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South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley eliminated the entire budget of her state's Arts Commission in a late-night veto last week. The drastic cut involves two line vetoes out of 81 that Haley delivered on the 2012–13 state budget — one blocking the Arts Commission's $1.9 million in state funding (veto
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It’s hard to walk around Soho by day without bumping into tourists carrying bags from Topshop or Uniqlo or some other obnoxious boutique store, so it’s nice to be able to head down Broadway during the evening and visit Spattered Columns Exhibition Space, an art gallery that shows off the neighborhoo
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New York City's population of the dead, like its living souls, has mostly relocated to the outer boroughs due the overcrowding and high real estate prices of Manhattan. Many of the island's cemeteries were exhumed (although the bodies were not necessarily all collected, resulting in some skeletons l
Art
What can contemporary abstract painting tell us about the medium today, and why does it continue to stir the soul? To answer these questions, artist Kara Rooney, the curator of Material Tak at Panepinto Galleries, selected five painters who range in age, professional experience and formal approach.
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Jeremy Hunt, the UK's Secretary for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, announced plans last week for an intriguing-sounding program called the National Funding Scheme. The scheme will be a digital, primarily mobile, arts philanthropy platform — basically a nation-wide effort to get more people to d
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In 2010 I came close. It was around the time that there was a big stink about Facebook's changes to its Privacy Policy. Remember that? No? It's cool, I'd forgotten too, despite how upset I was at the time. I told myself then that I couldn't afford to leave my "network." And that was probably true. F
Opinion
Can artists use the large amount of raw-data and new programmatic tools to represent information more clearly and passionately than scientists can?
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When one of the world’s richest living artists orders you to stop making art, you do it. Or do you? That is what Chuck Close has done to me. In response, I have developed a 100-year plan that will allow my digital art to outlive any threats of legal action.
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CHICAGO — On June 30, 2012, Governor Pat Quinn signed into law a state budget that includes a 9.4% cut to funding for the Illinois Arts Council. This was less than feared, but it will undoubtedly have negative implications for cultural organizations, underserved communities, and individuals and orga
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TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan — In the early part of the twentieth century, two emigrants from Armenia named Guleserian and Altoonjian arrived in Petoskey, in northern Michigan, and decided to go into business importing and selling “rugs and other novelty goods” in this remote but prosperous town.
Opinion
I recently stumbled across a video of writer Jon Ronson confronting a Twitter bot that was "stealing" Ronson's personality. The surreal (or is it hyperreal?) video and the subsequent article written by two of those interviewed in the video, Dan O'Hara and Luke Robert Mason, is a fascinating glimpse