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Can Art Feel?

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Can Art Feel?
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Gen Z has recently reclaimed the word “aura” — Walter Benjamin’s term for the strange presence exerted by a work of art — to refer to some intangible “it” factor some people possess. Fitting, given that our featured piece today takes on the question of whether works of art can have personhood. Lisa Siraganian draws on everything from the 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision that deemed corporations people to Pierre Huyghe's u

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