Shoreham, a painting by William Mackinnon, whose work was on view last November at Utopian Slumps, in Melbourne. © The artist. Courtesy Morton Fine Art, Washington, D.C. This image appears in the Readings…

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Canvas, an erased book page by Jonathan Callan. Courtesy the artist and Martin Kudlek Galerie, Cologne, Germany. This image accompanies the Findings section in the February 2014 issue of Harper’s Magazine.

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The modern art world’s tyranny of price

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“Oil and Water: Extracting Petroleum, Exterminating Nature,” by Jakob Rosenzweig (cartography) and Jacqueline Bishop (artwork). This map was produced for Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas, co-edited by Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca…

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A curious sculpture in the Kansas town that Roger Barker made his laboratory

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From emails received by Michael D’Antuono in response to his painting The Truth, which depicts President Barack Obama in a crucifixion-like pose and wearing a crown of thorns. D’Antuono originally…

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From the introduction to the catalogue of Art4.ru, a contemporary-art museum in Moscow owned by Igor Markin. The museum, in which Markin, a forty-one-year-old plastics magnate, invested $10 million, houses…

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