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Driton Selmani
Source artforum.com Driton Selmani’s site-specific interventions, drawings, and typographic sculptures incorporate simplified figuration, vivid colors, and text to express aspects of his everyday experience, from his
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Hà Mạnh Thắng
Source artforum.com Hà Mạnh Thắng is drawn to the succinct expressiveness of Chinese Tang poetry: With just a handful of carefully chosen verses, one can conjure mountaintops perforating a sea of clouds or whispers of a
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New Monument to MLK and Coretta Scott King Polarizes Public Opinion
Source artforum.com A bronze sculpture memorializing married civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King was unveiled in Boston on January 14 to mixed reactions. The Embrace, by renowned sculptor
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On deep time and material poetics
Source artforum.com For over three decades, Roxy Paine has created virtuosic sculptures that examine how technological mediation processes and reformulates nature. His most recent work takes the shape of painted grids
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Gordon Parks Foundation Announces 2023 Fellowship Recipients
Source artforum.com The Gordon Parks Foundation has announced painters Jammie Holmes and José Parlá as the recipients of its 2023 fellowships and named art historian and scholar Melanee C. Harvey as the Genevieve Young
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Gregg Bordowitz to Lead Whitney’s Independent Study Program
Source artforum.com New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art has announced artist, writer, activist, and educator Gregg Bordowitz as the new director of its renowned Independent Study Program (ISP), effective February 1.
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Manuel Borja-Villel to Depart as Director of Reina Sofía
Source artforum.com Manuel Borja-Villel, who has led Madrid’s Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía for fifteen years, will not stand for re-election to the post this spring. According to Spanish daily El Pais, he will
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Rachel Whiteread Urges End to Trafalgar Square Fourth Plinth Commission
Source artforum.com Turner Prize–winning sculptor Rachel Whiteread is calling for an end to London’s prestigious Fourth Plinth commission on the grounds that the works selected for it rarely find permanent homes when their
