Art Institute adds Warhol’s ‘Empire’ to skyline Friday
If you look up at the Aon Center Friday night and think you see the Empire State Building, don’t worry that someone slipped something into your drink.
From 6 p.m. to 2 a.m., the modern skyscraper overlooking Millennium Park will be acting as a movie screen onto which the Art Institute of Chicago will be projecting Andy Warhol’s eight-hour silent, black-and-white epic “Empire,” which consists of one long, unbroken shot of New York’s Empire State Building. Said to be the first outdoor U.S. screening of this landmark — if not exactly action-packed — film, the event marks the very public, logistically challenging kickoff to the Art Institute’s new exhibition “Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977,” which opens to members Saturday and to the public Tuesday.
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