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The Rich History of Women in Design, From 1900 to Now

by Sarah Rose Sharp September 27, 2021September 28, 2021

Here We Are! is an expansive exhibition exploring the role of women in furniture design, fashion design, industrial design, and interior design.

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When Writing Has No Meaning

by Edward M. Gómez August 8, 2020November 5, 2020

Scrivere Disegnando is an exhibition of more than 300 works produced by 93 artists whose subject is imaginary language.

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Unearthing Canada’s Impressionist Legacy

by Lauren Moya Ford February 28, 2020August 29, 2020

Canada and Impressionism closes an art-historical gap on the Canadian artists who made the journey to France — most of whom are little known or studied — and explores what happened when they went back home.

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Locarno Curator Calls Out the Politics of Film Festival Programming

by Sean Nam August 28, 2019November 4, 2019

Greg de Cuir Jr. talks to Hyperallergic about curating a retrospective of Black film for the 2019 Locarno Film Festival.

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A Prophet of the Coming Electronic and Mechanical Realities

by Joseph Nechvatal August 5, 2019August 5, 2019

The Centre Pompidou-Metz and Museum Tinguely have joined together to present a remarkably diverse and prolific two-part exhibition devoted to the German artist Rebecca Horn.

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Join The European Graduate School for Seminars Led by Angela Davis, Fred Moten, and More

by European Graduate School July 9, 2019

Applications are still open for EGS programs this August and October – MA, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Certificate, Certificate of Study, or Individual Seminars.

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Miriam Cahn’s Alluring, Angry Art

by Edward M. Gómez April 13, 2019April 13, 2019

If some of Cahn’s images are unexpected or unsettling, it is because, quite simply, they are the expressions of a very self-aware woman’s unapologetic point of view.

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A New Swiss Museum Shows Women’s Art Through a Multivalent Lens

by Heather Kapplow March 25, 2019March 25, 2019

A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women at the Museum Susch suggests that letting women be multivalent is a critical piece of letting women be seen.

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Why a Polish Billionaire Built a Museum in the Swiss Alps

by Dorian Batycka February 11, 2019February 12, 2019

Polish investor, art collector, and philanthropist Grażyna Kulczyk says the goal of Museum Susch is to platform “new voices and positions that are often left outside the canon of male-dominated art history.”

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A 19th-Century Birdcage Automaton Comes to Life, and Auction

by Allison Meier May 13, 2016May 23, 2016

Shimmery, singing birds flit from perch to perch and a butterfly flaps its hand-painted, iridescent wings above an animated fountain on a three-tune musical automaton birdcage clock by Bautte & Moynier.

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Swiss City Grooms for First Nude Public Performance Art Festival

by Claire Voon July 27, 2015July 30, 2015

On August 21, the world’s first official, naked public performance art festival will occur in the streets of Biel, Switzerland, featuring projects from 18 international artists.

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A Design Feast for the Eyes That Entertains the Mind

by Laura C. Mallonee December 19, 2014December 18, 2014

Most people view Switzerland as the birthplace of nifty pocket knives, cheese with holes, expensive skiing, and Dadaism. But it also gave us the legendary modern furniture company Vitra, as many of the most enthusiastic and/or pretentious of design lovers know.

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