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Monthly Archives: February, 2010

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WTF Oscars?

Which five of the Best Picture nominations do you feel did not deserve to be nominated? Which one stands out as truly achieving the status of Best Picture?

Usefulness

USEFULNESS. Construction, De-construction, Reconstruction January 28 - February 26, 2010 Exhibition curated by Cecilia Vargas. Participant artists: Chris Bradley, Jesse Butcher, Scott Carter, Anthony Creeden, Scott Jarrett, Brookhart Jonquil, Benjamin Lipkin, Ben Stagl, Allison Wade, Georgia Wall and Sean Ward. SAIC, MacLean Center, 112 South Michigan Avenue / Sharp Building, 37 South Wabash Avenue

25 Years of Interviews

From Philip Glass to Susan Sontag, F looks back at some of the best interviews of the past 25 years.

The Artist Inside Out

F asked four SAIC students to show us what an artist would look like through an X-Ray machine. These "Artist Views" are the results...

Gathering & Meditation for HAITI

Open Forum: Monday, February 1 2010, SAIC Ballroom. Speakers: President Wellington "Duke" Reiter, Dean of Faculty Lisa Wainwright, Exec. Dir. Accounting Anne-Marie Eischen and Doris Frame (Mother of Sue Frame, Asst. Dir., Instructional Shops, survivor of the Haiti earthquake).

An F Newsmagazine timeline told in covers

26 Covers; 1984= Year Zero As F Newsmagazine trurn 25 years old, we take a look back at some of our best covers  

Grant Reynolds!

Natalie Edwards interviews Grant Reynolds, an F Newsmagazine cartoonist who has since published several books, including the acclaimed “Comic Diorama”.

Complicated stories

Some of the most intriguing artists that you’ve never heard of are the subject of SAIC grad student Dorota Biczel’s thesis research.

Home sweet home

Chunks of plaster melt and drip as they climb and curl their way into corners and onto the floor of the gallery

Support through art

“In search of new adventures,” said Nicole Smith, who immigrated to the United States from Haiti in 1973. “At that time, many people were leaving Haiti,” Smith said. “I came because I wanted to come.”

Drawing attention

First-year SAIC student Hu Jingxuan, 20, has published a graphic novel and had a short manga­ included in the anthology, “Sin City”

Art News Ticker!

Las Vegas is preparing to erect two giant paintbrushes that shoot laser beams up into the sky at the entrance of its arts district ...