Artist Interviews

Artist residency at SAIC's hidden Gem, Homan Square.

The New York Times art editor and writer discusses life, learning, and the “memory museum.”

Revered artist and Hugo Boss Prize winner Paul Chan discusses sex, pleasure and erotica as art.

The Artist Discusses Her Recent Work and Current Inspiration

Wafaa Bilal discusses his controversial head-mounted camera project: “The project came from a deep desire to capture images of places we leave behind. Sometimes we leave these places by choice. And sometimes we’re forced.”

Everyone needs advice about love and cats and stuff. Especially you.

Joshua Mosely makes movies to wrap your brain around.

Coupling Henry Darger’s drawings with a mix of works by eleven contemporary art up-and-comers, the American Folk Art Museum in New York presents a fascinating exhibition about mythmaking, war and the presumptive innocence of childhood.

Jennifer Swann interviews The Dirty Diamonds

Czech art historian and visiting professor at the School of the Art Institute Chicago, Otto Urban, studied art history and aesthetics at Charles University in Prague, and, in 2000, earned his PhD in the same field. He is currently teaching at SAIC, focusing on Central European Symbolism, specifically the question of Decadence. He has curated a number of exhibitions, and his book In Morbid Colors: Art and the Idea of Decadence in the Bohemian Lands, 1880-1914 recently won the Book of the Year 2006 award in the Czech Republic.