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

Carrie McGath

A Celebration of Imagination

Albert Einstein once said, “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” Recent SAIC graduate Aspen Mays puts that maxim to the test

As We Live and Breathe

As We Live and Breathe, going on through November 7 at the Carrie Secrist Gallery, addresses, from multifarious positions, what it means to exist in our awkward, complex, and contradictory...

It Is What It Is: Dan Flavin at Donald Young Gallery

“It is what it is, and it ain’t nothin’ else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered...It’s in a sense a ‘get-in-get-out’ situation,” said Dan Flavin in a 1987 article appearing in Art International...

The Hype of Shanghai Arrives in Chicago

Eighteen international artists, all working with the common medium of video and the theme of Shanghai’s ever-changing landscape express the complexity of modern China with the pulsing city of Shanghai as the backdrop

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