F Newsmagazine - The School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Art, Culture, and Politics

Beth Capper

Afghan Women & that Time cover

Time Magazine is not the first to use women’s rights as a bargaining chip in wars waged on behalf of the U.S. in the Middle East.

The Next Great Amateur

Bravo’s reality show "Work of Art: The Next Great Artist" applies the amateur competition formula to contemporary art.

See America First

H.C. Westermann at the Art Institute of Chicago

The pedagogy of artist Paul Chan

An Interview with the Celebrated SAIC Alum.
“Education can be an important art experience but an art experience is not dependent on an educational experience or an educational background.”

In Memoriam: Jeanne-Claude

Artist Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon died on Friday November 20, the result of a brain aneurism after a fall. She was 74-years old.

An Interview with Esam Pasha

The idea of being at risk didn’t resonate with Esam Pasha when I interviewed him a week later. On the contrary, he was earnest and positive about his involvement in Deller’s exhibition...

War Talk

The setting is supposed to be as casual as a friend’s living room; the only minor difference being that we’re in the Museum of Contemporary Art...

Art Habitat

Katherine Pill is the kind of person that will blow her lunch money on the paintings of a hitherto unacknowledged artist, or live in...

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