Still More Holiday Shopping

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Wander over to Milwaukee Av. and you'll discover that Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art contains a shop within its' folds,  The Intuit Store.   Here you'll find all manner of gifts and stocking stuffers such as a menagerie of brightly painted animals and insects made from recycled tin (see  praying mantis in photo), bottle cap necklaces, unusual handbags, Mexican malagres (good luck healing charms) and more.

There's a huge assortment of books on outsider art and related subjects.

While you're there you won't be able to resist the exhibit running through January 6, "Take Me To The River" featuring a group of "big hitter" outsiders that inspired the creation of Intuit 15 years ago.  Included are Chicago's own Henry Darger and Lee Godie together with Howard Finster and many more.

Ken Burkhart has done a fine job of curating so even if you know the field well, expect to be surprised by some of the inclusions.  Both galleries are used for this exhibit, and admission, of course, is free.

Intuit now has a well organized study center, a non-circulating library that includes books, catalogs, periodicals, slides, photos, videotapes and archival material, enabling students and scholars to peruse info on an artist or a special area of interest.  An advance appointment is needed for the study center.  Access www.art.org for details about that and other Intuit info.

Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, 756 N. Milwaukee Av.  Hours Tues-Saturday 11-5 (Thursday 11-7:30).         

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The shop at the Archicenter, home to the Chicago Architectural Foundation at 224 S. Michigan  has swell gift ideas, many related to architecture in Chicago, but others with broader appeal plus loads of stocking stuffers.

Of particular punch are the newly arrived jumbo watches by S.T.A.M.P.S. with a great graphic design sense (see photo at left).  Apparently the dial can be used alone as a small wall or desk clock or on one's wrist, more or less like a stamp.  All this style for $48, including the watch band.  Other watches may be of some interest.  They're generally more serious.

Also new is the book, "Richard Nickel's Chicago" by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams, complete with 250 photographs.  You may know that Nickel died in the rubble of the Chicago Stock Exchange, ironically while on one of his missions to catalog fine Chicago buildings before they were demolished.

The Archicenter at the same address is headquarters for fine tours of the city, exhibitions and educational programs for children.

Chicago Architectural Foundation, 224 S. Michigan, 312.922.3432.

That's it for this year but chicagoTips hopes you have a fine holiday season.

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So funny, I think.*