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Knowing Where Your Gadgets Come From
OAKLAND, Calif. — As I type out this post, I am ever more aware of those who piece together the keyboard, circuits and processors that brought this computer to life.
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A Bestial Journey to the Center of Illinois
CHAMPAIGN-URBANA, Ill. — I traveled down to Champaign-Urbana carrying two cassette tapes of BESTIARY, a mix tape by the music label Hairy Spider Legs.
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Art Institute of Chicago's Modern Wing Now 30% Closed
CHICAGO — Rumors began shaking my grapevine in Chicago last week about a sudden and dramatic closure of part of the Modern Wing at the Art Institute.
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Martians Land in Bushwick
The Bushwick boom continues. When it opens its doors on Friday, October 4, the painting-focused Life on Mars gallery will be the newest entrant to the Bushwick art scene, joining the bustle at the 56 Bogart building.
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In Its Chicago Debut, Fountain Art Fair Spouts, Drips, and Splashes
CHICAGO — The Fountain Art Fair is located at the edge a heavily industrial area of the Pilsen neighborhood where many local artists live and work. Compared to Expo Chicago, it is a welcome free-for-all DIY art oasis at the edge of an art community.
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The Girl Gore Aesthetics of White Lace, Ghosted Bodies, and Animal Menageries at Expo Chicago
CHICAGO — I didn't want to go to the art fair. I never do. A lot of stuff at art fairs is the same-ish, and galleries are trying their best to sell the most. Yet the art fairs keep coming, and as the market has proven Chicago is no exception.
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Shopping at an Art Fair
His stuff is pretty much the same … so …
Opinion
Art Museum Promo Video That Gets It (Mostly) Right
European museums have been slower than North American institutions to adopt a digital forward way of doing things, but the Musée d'Orsay's recent video promotion for their latest show, Masculine / Masculine, is on the cutting edge of the digital wave.
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From Weird Twitter to Mundane Conceptualism: The @Horse_ebooks Story
Horse_ebooks, that paragon of Twitter non sequitur humor, has turned out to be the "conceptual art" handiwork of Jacob Bakkila, a Buzzfeed "creative strategist," and Thomas Bender.
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Expo Chicago: Streamlined and Sellier Than Ever
CHICAGO — Expo Chicago, an art fair occupying the cavernous Festival Hall on Navy Pier, returned for its second year in its new incarnation, and all the signals coming out from artists and dealers suggested that it was a success.
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A New Gallery Made of Glass, Celebrating Openness and Women
Constructed from reclaimed windows in a vacant lot, the new Glass House exhibition space at the Invisible Dog Art Center on Bergen Street in Brooklyn appears like a DIY greenhouse, but from within the art is given a lightness against the walls of illumination.
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Met Museum Offers $18 Groupon for Free Admission
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has offered an $18 admission voucher on the social deals site Groupon, a seeming continuation of their longstanding tendency to mislead New Yorkers about the official "price" of admission.