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Monthly Archives: October, 2009

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An Intellectual Orders a Steak

Nolan MacGregor -
Arts & Culture

Bizot

Katie Fahey -
With the Olympic hope extinguished, Chicago’s cultural elites may have sustained a blow to their egos, but they have another reason to be humming this October...
Arts & Culture

FILMS FOR ALL SEASONS

Tom McCormack -
The multi-venue retrospective of Hollis Frampton coming to Chicago offers a chance to take another look at a body of work too often reduced to a couple of films...
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An Interview with Esam Pasha

Beth Capper -
The idea of being at risk didn’t resonate with Esam Pasha when I interviewed him a week later. On the contrary, he was earnest and positive about his involvement in Deller’s exhibition...
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War Talk

Beth Capper -
The setting is supposed to be as casual as a friend’s living room; the only minor difference being that we’re in the Museum of Contemporary Art...
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A Very Short Scenario

Bryce Dwyer -
A skateboard deck sits upside down in a waist-level display case with its wheels and trucks removed. A brief message is written on the wood in aloof Helvetica lettering, “Southbank Skatepark 1987. A perfectly good...
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Electronic Evocations

Brandon Kosters -
Drawing inspiration from Euclid’s writings about optics, electronic music, and abstract animation from the United States from the 1950s, the work of Dutch multimedia artist Joost Rekveld is...
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Art Habitat

Beth Capper -
Katherine Pill is the kind of person that will blow her lunch money on the paintings of a hitherto unacknowledged artist, or live in...
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Border Patrol

Eric J. Garcia -
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Designing "Good Enough" over "Great" Products: Can We Take Innovation Too Far?

F Newsmagazine -
In a recent issue of Wired magazine, Robert Capps details the success of the "good enough" product over...
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Word to the StreetWise

Laura Goetz -
treetWise vendor Robert Nelson has lived in Chicago for about forty years and started selling StreetWise magazines in 1993 or 1994. He has always...
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the Year of Iron

Jen Mosier -
Students and faculty say their road trip to create artwork ignited excitement in the craft. Currently SAIC offers bronze and aluminum casting, so if you want cast iron, plan on leaving the confines of the city limits.
Alumni

A Manual for Relief

M.J. Villamor -
Art Therapy Department Chair Catherine Moon did not know about Global Alliance for Africa until she received a call from them in 2008. Shortly after, she was on a plane to Tanzania...
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Reinventing the SAIC Community

Kerrianne O'malley -
...the discussion centered around SAIC’s sense of community and the goals of the institution, especially the mission and core values of SAIC. As the school both adapts...
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The skinny on Shortpants

Emile Ferris -
Right up until 2004, Sarah Becan and M. Jason Robards were simply two artists who - as their website proclaims - liked making comics because it’s “art that reaches tons of people who’d never set foot inside...

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