Editor’s note: for this issue, Coco Picard talked to Chicago artist and professor Nick Cave about his art practice and work, as well as his exhibition “Forothermore.” Edited text from the comic is transcribed here to ease readability. The artist, activist, and educator Nick Cave’s first retrospective, “Forothermore,” is on view at the Museum of […]
Tag: School of the Art Institute
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Photos: 2022 SAIC Fashion Show
Our contributor Isa Giallorenzo attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s fashion show in May. The annual event returned to an in-person format this year (the theme: “Humanature”) after a two-year hiatus to address safety concerns around COVID-19. Here are some images Giallorenzo shot of some of the over 100 pieces of student-designed work that […]
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Our earth bodies, ourselves
“Humankind has always been very curious and driven to find out about life forms in outer space, but not so curious about life forms on the planet,” Giovanni Aloi remarked as he showed me each work of art included in “Earthly Observatory,” an exhibition that he curated with artist/scientist Andrew S. Yang. Over 30 artists […]
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Chicago’s Thomas Comerford assembles a cast of local musicians for an album of beguiling country
Chicago has its share of bands playing country or alternative country, but Thomas Comerford’s lonesome sound is in a category of its own. Comerford straddles the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s and the dusty, deadpan observations of psychedelic iconoclasts such as Bill Callahan. He’s also an independent filmmaker—he teaches film and art history at the […]
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The midwestern decadence of “Indiscriminate Sincerity”
Patrick Wilkins’s exhibit celebrates humanity’s simplest pleasures with a perverse twist.
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Azita has more to say and more ways to say it
For Glen Echo, Azita Youssefi’s first album in more than eight years, she played and recorded every instrument herself.
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Where indie music meets indie gaming
Chicago video-game composers talk about how they found their way into this strange and difficult business.
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Drummer Jeremy Cunningham releases a dense but delicate jazz record to honor his late brother
Drummer Jeremy Cunningham releases a dense but delicate jazz record to honor his late brother; the Black, Brown, and Indigenous Crew rocks the Vaginal Davis exhibit at the Art Institute; and more.
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South-side champion
Writer-photographer Lee Bey’s new book Southern Exposure showcases architectural masterworks on the typically neglected south and west sides.
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Meet Nikko Washington, the painter and ace bowler in the Save Money collective.
The Hyde Park-raised artist wants to put his own spin on depicting the black experience.
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Inside SAIC’s Bio Art Lab, where art is life—literally
In a basement below Michigan Avenue, poetry turns into viruses and yeast into music.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Looking back at the Hairy Who, the 1960s Chicago art world’s greatest branding exercise
On the eve of the collective’s Art Institute retrospective, Suellen Rocca tells all. (Well, some.)
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Chicago artist Mika Horibuchi paints oil trompe-l’oeil replicas of her grandma’s watercolors
The result is an experiment in looking at the world through someone else’s eyes.
Posted inBlogs
Profiles abuse scandal inspires new magazine examining Chicago theater
“The reason I came to grad school was to … create a revolution through theater,” the editor of Chicago Theater Now says.
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Ivan Albright’s meticulous attention to the human body continues to be an inspiration to young artists
“Flesh” celebrates the centennial of the Chicago artist’s first exhibition at the Art Institute.