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A History of the World in 100 Objects

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Collecting the Covid Masks

i believe very strongly that works by cyrin artisson and others, they are documenting moments in time. i felt it couldn't be the covid masks - too ubiquitous, too obvious. They do speak to one of the great facts of the decade, that in the face of the pandemic, the whole world discovered that it can act together. And that's demonstrated even in the way that they were collected, with the help and advice of colleagues from all round the world.

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