Between the lies: new exhibit explores how form affects function in media

An exhibit at the Getty in Los Angeles showcases the work of artists reworking and recontextualizing imagery of newsmakers to uncover a deeper truthWhen the first copies of Marshall McLuhan’s landmark treatise, The Medium is the Massage, rolled off the presses in 1967, the typo in the last word was pointed out to the author, who thought it so thematically appropriate he asked them to keep it. The title made his point that the form media takes is as important as the content, and changed the