Space Invaders
The seduction of small things made large
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The Anti-Monument
Korean artist Do-Ho Suh brings the statue down from the pedestal
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The Genocide Problem: “Never Again” All Over Again
On a quiet Sunday in the early summer of 1999, I was recruited into the tiny but growing army of enigmatic characters who devote their lives to studying genocide. It …
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Con Artist
Sometimes I choose the materials, but sometimes they choose me
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Cross-Border Shopping
Western curators are travelling the globe to find great art. Are they celebrating other visual cultures, or just hoping to enrich their own?
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The Beauty in Beasts
There are endless stories in a little piece of fabric
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The Ends of History
Histories of the entire universe, and of its minuscule parts—potatoes, coal, corsets—have captured our imagination. But what do they tell us about our past?
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Harmony in Several Hundred Parts
The artist Sarah Sze uses everything from Q-tips to living plants
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Why I Write
Daddy issues, fast women, and free pastrami
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