With the demise of pay phones, I’m glad to see one depicted in the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection. “Pay Phone in Cafe, from The Plain of Smokes” by Kenneth Price, 1981 This artwork appeared randomly in the Chrome extension, “Art Tab”. Every time I open a new Chrome tab, it shows a random artwork from the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection. I tried to find more artwork featuring pay phones in the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection by googling “pay phone” and “art institute of chicago”. Despite none coming up, there was an interesting result. Phone numbers for pay phones at the Art Institute of Chicago In the Google results was an old, and I mean old, webpage listing all the phone numbers for the pay phones at the museum: Certainly, there are no pay phones in the museum anymore, right? I might call all these numbers to see what they are used for now. Side-note: speaking of pay phones… Years ago, I did a series of artworks on pay phones, “Call to God“. When I visited a town,…
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