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De-Flatable

Emily Baumann -
The MCA’s Koons exhibition gives enough examples to go through all the attenuating Koons emotions.
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LADYLIKE

Cynthia Pelayo -
“My goal," asserts curator and SAIC alumna Joanne Hinkle, "was to show how diverse, varied, and rich the landscape of feminist art is today, and I think LADYLIKE accomplishes that.”
Alumni

A Forgotten History of the Finest Etcher in America

Jennifer Swann -
If SAIC alumna Vera Berdich was considered the finest etcher in America, then why do so few SAIC students today know who she is?
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Is Henry Darger an "ism"?

Emily Baumann -
Coupling Henry Darger’s drawings with a mix of works by eleven contemporary art up-and-comers, the American Folk Art Museum in New York presents a fascinating exhibition about mythmaking, war and the presumptive innocence of childhood.
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Is Henry Darger an “ism”?

Emily Baumann -
Coupling Henry Darger’s drawings with a mix of works by eleven contemporary art up-and-comers, the American Folk Art Museum in New York presents a fascinating exhibition about mythmaking, war and the presumptive innocence of childhood.
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If You Hear the Wind Blowing, You Might Want to Stay Out of Grant Park…

Jennifer Swann -
In The Happening, Shyamalan’s not afraid to use a little camp and a lot of dead people to critique the American public, the media, and to raise the question: If the environment could fight back, how would it?
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Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future

Lynn April Lim -
Throughout his brief yet prolific career, Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) reimagined the college campus, the corporate office park, mobile homes, and furniture.
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Reworking the Canon

Katherine Pill -
“What if instead demanding that ‘other’ art be admitted into the halls of modernism, we were to ask different kinds of conceptual questions about Art History’s epistemology?”
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"We Quit" – video

Dara Brady and Ya-Ting Hsu -
Goat Island quits! Hear excerpts from their screening and roundtable discussion as well as an F Exclusive interview with Mark Jeffrey, performing member.
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“We Quit” – video

Brook Jonquil -
Goat Island quits! Hear excerpts from their screening and roundtable discussion as well as an F Exclusive interview with Mark Jeffrey, performing member.
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What did you hear? – video

Dara Brady -
Ultra-Red, a sound art collective concerned about the HIV crisis, performs Untitled (for large ensemble). FNews covers the Chicago event in the slideshow "What did you hear?"
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Chicago’s Finest Diamonds

Jennifer Swann -
Jennifer Swann interviews The Dirty Diamonds
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Chicago’s Finest Diamonds

Brook Jonquil -
Jennifer Swann interviews The Dirty Diamonds
Alumni

Black Is, Black Ain’t

Amanda Valdez -
The exhibit at The Renaissance Society, courtesy of curator Hamza Walker and the 26 artists he has brought together for the new show Black Is, Black Ain’t deals with issues of race and blackness.
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Black Is, Black Ain’t

Brook Jonquil -
The exhibit at The Renaissance Society, courtesy of curator Hamza Walker and the 26 artists he has brought together for the new show Black Is, Black Ain’t deals with issues of race and blackness.

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