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

Caroline Picard

54th Carnegie International

There is a pervasive myth about what going into a dark room means. Not any dark room, but a dark room with flickering images that cast shadows of reality into the back of a viewer's mind. This is the cave. This is the entrance of the Carnegie International (open through March 20).

Wicker Park Hipsters

The hipsters live in Wicker Park--everybody says so. You see the signs of them, the boutiques selling zoot suits in the window and the coffee shops that people go to late at night when they have a bohemian urge. It's not essential that you be a hipster if you want to purchase the attire. In fact, most hipsters probably don't shop in Wicker Park, and plenty of the customers at Filter wear J.Crew outfits; they go there because the coffee's good and they probably have a crush on one or another of the hipster employees. I'm pretty sure they're legitimate, but I suspect that they don't live in Wicker Park.

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