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

Katrina Kuntz

Is the best art in the bathroom?

A short review of the BFA show by Katrina Kuntz About 45 minutes into the closing night of the BFA Show, I stumbled into an installation...

Hangin with the pod people

Chicago podcasters Red Bar Radio, whose game is “pop culture, politics, life and almost anything else, and Bad at Sports.

An Incomplete Map

An incomplete map of everything, Links Hall’s February festival dedicated to all of the experimental art forms

An Incomplete Map of Everything

An Incomplete Map of Everything, a month-long series of performances curated by SAIC instructor and artist Mark Booth, opens Friday, February 3, at independent artistic Links Hall, with the experimental literature of Christian Bök and fellow SAIC instructor Terri Kapsalis.

Painter Trevor Corneliusen turns hip-hop artist

The morning of January 3, Corneliusen tightly wrapped a foot and a half of chain around his bare ankles and fastened them with a Master Lock padlock before sitting down to sketch the restraints. Upon finishing the drawing, he realized the key was missing.

Video artist Jason Salavon at AIC

SAIC alumnus Jason Salavon spoke January 12 in the Fullerton Auditorium about how he borrows from popular culture, media, and memory--essentially accumulating and compressing data--to produce images that move beyond traditional photography.

Yet another artist’s fight against loneliness

London-based artist Mark McGowan set out the day after Christmas, crawling on his hands and knees in support of all of those who spent the holidays alone.

Duchamp’s Fountain attacked by performance artist

Nearly thirteen years after he urinated in and struck Duchamp's Fountain with a small hammer, French performance artist Pierre Pinoncelli attacked the Dada urinal again with a hammer in early January.

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