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# Cildo Meireles - Babel
- URL: https://www.jamesreeves.co/cildo-meireles-babel/
- Published: 2026-05-13T00:32:41.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-14T15:55:25.000Z
- Author: James A. Reeves
- Tags: Art

At the Tate, a mammoth tower of twentieth-century radios fritz and skip through stations. Meireles was concerned with the cacophony of the modern world. He built *Babel* in 2001\. I wonder what he would build today. When I encountered the tower, the radios were tuned to Journey’s 1981 hit, an anthem we knew as well as our names—*don’t stop believin’* called through the static while we stood in a circle, taking pictures.

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