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Director Hans Neuenfeld’s production of Mozart’s Idomeneo censored in Berlin; giant slides in the Tate Modern; high school art teacher suspended for recommending figure drawing with nude models; Singapore visual arts biennial.
November 1st, 2006
Meet Bean’s Cousin Lensy
Artist Anish Kapoor is moving on to the Big Apple, following his shiny Chicago creation, Cloud Gate, with another reflective sculpture.
October 1st, 2006
One art historian’s homage to Nancy Spero: artist, mother and activist
Sex and violence, specifically as they occur in the paintings and drawings of artist Nancy Spero, were the topics of the well-attended April 6 lecture by art historian Mignon Nixon at SAIC.
May 1st, 2006
Immigrant rights: Let the door remain open!
What happened March 10 was an important event in Chicago’s history: over 100,000 people had taken to, and taken over, the streets in peaceful, yet highly impassioned protest against a proposed bill that would make illegal immigrant status a federal offense.
May 1st, 2006
Going, going, gone
Seymour Hersh says the Bush Administration is preparing for a possible nuclear strike against Iran; the immigration bill fails in the Senate; retired generals call for Rumsfeld’s resignation; new HHS guidelines for abstinence-based sex education; murder of gay Iraqis.
May 1st, 2006
SAIC faculty member Jerry Saltz takes a second shot at Pulitzer Prize
Jerry Saltz’s recent nomination for the Pulitzer in Criticism is highly commendable. In addition to teaching at SAIC, Saltz has done an impressive amount of work in the fields of art criticism and history—he currently serves as Senior Art Critic for the Village Voice, was appointed Advisor for the 1995 Whitney Biennial, and has lectured at such institutions as Harvard University and the Guggenheim Museum.
May 1st, 2006
Heartbeat Swap
Heartbeat Swap’s altruistic priorities benefit disadvantaged Chicagoans. Heartbeat SWAP (Salon for Waking Altruistic Priorities) began in the wake of a field trip to the Chicago Center for Green Technology, a building on North Sacramento Boulevard that was designed and functions using green technology, and that rents space to companies providing environmental services and products.
May 1st, 2006
CHEMICALS ATTACK THE SHARP BUILDING
The dizzying stench in the Sharp building at 37 South Wabash is still there and doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon. After exhaustive efforts by the administration over the past several weeks to get rid of the chemicals causing the smell and the migration of whole departments to other floors, the smell and the migration of whole departments to other floors, the smell seems to have set up shop for good.
May 1st, 2006
Rachel Corrie is not done talking
Only weeks before its April opening, the New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) announced that it would postpone a London production of “My Name is Rachel Corrie,” a play comprised of the writings of a 23-year-old American peace activist who was crushed by an Israeli Army bulldozer while engaged in non-violent resistance in Gaza.
April 11th, 2006
Art Watch: Faking it: Master forger’s story goes Hollywood
Riding high off the success of his first solo show in London’s popular Air Gallery last December, master forger John Myatt is turning his story of deception into a feature film. Between 1986 and 1994, Myatt forged over 200 works by well-known impressionist, cubist, and surrealist artists and—through John Drewe, an accomplice who produced fake provenances for the forgeries—passed them off as originals to various auction houses, galleries and collectors for very real market prices.
April 1st, 2006
Art Watch: Second bubblegum attack at major museum
On March 10, an eighth-grader on a class visit to see Robert Rauschenberg: Combines, currently on view at the Met, removed his slight-chewed Bubblelicious bubblegum from his mouth and silently stuck it onto one of the works. It wasn’t until after the class returned to school and the boy was overheard bragging to his friends [...]
April 1st, 2006
Regarding the news
A Le Moyne College/Zogby poll of over 900 soldiers currently serving in Iraq found that 85 percent believe they’re fighting “to retaliate for Saddam’s role in the 9/11 attacks.” It’s not surprising then, that 72 percent hope that by this time next year, the United States will have pulled all of its forces from the area.
April 1st, 2006
Art Watch: Thieves vanish at Carnival
our thieves stole several artworks from Chácara do Céu Museum and disappeared into a crowd of Carnival revelers in the streets of downtown Rio de Janeiro. The February 24 heist was the most recent in a string of thefts of famous paintings from well-known collections. After forcing guards to disarm the museum’s surveillance system, the thieves, suspected to have been armed, stole over $50 million worth of art, including Picasso’s “The Dance” and a book by the artist titled Toros, Monet’s “Marine,” Matisse’s “Garden of Luxembourg,” and Dali’s “Two Balconies.”
April 1st, 2006
Art Watch: Granny’s collection of erotica opens to acclaim
The World Erotic Art Museum that opened last October in Miami Beach is owned and operated by 71-year-old grandmother and antiques collector Naomi Wilzig. Wilzig, who began her collection after her eldest son asked for his own erotic art conversation piece, has hunted antique shows and shops for the past 15 years with a sign around her neck that read “Buying Erotica.”
April 1st, 2006
Art Watch: Dong Creates Edible Masterpiece
Chinese artist Song Dong was invited to create an edible installation for Selfridges, a London department store, to highlight his concern with the homogenization of developing Asian cities. Nearly 75,000 biscuits, or cookies, and other sweets were used to construct a cityscape of a traditional Asian city combined with more modern, imaginative buildings.
April 1st, 2006
Back to Square One with Queer Rights
The Gay Gene: establish homo and hetero relationships on equal grounds.
February 12th, 2006
What’s that lump on your dick?
The most common sexually transmitted infection (STI), genital HPV, is a “silent epidemic,” according to every medical professional I’ve talked to about it. About 75% of men and women of reproductive age have it, according to one study. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and American Social Health Association web sites say that among 15-24-year-olds, 9.2 million have been infected, although, because of the difficulty in detection, such studies may be inaccurate. The fact is that HPV is hugely widespread.
February 10th, 2006
Virtual Love
Encouraged by sites such as Match.com, Facebook, and Friendster, more people than ever are meeting in virtual spaces.
February 10th, 2006
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