Monthly Archives: July, 2005

Beginning in the fall semester, Utrecht will no longer supply textbooks and course packets for SAIC. This task will be taken up by the college division of Barnes & Noble Booksellers. A new store is under construction at DePaul's downtown campus, located at Jackson and State, and is scheduled to open on June 1.

There is art and then there is the art world, James Yood firmly stated at the beginning of the Evening Salon with Jeff Koons. The art world was definitely buzzing for hours leading up to this event in which artist Jeff Koons, critic and SAIC Adjunct Professor in Art History, Theory and Criticism James Yood, and art collector Stefan Edlis would sit on a panel discussion together.

Hello. I'm a practical, rational student and today I'm voicing my thoughts against the world of fashion.

by Katrina Kuntz My first question, "Can drawing be defined within contemporary artistic practices?" was answered with polite laughter and an exchange of glances. The...

Illustrations by Royleyn Delacruz May 2005

Tara Donovan's installations are of this world, but are far from ordinary. Most of her assemblages are made from the fringes of cubical desk organizers or Chevy toolboxes: pencils, styrofoam coffee cups, stick pins, toothpicks, fishing wire, shattered glass, roofing felt, and electrical wire.

By the time you are reading this, the Art Chicago in the Park and the first annual Chicago Contemporary and Classic weekend will already be over and done with. Just like that an art fair comes and goes. Art Basel is the olympics of art fairs and epitomizes the fabric of the artworld. Artist and SAIC alum Mike Langlois explains just how central art fairs like Basel have become.

An artist is somebody who is armed with a camera or paintbrush, using these media to render some aspect of their life. So why are artists such a threat?

From the moment I saw the distinctive splashes of color on its otherwise black and white canvas, I knew I had to see Sin City. It seemed that, finally, someone was capitalizing on the endless potential of the digital revolution to push forward a new aesthetic for film. Unfortunately, while the look of Sin City is truly breathtaking, almost every other aspect of the film is utterly disappointing.

Many times, in mythmaking as well as commonly used contemporary idioms such as "curiosity killed the cat," the knowledge factor gets overshadowed with negative consequences. Recent visits to SAIC's Fashion Resource Center (FRC), sparked my quest into the roots and reputation of inquisitiveness.

The story of how SAIC broke up with the bicycle, that most-potent symbol of egalitarian modernism.

Photos by Hayley Schmidt May 2005

SAIC has been contacted by Institutional Project Management, LLC (IPM), and asked if students might be interested in a student center that would be shared by a number of other schools. More than 460 SAIC students participated in an online survey.

SAIC president, Tony Jones, gets excited when he talks about the plan for the new 50,000 square feet of space that will soon be part of the SAIC campus.