Yearly Archives: 2008

The current, commonly accepted definition of gender is archaic and perhaps even dangerous.

The Holiday Art Sale is an annual event providing students an opportunity to sell work. Students receive eighty-five percent of sales. The Student Association receives fifteen percent, which covers the cost of the sale, while any extra goes towards other student projects. This film shows the 2008 Preview Party for the 20th Annual Holiday Art Sale. Tickets for the event cost $25; subsequent nights were free.

Mr. Soymilk and Ms. Donut travel through time in their honeymoon.

The DIY Chicago art scene has recently expanded by one more venue, accepting into its many variegated folds a small space in the West Loop called Spoke

The Graphic Imperative, a traveling retrospective of international political posters from 1965 to 2005, is currently showing at Loyola University.

Tucked into the ninth floor of the Sharp Building, the Fiber and Material Studies Department looks more like a chemistry lab, with its state-of-the-art equipment, machinery, dyes and emulsions, than it does a women’s knitting circle. F Newsmagazine sat down with Department Chairs Ann Wilson and Joan Livingstone for a peek into the seams and inner workings of the Department.

Each year the National Museum of Mexican Art mounts a thematic exhibit to coincide with Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). This year’s exhibit commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Tlatelolco Massacre.

As you pack up for the end of the semester and ship off to wherever it is that you came from (or wherever it is that you are planning to visit for the holidays), we thought we’d give you some inspiration for exhibitions to see while you’re away from the lovely Art Institute. So, just in case New York City, San Francisco, Miami or even just Milwaukee is your New Year’s destination, here are our picks for a good stop during your vacay.

F Newsmagazine sat down with Terri Kapsalis to find out just what the SAIC class “The Wandering Uterus,” is about.

Every once in a while we are confronted with a work of art that is arrestingly beautiful but are unable to comprehend how it creates its appeal.

Art schoolers think about smoking and quitting.

About a week before Hurricane Gustav hit in September, a number of dark, faintly humorous artworks appeared around New Orleans.

Does SAIC alienate illustrators?

The overwhelming popularity of our new president has generated a fervor for politics that this country hasn’t seen since the anti-Vietnam War sentiment of the 60s.