Arts & Culture
Arts & Culture · Exhibition · Interviews · Multimedia · School
Cut In Cut Out
Works by Nazafarin Lotfi & Shirin Mozaffari
February 4 - February 26, 2010
LG Space, SAIC
March 15th, 2010
Arts & Culture · Exhibition · Film/Video · Lecture
Noteworthy in March
In its usual ahead-of-the-pack form, The Renaissance Society is presenting Chicago with Matt Saunders’ first solo museum show. This and other news
March 5th, 2010
Love, Luck & Music
“Somebody asked me if I was worried about becoming a one-hit wonder. I said I wasn’t aware that I had a hit.”
March 5th, 2010
Arts & Culture · music · Student Art
Audiophiles
Four SAIC artists whose creative impulses propel them towards producing both sound and imagery.
March 5th, 2010
Arts & Culture · entertainment · Film/Video
The Company Picnic
On February 2, the Gene Siskel Film Center hosted a panel of Chicago film critics to discuss the 2010 Oscar Nominees.
March 5th, 2010
Arts & Culture · Exhibition · Student Art
Art for Your Living Room
Featured among the designed showrooms and collectible room decorations were a variety of original pieces by SAIC students, also for sale.
March 4th, 2010
Arts & Culture · Exhibition · Student Art
Storefront Art
“Usefulness: Construction, De-construction, Reconstruction,” the first exhibition to occupy the ambiguous Sharp building window space
March 4th, 2010
Alumni · Arts & Culture · Exhibition
A Celebration of Imagination
Albert Einstein once said, “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” Recent SAIC graduate Aspen Mays puts that maxim to the test
March 4th, 2010
Arts & Culture · Exhibition · Museum
Studios on Display
The complex and poetic role of the studio in an artist’s life and work is explored in “Production Site: The Artist’s Studio Inside-Out,” which opened February 6 at the Museum of Contemporary Art
March 4th, 2010
Architecture · Arts & Culture · environment · Life
Radical Literalism
“The most radical thing you can do is literal: modeling, creating, showing. It’s not just a representation; it’s a literal example, the real thing. The most metaphoric comes from being the most literal.”
March 1st, 2010
Arts & Culture · CAA 2010 · Interviews
CAA attendees share their experiences
I’m really enjoying the variety of speakers, time periods, and the variety of different mediums being presented.
March 1st, 2010
In the Trenches
The Chicago art community can count February 10 to February 13 as a lost weekend, thanks to an all-consuming cultural invasion called the College Art Association conference.
March 1st, 2010
The CAA goes DIY
“I would like to encourage all of you to think about what you can build with others outside of this system … so that we don’t have to compromise our integrity, beg for crumbs, kiss ass and slide resumes under hotel room doors.”
March 1st, 2010
Relational Aesthetics
It was noted that critics themselves are in fact relational artists by definition; criticism itself is a “relational machine.”
March 1st, 2010
Informative, Enthralling, Absurd
In between panels, papers and cups of absurdly bad coffee I participated in the strange dance that is “professional networking.”
March 1st, 2010
Professional Development: A Professor’s Perspective
I would say that for me the dead time around the interviews was far more stressful than the interviews themselves, which tend to be cordial and quick.
March 1st, 2010
Working for My Admission: A Room Monitor’s Perspective
The popularity of the career mentoring sessions, and the number of conference attendees desperate for career counseling, confirmed what we already know: jobs are scarce.
March 1st, 2010
Arts & Culture · entertainment · Film/Video
WTF Oscars?
Which five of the Best Picture nominations do you feel did not deserve to be nominated? Which one stands out as truly achieving the status of Best Picture?
February 28th, 2010
Alumni · Arts & Culture · Interviews
Grant Reynolds!
Natalie Edwards interviews Grant Reynolds, an F Newsmagazine cartoonist who has since published several books, including the acclaimed “Comic Diorama”.
February 7th, 2010
Complicated stories
Some of the most intriguing artists that you’ve never heard of are the subject of SAIC grad student Dorota Biczel’s thesis research.
February 7th, 2010
