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CHICAGO — In the age of social-networked identities, when every private thought is often public declaration, what does it mean to be "good" or "bad"? Our words become performances, our self-portraits become selfies, and we are present as online brands. It becomes hard to take emotional moments serio
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The artist at the center of the anti-Zimmerman painting controversy on eBay, Michael D'Auntuono, responded to Hyperallergic's questions via email about the online auction site's decision to remove his painting because it violated eBay’s Hateful or Discriminatory policy.
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Why would a contemporary art museum launch a web comedy series? Well ... why not, I guess?
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CHICAGO — For the past three Christmas seasons at The Suburban, an artist-run project space in Michelle Grabner and Brad Killam's Oak Park backyard, artist Diego Leclery has decided to become a polar bear.
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On the same day that George Zimmerman's painting raked in over $100,000 on eBay, artist Micheal D'Antuono was told by the same online auction company that his artistic interpretation of the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin confrontation violated eBay's Hateful or Discriminatory policy and was removed
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Some people spend Christmas Eve going to mass or sitting around a tree; others spend it eating Chinese food and going to see a movie. If you don't have any family or friend traditions to adhere to, or if you do but want an escape, one possibility I'd recommend is to spend this late afternoon/evening
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CHICAGO — The unwieldy synthetic materials of late capitalism’s throwaway culture are worth their weight in gold spray-painted styrofoam bricks. In her solo exhibition Ornament at the Riverside Arts Center's Freeark Gallery, artist Sabina Ott shoves aside the confines of what constitutes acceptable,
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The problem with trying to take a picture of a black hole is that it consumes everything, even the light around it. Now, a team of scientists is working to make the first image of a black hole by using telescopes around the world to look at its shadowy edge.
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SOMERVILLE, Mass. — The idea that a work may be finished before some mysterious visual and artistic calculus is complete tends toward the blasphemous. And, with a shrug of the shoulders, to simply imply that you are finished with a painting or drawing when you don’t want to work on it anymore — well
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BRIGHTON, UK — Earsthetic is a new event series at the Brighton Dome focusing on artists who conceive of their projects in both the visual and sonic realms. What you see is what you hear, and vice versa.