Naomi Beckwith is the first black woman to curate Documenta in its 69-year history, as well as the second American curator to direct the exhibition after Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, who was in charge of the 2012 edition.
Samia Osseiran Junblatt, a Lebanese artist whose art has always been strongly linked to tragic episodes in her life, has died at the age of 80. The Dalloul Art Foundation in Beirut, which lent one of her works to the recently concluded Venice Biennale, announced the news of her passing on Instagram a few days ago.
Last Friday, Poland opened its first museum dedicated to LGBTQ history, a milestone in a country where legal recognition of gay rights remains limited. Located in Warsaw’s Marszalkowska Street, the museum was founded by Lambda, a Polish non-profit organisation that in recent years has also worked extensively with queer refugees arriving in the country.
Two years of work, two ‘institutions’ (for their respective fields) for a success story (and project), marked by two phases: the Emblème Digital Vault® for the Leonardo Bistolfi Collection. It is in fact since 2022 that the Emblème platform, a company specialising in cataloguing, management and valorisation of collections and memory assets founded by Giulia Tosetti
The Polysensorial Museums project consists of three main actions: training, the creation of targeted aids and the organisation of routes in the museum premises.
On Tuesday, 3 December, on the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the CAMeC – Modern and Contemporary Art Centre of La Spezia, reopened on 5 October 2024 with a renewed look, adheres to the initiative and to the theme of 2024: Amplifying the leadership of persons with disabilities for an inclusive and sustainable future.
The Venice Biennale published the report of the 2024 edition, which ended on 24 November, which showed an overall decrease in visitors, but an increase in those from underrepresented groups.
“I was from a good family, the daughter of a famous painter who adored me and of a mother who came from an illustrious dynasty of booksellers. I was obedient, but I wanted everything. I was stubborn, obstinate, tenacious. Beneath a suave and enchanted air lay an iron will’.
Qatar Museums (QM), the country’s leading institution promoting cultural initiatives, has appointed internationally renowned Egyptian artist Wael Shawky as the first artistic director of the creative hub Fire Station: Artist in Residence. Shawky will oversee the institution’s programme, which to date has promoted the work of nearly one hundred emerging Qatari artists.
Artist, graphic designer, and sculptor, Julia Nesis was born in Novorossiysk (Russia) in 1984, but today lives and works in the United Kingdom. She has studied in Moscow at the State University of Arts and Industry “SG Stroganov” (2004), then at the “Detali” School of Design (2010). Since 2016 she has been a member of the Moscow Union of Artists (MUA). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions and held meaningful solo exhibitions, including the one at the “Promgrafika” Gallery in Moscow (2015) and “Etika Pomyati” (The Ethics of Memory, 2018) at the theater of the Moscow School of Dramatic Art.
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