Art Institute Of Chicago Puns

A post currently (as of the time of this writing) trending near the top of 🔥 Hot is a crosspost that asserts "All 35 Cases In The RH Lawsuit Were Transferred To A Favourable Judge, By This Man, John W Nichols. His Wife Is A Trustee At The Art Institute Of Chicago, Where Kenny Kindly Let’s Them Display His Expensive Art."

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John W. Nichols is the man who signed Filing 44 of Moody et al v. Robinhood Financial, LLC et al on April 2, 2021. Sign here, and here, and here...

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Someone else can explain exactly what that means as I do not have a wrinkly brain for law stuff (only butt stuff).

And what business does John W. Nichols have signing anything? Who does he think he is?

He probably thinks he's the Clerk of the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, but that's only because he is the Clerk of the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. Well, hello Mr. Fancy Pants clerk man

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As evidence of the connection between Clerk of the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation John W. Nichols and Kenny "the most unsophisticated man in Chicago" Griffin, the original post (aka the post within the post within this post, cue Inception score...) contains this image:

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From where does this image derive? Who is the smiling man in the red necktie, whose eyes seem to be perpetually 85% closed, being lovingly squeezed (the squeeze hasn't squoze, by the way) by our boy Kenny Mayo, a man incapable of blinking? Why is the sky blue? Why is water wet? Why did Judas, rat to Romans while Jesus slept? *Wu-Tang is forever. Wu-Tang is for the children.*

Well, it seems that image comes from this website: Scroll to the bottom

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I know this is a longshot, but five or ten years ago I was visiting the AIC and I stumbled on a darkened room (I think it was just off the room where they have some Mondrians displayed, but I could be misremembering) where they were playing a "cartoon" (for lack of a better word) in the style of Merrie Melodies, maybe around the early 1930s.

It had singing forest creatures and a very catchy song, and I remember being mesmerized by it (I would have been around 50 or so at the time...I'm pretty low brow, I guess). The animation was beautiful. I would recognize the song if I heard it...it was romantic and bouncy, and when I got home that day I was able to find one clip of the song on youtube from an old B&W movie, so it was not a song that had been specifically written for the animation.

The weird thing was, in terms of style the cartoon was so perfect and spot on that I remember thinking "Where did they find this perfect example of a Merrie Melodie that is not actually a Merrie Melodie?"

Seriously, I was thinking it was something that had been found in some archive and restored, and it was only later that the penny dropped and I realized that a modern artist had created it recently. I am slow on the uptake, I know.

Three months later I took my young daughter to the Art Institute, and was disappointed to find that the animation was gone...it seemed like the room was gone as well!

I do not remember the name of the artist/creator, the name of the song, or the name of the work. Past attempts to google info have failed.

Any leads or info? I suspect it is not available to view on the internet, but I can always hope.

Thank you in advance.

is unionizing. Museum & College. 🙌

See here (WSJ gated but quoted in full below) or here for an ungated summary:

>In museum-speak, a docent is a trained volunteer who greets visitors and guides them through the collection, filling in details of the artists’ lives, speaking to the visual elements of the work on display and adding art-history context. The Art Institute used to have more than 100 docents, 82 of them active, until Veronica Stein, an executive director of learning and engagement, sent a Sept. 3 email canning all of them. In gratitude for their long, unpaid service—averaging 15 years each—the Art Institute offered the involuntarily retired guides a two-year free pass to the museum.
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>The apparent problem was that the Art Institute docents were mostly older white women of above-average financial means and with plenty of time on their hands. The institute needs to go to a more professional model, Ms. Stein explained, “in a way that allows community members of all income levels to participate, responds to issues of class and income equity, and does not require financial flexibility.”
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>The museum’s docent program was established in 1961, an initiative of the Woman’s Board, a support group for the museum, and the Junior League of Chicago. For more than 60 years, crews of docent volunteers have introduced children, donors and museum members to the Art Institute’s holdings—which include classics such as Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” (1930) and Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks” (1942).
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>“We were surprised, we were disappointed” by the sudden firing, said Gigi Vaffis, president of the docent council, in an interview with radio station WBEZ. “There is an army of very highly skilled docents that are willing and ready and able to continue with arts education.”
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>The Art Institute docents received rigorous training. In a Sept. 13 letter protesting their firing, the docents noted that each of them had “engaged in eighteen months of twice-a-week training to qualify as a docent, five years of continual research and writing to meet the criteria of 13 museum content areas, and monthly and bi-weekly trainings to further educate ourselves with the materials, processes and cultural context” of the Art Institute’s collection.
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>“It was nearly a full-time job,” said Di

https://www.wbez.org/stories/art-institute-of-chicago-ends-its-volunteer-docent-program/bb71f6da-5825-4d30-a47f-c334aac564a6

This is flagrant racial discrimination against whites, and we are told we are supposed to like it. Fuck that, and fuck them!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10123557/White-volunteers-fired-Chicago-museum-people-color-hired-job.html

what’s the work like? I might get an admin role there (allah willing), so I want to see if anyone has been through this before

By Hannah Nightingale Washington DC October 17, 2021 3:03 PM 3 Mins Reading

On Friday, it was reported that in early September, the Art Institute of Chicago fired all of its docents, or trained volunteer museum guides and greeters, for being "mostly older white women of above-average financial means."

According to the Wall Street Journal, on Sept. 3, Veronica Stein, an executive director of learning and engagement at the museum, sent an email to the more than 100 docents the museum has, firing all of them.

"In gratitude for their long, unpaid service—averaging 15 years each—the Art Institute offered the involuntarily retired guides a two-year free pass to the museum," wrote the Wall Street Journal.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Stein said that the museum needs to move "in a way that allows community members of all income levels to participate, responds to issues of class and income equity, and does not require financial flexibility," reportedly pointing to the predominantly white and above-average financial means of the museum guides as an issue.

A museum docent is a guide who serves as an educator who brings people on tours of the museums' artworks, giving details into the works and the artists' backgrounds. The position is usually a volunteer one.

Gigi Vaffis, president of the docent council, said in an interview with radio station WBEZ that they were "disappointed" in the actions of the museum. "We were surprised, we were disappointed" by the sudden firing, said Vaffis, adding: "There is an army of very highly skilled docents that are willing and ready and able to continue with arts education."

According to a Sept. 13 letter protesting their firing, according to the Wall Street Journal, the docents noted that each of them had "engaged in eighteen months of twice-a-week training to qualify as a docent, five years of continual research and writing to meet the criteria of 13 museum content areas, and monthly and bi-weekly trainings to further educate ourselves with the materials, processes and cultural context" of the Art Institute's collection.

Dietrich Klevorn, a docent since 2012, said that "It was nearly a full-time job." The Wall Street Journal noted that "Klevorn was the only docent who agreed to speak to the Journal, rejecting the institute's request that they not talk to the media."

"We had to spend a lot of time physically in the museum studying works of art, researching, putting tours together," she said. "We had to be very compr