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Time is an instrument of power, an object of faith, and an influence on our history. But in our fictions, its more than just a cerebral quagmire—it gets at our unanswerable questions and our deepest longings.

Picasso inherited a revolver from a famous playwright early in his career, loaded it with blanks, and used it on his admirers.

Communication between humans has greatly evolved, or should I say devolved, over the centuries. With the advent of the internet, emails and phones for texting, we have entered a more

a href= http://www.gagosian.com target= _blank Gagosian /a is presenting Thinking the Unthinkable, an exhibition of new paintings by Jim Shaw. Thi

In William Brewer's cerebral debut, 'The Red Arrow,' the narrator hunts for a phyicist and ponders depression and its cure, psychedelic mushrooms.