Images of the Week
Ella Mitchell

Tauba Auerbach explores the visual impact of words. Anonymous art collective Bored convicts pedestrians for “public douchebaggery” as part of their life-size Monopoly game. While J.P. Morgan might not have approved, Shamus Khan proposes that mixing high-brow and low-brow is the new trademark of the elite. The Met displays the plant drawings that influenced Ellsworth Kelly’s famous abstract works. Maru, the cat famous for his antics with various-sized boxes, will no doubt be a star of the Walker Art Center’s August International Cat Video Film Festival.

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Tauba Auerbach, Stacking (YES), 2009. Courtesy of the artist.

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Bored, Life-Sized Monopoly, 2012.

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J.P. Morgan striking photographer with cane, 1910. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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Ellsworth Kelly, Siberian Iris, 1989, ink on paper, 29 3/4 × 23 in. Private collection, New York. Gift of the artist. © Ellsworth Kelly. Photograph Courtesy: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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YouTube sensation, Maru.