The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
New York - Robert Rauschenberg, a pioneer of pop art who made his wildly creative pieces from almost anything that came to hand, has died in Florida aged 82, it was announced Tuesday. No cause was given for his death, which deprived the US art world ...
Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
I'm a sucker for museum construction webcams, so when I read the Chicago Tribune's Blair Kamin say that a Renzo Piano-designed bridge between the Art Institute of Chicago's Modern Wing and Millenium Park was going in over the weekend, I looked forward to daylight and checking out the AIC's webcam. Here's the image I took from it at about 3:15 EDT. The latest full-size JPEG will...
Women's Wear Daily (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
This year's fashion school commencement shows are quickly turning into a busy collections season of their own, featuring some great-looking clothes. At The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, seniors
Women's Wear Daily (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Not all graduating seniors have commercial currency on the brain. The fashion students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, for instance, opted overwhelmingly for the conceptual in their designs.
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Saugatuck, Michigan, United States Total Miles Driven: 2357 Total Time In The Car: 45 Hours, 23 Minutes On The iPod: We drove through Gary Indiana....The Jackson 5 of course! States Added: Indiana and Michigan Non-Tourist Activity: Slept in!! Serious Bummer Of The Day: The Edward Hopper exhibit at the Art Institute...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Chicago, Illinois, United States Forgot to check the miles and hours driven...we'll update tomorrow. On the iPod: The National and a little Jack Johnson/Donavon Frankenreiter mix. States Added: Illinois Culinary Experience: Drinking a Beer and eating a hot dog at Wrigley Field Authentic Experience: See above Oops of the day: Drove...
Matrixsynth (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
YouTube via gearwire "Chris Burke is a student at the Art Institute of Chicago who studies instrument construction. His curriculum resulted in a very creative optically based instrument called the Interactopus, an eight-tentacled instrument with an eye on the end of each tentacle that responds to the light in its surroundings. See more on gearwire.com."
Rickety Contrivances of Doing Good (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
In June, I'll be going to Chicago for a training institute in the Literature & Medicine program, which a med-school colleague and I will be trying to start here within the next year. It's an exciting idea, and I really hope we can get it off the ground. Meanwhile, I'm looking forward to the conference . I have to say that part of the draw is that the conference accomodations are less...
Looking Around (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte , Seurat, 1884/ ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO A few nights ago I made it over to the New York revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical Sunday in the Park with George . In it's first act, as a way to talk about the personal isolation of artists generally meaning Sondheim — it uses a fictionalized version of Georges Seurat at work on his most famous painting, A Sunday...
Second City Style (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Chi-Lai Cherry Yuen Last Friday Second City Style got the chance to check out some of the industry's future stars at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's annual student fashion show. While the overall production was heavy on...
gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Works by Howard Fonda . "...Howard Fonda received his MFA in Painting and Drawing from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2001. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, among others."
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Chicago, Illinois, United States Friday was a bit wet so decided to head for the Museum of Science and Industry - caught the bus down and spent a couple of hours at the museum, highlight is the U505, WWII German submarine. From there caught the bus back up to the city and went to the Art Institute of Chicago. Spent a while looking at the collection...
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
Everywhere, directors and curators from esteemed institutions could be seen buzzing around the Carnegie Museum of Art. The museum projects this year's installment will bring in about 250,000 visitors.
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
The eight winners of this year's Wisconsin Visual Art Lifetime Achievement Awards will be announced at a reception today at the Overture Center for the Arts in Madison.
Art News Blog (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
... United States.. ARIZONA MUSEUM Arizona Science Center CALIFORNIA MUSEUMS California Center for the Arts Escondido The California Museum Crocker Art Museum de Young Museum Discovery Science Center Explorit Science Center Laguna Beach Museum of Art Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Mingei International Museum Museum of African Diaspora Museum of Latin American Art Palm Springs Art Museum...
