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Can you help find them?

Can you help find them?

Sharing the past year of reading with a whip-smart audience of fellow bibliophiles.

There is no tabula rasa. We are like sailors who must rebuild their ship on the open sea, never able to dismantle it in dry-dock and to reconstruct it there out of the best materials. Where a beam is taken away, a new one must at once be put there, and for this the rest of the ship is used as support.—Otto NeurathFEATURING HIS SELF MADE SAILOR’S HAT until his last days, Lawrence Weiner never tired of reminding us that WE ARE SHIPS AT SEA NOT DUCKS ON A POND, apparently sharing Otto Neurath�...

“It’s been a pleasure serving you, OTR. Cheers.”

THOUGH HE WAS much else besides, Billy Apple had a convincing claim to have been the consummate artist of Pop, the one who pursued its implications so thoroughly as to have achieved escape velocity from the category altogether. His career stands as a corrective to recent attempts to internationalize Pop by multiplying local scenes across the globe. Like his peers Öyvind Fahlström, Richard Smith, Mario Schifano, and Hélio Oiticica, Apple defied parochialism by moving from his place of origin t...

For Disturbing the View, his performance at the Whitney last summer, the artist Dave McKenzie washed some of the museum’s floor-to-ceiling plate glass windows twice weekly in the afternoon.

A fixture of the Southern California art scene, Perna was known for his quirky sculptures and photography that ignited the imagination.

Phil Tippett has created creatures for movies from Star Wars to Jurassic Park. But his latest work, a terrifying trip into his subconscious, nearly broke him.

Phil Tippett has created creatures for movies from Star Wars to Jurassic Park. But his latest work, a terrifying trip into his subconscious, nearly broke him.