Maurizio Cattelan Turned a Banana Into Art. Next Up: Guns
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Maurizio Cattelan Turned a Banana Into Art. Next Up: Guns
what does art become when the form goes extinct?
Blaise Lucey • The Death of Calvin and Hobbes
It is, in large part, our familiarity with the photographers and videographers that places their output in a different category than the 20th-century war images on which our inherited discourse is based. Even if skillful, these are not works of art; they are distress signals. There is no hand-wringing about the politics of representation. The victi... See more
The Editors • Who Sees Gaza? | The Editors
Facts, too, can become casualties in a warring society.
David Grann • The Wager
Art can be talisman or comfort,
Jerry Saltz • Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
the potential of art not just to offer a fleeting moment of beauty, but to stop him in his tracks.