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# When Life REALLY Imitates Art
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/when-life-really-imitates-art/
- Published: 2014-12-31T20:20:17.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:48:08.000Z
- Description: The art world did it first.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:08 (2014, 2015, part 2)

[![Screen Shot 2014-12-31 at 2.49.31 PM](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/12/screen-shot-2014-12-31-at-2-49-31-pm.png)](https://twitter.com/DNAinfoCHI/status/550026440775720960?ref=hyperallergic.com)

We saw this news photo yesterday and quickly realized that this was a sad case of reality copying art. *Yawn*. Better luck next year, reality!

![(image sources 1, 2)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/12/artworld-better-big.jpg)

(image sources 1, 2)

*h/t* [*@danielleiat*](https://twitter.com/danielleiat/status/550028727078637569?ref=hyperallergic.com)