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The Best-Kept Secret in the Chicago Art World Is a B-School

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A well-known secret among Chicago’s art lovers is that one of the best collections of contemporary art in the city is not at a museum. It’s at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. The school boasts about 500 works that represent about 85 artists in its building, the Charles M. Harper Center.

Sprinkled throughout the six floors of the Harper Center, the art is not meant to be an investment, which is what most would expect from a business school, or even decoration.