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Soo embarrassed to wake up this morning with all these pictures of French art world selfies with Emmanuel Macron at Élysée. 

Please know that the art community is not comfortable with the current political trend in France. The right wing shift of so many agents from the art world is not representative of all of us here. Let’s not ourselves be humbled by the conservative wave that is spreading across the world right now.

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  • Lettres
    Silence is Violence

    | Artists and cultural workers in Sweden in solidarity with Black Lives Matter

    Two weeks ago, Temi Odumosu, a Sweden-based academic posed the question: Do we have the courage to address Black Lives Matter and to confront the prevalence of racism in Nordic art life? [1] The pronounced silence from Sweden’s art institutions would seem to answer with a resounding “no.” What is this institutional quietness? Do these institutions, art … Silence is Violence


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  • Lettres
    Paris, 1st of July 2019 P.A.I.N. / Louvre

    | P.A.I.N. Paris

    An intervention at Louvre, Paris, is currently underway. We, Parisian friends of P.A.I.N, along with P.A.I.N. and Nan Goldin, Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters, world-renowned artist, founder and spokesperson of P.A.I.N., are demonstrating today as survivors and witnesses to the opioid epidemic in the United States, for which the Sackler family and … Paris, 1st of July 2019 P.A.I.N. / Louvre


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  • Entretiens
    Concerned Artists of the Philippines : interview with Antares Bartolome

    | Antares Bartolome

    Antares Bartolome is an artist, curator and activist based in Manila, the capital city of the Philippines. In this interview, Antares Bartolome gives an overview of the complex challenges facing art workers in the Philippines, notably the heritage of colonial exploitation and the current regime of president Rodrigo Duterte. He tells us about the intersection … Concerned Artists of the Philippines : interview with Antares Bartolome


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  • Brèves
    ELYSEE X FIAC

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    Soo embarrassed to wake up this morning with all these pictures of French art world selfies with Emmanuel Macron at Élysée.  Please know that the art community is not comfortable with the current political trend in France. The right wing shift of so many agents from the art world is not representative of all of … ELYSEE X FIAC


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