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Taking Credit. Giving Credit. Faking Credit.

When passing is just good enough to fail.
By Prof. Andrew Yang


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Young Designers in Chicago Push a New National Movement in Design

One of the latest movements in the design world revolves around the design club…

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Tales from my Fisherman Father (If I follow my hands, can I shake the winter fish from the trees?)

In Tiburon, on a Wednesday, I saw a seabird with my father’s face. “Why don’t you get yourself a decent boyfriend?” it cawed…

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Flores “Flo” McGarrell, 1974-2010

SAIC community mourns the loss of “Flo” McGarrell, killed in Haiti earthquake; Two others returned safely

Grant Reynolds!

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Grant Reynolds!

Natalie Edwards interviews Grant Reynolds, an F Newsmagazine cartoonist who has since published several books, including the acclaimed “Comic Diorama”.

SAIC fashion show to make its Modern Wing debut

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SAIC fashion show to make its Modern Wing debut

The fashion program at SAIC remains something of a hidden gem at the school, perhaps because it exists within an artistic surfeit. But despite being unofficially classified as a…

The pedagogy  of artist Paul Chan

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The pedagogy of artist Paul Chan

“Education can be an important art experience but an art experience is not dependent on an educational experience or an educational background.”
-Paul Chan
 

F Newsmagazine was named winner of the 2009 Pacemaker Award! We also won 1st and 2nd place for editorial cartoons!

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Gregg Bordowitz Talks to Steve Kurtz

Dec. 26, 2004
Kurtz, an artist charged with bioterrorism, sits down for an informal conversation about the Critical Arts Ensemble.

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Home sweet home

Home sweet home

Chunks of plaster melt and drip as they climb and curl their way into corners and onto the floor of the gallery

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Drawing attention

Drawing attention

First-year SAIC student Hu Jingxuan, 20, has published a graphic novel and had a short manga­ included in the anthology, “Sin City”

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Economizing Creativity

Economizing Creativity

Is the MFA the new MBA?

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Jeff Marlin, 1969-2009

Jeff Marlin, 1969-2009

1991 SAIC graduate’s final show of paintings at Corbett vs. Dempsey through February 6

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Grave Reminders

Just before midnight on January 4, 2006, 50 year-old Isai Medina was walking his bike down the sidewalk near Western Avenue and Cortez when a drunk driver swerved and hit him. Medina, an avid participant in Chicago Critical Mass, was…

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Field Trip to Motown

…Daniel Quiles and Kymberly Pinder took a group of students to see two significant artworks in Detroit: Diego Rivera’s mural Detroit Industry in the Detroit Institute of Arts, and The Heidelberg Project by Tyree Guyton…

A View To Learn

By redesigning the space on the eleventh floor of the Sharp building, Stephen Farrell, associate professor of visual communications, aimed to create a more cohesive community…

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Newsworthy

Sharp Building renovations opening next fall - H1N1 101 - New students’ semester experience and future choices

Bizot

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…

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FILMS FOR ALL SEASONS

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…