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up Resoponsibility
What is the place of art and what is the responsibility of the artist?
F News editors interview SAIC faculty on the role of the artist both
within and outside culture.
Students and Responsibility
At a time when the art world seems to be shying away from so-called
“political art,” (perhaps in favor of art with a capital
“A”), some students at SAIC have answered by saying that
life itself is art. Stephanie Amada interviews students making politically
challenging art.
First
things first...again
Despite the field’s lack of historic grandeur, graphic designers
are in the business of creating a large and very influential part of
the visual world that we all live in. Sharon Anne Coon investigates
the visual responsibilities of the people who create the images we consume
on a daily basis.
When you take the inside with you. Amber Smock interviews Salome Chasnoff,
Executive Director of Beyondmedia Education, on women’s incarceration,
highlighted this month at Las Manos Gallery.
Empowerment or Punishment?
Art Teachers and No Child Left Behind: Mariya Strauss investigates
the impact of the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind Act
on art education.
Snow White and the
trouble of interpretation
When the Israeli ambassador to Sweden began to dismantle Dror and
Gunilla Sköld Feiler’s installation “Snow White and
the Madness of Truth,” N. A. Hayes wondered who ought to decide
how to read a work of art.
Resistance and Dissent in Milwaukee: Visions of Tragedy
Dimitry Tetin reports on the “Visual Artists Responding to
War” discussion at the Milwaukee Art Museum, held in conjunction
with the exhibit “Defiance Despair Desire: German Expressionist
Prints from the Marcia and Granvil Specks Collection.”
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What does the SAIC community think about artists, art schools and
responsibility. Check out the reponses to this month’s F Question.
Worst Case Scenario
How to create the illusion of opinion.
Mouth Off
The SAIC Community Mouthes Off about full frontal male nudity.
Ink
Selected writings from SAIC verbal artists.
Graphic Spot
Paula Salhany frames responsibility.
Artwatch
Guerrilla Girls receive an award
Tibetan groups protest the Bowers Museum of Orange County
Cuban art crackdown
French intellectuals fight back
Censorship on the fly
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The government that cares
Interviews with the new student government officers
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Theater Review
Camille
Assume the existence of burning, eternal love. The Hypocrites’
production of Camille/La Traviata never questions this kind
of love’s existence. It jumps headstrong into the consequences
of its arrival.
Music Review
A Review of 6 irresponsible
albums
As a lazy alternative for young consumerists everywhere, I offer you
six satisfying soundtracks to accompany what we do best: being excessively
hedonistic, apathetic and indifferent.
Art Reviews
Curator's pick
F asked Mark Pascale to comment on a work in the Art Institute of
Chicago’s collection. Prepare to be surprised.
New Exhibit Review
Ed Schad checks out Lee Bontecou's retrospective at the MCA.
Cinematters
Three to Tango
Eli Ungar reviews The Dreamers, the provocative story of
a young American student studying in Paris in 1968, who meets a set
of twins at a demonstration at the Cinémathéque Française.
Movie Review
Lost Children in the
City of God
Charles Loie says: “Take anything you know about coming-of-age
dramas, splice that with well-traveled gangster formulas, add a heaping
load of social commentary and visual spectacle, and you are only getting
close to what City of God has to offer.”
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