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In the story of postwar American art, the middle of the country typically gets short shrift. The work coming out of Chicago in the 1960s and ’70s was gleefully weird, darkly surreal, and mostly figurative; for that, it was mostly overlooked, along with its practitioners. One of the biggest and most
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CHICAGO — For artist Tom Burtonwood, the transition into 3D scanning and printing was as natural as popping food into a microwave rather than settling for cold leftovers.
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In the artist's own words, Happy Hills documents the "predominantly Hispanic workforce who work tirelessly behind the scenes to maintain the beautiful imagery of these affluent areas." His interruptions of the glossy images feel effortless, transforming pictures we overlook but are influenced by eve
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I visited Jake Berthot in upstate New York at his home in the woods of the Catskill Mountains. After spending time in his studio, followed by vegetable soup for lunch, we walked outside towards my car. It then occurred to me how Berthot, through body language and the tenor of his conversation, creat
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For Stephanie Brody-Lederman, a New York-based painter, the ungraspable nature of memory and the fugitive, ever-mutable character of its content have long been both the subject and the raw material of her art.
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LONDON — She was called the enfant terrible of Surrealism. She was immortalized in some of Man Ray’s best photographs. Her well-known "Object" (1936) is considered one of the most important surrealist works.
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CHICAGO — The Trans Oral History Project is a grassroots community media initiative that collects the stories of trans, gender variant and gender non-conforming individuals.
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Alexandre Singh’s The Humans—a play inspired by the comedies of my favorite Greek poet, Aristophanes—had sold out before I got around to buying tickets. I knew what I had to do: swallow $2.50 in quarters for raft fare across the Styx, and strangle myself.
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Peter Selz — prolific curator, art historian, and an instrumental figure in the scholarship on modern art — hardly bears introduction.
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Anyone who's chosen to live a creative lifestyle — not just artists — knows what it means to worry. Rather than gun for the safety of a monthly paycheck, most of us (this writer included) have to find a way to put food on the table, without sacrificing our proverbial souls.
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BRIGHTON, U.K. — Not one but two Moons are currently in orbit 'round this planet of ours. There’s the homely satellite we landed on, over Mexico at the time of this writing. But there’s another which has been sped on its way by British artist Katie Paterson, hers a piece of meteoric Moon rock in air
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It's hard not to be affected by Swoon's passionate and visually stunning idealism, the Brooklyn-based artist has made a career of large beautiful drawings and prints of people who convey hope, strength, and personal power.