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By Karen Chernick 
| The Art Newspaper
“Come Alice! I’ll show you another wonderland—New York,” reads a line of storybook script on the first panel of a 1938 mural, painted by Abram Champanier. “Oh how jolly! We’d love to see it!” she replies, stepping out of the pages of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the beloved children’s book by Lewis Carroll. Joined by the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat and some other curious characters, Alice ventures into a world perhaps even wilder than Wonderland.
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What Is The Game of Exquisite Corpse, and Why Do Artists Still Play It?

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By Karen Chernick 
| ARTnews
How do artists get out of their own heads and just play? The Surrealists had some fantastic answers to this question. Lovers of chance, surprise, and the bizarre, the early 20th-century group had a cache of games that they used to tap into the unconscious and foster collaborative creativity. Exquisite corpse was among the most popular of the Surrealist games and is still widely enjoyed to this day.
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Andy Warhol’s Tribute to Marilyn Monroe

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By Karen Chernick 
| ARTnews
MARILYN MONROE DEAD; PILLS NEAR read the front-page headline of the August 6, 1962, New York Times. Star’s Body Is Found in Bedroom of Her Home on Coast, the subheading continued. As an artist then sponging up ideas everywhere, from newspapers to the supermarket aisle, Pop artist Andy Warhol would have seen this coverage of the Hollywood star’s untimely death at age 36. The result was one of the emerging artist’s most iconic series.
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