SAIC students continue to protest the school’s ties to defence contractors

After a spring semester defined by widespread pro-Palestine demonstrations, some top art universities have imposed new restrictions

Dozens of demonstrators were arrested in May on criminal trespassing charges

Police arrested 68 people at the Art Institute of Chicago on Saturday and around 50 protesters at FIT on Tuesday

Centres devoted to Roger Brown and Ed Paschke will soon reopen with new plans and ambitions

More than 500 workers at the institutions will get raises over 12%

Founded by art historian Romi Crawford, the New Art School Modality aims to both make art school more accessible and open up alternative forms of study and exchange

The artist now known as Ye was awarded a degree by his hometown art school in 2015, but his sustained antisemitic rhetoric caused the school to revoke it

If successful, they would join staff at the school and its namesake museum who voted overwhelmingly in favour of unionising in January

With the arts sector increasingly vulnerable in the wake of the pandemic, a new breed of digitally optimised worker is emerging

The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees will now represent 266 employees at the museum and another 249 at the school

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago has been accused of cowardice and censorship over its treatment of former professor and Henry Darger expert Michael Bonesteel