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Claiming space: Female voices reinventing contemporary art in Angola

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In the contemporary context of Luanda, these artists incorporate critical subjectivities that transform the artistic space. They rewrite narratives about gender, nature, memory, and power. Their practices not only make social and ecological wounds visible, but also affirm the capacity for agency and reinvention.

Elizabeth Elizabeth Pozo Rubio on Female voices reinventing contemporary art in Angola

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Reflections on the Art of the 4th Cayman Islands Biennial

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Archipelago is an exhibition that lives up to its title; its artists still navigate the restless Caribbean waters much like their maritime ancestors. They create in the face of ecological threats from overtourism and overdevelopment, as both ecosystems and memories erode into the sea.

Ezra Campelli on the last Cayman Islands Biennial

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Picasso and Kirchner in Munster

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Picasso-Kirchner exhibition provides yet another key for understanding the multiple journeys, detours and caesuras in the evolution of several centuries of European art. Within this grand evolutionary trajectory, it becomes more fulfilling to appreciate why Picasso eventually became Picasso and Kirchner would become the artist he became.

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Palucca, 1929, Privatsammlung. Foto:
Georgios Michaloudis, farbanalyse,
Köln

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The 4th edition of the Cayman Islands Biennial

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The National Gallery of Cayman Islands is taking the 4th edition of the Cayman Islands Biennial to new horizons by inviting U.S.- based curators for their themed exhibition, Archipelago. This multi-sited exhibition represents the best submissions from Caymanian artists across all three islands and the Diaspora to showcase the breadth of diversity and creativity in this Caribbean country.

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Moshekwa Langa

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Always imbued with themes about travel and what is abstract about those memories this collection features figurative works executed with mixed media, from ink from ball point pens, water colours and pastel, utilised the depth and forms of the works to articulate vignettes about narrativised memories as artistic bounty.

Themba Tsotsi on the work of the South African artist Moshekwa Langa

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