Monthly Archives: May, 2010

Our educators are, in fact, the gangsters, the “do-gooders” and the artists — and many of our citizens embody aspects of all three.

On the vertiginous 24th floor of the Hancock Center, 11 artists from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago are presenting their creative proposals for transforming urban space at the ground level.

Close's book documents the many difficulties he has had to overcome, from his humble upbringing (which was further complicated by his learning disabilities), to his paralysis later in life.

On May 24, the Tribune reported that the Art Institute laid off about 65 employees last week...It looks like the museum might have banked on the income-generating potential of the Modern Wing a little too optimistically.

When artists are being censored not by their educators, but by their peers, has something gone awry in the educational system? Or is that merely the nature of the critical beast?

Legendary couture milliner Philip Treacy brings his iconic hats to Neiman Marcus.

F Newsmagazine talks with students about their art process and experience of the BFA show.

by Ania Szremski I am an unabashed weeper at pretty much any ceremony of any kind--weddings, graduations, baptisms. It's kind of embarrassing. But when I...

Tomorrow Wednesday May 19th we have the great opportunity of listening live to Ilya and Emilia Kabakov talking about their work at the MCA

In his new documentary, Exit Through the Gift Shop, we meet Thierry Guetta, a Frenchman who carries a video camera at all times. Through family connections, Guetta finds himself a witness to the street art scene at its early beginnings.

Yesterday, someone took the time to stop by the M.F.A show at the Sullivan Galleries, and while they were at it vandalized a displayed art work in what looks to be a racially motivated act, covering M.F.A. student Anida Yoeu Ali's 1700% Project (a work about the depiction of Arabs and Muslims in the mass media) with graffiti, removing all the brochures and educational material, and highlighting the words "Kill All Arabs" with a text bubble.

A survey on school/museum relations What are your perceptions of the current relationship between the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and...