This year, Palermo, Italy is hosting the nomadic European art biennale Manifesta, which aims to address the city’s ongoing migrant crisis — but is the art on view enough to foment actual social and political change?
Tania Bruguera
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Tania Bruguera, Lucy Lippard, and Others on the Power of Social Practice Art
Conversations in Social Practice Art presents a diverse range of approaches to art that prioritizes social engagement.
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Tania Bruguera’s Once-Censored Installation Measures the Distance Between Words and Things
First created for the Havana Biennial in 2000, Bruguera’s installation-performance is a critique of the totalitarian structures that impact people’s daily lives.
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Tania Bruguera, Hank Willis Thomas, and Eric Gottesman on Making Art in Times of Turmoil
The final event in the Hirshhorn Museum’s Ai Weiwei series will discuss the challenges and necessity of art making amid political turmoil.
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Tania Bruguera Pulls Work from Show at Bronx Museum, Claiming It’s Complicit in Cuban Censorship
The National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana has declined to send artworks to the Bronx Museum as planned, and Tania Bruguera says it “has neglected to tell the whole story.”
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Tania Bruguera Detained in Cuba While Delivering Supplies to Hurricane Victims
No explanation was given for the artist’s detention, but she was allegedly interrogated for six hours.
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Cuban Authorities Detain Dissident Artist the Day After Castro’s Death [UPDATED]
While exiled Cubans reveled in the death of the ruthless leader, artist Danilo “El Sexto” Maldonado Machado was taken from his home in Havana and thrown in prison.
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Watching Election Results Roll In While Surrounded by Political Art
On Tuesday night at WhiteBox, artists used their work to sound a clarion call to political action.
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Hyperallergic Podcast: Tania Bruguera, Mariam Ghani, Queens International
In our second episode we focus on New York’s borough of Queens, which is becoming a growing hub of artistic activity in the city.
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Tania Bruguera Will Help NYC Provide Services to Undocumented Workers
In the past few days, Tania Bruguera has made numerous headlines once more, following the lifting of her travel ban and return of her passport in Havana, as well as major announcements supporting her work in New York.
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Artist Tania Bruguera Arrested Again in Havana, Injured by Police
This weekend artist Tania Bruguera was arrested once again in Cuba, along with dozens of other activists, and was manhandled by the police.
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New Fund Aims to Help Persecuted Artists
On Tuesday, the Institute of International Education announced a three-year pilot program that will provide artists “who face persecution in their home countries” with fellowships at universities and art centers “in countries where they can safely continue their work.”