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The Folger Shakespeare Library's new exhibition To Hear Her Speak gathers nearly 100 objects — from Phillis Wheatley's copybook to Toni Morrison's notes for Desdemona — to trace Black women's engagement with Shakespeare across more than four centuries.
Saks Afridi's SpaceMosque opens at the Aga Khan Museum on 24 October: a spiritually conscious vessel, one answered prayer per person per day, and an archive of a global event nobody can quite remember. Sci-Fi Sufism, built as evidence.
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.
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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