio interview, January 2003
Larry J. Feinberg, two time Northwestern graduate, and Art Institute of Chicago curator, has given Chicago's art lovers their best holiday present in years with his exhibit, The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence.

Hiroshi Sugimoto
Now through June 1, 2003
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) is exhibiting the latest portfolio by Japanese-born photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto, entitled "Architecture".
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BOOKSTORES
CityFiles Bookstore
Earn As You Learn by Deanna Isaacs:
"CityFiles, the all-Chicago bookstore, memorabilia shop, and gallery that writer Rich Cahan and his wife, broadcaster Cate Cahan, opened last fall, is curiously located at the corner of Greenleaf and Wesley in a mostly residential part of Evanston."

CARTOGRAPHY
David Rumsey
New York Times article, April 2003
David Rumsey, who made headlines by putting online his collection of 8,000 historic maps, has a new mission. He is in the process of making available the collection of the East Asian Library at the University of California, Berkeley, considered to be the largest collection of Japanese historical cartography outside of Japan. Julie Lew tells the story for the New York Times.

CULTURAL COMMENTARY
Thomas Frank
Clio Event, February 2003
List of articles and books by and about Thomas Frank, founding editor of The Baffler and author of The Conquest of Cool and One Market Under God speaks at Northwestern University.

Danny Postel
List of articles and interviews by Danny Postel, a writer currently at The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Robert W. Fuller
Clio Event, April 2003
Bio and excerpt from Robert Fuller's book Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank (New Society, 2003). Mr. Fuller is former President of Oberlin College, he addresses a common and frequently overlooked form of discrimination: Rankism.

Cass Sunstein
Clio Event, May 2003
Link to bio and excerpt from Cass Sunstein, University of Chicago Law School Professor, author of Republic.com (Princeton, 2001), will discuss his work.
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DESIGN
John Heskett
Clio Event, March 2003
List of articles and books by and about John Heskett, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) professor who discussed his book Toothpicks & Logos, Design in Everyday Life at a Clio Event in March 2003.
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FILM
A.O. Scott
Clio Event, October 2003
Bio. and reviews from New York Times film critic A.O. Scott
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PHOTOGRAPHY
David Burnett
May 19th, 2003
Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism presented a Crain Lecture Series event on David Burnett titled, "Measures of Time: Photography 1963-2002".