Monthly Archives: February, 2013

Diane Simpson Solo Show at Corbett vs. Dempsey Through March 23.

She is a serious craftswoman, a quality difficult to find in the current art world. After Minimalism and the rise of conceptualism in the 1960s, contemporary art does not seem to give much significance to handicraft, a method associated with tradition and domesticity. Simpson’s sculptures, so intimately crafted as they are, never stop appearing fresh, vital, modern and radical as they subtly move across (and so address) diverse aesthetics and visual art languages including fashion, architecture, figuration and abstraction.

The Getty's new project underscores L.A. as the city for fresh perspectives on Latin American art

A comic by Eric J. Garcia.

The life and work of SAIC's Bradshaw Stanley.

Cooper Union still trying to charge tuition, George W.'s paintings and more...

“New Work” at the Sullivan Galleries Fails to Cohere

“...at what point do we try to make sense of the dialogue at hand? Since all of the work in “New Work” was synthesized from the same academic soup, there are bound to be competing theories, issues and approaches that breed a tension in the art school atmosphere. Addressing the contrasting ideologies at SAIC would be a welcome break from the opened-ended conversation that is fruitful in the halls of art school, but creates a weak broth inside the walls of the gallery.”

The MRS-degree is alive and well at U.S. colleges.

Live-blogging the 2013 Academy Awards.

Terry Adkins’s “Recital” at the Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art

One key to understanding the idea of the anagogic in Adkins’s work is that he tries not to materialize ideas, but to immaterialize the objects in the ideas.

"Amok," Atoms for Peace's debut album is now streaming on NPR.

A look at Sesame Street far exceeding the quota for kid's show hipness.

F visits Tritriangle in Wicker Park and talks to its directors.

SAIC alters menu and meal plan guidelines.

Addressing gender inequality in the unisex restrooms at SAIC.