What the scrappy, all-inclusive Society of Independent Artists is to Manhattan, the No-Jury Society of Artists is to Chicago. Last month the 12th annual No-Jury show was scheduled to exhibit its 393 pictures in a large room on The Fair store's eighth floor. Last week, after a controversy on matters of artistic propriety had been waged between the No-Jury exhibition directors and the store's executives, the 200 artists picked up their canvases, walked out of The Fair ("A Great Store in a Great City"), opened their show instead in an old mansion on...
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