Mark Rothko’s Politics: How the Protest-Minded Artist Controlled How His Work Was Seen
The artist staunchly decried Stalinism, capitalist excess, and more.
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Lois Weinberger, Artist with a Fervent Belief in the Spirituality of Plants, Is Dead at 72
He created some of the most iconic works ever to have been staged at Documenta.
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The Most Important Art Exhibitions of the 2010s
A guide to the shows that changed art history over the course of this decade.
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Ruangrupa Artist Collective Picked to Curate Documenta 15
The show is set to run in Kassel, Germany, for 100 days in 2022.
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City of Kassel Launches Fundraising Campaign to Protect Olu Oguibe Obelisk First Shown at Documenta
The German city aims to raise €600,000.
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Cinematic Borderlands
Besides the relation of objects to people, another theme in Nashashibi's work is the way humans organize themselves into communities and institutions, whether a patriarchal extended family or a…
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Non-Aligned Aesthetics
Dhaka, often regarded by visitors as overcrowded and clogged with traffic, hosts the oldest biennial of contemporary art in Asia: the Asian Art Biennale was founded in 1981, fourteen years before…
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Critical Eye: Athens: Chorus of Complaint
Documenta 14 produced a friction, an anger that didn’t ease up even after the Athens part officially closed.
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Critical Eye: Kassel: Dislocated Loot
Looted art is everywhere in the Kassel portion of Documenta 14, posited as something like the uncanny double of today’s globe-trotting artworks.
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Art Stars: A Map of the Curatorial Firmament
Today art festivals—biennials, triennials, and so forth—are so pervasive, it feels as if a major one is happening each week. But even in the late 1990s, when biennial fever had yet to peak, there…
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