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The (Abriged) Sordid History of Recycling in Chicago

Recycling programs emerged globally in the 1980s and 1990s in response to fears about diminishing landfill space and landfill-generated air and water pollution. Chicago joined the trend, and, as with many big-city stories about government bureaucracy and city infrastructure, the following twenty-year saga proved to be a mess.

April 1st, 2008

Seismic shifts and renovations

The state of the School meeting
By Jesse Stein

The dramatically titled “State of the School Meeting” was held on February 12 in the SAIC Ballroom. Attendance was relatively low, despite the free food. Organized by the Student Association, the event introduced a plethora of structural and institutional changes planned for SAIC during the next three years. [...]

March 1st, 2008

Explained: VCS Doctoral Proposal

By James Elkins
There is a lot of talk in the art world—including at SAIC—about PhD degrees for studio artists. Those programs exist in about six institutions in the United States, and another six in Canada. (The newest are in York University outside Toronto, and the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario.) In other countries [...]

March 1st, 2008

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Faking It

Museums and authenticity and the tale of a forged faun found.

February 25th, 2008

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Fine Arts Instruction: Four Models

SAIC art history faculty member Jim Elkins breaks it down for you.

February 18th, 2008

Common Ground

When I first approached Ahmed about an article for F News at the September opening of The Common Sense, he expressed concern that most of the publicity he had received positioned his work as “evangelical” in nature.

November 6th, 2007

Hail to the Mothership

See, there’s a thought that us art students are repelled by the word “government.” So student life replaced it with “association,” and voila!

November 6th, 2007

Peter Schjeldahl visits Chicago

Schjeldahl’s background is perhaps as unconventional as his approach to art criticism.

November 6th, 2007

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Watchdogs or Lapdogs?

Illustration by Alexandra Westrich
Tamed alternative papers join mainstream media’s hunger for profit
By Editorial Staff
What you have in your hands is part of a dying breed. This collection of pages you are reading right now belongs to a league of media that is slowly disappearing from the Chicago landscape.
We’re talking about locally owned independent newspapers and [...]

October 8th, 2007

George Lucas at SAIC

George Lucas is giving an informal lecture and question-and-answer session on November 5 at the Rubloff Auditorium, Art Institute of Chicago, at 5:30 p.m.

October 8th, 2007

Focus: MFAW program hires Ruth Margraff

Her travel experience and her love of eclectic music might help explain why she often refers to her written work as world folk opera.

October 8th, 2007

Office Space

Fame and fortune aside, it is also good practice for artists to have deadlines, and to see their work in different contexts, and among different types of work.

September 18th, 2007

Renny Kodgers

Renny Kodgers is much more than an Australian Kenny Rogers
impersonator; he offers a challenging performative construction that is unpredictable and at times disturbing.

September 18th, 2007

Semester Highlights

Visiting Artists Program
The Object Of Labor: Art, Cloth, and Cultural
Production
Fall Semester
Accompanying the release of the book The Object of Labor: Art, Cloth, and Cultural Production, edited by SAIC Professors Joan Livingston and John Ploof, this lecture series explores the personal, political, social, and economic meaning of work through the lens of art and textile production. [...]

September 18th, 2007

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Política de la identidad

The exhibition strives to be global and transcendent of nationality.

September 18th, 2007

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Alumni Shorts

Mark Booth, MFA 1995, and Shin Yu (Doris) Pai, MFA in writing 1999, have new works.

June 20th, 2007

WWJD to Art?

In an interview with F Newsmagazine, Cordero said he suspected that his piece might cause a stir, preparing for the media frenzy by writing and rewriting his artist statement and asking for help from mentors. Cordero also alerted Barack Obama and his family of the sculpture and explained his motives for creating the piece, though he admits that “it’s difficult to account for all of an artist’s motives.” Cordero was not surprised at the Obama camp’s official response that Obama doesn’t support art that is religiously offensive.

May 1st, 2007

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Fair & Lovely: Socially Responsible?

hough you may not know the ad agency Ogilvy and Mather, Toronto, you may have seen the results of their creative output, the excellent Dove Evolution campaign. Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch multinational corporation which owns Dove, created a revolution in the skin-care industry with that campaign, boldly exposing the standard industry practice of using professional make-over followed by sophisticated image-retouching in Photoshop, transforming a normal girl into one fit to be on their billboards!

May 1st, 2007

School News

The MFA show will open on Friday, May 4. You can get your sweat on from 7 - 10 p.m., and if you don’t make it in time to elbow your way around G2, don’t worry; the exhibition will be on view through May 18. Graduating students from the MFA in Writing program will present their theses on May 8, in the Ballroom, from 7 - 11 p.m.

May 1st, 2007

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Artists Will Be Prosecuted

Ryan Griffin, a 22-year-old artist and recent graduate from SAIC, was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor on May 2nd. While chalking murals on the Dearborn bridge, the young artist was cuffed and taken to the District 1 police station where he was charged with ‘criminal damage to property’ and forced to spend the night in jail.

May 1st, 2007
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