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By: Art Forum on Wednesday, November 13th, 2019 at 3:50 pm
I SPENT THE WEEKEND IN A FORMER CREMATORIUM thinking about death. The occasion was a two-day symposium organized by SAVVY Contemporary as part of their exhibition “The Long Term You Cannot Afford. On
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By: Art Forum on Wednesday, November 13th, 2019 at 3:35 pm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has received a major bequest of $80 million and more than 375 artworks from the late Jayne Wrightsman (1919–2019), a trustee emerita who the institution
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By: Art Forum on Wednesday, November 13th, 2019 at 1:20 pm
A visit to Magdalena Fernández’s retrospective feels like taking a quiz on modernist abstract art—her works echo that era’s compositions and motifs, summoning such icons as Malevich, Mondrian, Lygia
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By: Art Forum on Wednesday, November 13th, 2019 at 12:04 pm
Myanmar-born artist Sawangwongse Yawnghwe announced his withdrawal from the European Union–backed exhibition “Everyday Justice,” which opens Friday in Yangon, Myanmar, formerly known as Burma—the largest
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By: Art Forum on Wednesday, November 13th, 2019 at 10:33 am
The mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro, has declared a state of emergency after the Italian city became submerged in floodwaters, the result of severe weather and an exceptionally high tide. According to
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By: Art Forum on Wednesday, November 13th, 2019 at 10:12 am
The city of Moscow has announced it will open twenty-three city-run museums and four national galleries in a sprawling 70,000-square-meter facility designed by Russian architecture firm IQ. Construction
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By: Art Forum on Wednesday, November 13th, 2019 at 10:12 am
The city of Moscow has announced it will open a sprawling 750,000-square-foot arts storage facility that will house the collections of twenty-three city-run museums and four national galleries, the
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By: Art Forum on Wednesday, November 13th, 2019 at 7:45 am
Several recent cases of art missing from embassies has raised questions over whether government officials are abusing their diplomatic immunity, the https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/abuse-of-diplomatic-privilege
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By: Art Forum on Tuesday, November 12th, 2019 at 5:47 pm
Earlier this year, community activists sharply criticized El Museo del Barrio in New York for being out of touch with its roots. Demonstrators who held an action at the museum in June called for change,
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By: Art Forum on Tuesday, November 12th, 2019 at 3:24 pm
Composed over the past decade, Masha Tupitsyn’s Picture Cycle (2019) is a book of essays that considers the shift from analog to digital as an analogy for the psychic turn to binary, reactive,
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