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At the Ford Foundation Gallery, an Exhibition Imagines the Possibilities of Femme-Centered Knowledge

IV Chan, Ritual rehearsal : the Sacred and the Profane, 2020–24, installation view, in “Cantando Bajito: Incantations,” 2024, at Ford Foundation Gallery, New York. Photo Sebastian Bach/Courtesy Ford Foundation Gallery For 605 days, the Nicaraguan activist and historian Dora María Téllez Argüello was incarcerated for her political opposition to the country’s presidency turned dictatorship. While …

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The New Director of Luxembourg’s Top Contemporary Art Museum Wants to Give the Country’s Culture an Edge

Bettina Steinbrügge, director of Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean. COUERTESY FABRIZIO VATIERI @ MUDAM It’s hard to think of a less radical place than Luxembourg City’s business quarter. The Kirchberg Plateau, as it’s known, is an administrative enclave of offices and people in suits bookended by the European Parliament’s Secretariat to the …

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The Harriet Jacobs Project Resurrects the Story of a Young Black Woman Who Escaped Slavery and Became an Icon of North Carolina

Interior installation view of Letitia Huckaby’s Memorable Proof, 2024, at 1767 Chowan County Courthouse, North Carolina. Photo Lissa Gotwals/©Letitia Huckaby/Courtesy the artist and The Harriet Jacobs Project Resting in the windowsills of the 1767 Chowan County Courthouse in Edenton, North Carolina, are the silhouettes of women appearing behind sheer floral curtains; their profiles overlook the …

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A Yoko Ono Retrospective at Tate Is the Latest to Argue for Her Importance

Yoko Ono, 1967 Mirrorpix via Getty Images. The story goes that after leaving a recording session on November 8, 1966, John Lennon of the Beatles strolled into an installation in progress at the Indica Gallery in the Mayfair section of London. He was familiar with the place through his bandmate Paul McCartney and other acquaintances …

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Turkey Bans Transgender Art Exhibition Amid Intensified LGBTQ+ Crackdown

A still from video included in the ‘Turn and See Back’, depicting Trans Pride marches. Photo: Jiyan Andiç Turkish authorities have banned an exhibition that explores the art and history of the country’s transgender community, the Art Newspaper reported Thursday. Authorities shut down the exhibition, titled “Turn and See Back: Revisiting Trans Revolutions in Turkey,” …

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Tintin-Inspired Paintings Go to Court, Hidden Self-Portrait Resurfaces, LGBTQ+ Exhibit Closed in Turkey, and More: Morning Links for July 19, 2024

The immersive exhibition ‘Tintin, L’aventure Immersive’ at the ‘Atelier des Lumieres’ on October 20, 2022 in Paris, France. Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES PEEKABOO. A self-portrait of the coal miner artist Norman Cornish has been rediscovered on the reverse of one of his crowded …

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Dominick Di Meo, Artist of Chicago’s Monster Roster with a Cult Following, Dies at 97

Dominick Di Meo. Courtesy Corbett vs. Dempsey Dominick Di Meo, an artist who shook up Chicago’s art scene in the 1960s with surreal paintings and collages, only to gain a following far beyond the city late in his career, has died at 97. His death was announced on Sunday by his Chicago gallery, Corbett vs. …

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Paris Olympics Force Galleries to Close, Leaving Dealers in a Tough Spot

The Paris Olympics have unexpectedly closed galleries in the Saint Germain des Près area. Photo Chesnot/Getty Images Many galleries in Paris’s Saint Germain des Près area, one of the city’s major art hubs, were unexpectedly forced to close on Thursday, due to security measures put in place for the upcoming Olympic Games’s opening ceremony taking …

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