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Random Dots? True randomness often does not seem random. British artist Damien Hirst farms out the actual painting of many of his works, such as his famous dot paintings, to assistants. He provides his assistants with instructions, including to arrange the color dots randomly. One assistant painted a series of yellow dots next to each other, which led to a fight with Hirst, who said, “I told him those aren’t random…. Now I realize he was right, and I was wrong.”
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