Following rumors of rampant extortion and suspicious hiring practices in the preceding administration under Governor George Ryan, Blagojevich’s message of reform played well with an exasperated electorate.

Lozano-Hemmer created a self-contained installation composed of lights and human heartbeats to be stumbled upon, reveled in, and then left behind.

Currently installed at Western Exhibitions, “of or relating to the sky or visible heavens” features the work of Michelle Grabner, Carrie Gundersdorf, Shane Huffman, Matthew Northridge, Melissa Oresky and Stan Shellabarger.

No other candidate presented a program that went into as much detail as Obama’s, and if he manages to implement some of his campaign promises the outcome could be very encouraging for both art education programs and working artists.

Despite the feeling of a bygone era that Polaroids now evoke, the current exhibition at the Block Museum at Northwestern, “Polaroids: Mapplethorpe,” thrives by showing how a young artist made this technology fresh and exciting.

Reflecting on SAIC’s relationship with diversity