Monthly Archives: November, 2007

The phrase “Good coffee in Loop” is something of an oxymoron. On my arrival in Chicago, I was told that thankfully there is one place in Loop where good coffee can be found—in a café that isn’t too much of a chain. Intelligentsia. Hurrah.

I'd like to think my combination of good health and youth gives my sweat a desirable, fresh-smelling quality. Something marketable and reminiscent of late spring. Something pink. But I'm no Sarah Jessica Parker. If I don't use deodorant, I stink like cooked onions by the end of the day. So I use the stuff liberally.

When I first approached Ahmed about an article for F News at the September opening of The Common Sense, he expressed concern that most of the publicity he had received positioned his work as “evangelical” in nature.

See, there’s a thought that us art students are repelled by the word “government.” So student life replaced it with “association,” and voila!

By Australian law it is required that all eligible citizens register to vote.

These people usually know they don’t have a chance in Hades, but they’ll be darned if they don’t try.

AndrewandAndrea’s alterations on consumerist culture have been shown at the Windsor Biennial in Canada and included an Is That All There Is? line of coffee mugs, t-shirts, stress balls, note pads and cocktail napkins.

Nate Chung, a fi rst-year graduate in the MFA program, saw his artwork evolve into protest signs that captured the attention of hundreds, if not thousands, of people in his home state of Hawaii.

To have a conversation about gay and lesbian film is to talk about the representation of gays and lesbians in film. Which is to say that the terms “gay” and “lesbian” only speak to sexuality.

Instead of a table with a bowl of fruit, we find the sneer of a wrestler.

While studying in Prague for six weeks, SAIC students Ryan McMurran and Shira Soskel took more than 500 photos. The result is a fascinating display of diverse images.

Schjeldahl’s background is perhaps as unconventional as his approach to art criticism.

While there exists a global appreciation for Haitian art, there is also, for Haitian artists, an ongoing struggle to establish autonomy and to be appreciated for the quality of their work, not simply for their national or socioeconomic background.

Jasper Johns' extensive body of work, while not overtly political, has been interpreted as quietly so.

Perjovschi always references the current political events of the country he is showing in, allowing his viewers to directly relate to the drawings.