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Media & Marketing

Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities

The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) in New York uses carefully crafted model dioramas in a variety of forms to bring artists’ visions for future and alternative realities to life. Voyeuristic, dreamy and apocalyptic, these dioramas force us to look closer and leave us asking: ‘What’s real?’

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20 Jun 2011
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