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Art

Filing cabinets full of fakes at the Museum of Fakes

Showcasing Shams

At the Museum of Fakes, what’s not real is still art

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Take a Close Look

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Homepage Artistry

Xu Bing's Book from the Sky(1987-1991), hand printed books, ceiling and wall scrolls printed from wood letterpress type using false Chinese characters, dimensions variable, installation view at "Crossings," National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (1998).

China’s Artistic Diaspora

For sixty years, upheavals in Chinese politics have not only remade the country’s economy–they have remade Chinese art

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The Fog Lifts

As it always does, given enough time

The Black Square – Hommage to Malevich near the Hamburger Kunsthalle

Dark Doubling

Mapping a Different View

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Cringe Factor

Free for All

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Fields of Color

Can’t Get Enough

Charlotte Schulz, The maximum of all possible hate is realized in the eternal moment, and we cleave to our screens as it unfolds in that disquieting way (an incompossible) (detail), 2005.

Drawing Rooms

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Serious Firepower

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Tigers in Japanese Art

Muted Mastery

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