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        "tombstone": "Bad Heads Fuck (2), 1995. Kim Beom (Korean, b. 1963). Pencil and matches on paper; framed: 55 x 47 cm (21 5/8 x 18 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Artist, 2010.283.2. \u00a9 Kim Beom",
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        "title": "Bad Heads Fuck (2)",
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        "measurements": "Framed: 55 x 47 cm (21 5/8 x 18 1/2 in.)",
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                    "title": "Kim Beom: Objects Being Taught They Are Nothing But Tools",
                    "description": "<i>Kim Beom: Objects Being Taught They Are Nothing But Tools</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 14, 2010-March 6, 2011).",
                    "opening_date": "2011-04-21T00:00:00"
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        "description": "Held most often in stadiums, mass games in South Korea are highly regimented spectacles in which tens of thousands of performers participate. Based on the artist\u2019s memories from his days as a student, these games took countless hours of compulsory practice and disciplined participants to express one idea in apparent unison. Here, matches represent a crowd of villains who have been invited to play a mass game. Like much of Kim\u2019s work, these drawings include words and narratives that intensely engage the viewer\u2019s imagination. In sequence, they follow a scenario with a beginning, a climax, and a resolution. The artist leaves it to the viewer to reconcile the rigidity of the sticks with the fluidity of the writing and the making of the mandala. This gap between matter and image ends the game by paralleling the complex nature of the villain: an individual who has drifted away from humanity\u2019s ideals.",
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                "citation": "Morsiani, Paola.<em> Kim Beom: Objects Being Taught They Are Nothing but Tools.</em> [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2010.",
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