Some scholars suggest that when Prospero spoke those words in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, he was referring to the things that help create an illusion. Things creating an illusion and things as an ...

Before even opening The Object, Whitechapel Gallery and the MIT Press’s latest installment in the Documents of Contemporary Art series, the book’s title stares back, interpolates itself, asking ...

To give art or an antique is to provide more than an object. It is to offer a story, an aesthetic judgment, and a piece of ...

In the opening of Tim O’Brien’s heart-wrenching novel The Things They Carried, a fictional account of the author’s experiences in Vietnam, he lists items soldiers in Alpha Company carried into battle: ...