Monthly Archives: November, 2005

F Newsmagazine strings you along, explaining SAIC's aquisition of a jacquard loom.

Do people get your art? Animator Chris Sullivan talks about how people should get his.

F News has taken a stab at summarizing a handful of potentially grand, quirky, and inspiring art events that will occur in the Chicago area over the month of November.

NOVEMBER 2005

We are much more than teepees and totem poles. We are not all the same. And no, we are not gone. This small article cannot even begin to address the multi-faceted questions surrounding Native America and all of its issues, from genocide and holocaust to the invisibility and cultural insensitivity of today, but it’s a start.

Dave Hickey is a popular guy. So it’s no wonder, with articles in countless publications, two art school must-read books, and a MacArthur Genius award to his name, that over five hundred people showed up for his October 11 “Art After Criticism” lecture at the museum.

NOVEMBER 2005

Last month, a few large hurricanes caused the nation’s public voices to issue forth a breathtaking bleat of idiotic statements that, in their unscripted tenderness, helped us to understand the truth beneath the polished veneer of their media/political personalities.

“I saw the first tower collapse. No words could describe what I saw,” said performance artist Elina Troyano to a SAIC audience. Troyano was describing her motivation for doing a performance piece on 9/11. “We ended the show by collectively (with the audience) singing New York, New York.” The audience, she said, got really into it. Elina visited SAIC on Sept 30.

In the early 1950s, Pilsen saw an influx of Mexican inhabitants, who still make up the majority of the population today. It’s a lively and diverse area, filled with a wide variety of specialty stores, interesting architecture, gardens, and one of the largest art districts in Chicago.

F Newsmagazine talks about what it means to get your ego poked in art school.

Graphic reflections on Hurricane Katrina.

Elvis died but his impersonators haven't. A new book by SAIC faculty Patty Carroll.

The Bookworks, like any good used bookstore, overflows with books of most conceivable designation (over 60 categories) without overrunning its banks altogether. Though neatly arranged and well-organized stock rises to the ceiling, the telltale cardboard boxes run the length of some aisles like cardboard spines.

Shouldn’t every political cartoonist in the U.S. be drawing pictures of birds with little thermometers in their beaks by now? Shouldn’t the op ed section of the Tribune be cluttered with bombastic, call-in-radio-show-host type commentaries about why Avian Influenza isn’t being taken seriously? Shouldn’t shut-in art students who go out of their way to be uninvolved with current events and the world at large be making bleeding-heart pieces exploiting the idea of virus-riddled corpses by now?