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World Chess Hall of Fame exhibition explores relationship between art and chess

SAINT LOUIS, MO.- The World Chess Hall of Fame, a cultural institution that showcases art, history, science and sports through the lens of chess, is exhibiting OUT OF THE BOX: Artists Play Chess, which explores artworks that consider chess both at the formal level and at the level of actual play. This exhibition features the work of the following artists: • Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Do you feel comfortable losing?), 2006 • Tom Friedman, Untitled, 2005 • Liliya Lifánova, Anatomy is Destiny, The Wardrobe: Game in Waiting, 2009 • Yoko Ono, Play It By Trust (Roskilde Version), 2002 • Diana Thater. Georges Koltanowski vs. Marcel Duchamp, Paris, 1929 (Played by Ellen Simon and Cybelle Tondu), 2010 • Gavin Turk, The Mechanical Turk, 2008 • Guido van der Werve, Number Twelve: variations on a theme, The King’s gambit accepted, The number of stars in the sky, And why a piano can’t be t