Monthly Archives: July, 2008

It's not just the developmentally disabled that benefit from this outsider art community.

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days offers a searing critique of modern American society

F Newsmagazine interviews faculty Wafaa Bilal as he prepares to leave SAIC for NYU this fall.

As demonstrated in Monique Meloche Gallery's new show, Boys of Summer, being a man today does not necessarily mean a jock or an suit, but connotes a much more flexible array of options.

Clover Morell screams the national anthem, recreates Yoko Ono's "cut piece" and tells us her ultimate dreams. A recent graduate with a MFA in performance, she is the first artist in F's documentary series, One of Three. This short series follows three graduate students as they present their thesis and prepare to graduate.

In 1999, when Henry Darger’s room at 851 West Webster Street was to be demolished, Intuit committed to saving as many artifacts as possible, to create a place to honor Darger’s extraordinary artistic legacy in the city where he lived and worked.

Factory Theater's Ren Faire entertains with swordfights and gunshots.

Cesareo Moreno, curator at the National Museum of Mexican Art, in Pilsen, opened the exhibition Declaration of Immigration, on July 4th. This slide show presents the work of artists whose perspectives are seldom heard in the national debate on immigration.

You don’t need a car to get around Chicago, but it helps when you buy something heavier than you can carry. This is my experience with Zipcar, a car sharing service.