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

Dimitry Tetin

Banksy’s dangerous new prank

Following Banksy’s art-making pranks is like watching a skateboarder riding a rail in the park without the inevitable end: he never busts his balls. And Bansky never gets his balls busted … too seriously. In his latest exploit, Bansky spray-painted nine stencilled pictures on the 425-mile long barrier that Israel built to separate itself from the Palestinian territories.

Banksy’s dangerous new prank

Following Banksy’s art-making pranks is like watching a skateboarder riding a rail in the park without the inevitable end: he never busts his balls. And Bansky never gets his balls busted … too seriously. In his latest exploit, Bansky spray-painted nine stencilled pictures on the 425-mile long barrier that Israel built to separate itself from the Palestinian territories.

The First Year Program

SAIC stays ahead of the curve with a program that tries to keep up with the changing art-making practices.

Go figure

Highest turnout in recent history for Student Government Elections.

Difference and Diversity at SAIC

New Office of Multicultural Affairs.

Committed and Engaged: A Conversation with Art Critic Michael Brenson

"When a connection is made between viewer and work that is intimate and intense enough to convince the viewer that that work, and art in general, is vital to his or her life," Brenson writes in his "Art Criticism and the Aethetic Response." The seriousness of the statement, the matter of art's intense importance to the actual vitality of the viewer and therefore society seem to perfectly characterize Brenson's attitude to his work. For him art really is a matter of life and death.

The Honesty of Imperfection

Profile of Writer and Figure Model Paul McComas

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