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• Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.
• Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.
• When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation…
• The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is.
• The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy.
• Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set…
• Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.
• A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to…

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