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George Lucas is giving an informal lecture and question-and-answer session on November 5 at the Rubloff Auditorium, Art Institute of Chicago, at 5:30 p.m.

Acrylic visual clutter flows across Mortenson's canvas like salmon ramming into each other as they stream the wrong way to mate, resulting in the same confusing fervor.

Free food always tastes better, but $1.50 for a fruit salad? $5.75 for a pound of fresh salad? Yeesh.

This fall, SAIC’s Betty Rymer gallery is doing all this in literal and figurative ways for fluXspace, a series of projects and exhibitions that force the question: What is a gallery?

The implicit and explicit rules, regulations and mores of the art institution—be it a school or a gallery—are always present.