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The Storyteller: An Interview with Hera Buyuktasciyan
Hera Buyuktasciyan. "Missing Cuckoo." Installation, mixed media (cuckoo clock, 50 handkerchiefs). Istanbul, Turkey. 2008. Courtesy the artist. “All my life I have been the secondary memory, somehow.”...
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The Museum as Memory Palace
Illustration by Swanny Mouton. How museums naturally take advantage of a peculiar quirk in our brains. A Place to Hang Your Facts In the mid 1880s, Mark Twain devised a children’s game he felt would...
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Eleanor Antin Takes Over @Art21 on Twitter
Mark your calendars: As part of the Art21 Blog’s current Flash Points topic on storytelling, artist Eleanor Antin will take over the @Art21 Twitter account to perform a very special reading this...
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Eleanor Antin Takes Over @Art21 on Twitter Today at 2pm EST!
Don’t forget: As part of the Art21 Blog’s current Flash Points topic on storytelling, artist Eleanor Antin will take over the @Art21 Twitter account to perform a very special reading today, Friday,...
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The Undead Tree of Charles Ray
Charles Ray, “Hinoki,” 2007. © 2007 Charles Ray. Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles. Charles Ray’s massive reproduction of a fallen redwood tree, Hinoki, fills one room in the Modern Wing of the Art...
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Art and Aliens: How Would an Artist Represent Humanity to Extraterrestrial Life?
Illustration on the Pioneer Plaque. How would a contemporary artist represent humanity to extraterrestrial life? Recently I was visiting the American Museum of Natural History to take a friend to the...
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Careful Not to Touch
Raqs Media Collective. “Please do not touch the work of art,” (2006). Courtesy the artists. I feel the impulse from time to time. A momentary desire to run a finger across the surface of a painting....
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