Meet the Artists Turning Buildings into Mesmerizing Memory Machines

Emily Steer

Emily Steer is a London-based journalist and former editor of Elephant. She has written for titles including Artnet, BBC Culture, the Financial Times, Frieze and Wallpaper.

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Meet the Artists Turning Buildings into Mesmerizing Memory Machines

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Museums & Institutions

The Permanent Collection: What to Know About Martin Kippenberger’s Surrealist ‘Drunk Streetlamp’ at Paris’s Bourse de Commerce

Art Bites: The Met’s Record-Setting Price for a Very Small Painting

In Their Most Personal Show Yet, Wynnie Mynerva Explores the Body as Invader and Invaded

Jonas Wood on Flatness, Family Life, and Cartoon Comparisons

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Museums & Institutions

The Permanent Collection: Telemaco Signorini’s Melancholy Hospital

Museums & Institutions

The Permanent Collection: Johann Liss Painted an Unusually Aged Adam and Eve

These Artists Find Fertile Soil in Tending Gardens as Artworks

Exploring a 15th-Century Monster Park and Balthus’s Studio with Painter Ariana Papademetropoulos

Rising Star Shara Hughes Paints the Twisted Landscapes of Her Inner Psyche