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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.
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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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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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All work and no play infuses graphic design with a corporate dullness, but that was never the case with Alan Fletcher.
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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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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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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.
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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
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Opinion
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.
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This week, the start of summer group shows, trespassing/transgressive placemaking, an electronic art festival, and hip-hop in the age of YouTube.
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Legendary Lydia Lunch, confrontationalist post-punk no-wave singer, spoken word artist, poet, writer, photographer, and actress, has never been one to hide the madness — that’s putting it mildly. Broadcasting her inner angst has always been her style as well as her gritty charm. A Lunch quote: “I'm
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Richard Serra's "Shift," an early land work made by the artist in 1972, has finally received the indefinite protection it deserves. The township council for King City, Ontario, voted last week to officially designate the sculpture a site of “cultural heritage value.”