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Why Did eBay Pull This Artist's Anti-Zimmerman Painting?
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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A Deep Dive into Digital Art
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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The Accessible Pleasures of Excess
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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Scientists to Image Black Hole by Turning Earth into Giant Camera
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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The Persuasive Paintings of a Shamanistic Yenta
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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Exploring the Aesthetic Ear
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.
Art
Art Rx
Many galleries have closed their doors for an end-of-the-year break, but that just means it's a good time to visit museums or see movies.
Art
All the Pretty Selfies Are Here to Stay
CHICAGO — Just because "selfies" was named Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year and Barack Obama shot that funeral selfie doesn't mean these internet self-portraits are a passing fad.
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10 Best Art Books of 2013
2013 was a great year for art-related books from publishers of all stripes …
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Italian Library Ransacked by Its Own Director
Another day, another depressing story about the deterioration of cultural patrimony in Italy. The subject this time? The Biblioteca dei Girolamini, a 16th-century library in Naples that was systematically looted by its director.
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Pussy Riot Members Go Free [UPDATED]
After the passage of an amnesty bill in the Russian parliament last week, Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, the two imprisoned members of Russian punk protest band Pussy Riot, have been freed.