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Monthly Archives: April, 2010

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Noteworthy in May

Exhibitions, Lectures, and Clearence Sales. Everything you need to keep busy

Direct Lending

SAIC Moves to New Student Loan Initiative. Students will pay lower interested rates on federal student loans, one benefit of The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.

Friendly Formalism, Whimsical Buddhism

Two new shows at the Hyde Park Art Center

Return of the Real

This spring, shows at Chicago galleries have been like cries for help, echoing an anxiety that is endemic to this contemporary world of recessions, wars, and catastrophic natural disasters.

Portraits of Chicago

Work samples from the inaugural “Arts in Chicago” Art History/Visual and Critical Studies undergraduate class

Constructive Criticism

Chicago writers duke it out over the direction of art criticism

Left, Right, Left

A Tea Party Rally and an Anti-War demonstration have both descended upon the Loop in recent weeks.

Volume 3

Andy Slater and Kendra “Call Me on the Allophone” Calhoun

Norman Finkelstein

The controversial scholar and author who swore he’d never return to Chicago, was back in town on Friday, April 16th, focusing on the issue of Gaza as a human rights violation.

Interview with Wellington "Duke" Reiter

We sat down with him to discuss his experiences as President of SAIC, and what he has to look forward to in the years ahead.

Art that Unifies

Recently released inmates could be potential scholars with the tools and classes that Rumble Arts Center provide.

Free Booze or A Tale of Two Liquors

Around the same time that Grolsch decided to withdraw from the Chicago art scene, another shade of green began to appear in the hands of art aficionados: the unlikely drink that is Pernod Absinthe.

(The Duke) Riding off into the Sunset

Now that President Wellington “Duke” Reiter resigned in April, and the school is searching for a new president, dean of faculty, and provost, students returning to school in the fall may bear witness to many changes.