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How “Facts Are Subversion” Explores the Subversive Power of Unfiltered Facts
Have you ever heard the saying, “Today’s news is tomorrow’s history”? This sentence is very simple, and we all seem to understand what it means, and maybe even agree with it. But if you think about it more carefully, you will find that there are many problems with this sentence. For example, it seems to imply a standard for what can be written into history. Are only the facts reported by the news media today worthy of being in the halls of history? Like many small things in our daily lives, how people buy and sell at street stalls, and how they interact on transportation, these things are not qualified…
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Beyond the Banana: The Flowing Art World in the Age of the Internet
In 2019, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan created a very interesting work of art called “Comedian”, but in fact it was just a piece of paper taped to the Bananas on the wall. Perhaps the artist considered the length of the tape, the softness of light and shadow, the color and curvature of the banana, and the perfect integration of banana, shadow and tape. Perhaps even this banana contains the regret that the artist could not afford to eat bananas when he was a child, but these words still cannot be changed This is a fact about a banana because it can be eaten, and has been eaten several times. The…
