Objects of Affection Collection

A database of human emotion.

Recent studies

• What a Record Loses When It Moves
• The Buyer's Premium Went Up at the Bottom and Down at the Top
• A Gift, Deinstalled
• Nengi Omuku: Sanyan Painting Under Speculative Pressure
• She Left an Account With the Work
• The Smelter Is the New Fence
• The Animal Is Not in It: A T. Rex Handbag Nobody Bought
• Yung Lean Art Exhibition: The Aura Transaction at Bukowskis
• Mary Heilmann: Abstract Painting and the Post-Mortem Market
• Nicolai Tangen's Kunstsilo: Private Taste as Public Canon
• Waste Is the Last Honest Valuation
• The Object That Is Only Ever Rented
• What a Thing Is Worth When Nobody Will Buy It
• Restitution Is a Provenance Argument With a Deadline
• The Object That Must Never Be Cleaned
• The Only Number the Owner Commissions: What an Insurance Schedule Records
• Suspended Custody: What the Rent on a Storage Unit Is Actually Buying
• The Objects Nobody Chose: What Probate Sees That the Market Cannot
• The Study That Cannot Show Its Subject
• A Provenance Is a List of Departures: What the Record Cannot See
• What Happens to an Object When Its Owner Dies
• Artist Tarot Decks: When Reinvention Hollows the Archetype
• The Objects Are Not the Evidence: Will Higgins's The Speedway's Attic
• The Decorated Shed Has Nothing Behind It: Two Fifth Avenue Scaffolds and the Refusal to Be Absent

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