Carol Colclough Strickland

at Chicago Cultural Center

Events

Recent Feature Stories in print and online in Christian Science Monitor:
"Theater for the 99%", www.csmonitor.com/​The-Culture/​Music/​2012/​0125/​Theater-for-the-99
“The Chef’s Art,” Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 19, 2011 (http:/​/​www.csmonitor.com/​The-Culture/​Arts/​2011/​1221/​The-chef-s-art)
“Sean Scully Shows New Stripes at the Chazen,” Art in America, Nov. 28, 2011 (http:/​/​www.artinamericamagazine.com/​news-opinion/​finer-things/​2011-11-28/​sean-scully-chazen-museum/​)
“Designing for Disaster,” Christian Science Monitor, October 31, 2011
(http:/​/​www.csmonitor.com/​The-Culture/​2011/​1214/​Designing-for-disaster)
“Moshe Safdie, Activist Architect,” Private Journey Magazine, July, 2011
“A Photo Fest Takes over Toronto,” [Ed Burtynsky], Art in America, May 27, 2011]
http:/​/​www.artinamericamagazine.com/​news-opinion/​news/​2011-05-27/​toronto-edward-burtynsky-contact/​
“Designing for Dignity” [Moshe Safdie], Christian Science Monitor, May 30, 2011
"Can an Artist Change Society?" [Ai Weiwei], C.S. Monitor, May 9, 2011
“Design Boosts the Bottom Line,” March 14, 2011
“Painters of Light: Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand,” Feb. 14, 2011
“The Art of a Crowd: Wiki-Art Erases the Line between Artist and Audience,” January 17, 2011
“The Women of Pop [Female artists],” Nov. 15, 2010
“Riding Shotgun: Lee Friedlander Photographs from the Car,” Nov. 3,
2010
“Mirror Man” [Edward Albee], Sept. 13, 2010
“Creating Art from Birds, Bugs, and Bones,” June 21, 2010
“A Master’s Black and White World [Cartier-Bresson],” May 3, 2010
“Tibet Tour: Go to the Heart of its Buddhist Sacred Art,” April 15, 2010
“Photoshop and Facebook, Victorian Style [photocollage albums], March 15, 2010
“Tino Was Here: Is it art? For elusive performance artist Tino Sehgal, it’s immaterial,” Feb. 14, 2010
“The Mind of Tim Burton,” December 13, 2009
“Robert Frank: His Photos Recorded an Unvarnished America,” November 22, 2009
“A Rough Ride for the ‘Model Minority’: Museum of Chinese in America Punctures Old Stereotypes and Some Still Lurking,” November 15, 2009
“Madeleine Albright: Read My Pins,” October 9, 2009
“Taking the Artistic Pulse of Generation Y,” May 29, 2009
“Quixotic Land Art” [sculptor Andrew Rogers], May 10, 2009
“Reality, Imagined” [Western photography], April 26, 2009
“Orchids with a Brazilian Flair: The Bronx Pays Tribute to Pioneering Landscape Architect Roberto Burle Marx,” March 20, 2009

In Press: "Cultural Tourism as Economic Engine"

Carol Strickland is writing a historical novel based on the scandals and achievements of 6th-century Empress Theodora and Emperor Justinian, rulers of Byzantium, antiquity's most controversial (and least known) power couple.

More stories are viewable on http:/​/​www.csmonitor.com

Selected Works

Nonfiction
Succinct, accessible survey of art history, "a browser’s delight, as well as an authoritative reference."
Architecture A-Z: styles, stars, movers, and movements that define the history of architecture.
As introduction or refresher course, provides a brisk overview of literary achievement through the ages.