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Abstraction

December 21st, 2006

Artist Sherrie Levine said of her work to the Journal of Contemporary Art: “I am interested in making a work that has as much aura as its reference.

Exposed Online

November 2nd, 2006

increasingly, MySpace profiles are being used for less social purposes. MySpace’s astronomical growth has led the site to be taken seriously by many companies, and changes to the site have made it far easier to search the content of profiles. Businesses and journalists are using the site to find out about youth trends, while employers, educational institutions and law enforcement officials are starting to use the site as a means of finding information about specific individuals.

It Better Be Brief: News from Around the World and Even Farther

November 2nd, 2006

Reasons for voting, reasons for impeachment, UK campaign against Muslims and "the veil," US to militarize space, sentencing of civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart.

Women in the Arts Awards

November 2nd, 2006

Kathy Richland Pick and Tricia Moreau Sweeney win grant from National Museum of Women in the Arts, in an event developed by board member and SAIC Arts Administration graduate student Michal Russo.

Transcending Photography

November 2nd, 2006

Sally Mann’s photographs, idyllic depictions of both her children and the Southern landscape, are created on an enlarger that is over sixty years old and held together by duct tape. Mann was more than willing to share this and other trade secrets with the sizable crowd that gathered to hear her speak about her work. “It’s like snake handling,” she said, describing her practice, “there’s potential for both danger and transcendence.”

So The Conversation Goes

November 2nd, 2006

A conversation between photographers Tina Barney and Larry Sultan regarding their artistic practices over the past decades at the Art Institute of Chicago, an opening lecture at the exhibition "So the Story Goes." The formal dialogue between the two highlighted similarities between their works, particularly their common interests in family and the representation of everyday experience.

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