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DOCUMENTA 11
"Are we witnessing a globalisation of the economy? Definitely. A globalisation of political strategies? Undoubtedly. But a universalisation of political conscience, certainly not" (Michel Foucault, 1979) It is with...
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"Are we witnessing a globalisation of the economy? Definitely. A globalisation of political strategies? Undoubtedly. But a universalisation of political conscience, certainly not" (Michel Foucault, 1979) It is with...
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At Castello di Rivoli, curator and gallery owner Jeffrey Deitch has put together the exhibition "Form Follows Fiction". Twenty international artists give body and voice to aesthetic worlds in which it is no longer pos...
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Today it's hard to talk about the contemporary art of the world without the artists and movements of the Chinese mainland. While the Western and Japanese art journals keep watching the large cities around the capital...
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In Europe, summer comes with its batch of exhibitions and events, art bienniales and other cultural meetings. One of the most important art exhibitions of the summer, at least in France, will be held in Avignon. The t...
PEOPLE
The Kummelholmen Art Center in Stockholm, Sweden, recently hosted the first solo exhibition of Swedish photographer Eric Cung entitled Lost in (m)orbital thoughts. The show included 20 large art prints, art video as w...
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Related of the "Culture City of East Asia 2016, Nara”, “Art Celebration in Nara – Beyond Time and Space” is held from September 3rd to October 23rd, 2016 at Nara, the capital of Japan around the 8th century, lending i...
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As focused on visual branding for arts and cultural institutions and organizations in Hong Kong, design studio "Milkxhake" has been collaborated with various teams since the foundation in 2006. Javin Mo is the founder...
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Same old same old, or is it? Art buzz was thick in the London air this year as early as Ai Wei Wei opened his first retrospective at the Royal Academy of Art - triumphantly (one might add). The UK official's in...
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Located across from the venue of Sapporo Snow Festival which will starts on February 5th, CAI02 will be presenting the Chinese Contemporary Exhibition "SHANGHAI MODERN", starting on February 6th to exhibit artworks by...
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As a teenager, Elisabeth Charlotte Rist, born in Grabs (Switzerland) on 21 June 1962, decides to change her name. And thus it is Pipilotti Rist – being a combination of Lotti (her own nickname) and Pippi (the name...
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11th International Architectural Exhibition The Garden City Singapore makes its third appearance at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice. The world’s only specialised exposition of its kind, thi...
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One of the most important art-event in this Roman winter is the opening of the Gagosian Gallery. Larry Gagosian, the american-armenian art-businessman, known as “the Shark” for his incredible intuition has presented h...
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For contemporary Paris art scene, autumn is not about eating, reading, or arts, but it's about buy and sell arts. Because autumn is the season of FIAC! FIAC used to be held under tents along quai Branly for 12 year...
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Since its opening in 2002, the Palais de Tokyo has quickly established itself at the forefront of contemporary culture, and is now considered as "the place to be" for all the art-lovers and the fashion junkies. Thi...
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First edition for the American offspring of Art Basel. Art Miami, lively and colourful, has little of the airs of its mountain relative in Switzerland. Ilaria Ventriglia paid a visit for us. Miami Beach Conventio...
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Alessi's silver tea and coffee set "Piazza" celebrated postmodernism. The City of Towers project, previewed at the Venice Architecture Biennale, creates a new landscape of objects designed by contemporary architects....
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In 1785, the British philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), began working on a plan for a model prison called the panopticon. The signature feature of this design was that every one of the individual jail cells could...