If chess is typically the figure, for Simic, it's the ground: chess is more real than reality. Chess is an abstract strategy tabletop game, played across a grid, with no hidden information-that is, unlike a card game where other players don't know what's in their opponents' hands, all the components of play are always equally available to both players.
Read MoreIt's not the first time the museum has examined the relationship, having hosted Reel to Reel: A Century of War Movies back in 2016.
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