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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 4h

The archive is not a sanctuary. It is a political instrument that imposes a functional death mandate on the artifacts it claims to protect. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The new raw material for mass luxury is language. Terms like “craft heritage” are now applied to injection-molded plastics, producing a Hollowed Object. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Provenance assumes the artist lets go. Our new study documents four cases, from Bacon to Noland, where the hand did not. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The bonfire was never a scandal. It was the industrial luxury system working perfectly. A new EU law now makes that system's core logic illegal. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We measured the sign inside a 190 dollar luxury perfume: it costs 137 dollars, or 3.6 times the price of the physical object itself. This is the work of the Hollowed Object. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

An 18-karat cuff holds 14,700 dollars of gold against a 15,000 dollar retail price. A multiple of one. Here, the instrument finds nothing. That is the credential. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The sewn-in label, a masterpiece of minimal disclosure, is ending. Its successor is a machine-readable passport making an object's entire material biography legible. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A tax per garment. A ban on all advertising. France did not adopt the vocabulary of post-luxury, it adopted the metrics. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A silk scarf's celebrated hand-rolled hem is thirty to sixty minutes of labor. Its price is a 4.5 multiple of its total cost. We studied the arithmetic behind the aura. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

An object you fully own is altered by its maker to serve a third party. We built a term to diagnose this quiet unmaking of property: Invasive Commodification. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The painting hangs on the collector’s wall, with perfect provenance. But the gallery that sold it never paid the artist, embedding an unsettled debt within the object itself. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

An artist answers the problem of legacy not with a statement, but with a twelfth century church. The verb is pérenniser. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A BBC game show turns art dealing into a contest. The players risk nothing. The artists whose work is auctioned on air are left with a permanent public price record. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The price of brass rose sixteenfold. The Benin Bronze casters' guild collapsed to two dozen foundries. A cultural debate about title obscured a material extinction. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A bank transferred one thousand photographs overnight without moving a single one. We studied this and three other kinds of loss, each a quiet *degradation* of a record where context is stripped and the object is hollowed. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The strongest provenance standard ever written has no legal force. It reorganized global museum practice anyway. A gap in the record is not a discount. It is a claim with a deadline. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

An unsold lot is not recorded as zero. It is recorded as nothing. The public record of what things are worth is built entirely from the transactions that succeeded, erasing every failure. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The new auction house fees are higher at the bottom and lower at the top, amplifying the forty-year-old, *unanswered* question: what service does the buyer pay for? go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For the world's finest violins, ownership is a liability. The musician is a temporary custodian, bound by a standard of care an owner is not. We call this the Custodial Contract. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A discard is the last honest valuation, the only one made with no audience and nothing to gain. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

When an artist carves the same memory into oak twice, seven years apart, the work is not the object but the *Labor Density* of the return. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Kennedy Center removed a permanent installation. The object survived. The definition of permanent did not. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Nengi Omuku’s wild silk sanyan paintings now command over $500k. Our study asks what happens when a material’s financial value attempts to erase its *cultural* covenant. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Yayoi Kusama’s work survived. Her reason for making it, a documented process of *self-obliteration*, did not. Our study of a Hollowed Object. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

New on the Objects of Affection Collection Studies podcast: Study 193, The Study That Cannot Show Its Subject. The full research, read aloud. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com… go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com… #Podcast #ArtCriticism #ObjectsOfAffection #PostLux

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

New on the Objects of Affection Collection Studies podcast: Study 188, The Object That Must Never Be Cleaned. The full research, read aloud. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com… go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com… #Podcast #ArtCriticism #ObjectsOfAffection #PostLuxu

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

New on the Objects of Affection Collection Studies podcast: Study 187, The Only Number the Owner Commissions: What an Insurance Schedule Records. The full research, read aloud. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com… go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com… #Podcast #ArtCri

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The smelter has replaced the fence because the art market's security systems made an object's provenance a *liability*. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

New on the Objects of Affection Collection Studies podcast: Study 186, Suspended Custody: What the Rent on a Storage Unit Is Actually Buying. The full research, read aloud. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com… go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com… #Podcast #ArtCritici

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A handbag advertised as Tyrannosaurus rex leather was grown from published peptides, its genetic gaps filled with chicken collagen. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

At the Bukowskis auction of Yung Lean's paintings, the primary *material* being sold was the artist's own fame. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

After Mary Heilmann’s death, a fifty-year practice was *hollowed* into auction assets overnight. Our new study traces the mechanics of the Post-Mortem Market. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com… #OAC #PLCFA #MaryHeilmann #ArtMarket

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Kunstsilo turned a 5,500-piece private collection into a public museum. We studied the Custodial Contract at its core: when one person's taste is traded for the permanence of *canon*. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

New on the Objects of Affection Collection Studies podcast: Study 194, The Objects Nobody Chose: What Probate Sees That the Market Cannot. The full research, read aloud. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com… go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com… #Podcast #ArtCriticism

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

New on the Objects of Affection Collection Studies podcast: Study 184, A Provenance Is a List of Departures: What the Record Cannot See. The full research, read aloud. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com… go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com… #Podcast #ArtCriticism #O

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

New on the Objects of Affection Collection Studies podcast: Study 183, What Happens to an Object When Its Owner Dies. The full research, read aloud. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com… go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com… #Podcast #ArtCriticism #ObjectsOfAffection #

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Ganit Goldstein operates as a technology developer who uses fabric as a platform for research, synthesizing traditional craft with digital fabrication. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The silver eagle motifs of Goro's were not a design choice. They were a spiritual right, bestowed upon Goro Takahashi by the Oglala Lakota people. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

We began a study of a physical object. We were then prohibited from showing it. The prohibition became the subject. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Most artist tarot decks are Hollowed Objects: the artist’s brand overwrites the archetype, creating a market substitute that cannot perform its primary symbolic function. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A single sentence in a will keeps frames at the Gardner Museum empty; another, at the Barnes Foundation, has been undone by courts for decades. The difference is the *penalty*. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Generative AI did not create a crisis of authenticity. It revealed a cultural system that had already untethered value from any stable anchor. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A wall label reads: the stories are true, the objects are facsimiles. A journalist’s archive of the Indianapolis 500 built from confessed reproductions, arguing that narrative alone is the source of aura. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

On Fifth Avenue, a 240-foot sculpture of LV trunks stands where the building used to be. The decorated shed now conceals a total absence. The signifier has become the final object. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A price that exceeds its object by *sixty-two* times is no longer about the object. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

From 800 independent feather workshops in Paris to two captive ateliers owned by their largest client. This is the conversion of craft into a *Hollowed Object*. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The most valuable Birkin in the world is the one its namesake actually used. Wear is not damage, it is *evidence*. OAC Study 177. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Thirty million dollars to postpone the death of an object nobody owns. A study in the arithmetic of *custodianship* when the market is stripped away. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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Objects of Affection Collection @objectsaffection.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

In a room of blue balloons, Marina Abramović's aura is exchanged for social *proof*, the terminal stage of the Hollowed Object. go.objectsofaffectioncollection.com…

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