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One Fine Show: “Michael Rakowitz, Proxies for Poets and Palaces” at the Stavanger Art Museum

This show grapples with the complex and painful legacy of war, offering a pointed commentary on its lasting impact on both culture and memory.

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New York City, a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention.

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Few contemporary artists create work about war and its effects. This is somewhat strange, considering that in the past, war inspired all kinds of remarkable art, whether we’re talking about the counterculture works of the 1960s and 1970s or the Surrealism we’re all so obsessed with today, which was a response to the First World War. If you’re middle-aged, the........

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