Evolving Humanities
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The first major European retrospective of Ruth Asawa opened at the Fondation Beyeler on 18 October - some 200 works, six decades, and a career that runs from Black Mountain College to San Francisco's fountains. Europe is late to Asawa. The show makes the lateness hard to defend.
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A hundred years after Willem de Kooning stowed away from Rotterdam to New York, the Rijksmuseum has brought more than 120 of his drawings, paintings and sculptures back to the Netherlands — and hung two of his most famous canvases a few rooms from the Night Watch.
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Boris Lurie never showed the most personal paintings of his life. He made them in 1946, fresh out of the camps, and then kept them private for the remaining six decades he lived. Those works — nearly a hundred paintings and drawings — now sit at the centre of Boris Lurie: Nothing To Do But To Try, at the Maltz Museum in Beachwood, Ohio.
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Explore Tariq Nasheed’s films, television appearances and Hidden History Museum, with Hidden Colors 6 premiere details and a call for earlier announcements and international screenings.
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Explainer
Eligibility rules make a film available for consideration; programming turns those possibilities into a particular event.
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Explainer
Safeguarding a craft involves the conditions under which someone can learn and continue practicing it.
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Criticism
Moving an artwork can change its audience, its ownership, and the meaning of its encounter.
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Analysis
Open storage changes the visitor’s relationship with a collection, while making the work of care more visible.
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Essay
Archives can preserve words; living communities give those words somewhere to go.
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