American trompe l'oeil is one of the surprises of this exhibition (for this reason alone the catalogue essay by Mark Mitchell is well worth reading).

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Reading between the lines, the reason for this was: the market.

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It is for this reason that The Signal and the Noise is essential reading in the era of Big Data that touches every business, every sports event, and every policymaker.

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