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SAIC Artist in Residence 2024 – Johnae Strong
Artist residency at SAIC's hidden Gem, Homan Square.
Arts & Culture
Holland Cotter is still learning
The New York Times art editor and writer discusses life, learning, and the “memory museum.”
Arts & Culture
Paul Chan’s Artistic Legacy
Revered artist and Hugo Boss Prize winner Paul Chan discusses sex, pleasure and erotica as art.
Arts & Culture
5 Questions: Patricia Erens
The Artist Discusses Her Recent Work and Current Inspiration
Arts & Culture
A Disappearing Act: Wafaa Bilal and The 3rd I Project
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.”
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Is Henry Darger an “ism”?
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.
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Art & Decadence: Interview with Otto Urban
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.