Yearly Archives: 2007

What's the matter with the Survey of Ancient to Modern Art & Architecture?

What's the matter with the Survey of Ancient to Modern Art & Architecture?

Jasper Johns tries to convince us why Gray matters at the Art Institute.

That's not an LSD flashback--that's macramé!

The phrase “Good coffee in Loop” is something of an oxymoron. On my arrival in Chicago, I was told that thankfully there is one place in Loop where good coffee can be found—in a café that isn’t too much of a chain. Intelligentsia. Hurrah.

I'd like to think my combination of good health and youth gives my sweat a desirable, fresh-smelling quality. Something marketable and reminiscent of late spring. Something pink. But I'm no Sarah Jessica Parker. If I don't use deodorant, I stink like cooked onions by the end of the day. So I use the stuff liberally.

When I first approached Ahmed about an article for F News at the September opening of The Common Sense, he expressed concern that most of the publicity he had received positioned his work as “evangelical” in nature.

See, there’s a thought that us art students are repelled by the word “government.” So student life replaced it with “association,” and voila!

By Australian law it is required that all eligible citizens register to vote.

These people usually know they don’t have a chance in Hades, but they’ll be darned if they don’t try.

AndrewandAndrea’s alterations on consumerist culture have been shown at the Windsor Biennial in Canada and included an Is That All There Is? line of coffee mugs, t-shirts, stress balls, note pads and cocktail napkins.

Nate Chung, a fi rst-year graduate in the MFA program, saw his artwork evolve into protest signs that captured the attention of hundreds, if not thousands, of people in his home state of Hawaii.

To have a conversation about gay and lesbian film is to talk about the representation of gays and lesbians in film. Which is to say that the terms “gay” and “lesbian” only speak to sexuality.

Instead of a table with a bowl of fruit, we find the sneer of a wrestler.

While studying in Prague for six weeks, SAIC students Ryan McMurran and Shira Soskel took more than 500 photos. The result is a fascinating display of diverse images.