Monthly Archives: October, 2014

A roundup of some alternative horror pix (since it's snowing out tonight).

Ryan Hageman investigates communication at the intersections of language and culture through both his work as a graphic designer and Gurafiku, his website dedicated to collecting examples of Japanese graphic design history from the 1800s to today. The ongoing research project aims to remove the linguistic barriers that keep international audiences from a rich vein of visual culture.

It’s finally fall and nearly every type of food establishment, from grocery stores and coffee shops to gourmet restaurants and food trucks, are offering their much-anticipated annual pumpkin makeover. To celebrate, F Newsmagazine tested four different iterations of the season’s favorite fruit (yes, pumpkins are fruits, not vegetables.)

At this year's EXPO CHICAGO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago curator Naomi Beckwith spoke with independent French curators Guillaume Désanges and Matthieu Poirier about partnerships between the two locales that could test curatorial practices and forge new artistic and social discourses.

The artist lectures as part of SAIC's Low-Residency Masters Program, discussing conversational exchange as a creative process, how fishing is related to conceptual art, and more.

F Newsmgazine videographer Emeka Awa talks with SAIC Assistant Director of Campus Life, Roy Rodriguez, about the wealth of activities and opportunities available through...

One of the difficulties of art is that the public eye makes little effort to separate artists from the brands they cultivate. Taylor Swift is the latest artist to be subjected to "sell-out" scrutiny for her shift into pop music, and the criticisms for her work are nothing new.

Performance artist Jaime McMurry’s work aims to raise questions about materiality, and when successful, it offers a response to the demands of daily life. Angel Lust, a recent performance at Chicago's Defibrillator Gallery, was not one such instance.

In a society where the ghosts of slavery and racism still haunt our politics and our interactions, conceptual artist Glenn Ligon tackles these issues by appropriating African American history into work focusing on text, voice and noise.

Sometimes the least likely of combinations brings the best results; the pairing of James Franco with a blooming literary career, despite the celebrity's fearless mediocrity, does not.

Experience-based art gets redefined in light of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Sullivan Galleries exhibit A Proximity of Consciousness: Art and Social Action.

This year's EXPO Chicago art fair could be seen as an art world bore or chore... or an opportunity for the next generation of artists and arts professionals to get their feet in the door.

The Stanley Kubrick exhibition at the National Museum in Krakow marries art and entertainment in a retrospective of the filmmaker's career, creative process, and private life.

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and educator Junot Díaz speaks on at this year's Dialogue event at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Ten minutes in the talk, it seems like Díaz is actually performing a one man show: the crowd is laughing almost hysterically, clapping at every one of his jokes or witty remarks.

Monika Neuland, the current Artist-in-Residence at the Chicago Cultural Center's Garland Gallery, constructed an ambitious social space within which the public may directly engage with the artist and her artwork and even try their hand at the loom or other modes of weaving available in the gallery.