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Lightning Round: October 2019

Talking past lives, chickens, and senility with SAIC undergrads.

Welcome to the Amputation Demonstration

Catherine White on education and mortality at the International Museum of Surgical Science.

Social Justice In And Out Of The Classroom

Ruth Needleman, SAIC professor and activist, encourages collaboration in the face of bigotry.

Critical Dimension

Janet Koplos on arts writing after the New Art Examiner.

The Rise and Fall of a Midwestern Art Magazine

An interview with New Art Examiner co-founder Derek Guthrie

5 Questions: Claire Pentecost

F Newsmagazine speaks with Claire Pentecost, an artist, writer, and professor of photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her interdisciplinary practice interrogates institutional structures that order knowledge.

Craftivism: The Art of Craft and Activism

A conversation with blogger, knitter and textile enthusiast Betsy Greer on her new book and an upcoming North American tour on craft, creativity and activism.

Pzzzt – The Buzz from Albania

A communist-era air-raid shelter is home to Tirana’s new independent gallery space.

Screaming in Metalanguage

An interview with Avant-Garde Japanese Poetry Translator David Michael Ramirez II.

Overhauling the Overburden

Laurie Palmer, longtime Professor of Sculpture at SAIC, began a research project to understand, through her own partiality and subjectivity, the processes that people carry out to transform the freely given materials of the earth into private commodities.

Paabus’ Own Panopticon at The Sub-Mission

Kristina Paabus' "box for each of us" at The Sub-mission comments on our present day Panopticon.

ODIGBA!

Remembering SAIC Professor, Artist, Anthropologist, Haitian Vodou Expert and Rumoured Witch Marilyn Houlberg


“When she would walk into a room, it was like a forgotten entity was walking in, like something you hear about in storybooks. It was like meeting someone who was the last of [her kind].”

Student Profile: Sanaz Sohrabi

Highlighting the human costs of U.S. sanctions against Iran.

The Poet Eroticist

The life and work of SAIC's Bradshaw Stanley.

Danny Giles

“...the appendages in Giles’ paintings allow the possibility to be read as all things, declaring none.”