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  • Book review: White Sight, Nicholas Mirzoeff

    Nineteenth century civic statues are so boring. Colourless, elevated, obscure, pompous, they have, for a very long time, eluded questioning. To topple one of these monuments, to go so far as to dump one into the sea, is to make the whatever bronze idol, appear to us fresh, and in disgrace. If there is such …

    April 6, 2023

  • Jukhee Kwon: Being @ La Scatola

    Treehuggers may well like this show in which paper from books is shredded line by line to form a copse of six or seven arboreal candidates for the sentient term Being. The pages now flow down from book shelves just underneath the ceiling. And you have to get within hugging distance to appreciate the painstaking …

    June 23, 2012