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AAP contributor Andrew Stooke visited Skulptur Projekte Münster, which is held once every ten years in the small, independent German city. This year marks the exhibition’s fifth edition. Check out the highlights!
In from the Cold
In the lead-up to this year’s Venice Biennale and Documenta, I was reading a 1979 edition of the art journal Black Phoenix.
Marrying Culture and Commerce in Arts Patronage
From a historical point of view, arts patronage has undergone a great change since the birth of the museum as an institution.
In Close Quarters
If you are in the center of Beijing and find yourself in an inconveniently narrow alleyway, flanked by low, gray-colored, traditional-style buildings, then you are in a hutong.
Transformative Assemblages
Lee Wan
One morning several years ago, Lee Wan had an epiphany while eating breakfast. Looking at the various generic packages of cereal,
Siah Armajani
Six days—that is the longest Siah Armajani has been away from his studio in Minneapolis, where he has resided since immigrating to the United States in the early 1960s.
Postwar: Art between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-1965
For three years, Haus der Kunst director Okwui Enwezor, together with Katy Siegel and Ulrich Wilmes, conducted research on art produced in the two decades following the Second World War.
Stripped Bare
The 29-year-old Chinese photographer Ren Hang enjoyed a busy, successful career with a full exhibition calendar before he committed suicide in Beijing in February 2017.
Sahand Hesamiyan
Iranian sculptor Sahand Hesamiyan’s studio is legendary in the Tehran art world. “If you see only one studio in the capital,” one artist advised during my breakneck three-day visit, “this is it.”
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