{"id":100037,"date":"2019-07-03T01:31:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T23:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/07\/03\/takis-review-magnetic-display-of-curiosity\/"},"modified":"2019-07-03T01:31:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T23:31:03","slug":"takis-review-magnetic-display-of-curiosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=100037","title":{"rendered":"Takis review \u2013 magnetic display of curiosity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tate Modern, LondonThe Greek artist\u2019s work has been revealing the magic of electromagnetism for decades \u2013 and his wonder doesn\u2019t diminishIt\u2019s hard not to use the word \u201cmagic\u201d about the art of Takis. A nail floats motionless in space. A cylinder and a ball dance jerkily with each other. Angelic music is played withno sign of a human hand. Yet none of this is the work of the supernatural, nor is Takis trying to fool anyone into thinking that it is. The force that gives his art its innocent joy is part of the fabric of the universe.Magnetism \u2013 the phenomenon that Takis, who was born in Athens in 1925, has been making visible since the 1950s \u2013 has a long history of being mistaken for magic. Lodestones, with the power to attract ferrous metal, were coveted long before their properties were understood: it was said their spooky pull could be neutralised by garlic. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2019\/jul\/03\/takis-review-magnetic-display-of-curiosity\" target=\"_blank\">Takis review \u2013 magnetic display of curiosity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tate Modern, LondonThe Greek artist\u2019s work has been revealing the magic of electromagnetism for decades \u2013 and his wonder doesn\u2019t diminishIt\u2019s hard not to use the word \u201cmagic\u201d about the art of Takis. A nail floats motionless in space. A cylinder and a ball dance jerkily with each other. Angelic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}