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Monthly Archives: September, 2008

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Undergraduate Film Festival – video

Ya-Ting Hsu -
The Undergraduate Film Festival is the only student run film festival at SAIC. It is put on by Eye & Ear Clinic, Experimental Film...
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Registering to Vote at SAIC – video

Ya-ting Hsu and Rachel Sima Harris -
F Newsmagazine interviews SAIC students as they register to vote.
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Halloween rats set loose in Old Town

Jesse Stein -
Are you stumped for an idea for your Halloween costume, but relish the chance to partake in a bit of public spectacle?
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Smokers targeted at Sharp Building

Julie Rodruigez -
Campus security recently issued a statement banning smokers from the sidewalk outside the Sharp Building on Michigan Avenue. Many students have few thoughts to offer about the ban.
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Summer Reading

Brook Jonquil -
We read these books so you didn’t have to.
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Soft geometry: REVIEW

Jesse Stein -
The premise of the Angles in America exhibit at the Rhona Hoffman Gallery is a "soft" take on geometry and abstraction in American art.
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Jim Cuno responds

Justin Rowe -
The Art Institute director talks to F Newsmagazine about his humble beginnings, the politics of fundraising, and "this great big wonderful world called the history of art."
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Art News Briefs

Natalie Edwards -
From an executed prisoner becoming fish food to Damien Hirst's setting a new auction record, see what's happening in the art world.
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Art and the Election

Emily Baumann -
The current wave of street art interventions, particularly in support of the Obama campaign, is reinserting art’s presence into the political sphere.
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VauteCouture: A Chicago Fashion Experiment

Paul Elitzik -
A Chicago fashion "experiment" is seeking SAIC students to design their first line of glamorous, conscientious Chicago winter coats.
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GlobalServe: An Alterative Living Space

Julie Rodruigez -
What happens if the idea of the dorms doesn't work for you? Introducing Globalserve, a co-op in Hyde Park structured around a dedication to social justice and volunteer work.
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Art on Track: A Review

Jennifer Swann -
The entire Art on Track exhibition was a performance-based spectacle in which hundreds of people at a time played an enormous game of musical chairs.
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SAIC Graduate ’06, Jillian Pena, Recovering from Crash

M. Perel -
Jillian Pena, a talented dancer, choreographer, artist and alumna of SAIC was struck by a car and profoundly injured on August 11th while crossing the street in Brooklyn, New York.
Alumni

SAIC Graduate ’06, Jillian Pena, Recovering from Crash

M. Perel -
Jillian Pena, a talented dancer, choreographer, artist and alumna of SAIC was struck by a car and profoundly injured on August 11th while crossing the street in Brooklyn, New York.
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Benin: Kings and Rituals: A Review

Anna Krycza -
The show’s only stop in North America is wonderfully executed, highly informative, and sensitively curated.

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