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 ...

Things creating an illusion and things as an illusion — and a very powerful one — are at the heart of a new book by Maurizia Boscagli, a professor of English at UC Santa Barbara. Stuff Theory: ...

Sculpture sure ain't what it used to be. The days when statuary was a set, rigid thing with but a single, clear meaning -- Heroism! Sorrow! Love! -- are gone. In its place? Work like the assemblages ...

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: ...

Real-world visual input consists of rich scenes that are meaningfully composed of multiple objects that interact in complex but predictable ways. Despite this complexity, humans can recognize scenes ...