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Hélène de Beauvoir Steps Out of Her Sister’s Shadow
The first show of the artist’s work in the UK is both a celebration and an act of historical correction.
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In Germany, Artists Envision the Future of Eastern Europe
The fourth edition of the Pochen Biennale brought 22 artists together to reflect on reductive labels and the war in Ukraine, taking the concept of fire as its central theme.
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Bomb Shelter Posters in Venice Evoke the Reality of War in Ukraine
The maps show the location of the Ukrainian Pavilion at the Biennale and the sites of real bunkers or air-raid shelters in the city from a time not so long ago.
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Activists Say “No to the Genocide Pavilion" in Biennale Protest Against Israel
Over 100 artists and art workers called attention to participating nations' complicity in the attacks on Gaza.
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The Artists Making Work in Wartime Ukraine
Amid the evil of it, the war has ushered in a wave of visual creation in Kyiv, all the more powerful because of its urgency and vital intensity.
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A Transhistorical Approach to Five Centuries of Art
An exhibition drawn from the collection of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna examines how nationhood and identity have been constructed over time.
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Criticism in Finland Over Country’s Selection Process for the Venice Biennale
The commissioning body’s decision to bypass an open call for next year’s edition of the Biennale has been met with mixed feelings by the local art community.
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Can European Museums Lure Visitors Once Again?
The Rijksmuseum’s Vermeer exhibition made headlines, but across Europe, many institutions seem to be quietly inching back to their pre-pandemic peaks.
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When a Coin is Worth a Thousand Histories
Around the World in 80 Coins at Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum tells the stories of ancient gods, queens, and everyone in between.
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An Urgent Vision of Architecture at the Venice Biennale
Fittingly titled The Laboratory of the Future, the 18th edition of the show instructed participants to reuse materials and minimize their carbon footprint.
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Can We Find Compassion in the Grotesque?
Monstrous Faces and Caricatures invites viewers to confront ugliness and the questions it raises about how we relate to it.
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Art Collective Ousted From Viennese Kunsthalle Speaks Out
“We wanted Kunsthalle Wien to address multiple Viennas, not just the old established one,” said What, How & for Whom, whose contract at the institution was not renewed.