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UNITED STATES / New York: Fake News and True Love
by Modem
© Modem

until Sunday March 03 2019

The Museum of Arts and Design
Jerome and Simona Chazen Building
2 Columbus Circle
10019 New York
United States

It’s easy to fall into the trap of sensational headlines. Even careful and informed readers must work to resist the pull of fake news, a phenomenon currently dominating American media. In his solo exhibition Fake News and True Love: Fourteen Stories by Robert Baines, the Australian contemporary artist explores this issue through the lens of jewelry. By making up and “fact-checking” news stories to accompany his works, Baines manipulates what is accepted as truth to address the influence that fake news has on our perception of events

© Modem