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The legacy of the Baghdad Modern Art Group is explored in first major US show

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All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group, organised by the specialists Nada Shabout and Tiffany Floyd together with the museum’s chief curator, Lauren Cornell, unites 64 works of painting, sculpture and drawings by 30 artists including Dia al-Azzawi and Mohammed Ghani Hikmat.

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A quartet of key art market players join forces to form ‘super group’ consultancy

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It’s a different world, one that just needs careful and sensitive navigation, both in terms of the material you bring [to market] and the platforms that are really working.” “Clients no longer receive catalogues, so people are missing key objects or key moments in the in the calendar,” Gorvy says. It’s certainly not going to go away.”

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Renewed Bern Kunsthalle works to reframe Switzerland's history

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In place of plastic, the Ghanaian artist enfolded the building in a material evocative of global labour and trade—jute sacks made in Southeast Asia and imported to Ghana for the transportation of cocoa beans to European markets. The Kunsthalle recently relived the moment with another monumental intervention, this time by Ibrahim Mahama.

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In pictures: Art Basel's Unlimited section offers visions of utopia

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There is a particular focus on sculpture, which, Carmine explains, “was a challenge. David Owens Atelier Van Lieshout The Voyage—A March to Utopia (2025) Krinzinger, OMR, in collaboration with Jousse Entreprise, Ron Mandos “This is an incredible piece comprising 160 sculptures.

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Chief Conservator, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

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The Chief Conservator has primary responsibility for the conservation of works of art in the museum’s collection and for overseeing all aspects of the Goode Center, including treatment of objects, technical analysis, scientific research, and the supervision of departmental staff and contract employees. Ability to wear a respirator. .

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The tale of a French psychiatric asylum that harboured Second World War resistance fighters—and where patients became artists

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Patients also made objects from found items, creating works that juxtaposed materials in odd ways that charmed visiting Surrealists. Foremost among those works were sculptures—carvings and assemblages—by Auguste Forestier (1887-1958), who arrived at the asylum at the age of 14 and remained.

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New venue for video, sound and other durational art forms coming to Manhattan

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