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The 2018 Turner Prize Focuses on Video Art in Political Times
The 2018 edition of the provocative prize is dedicated to digital art, exploring queer identity, racial violence, and the Israel-Palestine conflict through video art.
Naomi Polonsky
Naomi Polonsky is a London-based curator, art critic, and translator. She studied at the University of Oxford and the Courtauld Institute of Art and has experience working at the Hermitage Museum and Tate Modern.
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Former National Gallery Educators Commence 10-Day Tribunal for Unfair Dismissal in Gig Economy
After 27 educators were dismissed from the National Gallery in London, they launched a crowd-funded legal effort to combat the precarity of such unstable employment, backed by vocal support from the UK's Labour Party.
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An Ambitious Survey of Modern Artist Couples
The Barbican Gallery's Modern Couples exhibition questions the notion of "solo male genius," exploring unconventional iterations of love and how romance pervades art.
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The Expansive Literary Output of Sudan and South Sudan, on Display
A brief London exhibition, Sudan / South Sudan Literature Week, impugns Western depictions of "war, violence, and unending political unrest" in the East African nations.
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Surreal Glimpses of the Absurd Labor of Global Capitalism
Mika Rottenberg explores capitalist banality through video and installations centering international labor's "invisible people," using grotesque renderings of dystopian kitsch.
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New Ways of Experiencing Art for the Sight-Impaired
Shared Vision features commissioned works by 14 sighted, partially sighted, or blind artists formulating new ways to encounter art.
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Former Educators at London’s National Gallery Are Taking Legal Action, Alleging Unfair Dismissal
The 27 claimants are alleging unfair dismissal and discrimination on the grounds of length of service, age, and sex.