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

Mark Pascale

Curator’s Choice: Dean Byington

Dean Byington was born in Southern California in 1958 and received his training at the Universities of California Santa Cruz and Berkeley. He continues to live and work in the Bay Area, and has exhibited in San Francisco for the last 12 years.

Picabia’s Lust And Torment

In many ways, Francis Picabia's creative output is the model for all artists of the last century who eschewed aesthetic sensibility.

Curator’s Pick: Acquired Taste

As the fall semester approaches, this is a good time to remind the SAIC community about how to use the Print and Drawing Study Room in the museum.

Curator’s Pick: Acquired Taste

As the fall semester approaches, this is a good time to remind the SAIC community about how to use the Print and Drawing Study Room in the museum.

Curator’s Pick: Beyond Convention: Artists’ Ephemera, Printed, Inflated, Etc.

By design and default, the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries catalogue have large quantities of ephemera, or those items that are often printed and produced for temporary use and amusement. It is an idiom representing a significant aspect of the ways in which artists, publishers, and others have deployed mass production to substitute, emulate, and in some cases replace the original object of art.

Curator’s Pick: Beyond Convention: Artists’ Ephemera, Printed, Inflated, Etc.

By design and default, the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries catalogue have large quantities of ephemera, or those items that are often printed and produced for temporary use and amusement. It is an idiom representing a significant aspect of the ways in which artists, publishers, and others have deployed mass production to substitute, emulate, and in some cases replace the original object of art.

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