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This Artist Is Toasted

CHICAGO — When isn't art good for breakfast? Oslo-based artist Ida Skivenes makes all types of food art out using a piece of toast on a kitchen plate as her canvas.

Art

Sculpting the Tiniest Flowers in the World to Build the Future of Nanotechnology

How shapes self-assemble in nature is a mystery of science yet to be unraveled, but sculpting a miniature flower garden may shed some light on self-assembly and spur innovation in microscopic engineering.

Books

Rewriting the Story of Shame and Isolation: The Lambda Literary Awards Turn 25

On Monday night the Lambda Literary Awards turned 25. For those unfamiliar, the Lammys are awards given out to LGBT authors in a variety of categories ranging from serious nonfiction to science fiction. They were started in 1989 by Deacon Maccubbin, founder of the now-shuttered Washington, DC, gay b

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Will S[edition] Become the App Store of Digital Art?

CHICAGO — Today, a new expanded version of s[edition] launches and it will allow artists working with a wide range of digital technologies to be able to upload their work to the s[edition] platform and start selling their works to people around the world.

Art

Community Art Project Victimized by Arson Rises from the Ashes

The Heidelberg Project was started as a way to transform the depressing decay of an east Detroit neighborhood, but it has since experienced its own set of devastations. In both 1991 and 1999, parts of it were demolished, and just this past month there was a fire that wrecked its oldest house. Now th

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Uncanny Twinism: Exploring Twins in Visual Art

CHICAGO — Twins are fascinating. Identical twins embody the visual doubling of a single human, which often calls to mind ideas of cloning. The psychic component of twins suggests that one can complete the other's thoughts, that they feel the same thing and that, in effect, they are one single human

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The Visual Wit of Designer Alan Fletcher Is Now Online

All work and no play infuses graphic design with a corporate dullness, but that was never the case with Alan Fletcher.

Art

In Channa Horwitz’s Orange Grid

LOS ANGELES — There are generally two favored narrative arcs used to describe an artist’s life. There is the story of the hot young art star who takes the art world by storm with new ideas and a mediagenic personality. And there is the solitary artist, who works quietly for years, before finding suc

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10 Artists to Watch from the 2013 Bushwick Open Studios

This year, we asked the Hyperallergic team to pick a few artists they deemed "worthy to keep your eye on" from their travals across the mega-swathe of Brooklyn and Queens known as Bushwick Open Studios (BOS).

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A Guerrilla Registry of Historic Places Pops Up in Brooklyn

For a borough with a dense and diverse history, Brooklyn doesn't have much in the way of public historic recognition. Artist Anna Robinson-Sweet's current installation project adds historic plaques around the borough, to highlight what has been forgotten.

Art

A Place to Rest Your Internet-Weary Head

CHICAGO — When I was but a wee young twin, a powerful psychic told me that I should keep a dream journal. I never forgot that moment, because it came to me in a dream during a wonderful evening of REM-induced magic. That psychic reappeared to me one day in the form of the tumblr blog tag #psychic mo

Opinion

A Plea for Detroit [UPDATED]

On May 24 the news broke that Detroit's emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, was considering whether the city could or should sell off the art collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) to help pay back its debts. The reactions pretty much range from "this is a bad idea" to "this is a terrible idea.