SAWDUST STORIES: Still life with Millie
Marcus Chen
Managing Editor · Friday, October 9, 2026 at 4:00 AM · 1 min read

I struck out for Chicago with a single mission: to experience, firsthand, Georges Seurat’s famous painting “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.” I’d like to say this trip was inspired by my appreciation for Seurat’s pointillism…