What does creativity in confinement look like? A bold exhibition offers a look.
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"I believe a picnic is a utopia," says the Los Angeles-based artist.
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What might the form of searching for one's "true self" look like?
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Mika Rottenberg likens invasive species to the proliferation of plastics in a vivid series of functional fungi.
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"For me, water has always been both chaos and freedom," the artist says.
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Wittfooth venerates "ancient rhythms that prevail despite our human tumult."
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"With a generous dose of cynicism and voyeurism, Tolman portrays the eccentric truths and social failures of Western society."
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“Conspiracy theorists (and those of us who argue with them have the scars to show for it) often maintain that the ones debunking the conspiracies are allied with the conspirators.” — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Did you know?
To debunk something is to take the bunk out of it—that bunk being nonsense. (Bunk is short for the synonymous bunkum, which has political origins.) Debunk has been in use since at least the 1920s, and it contrasts with synonyms like disprove and rebut by suggesting that something is not merely untrue but is also a sham—a trick meant to deceive. One can simply disprove a myth, but if it is debunked, the implication is that the myth was a grossly exaggerated or foolish claim.