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Marcel Duchamp’s dedication to Peggy Guggenheim in her copy of the from or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy (Box in a Valise), 1935–41, cat. no. 6, deluxe edition no. I/XX, January 1941. Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York)

ART CITIES:Venice-Marcel Duchamp

As an artist who constantly challenged convention, Marcel Duchamp refused to respect the entrenched cultural and commercial hierarchies that extolled—even fetishized—artistic originals while dismissing reproductions of all sorts. “A duplicate or a mechanical repetition has the same value as the original,” he argued. Throughout his oeuvre, Duchamp exemplified the veracity …

Janis Rafa, Landscape Depressions, 2023. Film still, single-channel video with sound, 25 min. Courtesy the Artist, © Janis Rafa

VIDEO:Janis Rafa-Feed me. Cheat me. Eat me

Janis Rafa creates disquieting, fable-like films, videos, installations, and cinematic narratives that place people in relation to non-human beings – animals, plant …

Main staircase of the Akademie der Künste Hanseatenweg during renovation by Brenne Architekten, © Holger Herschel

ART CITIES: BERLIN-The Great Repair

Against the backdrop of current ecological and societal crises, the exhibition “The Great Repair” presents over 40 positions from art, architecture and …

Artwork from the exhibition “Robert Wilson, Owls and Chairs”, Courtesy the artist and Bernier/Eliades Gallery

PREVIEW: Robert Wilson-Owls and Chairs

Robert Wilson works across a wide variety of artistic disciplines and is an acclaimed director, stage architect, designer, choreographer, curator, visual and …

Rirkrit Tiravanija. U.F.O. – NAUT JK (Július Koller). Mexico City, 2012. Image courtesy kurimanzutto, Mexico City / New York. Photo: Michel Zabé & Omar Luis Olguín, 2012

ART CITIES: N.York-Rirkrit Tiravanija

Even though Rirkrit Tiravanija’s diverse artistic production eludes classification, he has accurately described it as “relational”: a body of work focused on …

ART NEWS: Oct.02

The exhibition “Nicole Eisenman: What Happened” brings together over 100 works from across the artist’s three-decade career – many of which have …

Grace Ndiritu, Healing the Museum

VIDEO: Grace Ndiritu-Healing the Museum

Grace Ndiritu is a British-Kenyan artist whose work encompasses performance, film, social activism, shamanism, and textile art. In her practice, Grace Ndiritu …

ART NEWS: Oct.01

The exhibition “The Avant-Garde in Georgia (1900-1936)”, presents, for the very first time in Europe, a largely forgotten chapter in the history …

Frank Stella, Maha-lat, 5.5X, 1978-1979, media mixed on metal relief, 87 3/4 x 111 x 38 1/2 inches (222.9 x 281.9 x 97.8 cm). Photography by Bill Orcutt. © 2023 Frank Stella / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

ART CITIES: N.York-Frank Stella

Frank Stella has played a major role in the development of American Abstraction during the 20th Century. During his nearly 60-year career, …

Ingela Ihrman, The Giant Knotweed Panflute Ensemble, 2015, HD­video, Installation view Malmö Konsthall 2023, Photo: Olof Nimar, Courtesy konstnären

PRESENTATION: Ingela Ihrman-Frutti di Mare

Moving between performance, sculpture and video, Ingela Ihrman’s practice explores the interconnected coexistence of mundane life forms such as invasive weeds, intestinal …