Images of the Week
Ella Mitchell

A nimbus cloud by Berndnaut Smilde wafts through a crumbling building. Michael Scoggins’ elementary school-style institutional critique dares you to display it in your living room. What does it mean when art becomes a meme? Sharon Hayes invokes the history of political protest. Aaron Young’s first motorcycle performance nearly got him kicked out of art school. Artist collective CHERYL celebrates kitsch and the bubonic plague.

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Berndnaut Smilde, Nimbus D’Aspremont, 2012, Lambda print , Kasteel D’Aspremont-Lynden, Rekem, BE. Photo: Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk. Courtesy of the artist.

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Sharon Hayes, An Ear to the Sounds of Our History (The Women Rose), 2011, Digital C-print

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Aaron Young, Greeting Card, 2007. Courtesy of the artist and Park Avenue Armory.

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Michael Scoggins, Decorative Piece, 2011, 30 × 51 inches, marker and color pencil on paper. Photo courtesy Saltworks Gallery.

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A Michael Manning meme.