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Art historian Raino Isto interviews La Société Spectrale (Armando Lulaj, Jonida Gashi, Pleurad Xhafa), a collective comprising members of the DebatikCenter of Contemporary Art (DCCA), about the project Moving Billboard. Part 2.
Art historian Raino Isto interviews La Société Spectrale (Armando Lulaj, Jonida Gashi, Pleurad Xhafa), a collective comprising members of the DebatikCenter of Contemporary Art (DCCA), about the project Moving Billboard.
The Open Society Institute, the Allianz Kulturstiftung and the European Cultural Foundation announced the opening of the first Roma Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale in June 2007. The Roma Pavilion presented a selection of Roma (otherwise known as Gypsy) contemporary artists from eight European countries.
The Pavilion constituted the first significant step toward giving Roma Contemporary Culture the audience it deserves.
In the midst of my search for a PhD position, itself a transnational quest taking me from Berlin to the Midwest, I had the opportunity to visit the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago. The date was February 23, 2023, coincidentally the opening day of not all realisms: photography, Africa, and the long 1960s, an archival exhibition curated by photography specialist and UChicago alum Leslie Wilson.
A kind of art- and exhibition practice based on anonymity and copying has spread over the European continent since the early-mid 1990s, with an outpost in New York.
Cy Twombly was not just a painter; he was also a cold warrior—drafted by the United States Army in the autumn of 1953 to serve at Camp Gordon near Augusta, Georgia. It was there he went through basic training and developed a specialty in cryptography,