Monthly Archives: April, 2006

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.

F Newsmagazine features student art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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.

The husband-and-wife powerhouse known as Christo and Jeanne-Claude are concentrating their efforts on a new project in Colorado, “Over the River,” and like all the others they’ve done before, it is grand in design and epic in scale.

Answers to the Art Watch quiz!

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...

Responses to Katrina Kuntz's article on art blogs in the March 2006 issue of F Newsmagazine.

While F News was hard at work on the April issue, one of our staff members mentioned off-handedly that he’d heard SAIC mentioned on independant radio station Democracy Now. Turns out they were discussing not the School of the Art Institute, but a California-based Fortune 500 company called Science Applications International Corporation (www.saic.com), the nation’s largest employee-owned R & D firm.

The first things I saw at Yutaka Sone’s Forecast Snow, a show at the Renaissance Society on the University of Chicago campus, were trees: hundreds of real pine trees standing amidst snow cut from Sytrofoam. I smelled the sap and noticed that the room was a little chilly, forcing me to keep my scarf on. Then, I noticed fake snowflakes covering everything. Seeing real trees in fake snow felt strange, but I remembered all of the unnatural nature around us—potted plants, cement beaches, and campsites with indoor plumbing.

Any visitor to Alex Katz: New Paintings at Richard Gray Gallery is primed for spring, not because Katz employs colors that evoke spring—bright pinks, blues, violets, and greens—but because his paintings possess a freshness and youthful vigor, an amazing feat given that Katz will celebrate his seventy-ninth birthday in July.

An incomplete map of everything, Links Hall’s February festival dedicated to all of the experimental art forms

A retrospective exhibition, Girodet: Romantic Rebel, currently on view at the Art Institute of Chicago, hopes to shed light on Girodet’s career, contemporary reception, and, ultimately, the implications of his revolutionary works.

To see all of the work in The Happiness I Seek, viewers must go on a scavenger hunt to five galleries throughout greater Chicago. It is a fun but time-consuming idea. I set out on the first weekend of March with the ambitious goal of making it to four of the five openings.

Marco Kane's picks for cheap eats in Chicago.

As we reported in our December issue (“A year in the making, the school’s new logo emerges,” page 10), the school developed their new logo in connection with two different non-SAIC-related companies and an assortment of student and faculty focus groups. Despite the year-long effort, the roll-out of the new logo has not been happily received by much of the school community. Some eyed it with the casual disregard and sarcasm of the aloof artiste; a few students in the Visual Communication department felt snubbed; others didn’t even notice the change.