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Creative Time announces Tender, a new public art project by conceptual artist Jill Magid, in which the artist will circulate 120,000 US Mint pennies into America’s economy via bodegas amidst a national coin shortage. Adding up to a single $1,200 COVID-19 stimulus check, the pennies bear the phrase “THE BODY WAS ALREADY SO FRAGILE” engraved along their edges. Functioning as a diffuse monument, the phrase on the penny edge serves as the antithesis to the propaganda on the coin’s face. Taken from a text exploring the economic toll of the pandemic, the work employs increasingly pervasive …