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The Cut: Inside the July Layoffs at SAIC

Budget cuts may have saved the school from financial crisis, but deepened distrust of the administration.

Chicago Gun Violence and You

Gun violence in Chicago can seem like an abstract problem to students, but it shouldn't.

Getting Paid, Part II: How They Do it in New York

How do New York-based online arts publications make money, and why can’t we do that here?

Around the Coyote bites the dust

Around the Coyote has exhibited artists for longer than most current SAIC undergraduates have been alive. That is, up until this past winter, when their much-needed fundraiser only raked in $2,000.

Free Booze or A Tale of Two Liquors

Around the same time that Grolsch decided to withdraw from the Chicago art scene, another shade of green began to appear in the hands of art aficionados: the unlikely drink that is Pernod Absinthe.

Economizing Creativity

Is the MFA the new MBA?

Time is money

This is just a reminder that your classes are costly. Besides offending teachers who find tardy, disrupting students to be pet peeves, it costs you too.

Your English degree may mean nothing here, but you can make it in China

In spite of the over sixty thousand Americans already teaching English in China, English teaching is still the most popular and the most sorely needed position for foreigners. As a result, China has become an excellent place for the wayward liberal arts educated westerner to begin their life.

DOUGH!

In early November, several institutions including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art unloaded a number of major artworks at Christie’s and Sotheby’s auction blocks, to the indignation of art historians and critics.

Exposing America: some unnatural disasters

Graphic reflections on Hurricane Katrina.