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The Hidden History of Estonian Impressionism Under Stalin
TALLINN, Estonia — It was very difficult to track down pieces for this show, since no archives exist for this work and its history is rather unofficial.
Ari Amaya-Akkermans
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Two Artists Show How Beauty Can Be Beastly
TALLINN, Estonia — Be prepared to embark on a confusing journey upon entering the strange and colorful universe of beauty that artists Kris Lemsalu and Tiit Pääsuke constructed at the Tallinn Art Hall.
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A Sci-fi Film Imagines a Dystopian Future for Palestine
MADRID — What do archaeology and science fiction have in common?
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Documenting the Performance of Nationalism at the Turkish Olympics
MOSCOW — The Turkish Olympics imitate the internal configuration of Turkish identity without being held accountable for its many contradictions, uncertainties, and catastrophes.
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Contradictory Narratives of Contemporary Art, Informed by Jewish Thought
Unorthodox, which addresses how art today might embrace the kind of complexity we demand from politics and history, is a large catalogue of paradoxes, or, in more material terms, of objects whose cultural significance is still ambiguous.
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Two Artists Use Pharmacological Aesthetics to Show Capitalism’s Sickness
MOSCOW — Is there an intrinsic relationship between individual addictions and mechanisms of collective control? Critic and theorist Boris Kliushnikov seems to think so.
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A Soviet Monument’s Enduring Power Over Russian Artists
MOSCOW — The kinds of memories that our museums and monuments trigger are never about remembering the past as much as they are about imagining the future.
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Four Artworks for a Broken Time
ISTANBUL — “Broken times” are always periods of convoluted activity, of revolution, of transitions between religion and culture.
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Prominent Members of Turkey's Arts Community Released After Arrest at Peace March
After days in detention, leading members of the arts community in Turkey, and members of the peace initiative “Barış İçin Yürüyorum (I Am Walking For Peace),” were released following their December 31 arrest in Sur, Turkey.
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Amid Political Turbulence in Istanbul, Artists Seek Grace
ISTANBUL — The group exhibition sets out to investigate whether it is possible to construct a new world from within this one, beyond the constraints of political history.
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Using Art and Archives to Map Out Turkey’s Recent Past
ISTANBUL — “Diyarbakır is under martial law. It is the most important city in Kurdistan. With its 250,000 citizens, it seems as if pacification has been imposed successfully. The army is omnipresent, but the monitoring seems to have loosened […].”
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Beyond the Biennial, Three Artists Fight Isolation in Istanbul
With the opening of the 14th Istanbul Biennial this September, the galleries are at a clear disadvantage, and from the dozen or so shows open in the city at the moment, it is relatively difficult to find works that resonate beyond their local context. Still, there are some hidden gems outside the mo