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

Whitney Stoepel

You are Reading an Article About Art

As the viewer reads this personal and inspiring letter written by a stranger to a stranger, her relationship to the artist and to the anonymous author becomes confused.

Intolerance

The problem of political, religious, and cultural intolerance is as bad as ever — if not worse. Jitish Kallat’s “Public Notice 3” debuted on Sept. 11, 2010 at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Return of the Real

This spring, shows at Chicago galleries have been like cries for help, echoing an anxiety that is endemic to this contemporary world of recessions, wars, and catastrophic natural disasters.

Constructive Criticism

Chicago writers duke it out over the direction of art criticism

The “Institutional Womb”

An interview with 2009 MFA Fellowship recipient Raquel Sarai Mendoza

The Dye-Transfer Process

The dye transfer process used by William Eggleston to produce prints achieves a richness of colors and control over the image unrivalled by other photographic methods.

Democratic Camera

William Eggleston’s first retrospective in the United States is expansive, filling the Abbott Galleries and Carolyn S. and Matthew Bucksbaum Gallery in the Modern Wing.

Studios on Display

The complex and poetic role of the studio in an artist’s life and work is explored in “Production Site: The Artist’s Studio Inside-Out,” which opened February 6 at the Museum of Contemporary Art

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