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Chris Burden: What My Father Got Me

                                                                 Father's Day 2008   Majid Majidi's The Willow Tree (2004) is an art-house tearjerker about answered prayers. A blind man is able to see. As a crowd of well-wishers throws flowers to greet our newly sighted Professor Youssef at the Tehran airport, the camera lingers briefly on his wife's face as she hopes he will … [Read more...]

Olafür Eliasson: Underneath a Waterfall

                                                                                       Olafur Eliasson: Ventilator, 1997     For weeks now my Eliasson Problem has loomed. MoMA and its satellite P.S.1 … [Read more...]

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