F sits down with local designer Anna Fong to discuss fashion design and her collaboration with TOYOTA’S Creative Lounge Chicago
environment · News · Social Issues
While minds continue to rest on the Deep Horizon rig disaster, it’s time to focus on our neighbors to the north
Arts & Culture · Lecture · School · Science
SAIC professor Kathryn Schaffer and the discussion’s panelists rally for the aesthetic value of science
Arts & Culture · Exhibition · Photography · Review
“Gut Shot,” on view at Stephen Daiter gallery, presents the expanded vision of mid-century documentary photographers Lee Balterman and Jay King.
Arts & Culture · Cinema · Review
“Winnebago Man,” is director Ben Steinbauer’s documentary on Jack Rebney. Who is Jack Rebney, you asked? He’s an RV salesman—but he’s better known to the world as “angriest man in the world” from YouTube.
Alumni · Arts & Culture · Exhibition · Graffiti · Review
Ray Noland, an artist and designer working under the alias CRO, presents stenciled graffiti of Blago, Michael Jackson, and skin cream at the Chicago Urban Art Society
Arts & Culture · Cinema · Film/Video · Review
Thumbs Down for Chuck Workman’s Visionaries: Jonas Mekas and the (mostly) American Avant-Garde
Arts & Culture · audiophiles · Multimedia · music
A spotlight on Chicago’s independent music venues, home to the diverse and experimental underbelly of the city’s music scene.
Arts & Culture · music · Review
Black Nag, Mazes and the Dutchess and the Duke on June 11, a sticky summer evening at Empty Bottle
The flood of red t-shirts and jerseys down Michigan Ave today threatened to eclipse our annual St. Patrick’s day of green.
In April, graduating VCS and BFA undergrads spoke of their memories, frustrations, fears and that which makes them euphoric.
Before graduating, I was lamenting loosing my access to the Art Institute’s Museum. But good news came in the mail yesterday
Arts & Culture · Exhibition · Interviews · Photography
“Passing the Torch: The Chicago Students of Callahan and Siskind,” at the Stephen Daiter Gallery presents work by photographers who studied under Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind at Chicago’s Institute of Design.
Arts & Culture · Chicago · Prose and Poetry · Student Voices
Our educators are, in fact, the gangsters, the “do-gooders” and the artists — and many of our citizens embody aspects of all three.
Arts & Culture · Exhibition · School
On the vertiginous 24th floor of the Hancock Center, 11 artists from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago are presenting their creative proposals for transforming urban space at the ground level.
Close’s book documents the many difficulties he has had to overcome, from his humble upbringing (which was further complicated by his learning disabilities), to his paralysis later in life.