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Tell Me Why I Don’t Like Mondays…: Ekaterina Degot and David Riff give details on the Bergen Assembly

This week, curators Katya Degot and David Riff revealed more about their plans for this year’s Bergen Assembly, which is designed as a triennale for Norway’s second city in art. In a statement penned February 9, 2013, the duo announced … Continue reading

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“Offside Effect”: Tbilisi gets a Triennial

The last days of Documenta may now be upon us (Would-be visitors have until the 16th, though it would appear Kassel may extend viewing time on certain commissions by artists like Walid Raad, Michael Rakovitz and Mark Dion, which the city … Continue reading

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OpenSpace Closes: Moscow’s cultural portal is ousted from its domain

This week, just as the editor of Artnet announces the end of the company’s online magazine, the editors of the online cultural portal OpenSpace.ru – which agglomerates Russian-language information on categories like Contemporary Art, Literature, Theater and Classical Music  -  informed … Continue reading

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The 2nd Ural Industrial Biennial gets its intellectual foundations in Ekaterinburg

On March 28-30, the Ekaterinburg outpost of the National Center for Contemporary Art (who just awarded their annual Innovation prize) hosted a conference to outline the intellectual platform for the 2nd Ural Industrial Biennial, scheduled for September 13 – October … Continue reading

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The Elections spawn a new type of Protest Art in Russia

Last Wednesday, as part of a series of conversations sponsored by artist residency Dar al-Ma’mûn, visitors to the Marrakech Biennale gathered for “A Spring of Images?,” a panel hosted by Dar al-Ma’mûn’s Omar Berrada that featured WJT Mitchell and Rasha Salti … Continue reading

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“Less Art!”: Critic Katya Degot calls upon Russians to take their Protest Seriously

As Russia’s election nears, protests meet counterprotests meet little white balloons, tied on cars circling the Garden Ring. With an exercise in mass hand-holding scheduled for this Sunday, critic and openspace editor Katya Degot has paused to warn protesters that … Continue reading

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“What is and What Should Never Be”: Katya Degot reveals the Discussion Program for the Kyiv Biennale

We posted earlier about the Kyiv Biennale which will open this May with David Elliot’s project “The Best of Times, The Worst of Times. Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art.” Today, the Biennale announced its Discussion Program, which has been assembled by … Continue reading

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