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A gallery once exhibited a broken chair titled “Late Capitalism.” Everyone took photos and felt seen.

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This is a joke with no known source. Artists have exhibited ordinary or found objects as art since Duchamp's 1917 'Fountain,' but there is no famous broken chair titled 'Late Capitalism.'

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