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Even though, like most people, I use Twitter publicly, I still often get the feeling that my tweets exist in a kind of social media bubble — that they're shielded from the rest of the world, read only by the people whose feeds they might happen to pop up in. That is, of course, just the imaginary fe
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Nonprofits across the US are stuck in a cycle that hinders their ability to raise money, a new report says. Commissioned by the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund and conducted by CompassPoint, the study examines fundraising issues at nonprofits nationwide, and the results aren't pretty.
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I suppose it was only a matter of time, but yesterday, it finally happened: Hyperallergic was Facebook censored.
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On January 22, 1973 the US Supreme Court legalized abortion in a 7–2 ruling in the case of Roe v. Wade. It's been forty years since that decision, and although abortion remains legal, it's no less controversial. In fact, it might be moreso these days, if the growing number of restrictions on the pro
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Yesterday afternoon, Hauser & Wirth opened the doors to its new space in Chelsea for a preview. The gallery's only home until now in New York has been a townhouse on the Upper East Side, which, like all buildings of its sort, makes for a narrow, multilevel (and sometimes fragmented) art-viewing expe
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This week, openings and discussions and parties, oh my!
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The artist who claims that he was attacked by a maintenance employee on the High Line last month is planning to sue over the incident. Iddi Amadu, an immigrant from Ghana who sells his art on the High Line, is bringing a suit against Friends of the High Line, the organization that runs the park, as
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World of Warcraft (WoW) has a massive following: in 2011, some 10 million users participated in the online role-playing game. And according to a New York Times article from last year, women comprise an increasing numbers of those players and of online gamers in general: they are, apparently, one the
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Grungy Williamsburg is a thing of the past. Warehouses can still be found around the neighborhood, but for the most part, they've slowly turning into more than just artist lofts, and the penniless bohemia of yesteryears has largely ceded their territory to bars, music venues, clubs, restaurants, cof
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It's been more than two years since Russia issued a ban on lending art to the United States, and the latest news in the ongoing saga is that a federal judge has now declared the Russian government in contempt of court, imposing fines on it of $50,000 a day, the LA Times reports.
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There have been artist statement generators before, and there will be more to come. In the meantime, however, I've found my favorite artist statement generator of all: 500 Letters.
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The Museum of Modern Art may be one step closer to recognizing graffiti as a legitimate art form, but New York City is not. Writer Adam Mansbach, who took part in last week's "Writers and Writers" event at MoMA, has a post on the Awl about being denied subway advertising space that he was prepared t