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Photographing the Enchanted Belongings of Dead Celebrities
Assigning value to a cheap, everyday thing that a famous person happened to use can be explained in part by what psychologists call the “law of magical contagion.”
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At the Montreal Biennial, Lessons in How to Look
Across the city, many works by the 55 artists participating in the 2016 Biennale de Montréal deal with the possibilities, limitations, and consequences of spectacle and spectatorship.
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Required Reading
This week, a new (and more accurate) world map, the death of iconic images, meme warfare, the impact of Brexit on art, and more.
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Weekend Words: Vote
"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all."
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Paintings We Need
In an era that celebrates celebrity, vulgar loudmouths, puerile provocateurs, selfie-addicts, and excessive materialists, Merlin James prefers subtlety over din, less rather than more.
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Signs of a Presidential Loser
Nina Katchadourian's "Monument to the Unelected" gives us a chance to consider what it means to be a loser in our electoral system.
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Mary Carlson’s Favorite Demons
What does evil look like?
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Kate Levant’s Invisible Systems
Simultaneously sparse and immersive, Valerian Dials for Trembling Hands evokes the stillness of an ocean after a shipwreck or storm.
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Ai Weiwei Explores the Scale of Crisis in Four Large Installations
Four Ai Weiwei shows across Manhattan explore the aesthetics of crisis and the deluge that might consume us.
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From Kass and Kruger to Koons, Artists Overwhelmingly Endorse Clinton for President
Hillary Clinton appears to be artists' favorite in the 2016 US presidential election, while her opponent Donald Trump has not been endorsed by a single well-known artist.
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At a Remote Russian Observatory, Contemporary Art Invokes the Wonder of Stargazing
The Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Science, near the village of Nizhny Arkhyz, is hosting a contemporary art exhibition to mark the 50th anniversary of its construction.
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A Silent Soundwalk, Noisy with Abstract Compositions
Christine Sun Kim revisits Max Neuhaus's "LISTEN" 50 years later, in which the musician took a group of his friends on a sonic journey through the Lower East Side.