The erotics of destruction reaches its apotheosis, perhaps, in the sculpture of John Chamberlain, whose work is aptly theorized by J.G. Ballard’s Crash. It has been present in our culture, however, si…

At the National Palace Museum in Taipei, visitors cue up for an unlikely icon. The nineteenth-century Jadeite Cabbage, which sits just 18.7 centimetres tall, is admired for its natural gradient and de…