![]() To see “The Visitors” as the world begins its tentative and fraught emergence from a still-evolving pandemic is to realize you are in the presence of just such a work. Arthur Jafa’s “ Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death.” You can debate their merits as much as you like what you can’t deny is the charge they get from mainlining something bigger in the culture at large. Manet’s “ Olympia.” Picasso’s “ Guernica.” Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s soup cans. Once in a while it happens that way: Certain artworks just rhyme with the zeitgeist. But the past 18 months have made Ragnar Kjartansson’s video installation “ The Visitors” more than just great they have recast the work as a mirror for our current moment, making it seem breathtakingly prescient. 1 on a list of the 25 best artworks of the 21st century. Seven years later, the Guardian made it No. Any observer of industrial economics might have discovered it to move up or down in unison with the current amount visible of the circulating medium.It was hailed as a masterpiece the moment it appeared, back in 2012.We sat on the cabin roof, and talked lazily, as the dusk came slowly on, and our voices were low, in unison with the evening hush.In full unison was Love born, flame of the flame, flushing the dark river beneath him and the virgin snows above.Why had not Miss Arbe transmitted to her a donation so seasonable, and so much in unison with her wishes?.I should seek a sense of unison with a world whose deeper heart-beats I may learn to feel and adopt as the rhythm of my own. ![]() I saw the muzzles of the guns drop slightly in unison once, twice, and then, at the third drop, both weapons were discharged.At last there came a pause, a long, long pause, and our hearts beat consciously in unison as we stood together.Two weeks of camp life had now familiarized each lad with the duties that were assigned to him, and by working in unison supper was soon prepared.The scene ends with a strange hushed unison passage like some unearthly chant: it is the lull before the breaking of the storm.The motions, which at times were really graceful, were carried on in perfect unison with the monotonous pounding of the drums.At the beginning the unison, fifth or octave, and at the close the unison or octave, are permitted.And the fixed, wide-open eye shook in unison with the shaking of his head, and looked out in silence.Every movement of Jackson was in unison with the policy and imbued with the spirit of the slaveholders.As if at a command the arms of the octopi on the platform suddenly began to weave in perfect unison in some weird ceremony.These were in unison with the neglected garden and the sullen pool, which even the sunshine failed to enliven.Gallardo threw himself upon the bull and the whole audience breathed hard in unison after the nerve-straining pause.She nodded at him again, whether to hearten him or to assure him of their perfect unison he could not tell.It denoted a force of mind little in unison with that simplicity and helplessness which this girl had hitherto displayed.Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touched within us, and the heart replies.Never once have I longed for the warm heart of a woman to beat in unison with mine.Its hues were sickly and pale, and in mournful unison with a feeble and emaciated form.Here let it be noted how many things must act in unison to produce the necessary result.They looked at one another and shrugged in unison as they began to run across the bridge.Voices are now and then used for individual expression, but either in unison or harmony.It is hard to convey that quality of intellectual unison to any one who has not experienced it.
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