Arts & Culture

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Cut In Cut Out

Works by Nazafarin Lotfi & Shirin Mozaffari
February 4 - February 26, 2010
LG Space, SAIC

March 15th, 2010

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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

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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

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Audiophiles

Four SAIC artists whose creative impulses propel them towards producing both sound and imagery.

March 5th, 2010

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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

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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

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Storefront Art

“Usefulness: Construction, De-construction, Reconstruction,” the first exhibition to occupy the ambiguous Sharp building window space

March 4th, 2010

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Relational Aesthetics

It was noted that critics themselves are in fact relational artists by definition; criticism itself is a “relational machine.”

March 1st, 2010

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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”.

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
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