Monthly Archives: February, 2007

Welcome to the first installment of a three-part artist/curator collaborative in which we visually and critically explore theoretical issues with direct relevance to students at the School of the Art Institute.

What is the sexiest work you’ve made?

SAIC alumnus, and former F Newsmagazine editor Paul Chan, presented his film “Paul Chan Connects” on January 20. The film is being shown as part of a new program, called New Frontier, at the annual Sundance Film Festival in Utah. The film contains several short interviews with political activists who have been incarcerated for their work.

Music website Last.fm describes Gregg Gillis, who makes music under the pseudonym Girl Talk, as “arguably the nation’s hottest mash-up DJ.” A compliment, maybe, except that Gillis describes his music as “sound collage,” a genre “even more vague” than the practice of combining two often unrelated songs to create a unique product.

One of the great boons of art-making is that you can masturbate in a gallery, stick a Barbie doll in your ass in front of an audience, photograph yourself wearing a strap-on, or paint yourself having sex with your porn star wife without too many people accusing you of being a pervert.

One of the great boons of art-making is that you can masturbate in a gallery, stick a Barbie doll in your ass in front of an audience, photograph yourself wearing a strap-on, or paint yourself having sex with your porn star wife without too many people accusing you of being a pervert.

The goal of the show is to promote the rights, safety, and dignity of sex workers through presenting them as multifaceted humans,” Oakley told F Newsmagazine

All of the words, aside from “Google” and “truthiness,” have appeared frequently in news headlines, often relating to the Bush Government and the war in Iraq.

Magazines is a tame, condensed summary of some of Heinecken’s most influential work. A more titillating survey of his work is in the upcoming retrospective exhibition entitled Robert Heinecken, 1932-2006: Sex and Food at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College

Magazines is a tame, condensed summary of some of Heinecken’s most influential work. A more titillating survey of his work is in the upcoming retrospective exhibition entitled Robert Heinecken, 1932-2006: Sex and Food at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College

Furries: thousands of people who have become in touch with their inner raccoon, panda, or fox. It’s sex, costumes and a whole different way of viewing animals.

Get out the fire extinguisher, because the Gene Siskel Film Center is showing Matthew Barney’s entire Cremaster Cycle, along with Drawing Restraint 9, his newest film, and, if you can handle it, Alison Chernick’s documentary about Matthew Barney and his swan-bedazzled, Icelandic, beatbox-master Björk entitled, Matthew Barney: No Restraint.

And in Chicago: “It’s a representation of my vagina. In another world, it would have been a vibrant violet, and saccharine.”

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Art Basel Miami is booming, with nearly 180 galleries from around the world populating the Miami Beach Convention Center. The fair attracts nearly 40,000 visitors over its four-day run, including museum groups, curators, critics, collectors and art tourists. The hoopla created by the fair is legendary.